"This book explores various critical questions in the context of particular elections and particular countries as diverse as Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, the Congo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Liberal Democracy and its Critics in Africa is valuable for the original perspectives of its African contributors; the issues it explores; the concrete democratic experiences it analyses; and the challenges it makes to the existing concepts, paradigms and practices of liberal democracy. Underlying these issues is the fundamental question of whether democratic processes as currently practised in Africa are really making any significant difference to the African struggle for economic, social and cultural progress."--BOOK JACKET.

The problematics of liberal democracy and democratic process / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- Reflections in the question of political transition in Africa / Rachid Tlemçani -- An explanation of electoral attitudes in Cameroon 1990-92 / Joseph-Marie Zambo Belinga -- Factors influencing women's participation in democratization and electoral processes in Kenya / Beatrice N. Onsarigo -- Alliances in the political and electoral process in the Republic of Congo 1991-97 / Joachim Emmanuel Goma-Thethet -- The electoral process and the 2000 general elections in Ghana / Emmanuel Debrah -- Voting without choosing / W. Alade Fawole -- The electoral process in the Central African Republic in 1993 and 19999 / Aimé Samuel Saba -- Beyond the current discourse on democracy and democratic process in Africa / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo.