Africa: Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles

A marked change in the political landscape of Africa has been in the making over the past five years. Ever since demonstrators in Khartoum and Omduran drove Sudan’s Jaafar Numeiri out of power in 1985, pressure from the streets has extracted political concessions from regime after regime. The new effectiveness of domestic reformers is, to an important extent, a result of international developments. The collapse of the Soviet empire has tempered geopolitical considerations in shaping Wes...