Steven Friedman, director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy of Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg, teaches politics and international relations and has written for numerous South African publications.
The failure of the elections has been partly mitigated by the hope of judicial review of electoral malfeasance, the stabilizing ingenuity of ethno-regional power-sharing, and renewed national discussions of electoral…
Data from the latest wave of the Afrobarometer survey show that Africans’ demand for liberal democracy remains high. The problem lies in lagging supply.