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...the continent. Before 1990, all but very few states were ruled by one-party or one-man regimes, and (with the exception of apartheid leaders), no African leader had ever left office due to an electoral defeat. By the end of the 1990s, however, virtually all the sub-Saharan African states had begun, or attempted to begin, the process of democratization. Yet many of these regimes are democracies only in name. Although the political systems have changed, human rights abuses are rampant and, in many countries, the pretense of multiparty elections is just that. Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa, edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip J. McConnaughay, explores in detail the issues these nascent democracies face, asking how states with unstable and corrupt regimes can move from the first phase of democratization to the implementation of the rule of law. Through essays contributed by scholars and human rights activists, the book presents different perspectives on the issues arising from Africa's democratization in the 1990s. The collection addresses a series of questions about this period of democratization. What went wrong? What went right? What can we learn from the successes and failures of the 1990s about how to tackle current problems? In...

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