Leadership and the Problem of Electoral Democracy in Africa

E. Ike Udogu is Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University, USA, where he teaches African, comparative and international politics, conflict and conflict resolutions, and human rights. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, a recipient of the Africa Excellence in Scholarship and Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship on Human Rights, Management of Ethnic Diversity, Democracy and Democratization in Africa, and was listed in the 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the Twenty-First Century, Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who in America. His publications include Liberating Namibia: The Long Diplomatic Struggle between the United Nations and South Africa; African Renaissance in the Millennium: The Political, Social and Economic Discourses on the Way Forward; and Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democratic Project in Sub-Saharan Africa, among others. He is the editor of Imagining the United States of Africa: Discourses on the Way Forward and The Developing World: Critical Issues in Politics and Society.