Democracy’s Future: Between Africa’s Extremes

Today, Africa south of the Sahara has a relatively small number of both democracies and full-blown dictatorships,along with a large number of hard-to-define regimes that fit neither category.

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

Popular dissatisfaction and tensions within the long-ruling EPRDF have led to the rise of a young reformist leader who has begun a course of bold reversals in favor of greater…