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Political Reform in Francophone Africa (Paperback)
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Most African states experienced only a few fleeting years of
democratic rule after independence before succumbing to
authoritarianism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Africans and
Westerners alike came to view dictatorship to be as much a part of
the region's social landscape as its grinding poverty. Yet the end
of the Cold War and the sharpening of the economic crisis at the
end of the 1980s have breathed new life into campaigns for
democracy in Africa, shaking the foundations of many long-standing
autocracies. In some cases, dramatic transitions took place, though
the fate of the new democracies is far from certain.This volume
explores the origins and evolution of political reform movements in
several states of Francophone Africa. The authors first make the
case for the distinctiveness of Francophone Africa, based on the
influences of colonial history, language, and France's contemporary
role in Africa, then survey the challenges of reform, including the
problems of transition from authoritarianism and consolidation of
democratic regimes. Case studies of thirteen former French and
Belgium colonies follow, organized by level of reform achieved:
peaceful regime change, incremental reforms, repressed reform
efforts, and reform in the mist of war.
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