Colin Legum, in The Washington Quarterly (Winter 1990), 1800 K St. N.w.. Washington, D.C. 20006,

Africa is on the verge of its second libera- tion. Three decades after they threw off the shackles of European rule, predicts Legum, a veteran journalist, many African countries are about to overthrow their "unpopular, unsuccessful, and undemo- cratic" postcolonial governments.
After achieving independence during the 1950s and '60s, most African countries adopted European-style parliamentary s...