African Ambiguities: The Gambia—From Coup to Elections

Issue Date April 1998
Volume 9
Issue 2
Page Numbers 64-75
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About the Author

John A. Wiseman, senior lecturer in politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is the author of The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa (1996). He gratefully acknowledges funding for repeated research visits to the Gambia over 20 years from the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Research Committee of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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