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Kenya's 1997 Elections: Making Sense Of The Transition Process, Rok Ajulu
Kenya's 1997 Elections: Making Sense Of The Transition Process, Rok Ajulu
New England Journal of Public Policy
The transition process in Kenya appears to be getting nowhere. Six years after the opening of democratic space, politics, political institutions, and governance remain predominantly stuck in the authoritarian quagmire of the past. Lack of broader participation in decision-making processes and absence of consensus around important issues of governance appear to be the norm rather than the exception. Indeed, Kenya's democracy experiment appears to defy conventional democratization models and discourse. It refuses to comply with prescriptive models developed by various Western scholars as the so-called liberal democratic values stubbornly refuse to take root in the country. This article attempts to …
Democratic Change And Transition In Africa And The Dilemma Of Nigeria, Leonard Robinson Jr.
Democratic Change And Transition In Africa And The Dilemma Of Nigeria, Leonard Robinson Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
The 1990s witnessed profound political change throughout the continent of Africa. Tired and frustrated with one-party, autocratic, and often military rule, ordinary African citizens in country after country began to voice and demonstrate their discontent in 1990. As the former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe broke ranks with the Soviet Union to claim their independence, these extraordinary events served as an added catalyst to African civil servants, market women, taxi drivers and peri-urban inhabitants to rise up against what they increasingly viewed as repressive governments and regimes, which had done little or nothing to improve their living standards and …