Two decades after the 'third wave' of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa, this book provides a very timely investigation into the overall progress and setbacks over that period, the many challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa.

1. Democratization in Africa 1990-2010: An Assessment Gabrielle Lynch and Gordon Crawford 2. The Abrogation of the Electorate: An Emergent African Phenomenon Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare 3. The Internal Dynamics of Power-Sharing in Africa Nic Cheeseman 4. Taking Back our Democracy? The Trials and Travails of Nigerian Elections since 1999 Cyril Obi 5. An Autocrat's Toolkit: Adaptation and Manipulation in 'Democratic' Cameroon Ericka A. Albaugh 6. Can Democratization Undermine Democracy? Economic and Political Reform in Uganda Michael F. Keating 7. Democracy Promotion in Africa: The Institutional Context Oda van Cranenburgh 8. Ethnicity and Party Preference in Sub-Saharan Africa Matthias Basedau, Gero Erdmann, Jann Lay and Alexander Stroh 9. Democracy, Identity and the Politics of Exclusion in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Case of the Batwa Danielle Beswick 10. 'Well, what can you expect?': Donor Officials' Apologetics for Hybrid Regimes in Africa Stephen Brown 11. Democratic Crisis or Crisis of Confidence? What Local Perceptual Lenses Tell Us about Madagascar's 2009 Political Crisis Lauren Leigh Hinthorne