Africa's well-known developmental political problems remain. … But these problems also exist in political communities in every other part of the world. More important, they do not exhaust the story of politics in Africa. For every horrific political story in Africa, there is another story of courageous and creative political enterprise accomplished under circumstances that those who live and vote in developed democracies could not even begin to imagine.

Keywords:
Africa, civilianization, democracy, Ethiopia, federalism, Ghana, Nigeria, postcolonial, South Africa, Uganda
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