Democracy’s Future: Between Africa’s Extremes

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 52-64
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About the Author

Michael Chege teaches public policy and international development at the University of Nairobi. He has served as a development advisor to the Kenyan government, and as director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.

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