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journal of african elections vol3 number 2 transparent democratic governance in africa

Democracy, HIV/Aids and Citizen Participation: Focus on the 2004 Election

While debate about the impact of HIV/AIDS on socio-economic development has been rife and robust, the political discourse around the pandemic has tended somehow to lag far behind. It is now well established that HIV/AIDS represents not only a health catastrophe but, primarily, a development crisis. Yet only recently have we come to accept that […]

journal of african elections vol3 number 1 transparent democratic governance in africa

Making Democracy Work in Africa: From the Institutional to the Substantive

This paper argues that democracy can better facilitate and promote development when it is transformed from the institutional level, where it was at the time of transition, to the substantive level, where it is more likely to yield the ‘dividends of democracy’ and become more relevant to the lives of ordinary citizens. This transformative process […]