Establishing, broadening and maintaining democracy in Africa is an issue with world wide implications. On the continent itself, democracy is a vital issue, precisely because the majority of Africans have been reduced to virtual outlaws, with little or no rights in their own countries. This process has been driven by their own governments. Atrocities, suppression and violence has occurred all over the continent in the suppression of democratic freedom. What is astounding is that after such ...

Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the ...

Cet ouvrage propose des communications faites lors de la septième Assemblée générale du CODESRIA (Dakar, 10-14 février 1992). Il expose les réflexions d'universitaires africains qui analysent, de manière transversale, les mutations sociales, politiques et économiques qui secouent l'Afrique depuis la fin des années 1980. Certains auteurs de ce livre ont été étroitement associés aux activités du CODESRIA et ont largement contribué à forger et à consolider sa crédibilité scientifique. Maîtres...

In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the country. Externally, fears have also been expressed that Islamist movements in northern Nigeria form part of a wider network constitutin...