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It Was A Widely Dominant Perception Until The Early 1990's That African Rulers Do Not Vacate Their Office Alive. But Even In The Brutal Reality Of African Politics, Transition Takes Place And Various Former Presidents Have Dealt With How To Maintain Power And Privilege Very Differently. With New Case Studies Examining The Post-presidential Years Of The Iconic Mandela In South Africa, Daniel Arap Moi In Kenya, Nyerere In Tanzania, Rawlings In Ghana, Charles Taylor In Liberia As Well As The Experiences Of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi And Nigeria, This Volume Explores The Dilemmas Which Demands For Presidential Transitions Impose Upon Incumbent Rulers And Analyses The Relationships Which Are Evolving Between New Regimes And Their Predecessors. The Contributors Discuss The Hybridal Political Systems That Exist In Post-independence Africa; The Role Allotted To Or Pursued By Former African Presidents; Transitional Politics And Justice; And Political Stability. The Book Stimulates Careful Further Observation And Analyses Concerning Progress In This Contested Arena Of Institutionalised Political Power In Africa. List Of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations And

Author
Roger Southall; Henning Melber; Human Sciences Research Council. Democracy and Governance Research Programme.; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Publisher
Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press ; Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Chicago: Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9780796921208
Subjects
Political Science, Social_sciences

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