A review of Development and Democracy in Africa, by Claude Ake.
About the Author
Michael Chege teaches public policy and international development at the University of Nairobi. He has served as a development advisor to the Kenyan government, and as director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.
The early 1990s saw a wave of competitive multiparty elections in Africa. These contests can be described as "founding" elections in the sense that they marked for various countries a…
