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Recently, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has become the most famous advocate of the argument that “western” democracy is unsuit?ed to African conditions. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)
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How colonial rule predisposed Africa to fragile authoritarianism

The unstable pathway many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements

  • Nic Cheeseman
  • Jonathan Fisher
7 min read