Based on the powerful analytical insights provided by the second liberation school, which is
arguably the most original contribution by African scholars to the democratization literature …

The Liberation Struggles and Research Page 1 72 REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL
ECONOMY as a capitulation to the IMF and the difficulties which workers face as a result. It has …

The wave of democratization that swept through Africa from the late 1980s elicited great
hopes for a democratic future in a continent with a largely undemocratic past, and where the …

Former liberation movements in Southern Africa have become authoritarian and elitist
governments who reward party loyalty and are hostile to'outsiders'. Is authoritarianism built …

When the Huntingtonian" third wave" of democratization washed over Africa beginning in
1989, even the most sanguine observers expected that a transition from patrimonial …

Africa has experienced two liberations: the first from colonial and racist regimes, and the
second from the autocrats who often followed foreign rule. African countries now have the …

The events of the last few years have given a substantial boost to the process of
democratisation in Africa, and have opened up at least the prospect of reshaping the African …

This article focuses on four sub-Saharan countries that offer different insights into
postcolonial democratic experiences on the continent. Botswana has enjoyed decades of …

The upheavals in much of Africa after the Berlin Wall was opened in November 1989 have
been referred to as a second independence. The anticolonial movement of the 1960s, which …

As liberation movements rise up and overthrow existing powers of imperialism and
oppression, a sense of promise and hope is felt that is all too often lost in the years to follow …