Challenges of a "frontier" region / Richard Joseph -- Presidents untamed / H. Kwasi Prempeh -- Legislatures on the rise? / Joel D. Barkan -- The rule of law versus the big man / Larry Diamond -- The institutionalization of political power in Africa / Daniel N. Posner, Daniel J. Young -- The decline of the African military coup / John F. Clark -- Growth without prosperity in Africa / Peter Lewis -- Formal versus informal institutions in Africa / Michael Bratton -- Nigeria's muddled elections / Rotimi T. Suberu -- Another step forward for Ghana / E. Gyimah-Boadi -- Senegal : the return of personalism / Penda Mbow -- Sierra Leone : a vote for better governance / Christopher Wyrod -- Liberia starts over / Dave Peterson -- Kenya : back from the brink? / Michael Chege -- The crisis in Kenya / Maina Kiai -- Tanzania's missing opposition / Barak Hoffman, Lindsay Robinson -- Personalizing power in Uganda / Andrew M. Mwenda -- The remarkable story of Somaliland / Seth Kaplan -- An accidental advance? : South Africa's 2009 elections / Steven Friedman -- The illusion of democracy in Botswana / Kenneth Good -- Zambia : one party in perpetuity? / Kate Baldwin -- Voting for change in the DRC / Herbert F. Weiss -- Angola's façade democracy / Paula Cristina Roque -- Zimbabwe's long agony / Michael Bratton, Eldred Masunungure.
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