Africa’s Second Independence

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

Halting a decade of democratic backsliding, Haikainde Hichilema defeated an increasingly iron-fisted incumbent president. How did he do it and can others learn from his example?

The election cycle concluding in the spring of 2003 was a guarded success. High hurdles to better governance and democratic consolidation remain, but Nigerians can now face them with greater…