Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa
Subtitle: Coping with Uncertainty (Contributions in Political Science)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780313307935
Subjects: African history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political structures: democracy; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Contemporary Politics - Africa; Democracy; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Cameroon; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Malawi; Nigeria; Tanzania; General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Political; 1960-; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Democratization; Politics and government; Post-communism
First sentence: For most of its history as an independent state, Malawi was so thoroughly dominated by the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda that it acquired the unofficial distinction of being a one-man state, "Bandastan.