Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : variants of democratic practice
  • The great transplantation
  • The post-independence problem
  • Typical African political systems
  • Towards the modification of African political culture
  • Ghana : tactical action, socialism and the military
  • Nigeria : oil, coups, and ethnic war
  • Kenya : settler ideology and the struggle for Majimbo
  • Tanzania : Ujamaa, compulsion, and the freedom of association
  • Somalia : experiments with democracy, military rule, and socialism
  • Senegal : from French colonialism to the failure of partisan politics
  • Rwanda : from success astroy to human disaster
  • Congo (Kinshasa) : "a most lethal poison."