Transitions To Democracy In Africa التحول الديمقراطي في إفريقيا

Abstract

In this essay, I have attempted to address the normative question of the pathways to and prospects for transitions to democracy in Africa. As indicated from the reflections upon my analysis detailed in the two sections, if I choose to summarily answer such a question from any one of the perspectives on offer, it could only result in the banal pronouncement of the self-evident. Transitions to democracy, I have argued, cannot be understood solely in the language of one trajectory or the other, and there are neither key defining attributes of the prospects for democracy in Africa nor template solutions