Challenges of a "frontier" region / Richard Joseph
Presidents untamed / H. Kwasi Prempeh
Legislatures on the rise? / Joel D. Barkan
The rule of law versus the big man / Larry Diamond
The institutionalization of political power in Africa / Daniel N. Posner, Daniel J. Young
The decline of the African military coup / John F. Clark
Growth without prosperity in Africa / Peter Lewis
Formal versus informal institutions in Africa / Michael Bratton
Nigeria's muddled elections / Rotimi T. Suberu
Another step forward for Ghana / E. Gyimah-Boadi
Senegal : the return of personalism / Penda Mbow
Sierra Leone : a vote for better governance / Christopher Wyrod
Liberia starts over / Dave Peterson
Kenya : back from the brink? / Michael Chege
The crisis in Kenya / Maina Kiai
Tanzania's missing opposition / Barak Hoffman, Lindsay Robinson
Personalizing power in Uganda / Andrew M. Mwenda
The remarkable story of Somaliland / Seth Kaplan
An accidental advance? : South Africa's 2009 elections / Steven Friedman
The illusion of democracy in Botswana / Kenneth Good
Zambia : one party in perpetuity? / Kate Baldwin
Voting for change in the DRC / Herbert F. Weiss
Angola's façade democracy / Paula Cristina Roque
Zimbabwe's long agony / Michael Bratton, Eldred Masunungure.