Electoral Mediation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Kenya: A Comparative Perspective

"The history of elections in Africa shows that the continent has made significant strides in ensuring that regular multiparty elections replace unconventional mechanisms of seizure of political power. Increasingly, elections have become highly competitive for the political parties, and candidates fight for the apparent social and economic gains accrued from the state. Regrettably for citizens of many countries on the continent, regular elections in Africa have not translated into the anticipated dividends of democracy - which was ushered with much hope in the early 1990s.....