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Constructing democracy in transitioning societies of Africa : constitutionalism and deliberation in Mali / Susanna D. Wing. Les fraudes lectorales : comment on recolonise la RDC / Fweley Diangitukwa. Planning and transformation : learning from the post-apartheid experience / Philip Harrison, Alison Todes and Vanessa Watson. Guide to election tribunal and court practice directions 2007 / Festus Okoye. Dealing with electoral malpractice : your anti-rigging guide. The African search for stable forms of statehood : essays in political criticism / edited by Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o ; with a foreword by Toyin Falola. Governor Chimaroke Nnamani : challenge of power / by Joe Asogwa. Can our culture and traditions overcome corruption? / Ishola Williams. Peace, progress, prospects in four years : a first term account of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola's administration in Osun State. Quelle dmocratie pour l'Afrique? : pouvoir, thique et gouvernance / Martin Kuengienda. Political and administrative development in some selected anglophone African states / Sylva Ngu. Dr. Bukola Saraki : a legacy of service : his mission, his vision, his challenges / by Agbaji Development Association (A.D.A.) & Potter's House. Manual for monitoring campaign finance and the use of state and administrative resources / by Eze Onyekpere. Le guide des usagers / Rpublique du Benin, Prsidence de la Rpublique, Cellule de la moralisation de la vie publique. Taarifa ya semina elekezi kwa viongozi na watendaji wakuu wa serikali ya jamhuri ya muungano wa tanzania, 13-17 machi, 2006 / Jamhrui ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Ofisi ya Rais. Last updated: 5/9/08

Administration and Cost of Elections: Has the Electoral Commission of Ghana - Voter Registration Official's Manual. 36 p. In Adobe pdf. and an image of the ballot from the 1996 Presidential election. Use the Search for African countries. See also other election documents such as ballot papers, wall calendars, electoral laws. ACE is an "attempt to provide a globally accessible information resource on election administration." Funded by International Foundation for Election Systems, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Based in Washington, D.C. [KF] http://www.aceproject.org/

Africa Action (Washington, D.C.): Formerly Washington Office on Africa, combines the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and Africa Policy Information Center (APIC). "a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa." "We monitor Congressional legislation and executive policies and actions and issue action alerts to advance progressive legislation and policy." Has full text briefing papers, statements on issues. Has a free e-mail newsletter, Africa Policy E-Journal and a directory, Key Congressional committees and administration officials related to Africa, 1999-2000. http://www.africaaction.org/index.shtml

Africa Business Information Services: "...information and analysis on business and economics in Africa." Includes articles on political development, the section Nigeria Business Information, a special report on Nigeria's leading banks by reporters from the Vanguard newspaper (Nigeria), "The Way Forward for Africa" by A. Bolaji Akinyemi, "Slave Trade, a Root of Contemporary African Crisis", by ABIS director, Tunde Obadina, etc. Based in the U.K. http://www.afbis.com

Africa Confidential: Short excerpts only from the latest issue and past issues of the well-known London political newsletter established in 1960. http://www.africa-confidential.com/

[Some universities have full text access. Stanford users see the Electronic Journals page. The full text is in Adobe PDF.]

Africa Focus: "a free independent electronic publication providing reposted commentary and analysis on African issues, with a particular focus on U.S. and international policies. AfricaFocus Bulletin is edited by William Minter. http://www.africafocus.org/

Africa ICT Policy Monitor. ICT Policy and Civil Society Workshop, Addis Ababa, November 2002: Organized by the Association for Progressive Communication (APC), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and Article 19. Has the draft action plan, a few full text papers, workshop notes, photographs. http://africa.rights.apc.org/workshop.shtml

Africa Leadership Forum: The Africa Leadership Forum was set up in 1988 at the initiative of General Olusegun Obasanjo,.... with the support of other individuals. Sponsors conferences, publications. Its Digital Library has full text books online such as "Empowering Women for the 21st Century," "Leadership Challenge in African Agricultural Production," "Police and Society," "The Settler Question in Nigeria: the Case of Jos-Plateau," "Africa's Agenda and the Role of the USA" (1993), "The Challenge of Education in Africa" (1988), "Ethics and professionalism in Nigerian Banking Industry," "Ethics and professionalism in Medical practice," "Population, Environment and Climatic change: Their impact on Development in Africa" (1990), "Local Government in Nigeria," "Corruption, Democracy and Human rights," "The Media in Democracy." Also reports from the Africa Women's Forums, the National Women Peace Group, and an online newsletter, Akuko. Based in Ota, Nigeria. [KF] http://www.africaleadership.org/

Africa Policy Journal (Cambridge, Massachusetts): Published by graduate students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Launched April 26, 2006. Affiliated with the Kennedy School Africa Caucus, founded by former Kennedy School student Sam Unom. http://www.africapolicyjournal.com/

Articles such as - Reviewing Global Leadership: Overcoming the Scourges of Africa by Robert Rotberg,
Archimedes Entrepreneurs: The Key to Africa’s Prosperity by Eric Kacou, Interview with Wangari Maathai.

Africabeat: Blog by Jennifer Brea, writer & photographer, on African politics. Brea also writes on Francophone Africa on Global Voices. http://jenbrea.typepad.com/africabeat/

African Administrative Studies (Tangier, Morocco): In English and French. Published by African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development, CAFRAD. The web site has a bibliographic database of citations to articles in African Administrative Studies. http://www.cafrad.org/

African Anarchism: "Anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism from around Africa [Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, etc.]. News, analysis, ....personal accounts, historical essays, solidarity projects from an african anarchist perspective." Has an anarchy_africa mailing list. To subscribe send e-mail to: anarchy_africa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Contact Brian Cunin at african_anarchism@yahoo.com http://www.struggle.ws/africa.html

African and Asian Studies (Leiden, Netherlands): Published by Brill Academic Publishers. Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002 is free online. ISSN 1569-2094. Brill parted company with the editor of the Journal of Asian & African Studies, Shivu Ishwaran. Brill owns the editorial copyright of the issues published through 2001 and has them on their web site.
Issue No. 1, 2002 of African and Asia Studies has two free full text articles:
Modeling Ethnic Protest: The Case of the Middle East and Central Asia by Emile Sahliyeh; Sangeeta Sinha; Vijayan Pillai
Anchoring Democracy in Indigenous African Institutions by Daniel Ayan
http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id10254.htm

African Association of Political Science: Founded in 1973 in Dar es Salaam. Has the table of contents for its African Journal of Political Science (AJPS). Members only have full text access to the journal and occasional papers. Full text of the Newsletter is online. Has an online AAPS Internet Journal of Political Science with full text non-refereed and unedited essays and full text papers from its 13th Biennial Congress. [KF] hhttp://www.aaps.org.za/

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies: A pan-African, independent international NGO established in 1989 to support the OAU African Charter on Human and People's Rights. Publishes the African Human Rights Newsletter (or mirror), civic education posters, reports, etc. Based in The Gambia. http://www.acdhrs.gm or http://www.acdhrs.org/

African Democracy Forum: "regional network of democracy, human rights, and governance organizations." "launched in Abuja, Nigeria, in October 2000." Directory of member NGOs, free e-newsletter. Web site based at Kabissa, in Washington, D.C. [KF] http://www.africandemocracyforum.org/

African Elections Database: A database of election results in African countries. Includes election information, list of political parties, coalitions, elections results. Elections held the past year, election calendar, country electoral authorities. Maintained by Albert C. Nunley. [KF] http://africanelections.tripod.com/

African Geopolitics (Paris): In English and French (Géopolitique Africaine). Quarterly journal, launched Nov. 2000. Full text articles on-line. Interviews with African Presidents and other foreign policy figures. Articles grouped by issues (conflict prevention, democracy, terrorism, African armies, etc.) Andre Soussan is the publisher and editor-in-chief. [KF] http://www.african-geopolitics.org/

African Human Security Initiative: One-year project for seven established African Non-Governmental Organisations "to embark upon a process of benchmarking the performance of key African governments in respect of human security issues, measured against the commitments taken at the level at OAU/AU heads of state meetings." The eight countries being evaluated are Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Full text Project and Background Papers. Full text Monographs and Research Reports. http://www.africanreview.org/

African Journal of Political Science (Harare, Zimbabwe): Published by the African Association of Political Science. Has the table of contents and abstracts. http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/journals/ajps/index.html
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African Journal of Political Science (Harare, Zimbabwe): Published by the African Association of Political Science based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Has the table of contents. Members only have full text access to the journal and occasional papers. Full text of the Newsletter is online. http://www.aaps.org.za/; An old AAPS page is on the web site of the International Political Science Assoc. - http://www.ipsa.ca/

African Journal on Conflict Resolution (Durban, South Africa): Full text articles online. Published by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, Durban. Indexed by AfricaBib.Org; http://www.accord.org.za/web.nsf/Pub/Journal?OpenPage

African Leadership and Progress Network: Reports, papers, articles on Governance, Transparency, Corruption, Natural Resource Management, The Resource Curse. "ALPN is a network of African and non-African professionals who are strongly dedicated to utilizing innovative and entrepreneurial approaches for fostering rapid progress in Africa." Promotes "private sector-driven economic growth and poverty alleviation in African countries..." Articles on the brain drain, sources ranking African countries, the U.S. Millenium Challenge Account, a directory of Washington, D.C. events. A nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., and Abuja, Nigeria. http://www.africanprogress.net/

African Peace Information Locator - University of Iowa Libraries: A directory of internet resources on refugees, development, arms control, human rights, peace keeping missions in Africa. http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ceras/locator/

African Philosophy - Bruce B. Janz: Site on "philosophy which focuses on Africa, philosophy done in Africa, and philosophy that is part of the traditional conversation among African philosophers." Includes links to full text documents, reading lists, course syllabi, African philosophers, conferences, journals, topics within African philosophy, etc. Prof. Janz is with the Philosophy Dept., Augustana University College, Alberta, CANADA. http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/afphilpage.htm

African Politics Classroom - Dean McHenry, Jr.: Prepared by Prof. McHenry, Politics & Policy Dept., Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA). Offers an online tutorial, with photos, on African politics. Has the table of contents of recommended African politics books, links to related sites http://spe.cgu.edu/faculty/facpages/deanmchenry/africa/index.html

African Studies Quarterly - "Human Rights and Governance in Africa": Vol. 2, No. 3, Feb. 1999 of the University of Florida e-journal is a special issue on "Human Rights and Governance in Africa." http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i3.htm

African Voices: A Newsletter on Democracy and Governance in Africa: Has the full text of articles in Adobe Acrobat PDF format from 1995 to date. Topics include civil/political rights, promoting civic awareness, civic education, human rights in Nigeria, Liberia's democratic transition, local government in South Africa, constitution making in Eritrea, etc. Published by USAID Bureau for Africa (Washington, D.C.) http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/abic/avindex.htm

AfricAvenir: "AfricAvenir is a political foundation founded in Douala, Cameroon. It is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation engaged in political education and information dissemination both in Africa and in Europe." Publishes an e-journal, AfricAvenir Dialog Forum, which includes articles on the study of African politics and international relations. Has a directory of full text web resources for the study of Africa. Some entries from the African Studies Associations section are taken from the Africa South of the Sahara section for African Studies. Based in Douala, Cameroon and Berlin, Germany. http://www.africavenir.com/

Africities, Windhoek, May 15-18, 2000: "The objectives of the Africities 2002 Summit are to: Identify key issues, which need to be addressed at regional, national and local levels, Explore innovative ways of financing local government and building human resources capacity for each of the issues identified, Foster greater cooperation among local government leaders, and Share experiences on good practices." http://www.africities.org/

AfriMap - Africa Governance: Monitors human rights and the rule of law. "works with African civil society organizations and the Open Society Institute's African foundations to research and publish reports on .... governance in individual African countries. Full text documents from Transparency International, documents on public policy issues (budget, health, the African Union's Peer Review Mechanism, corruption, law reform, police oversight, etc.) [KF] http://www.afrimap.org/

Afripol. Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center (APESC): "a public policy center......To advocate, promote and encourage free enterprise, democracy, human rights, transparency and probity for African governments and institutions." "The founder and chief policy strategist is Mr. Emeka Ted Chiakwelu." Based in Houston, Texas. http://www.afripol.org/

Afrique Diplomatique: In French. Has articles on France and Africa, African debt by Matthieu Saary, magazine and press agency articles on Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, etc., biographies (unsigned) - some have photographs. Includes a directory of web sites. Maintained by Matthieu Savary. http://www.ifrance.com/afridiplo2/

Afrobarometers: A comparative series of national public attitude surveys. Topics: democracy, governance, livelihoods, markets, social capital (whom do you trust), conflict / crime, civic participation, national identity. "countries can be systematically compared and, ultimately, trends in public attitudes can be tracked over time." Data sets / code books will be on the web site and archived by ICPSR. Data for Ghana (1999) and Nigeria (2000) is available. Has a slide show of graphs showing opinions on democracy, questionnaires. Has abstracts for the Afrobarometer series, a mailing list. Surveys are conducted by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, IDASA, the Centre for Democratic Development (Accra, Ghana), Michigan State University's Political Science Department; and other partner African organizations. [KF] http://www.afrobarometer.org/; Free online briefing papers cover:
No. 4 Poverty, Poverty Measurement, and Democracy in Southern Africa.
No. 3 Islam, Democracy, and Public Opinion in Africa.
No. 2 Violent Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria.
No. 1 Key Findings on Public Opinion in Africa.

Allen, Christopher: Allen teachers African politics in the Politics Dept., Edinburgh University, is joint editor of the Review of African Political Economy and compiler of Africa Biblliography. His web site includes course information, the syllabus including many bibliographies. Also links to related sites for African studies, political studies, news sources, etc. His article from No. 65, 1996 of the Rev. of Af. Pol. Ec.,"Understanding African Politics" is avail. in full-text.

American Assembly: The American Assembly, affiliated with Columbia Univ., convened meetings on the U.S. and Africa (1958), Africa and U.S. National Interests (1997). The 1997 meeting was chaired by Donald McHenry. 69 U.S. leaders met to formulate policy recommendations regarding Africa. The final report, including preface and a list of participants, is in one 12 page document. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/amassembly/

Annan, Kofi - The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa.: Secretary General's Report to the United Nations Security Council, 16 April 1998. http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/sgreport/

Anyang' Nyong'o, P. - Institutionalization of democratic governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: (ECDPM Working Paper, No. 36.) Maastricht: European Centre for Development Policy Management, ECDPM, 1997. 11 pp. http://www.oneworld.org/ecdpm/pubs/wp36_gb.htm

Anzinger, Gunnar - African Governments on the WWW: Links to sites maintained by/for African government bodies and to political parties. Part of Governments on the WWW. http://www.gksoft.com/govt/africa.html

Association des Cours Constitutionnelles ayant en Partage l’Usage du Français, ACCPUF (Paris): In French. Covers French-speaking African countries plus Cape Verde, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, . For each country includes a history of constitutional law, court decisions (such as regarding President Marc Ravalomanana, elections in Congo-Brazzaville, Mali, Chad, Togo, Benin, etc.), news articles on elections from Agence France Presse / newspapers. Search the database by keyword, country. [KF] http://www.accpuf.org/

Has full text studies -
République Démocratique du Congo: Le contentieux constitutionnel congolais.
Ile Maurice. Le Juge de l'administration et le droit de propriete a l'Ile Maurice and Le constitutionnalisme mauricien. By Parvèz Dookhy
Cameroun : L'accès aux juridictions camerounaises de droit public. By Par Roger Gabriel NLEP
Niger : Le statut des partis politiques dans les Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. By Hassan ABDOU

Association of African Election Authorities: "...an Africa-wide association of election officials and election-related NGOs ...conceived to promote and institutionalize the professional nature of
African election authorities through regional exchanges and networking." http://www.ifes.org/afrassoc1/afrassoc/

AWEPA, European Parliamentarians for Africa: AWEPA was founded, in 1984, as the Association of West European Parliamentarians for Action against Apartheid. Its interests include development cooperation, electoral assistance and observation, democratisation and human rights. Has Full text, in Adobe pdf, of their Occasional Paper Series: Sustainable Democracy and Human Rights. Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.awepa.org/; Occasional Paper Series: Sustainable Democracy and Human Rights
OPS#10: Debt Relief and the HIPC Initiative in African Countries, 2002 (747.6 KB)

OPS#9: The "Laboratories" of the Mozambican Municipalisation Process: Are the municipalities meeting local needs? 2001 (241.4 KB)

OPS#8: Parliament as an Instrument for Peace, 2001 (493.1 KB)

OPS#7: Parliamentary Gender Handbook: South Africa, 2001 (304.6 KB)

OPS#6: Parliamentary Action on the Beijing + 5 Review Process 2000 (897.5 KB)

OPS#5: The Budget Process and Good Governance, 1999 (930.4 KB)

Black Radical Congress: "focuses on the conditions of Black working and poor people. Recognizing contributions from diverse tendencies within Black Radicalism--including socialism, revolutionary nationalism and feminism--we are united in opposition to all forms of oppression, including class exploitation, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, anti-immigration prejudice and imperialism." Based in St. Louis, Missouri. http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/

Boston University. African Presidential Archives and Research Center: For the study of democratization and free market reform in Africa. The Public Papers/Private Conversations Project will digitize the public papers of democratically elected leaders. "The Lloyd G. Balfour African Presidents in Residence Program,... is an opportunity for former democratically elected African leaders to spend up to two years in residence at Boston University." Will publish an Annual African Leaders' State of Africa Report. Has an interview and speeches of Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa. Address: 141 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. http://www.bu.edu/aparc/

BRC-NEWS, Black Radical Congress News: The general news, alerts and announcements list of the Black Radical Congress. A moderated information service which "includes a wide range of information regarding the struggles of Black and other oppressed peoples worldwide. Moderator, Art McGee, writes "we try to proactively recruit non-Black people to the list." For questions, problems, write: worker-brc-news@lists.tao.ca
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Boston University. Research Outline for Studying Democratic Transitions in Africa: A Report of the African State and Democracy Project: http://web.bu.edu/AFR/grad.stud.html

Business Action for Africa, BAA: In English and French. "an international coalition of businesses committed to ending poverty in Africa" created "to build on the momentum of the Commission for Africa [2005] and the 2005 G8 [Summit]. Partners include De Beers, Shell, Rio Tinto, Standard Bank, Cisco. Seeks to improve business conditions in Africa, "promote good business practices, good governance and transparency and a more balanced view of Africa." Includes Business Leaders Statement on Commission for Africa Report. [KF] http://www.businessactionforafrica.org/

Campaign for Good Governance: NGO to strengthen democratic institutions in and out of government. Promotes democratic participation of civil society and gender equality. For the 2007 Presidential election has presidential candidate biographies and political party maifestoes. Full text of Acts such as the Anti-Corruption Act. Reports such as National Integrity Systems Transparency International Country Study Report Sierra Leone 2004 (78 pages Word doc.) http://www.slcgg.org/

Carleton University. Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP): Provides country rankings, on-line presentations and a mapping component, risk assessments, regional conflict analysis, early warning research, and open-source data, measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. "Our database currently includes statistical data measures for over hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources." Statistics for African countries are sometimes not available. Has, in Adobe pdf, the ful text of Conflict Risk Assessment Report: West Africa: Mano River Union and Senegambia (01/04/2002) 369K; Democratic Republic of Congo: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 25K; Sierra Leone: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 35K. http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Center for Conflict Resolution: Ugandan non-profit, offers training, conflict prevention and resolution education. Information on African Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution. Based in Kampala, Uganda. http://www.cecore.org/

Center for International Private Enterprise (Washington, D.C.): http://www.cipe.org/index.html
It's Africa section sponsored a workshop -; Think Tanks As Policy Catalysts in Africa: A Capacity Building Workshop, Harare, Zimbabwe March 1999 which produced, in Adobe .pdf format, a survey by Erik Johnson, "Nongovernmental Think Tanks in Sub Saharan Africa: Surveying the Landscape." http://www.cipe.org/whats_new/events/conferences/africa/africa/; It's journal, Economic Reform Today has articles on African economic topics. The CIPE has partners in Africa.

Center for Democratic Development (Accra): The Center promotes "democracy, good governance and the development of liberal economic environment in Ghana in particular and Africa in general." Has a directory of West African NGOs working on conflict management/peace-building in West Africa, describes their programs. Many full text Election Monitoring Reports. http://www.cddghana.org/index.asp

Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia: "The objective of CENTAL is to institutionalize transparency and accountability in all facets of the Liberia society." Garrett J. Cummeh III is the Director. Full text reports, surveys. Media Monitoring Project, Web site based in Texas. [KF] http://www.liberiatransparency.org/

Centre for Democracy and Development (London): The Centre, launched Oct. 1997, is a non-governmental, independent research, information and training institution concerned with democratic development and peace building in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. Has full text articles on Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zimbabwe. http://www.cddwestafrica.org/

Chabal, Patrick - Papers Online: Prof. Chabal is Professor of Lusophone African Studies, King's College, Univ. of London. The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies site has the full text of -
"Apocalypse Now? A postcolonial journey into Africa", Inaugural lecture, delivered on 12 March 1997 in King’s College, London.
"Angola and Mozambique: the weight of history" Working Paper,1998 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/pobrst/pcpapers.htm

Chieftain: the Journal for Traditional Governance (Calgary, Canada): Online journal of TAARN (Traditional Authority Applied Research Network). Full text articles such as "Queen Mothers and Social Workers: A Potential collaboration between traditional authority and social work in Ghana." [KF] https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/300

Child Soldiers: Child Rights Information Network; Has the full text of "Learning from Experience - Girls Rights" (1998) by Save the Children, UK; "Reports Submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Listed by Country; links to full text articles elsewhere on the web http://www.crin.org/; Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Has the full text of "The Use of Children as Soldiers in Africa," the full text of related treaties and resolutions, links to organizations working on the problem, questions and answers, a bibliography, conferences. Based in Châtelaine, Switzerland. http://www.child-soldiers.org; Rädda Barnen's Documentation Centre on Child Soldiers (Swedish Save the Children, Stockholm, Sweden)
Has an extensive database by country, , their newsletter, "Children of War," citations to publications database, etc. http://www.rb.se/www/eng/Programme/Childreninarmed/Childsoldiers/

Civil Service Reform in Francophone Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop, Abidjan, January 23-26, 1996: Edited by Lapido Adamolekun, Guy de Lusignan, and Armand Atomate. Full text online 176 pages in PDF. (WORLD BANK TECHNICAL PAPER NO. 357, Africa Region Series) Covers Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Uganda.[KF] http://www-wds.worldbank.org/default.jsp?site=wds

Civil Society and Governance Programme: An "...international research project under the management of Professor James Manor...The Programme extends over three years at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS)" Univ. of Sussex (UK) with Ford Foundation funding. Case studies are conducted in 22 different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the US. http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/civsoc/home.html

CNN Election Watch: The TV station provides information on past and forthcoming elections in Africa. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/election.watch/

CODESRIA - Full Text Books Online: http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs.htm

Titles include:
Les racines de la crise militaro-politique en Côte d'ivoire
By Francis Akindes. 51 p. in PDF

Democratic Transition in Anglophone West Africa
By Jibrin Ibrahim. 87 p. in PDF

West Africa's Political Economy in the New Millennium: retrospect and prospects
By Adebayo Olukoshi . 39 p. in PDF

Cold War International History Project (Washington, D.C.)

Established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, supports the release of historical materials by governments, seeks to disseminate new perspectives on Cold War history. http://www.cwihp.org/

Has full text reports - New Evidence on the Cold War in Southern Africa

Havana's Policy in Africa, 1959-76: New Evidence from Cuban Archives, by Piero Gleijeses
Fidel Castro's 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker
Moscow and the Angolan Crisis, by Odd Arne Westad
Soviet Documents on Angola and Southern Africa, 1975-1979

Anatomy of a Third World Cold War Crisis: New East-bloc Evidence on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978.

The Horn, the Cold War, and New Documents from the Former East-bloc: An Ethiopian View, by Ermias Abebe
Moscow, Mengistu, and the Horn, by Paul B. Henze
East Germany and the Horn Crisis: Documents on SED Afrikapolitik, by Christian F. Ostermann
Russian and East German Documents on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978

Commonwealth Local Government Forum: Local government profiles of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe with statistics on district populations, finance, democratic structures, division of services between central and local government, contact addresses. "The Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) was founded in 1995, as a focus for action on local democracy in the Commonwealth..." Based in London. [KF] http://www.clgf.org.uk

Conference on Conflict in Africa, February 5-6, 1999, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Triangle Institute for Security Studies: The conference was co-sponsored by the electronic journal, American Diplomacy, and the University Center for International Studies, http://www.duke.edu/web/tiss/

Conflict Watch Africa - Inter Press Service: The Conflict Watch bulletin seeks to contribute to early warning conflict prevention by disseminating information on potential and actual conflict situations in sub-Saharan Africa. Includes IPS news stories, NGO reports. Produced by IPS in collaboration with Third World Network in Ghana. http://ips.org/Critical/Watch/Watch.htm

Contemporary Conflicts in Africa: Links to internet information on the prevention, management, and resolution of violent conflicts in Africa. Has a section on the Great Lakes Region, Eastern Zaire crisis of fall 1996. Links to a report "Ethnic Fears and Global Engagement" by David Lake and Donald Rothchild, U.N. Peace-keeping Operations, the Canadian Forces College Contemporary Conflicts page Maintained by Yves Contamine.
Great Lakes Crisis: http://www.synapse.net/~acdi20/country/greatla1.htm
Main page: http://www.synapse.net/~acdi20/welcome.htm

Corporate Africa (London): This online edition of the print quarterly has the table of contents and selected full text articles such as a profile of Tito Mboweni, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, West Africa Oil and Gas, AIDS in Africa, World Space's satellite radio, etc. Published by Times Publications Ltd. The Times Publs. Ltd. web site also has a political risk section. http://www.times-publications.com/publications/corporate_africa/corporate_africa.html

Corruption & Governance in South Africa : Collection of Marianne Camerer: Guide to a 14 microfilm reel collection on South Africa on corruption and governance related issues, covering Sept. 1995-Mar. 2006. Collected by Marianne Camerer for her doctoral dissertation, "Testing the system -- democracy on trial : corruption and reform in democratic South Africa." Includes political cartoons, newspaper articles, parliamentary records (committee and Hansard), auditor general reports, public protector reports, commissions of inquiry, investigative reports, interviews, conference proceedings, policy documents, survey material, journal articles, court records, and court testimony. Filmed for the Cooperative Africana Microfilming Project, CAMP at the Center for Research Libraries. http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/camp/collections/corruption.htm

Council of Europe. North South Centre: The North South Centre seeks to to strengthen Co-operation and contacts between NGOs from the North and the South. Held an Africa-Europe Civil Society Forum, Cairo, 2000; papers are available in Adobe PDF. Examples of the papers are - Regulating the market to promote democracy, by Professor Samir Amin; Africa's desire to be different and transcultural values, by Mamadou Diouf; In the Service of Democracy, by Michelles Ndiaye Ntab; Rethinking the State in Africa, by Prof. Etienne Le Roy; The role of Parliaments in Africa, by Enie Wesseldijk; Women and Democracy in Africa, by Satta Niang, etc. http://www.nscentre.org/

Council on Foreign Relations - HIV and National Security: Where are the Links?: By Laurie Garrett. 2005. Full text, 72 p. in PDF. "The HIV/AIDS pandemic is affecting the security of states throughout the world, weakening economies, government structures, military and police forces, and social structures." http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=8256

Democracy and Development in Africa & the Third World - Discussion Group: "Quebec-Canada-Africa Axis is a research group that seeks to establish a link between the North and South and increase the ability of the African continent to become economically independant." To join the discussion (in English and French) send an e-mail summary of your interests and how you would like to get involved to Alphonse Cilumba (President of Quebec-Canada-Africa Axis): aqca@hotmail.com

Democracy Net: From the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), "a private, nonprofit,
grant-making organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions
around the world." Has an experts database by area and subject, a directory of organizations which provide funds in international affairs, links to the web sites of African organizations receiving grants from the NED. Distributes DemocracyNews, "an electronic mailing list for sharing news, announcements, and information among democracy activists, scholars, and others working to promote democracy around the world." http://www.ned.org/

Democrat Union of Africa: The Democrat Union of Africa (DUA) was launched by the New National Party of South Africa and the DTA of Namibia in March 1999. The DUA supports centre/centre-right/Christian Democratic values. Other members include the MMD of Zambia, the BDP from Botswana. Download their Africa Freedom Index (91 pages), a 2001 conference report on Land Reform in Southern Africa (44 pages) and the African Renaissance. A Discussion Paper (19 p.) by the New National Party of South Africa. Has other on-line reports and resolutions. Its headquarters are at the New National Party's Cape Town office. http://www.democratafrica.org/

Deng, Francis M. and Terrence Lyons, editors - African Reckoning: A Quest for Good Governance: Full text of the book. (Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1998. 185 p.) http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815717830/html/index.html

Diaspora Togolaise Pour la Democratie: In French and English. Site of the Togolese Diaspora for Democracy (Diastode), based in Canada. "In 1993, some Togolese living outside of their native land, initiated the creation of a Network to mobilize compatriots of the Diaspora and support the internal democratic movement." Current news from PANA, Reuters, Amnesty, etc., news of Togo-related human rights activities. Has the full text of the book, "Democratisation a la togolaise" (Paris: Harmattan, 1998). The book has a chronologie (15th c. to aout 1998) and a bibliographie. [KF] http://www.diastode.org/

Dorman, Sara Rich - Inclusion and Exclusion: NGOs and Politics in Zimbabwe: Full text. 2001. 341 p. in PDF. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of D.Phil in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the Division of Social Studies at the University of Oxford. "explores the changing relations between the Zimbabwean state and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) after independence. It focuses on debates over the role of NGOs in democratization in developing countries, using Zimbabwe as an example." Example cited is the former ZimRights. In the Univ. of Edinburgh Research Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/493

eAfrica. Electronic Journal of Governance and Innovation (Johannesburg): Published by the South African Institute of International Affairs, Nepad and Governance project. Full text issues are online. Vol. 1, May 2003 in Adobe pdf. Receive issues by email. http://www.saiia.org.za/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=296

Ecole nationale d'administration, ENA: Has some of its masters in public administration memoires in full text online. "L'Ecole nationale d'administration recrute et forme la haute fonction publique de l'Etat." "ENA has welcomed many foreign students in its « International Cycles » since 1949." http://www.ena.fr/; Impacts des politiques d'ajustement structurel sur le fonctionnement de l'administration publique au Niger / Boubakar Tiemogo http://www.ena.fr/ena.php?Id=006003016002&profil=; La réforme de l'administration territoriale au Cameroun / Charles Nanga http://www.ena.fr/ena.php?Id=006003017003&Retour=006003017&profil=; Décentralisation et institutions publiques territoriales à Madagascar : processus et perspectives / Laza Andrianirina http://www.ena.fr/ena.php?Id=006003017010&Retour=006003017&profil=

For lists of memoires on cdrom, see: Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire. Le réseau DIAM

ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States: In English and French. Regional organization to promote economic integration. Members are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. Has many full text official documents, the Treaty, communiques, reports, etc. Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria with offices in Lagos and Lome. See also the ECOWAS Secretariat: http://www.sec.ecowas.int/. http://www.ecowas.int/

Election World on Wikipedia: Has moved to Wikipedia. Political parties and their political orientation, election results. Originally maintained by Wilfried P. C. G. Derksen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Electionworld/Electionworld

Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries (SADC-ECF): "formed to foster co-operation between its members with a view to promoting a culture of democracy and free and fair elections in SADC countries." For each country has an overview, electoral information, the country's electoral commission. Has Executive Summaries of reports by the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (elections in Botswana, Malawi, South Africa). http://www.sadc-ecf.org/

Electoral Institute of Southern Africa: Many full text reports on political parties and political development in African countries. "EISA is a not for profit section..., established in 1996, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its mission is to strengthen electoral processes, good governance, human rights and democratic values..." http://www.eisa.org.za/EISA/publications/caterr.htm

Espace francophone des Droits de l'Homme, de la Démocratie et de la Paix: In French. From the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie. http://democratie.francophonie.org/

Ethno-Net Africa: "A network for comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social transformation in Africa." "a network of African scholars (anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, human rights specialists and political scientists." Has a database on ethnic conflict in Africa, by country and by theme, and full text publications. Part of the UNESCO MOST (Management of Social Transformations) program. [KF] http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/

Fomunyoh, Christopher - "Democratization in Fits and Starts": Full text, in Adobe PDF. Fomunyoh is the National Democratic Institute's Senior Associate for Africa. The article is reprinted from the Journal of Democracy, 12:3 (2001). The National Democratic Institute (NDI), is based in Washington, D.C. http://www.accessdemocracy.org/NDI/library/1237_cewa_jdchris72001.pdf

Foreign Policy in Focus: Policy briefs on foreign policy issues pub. by the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, D.C.) and the Interhemispheric Resource Center (Albuquerque, NM). Has 4 page In Focus briefs on Africa by regional specialists which "offer recommendations for alternative policy directions [to] make the United States a more responsible global partner." Publishes The Progressive Response on new issues in U.S. foreign policy. http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/

Foundation for Democracy in Africa (Capitol Heights, Maryland): "The mission of the Foundation is to implement the principles of culturally based democratic government within the African society, bringing the countries of Africa into the mainstream of the global economy through free enterprise,..."; Has the 1999 testimony before the House Subcom. on Africa of its President, Fred Oladeinde, speeches from the Africa Leadership Forum (Botswana) - Democratization of African Parliaments & Parties: July 1998, the Feb.1999 Report of the American Election Monitors to thre Presidential Election in Gabon, the newsletter of their Institute for Democracy in Africa. They support the 1997 African Growth and Opportunity Act, H.R. 1432. http://www.democracy-africa.org

Free Africa Foundation: Purpose: to "devise African-based solutions to Africa's problems" President of the FAF is George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D. Commentary on African politics, U.S. and France's relations with Africa, the World Bank and Africa. Audio interviews with Dr. Ayittey, Dr. Susan Rice. Based in Washington, D.C. http://www.freeafrica.org/

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Foundation for Social Democracy: Based in Bonn, Germany, a non-profit which promotes political education, the democratization of social structures, free trade unions, offers scholarships. Has information on their African programs (in German and English). http://www.fes.de/

G8 Canada (Kananaskis) Summit, 2002: "The Leaders at the Kananaskis Summit are discussing three major priorities: Strengthening Global Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, building a new partnership for Africa's development (based on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD), and fighting terrorism." The G8 Africa Action Plan was approved. http://www.g8.gc.ca/

[Géopolitique Africaine] African Geopolitics (Paris): In English and French (Géopolitique Africaine). Quarterly journal, launched Nov. 2000. Full text articles on-line. Interviews with African Presidents and other foreign policy figures. Articles grouped by issues (conflict prevention, democracy, terrorism, African armies, etc.) Andre Soussan is the publisher and editor-in-chief. [KF] http://www.african-geopolitics.org/

GERDDES- Afrique, Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Démocratie et le Développement Economique et Social: In French and English. Independent Pan-african NGO created in 1990 by African intellectuals intellectuels "(avocats, juristes, économistes, professeurs d'université, fonctionnaires internationaux, ingénieurs etc.)." Has reports by GERDDES election observers in Benin, Gabon, Senegal, press releases on political events, lists their publications, includes the table of contents for their journal, Démocratie et Développement. Based in Cotonou, Benin. http://www.gerddes.org/

Global Coalition for Africa: In English and French. "a North-South forum dedicated to forging policy consensus on development priorities among African governments, their northern partners, and non-governmental groups working in and on Africa." GCA co-sponsored the 1993 Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Meetings concern investment, democracy, journalism, corruption. Based in Washington, D.C. htm http://www.gca-cma.org/mypass.htm

Global Initiative to Enfranchise People with Disabilities: Site produced by International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), based in Washington, D.C. Includes Laws and Regulations - lists, by country, election laws, constitutions and related regulations and how these laws impact upon citizens with disabilities. Best Practices shows posters, t-shirts depicting people with disabilities (esp. for Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Zambia). [KF] http://www.electionaccess.org/LR/Africa_LR.htm

Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Peer-reviewed online journal which receives additional support from the Specialist Group on Ethnic Politics of the Political Studies Association of the UK. Topics include Kristin Henrard's "Post-Apartheid South Africa's Democratic Transformation Process: Redress of the Past, Reconciliation and 'Unity in Diversity" (in Adobe pdf), and I. William Zartman's "The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments" (in Adobe pdf). Based at the Department of European Studies, University of Bath, Bath, England. [KF] http://www.ethnopolitics.org/

Good Governance Africa: Site has closed down. Used to be at http://www.oneworld.org/ggafrica/index.html on the One World site. Was "...an independent non-governmental organisation [in London] whose purpose is to assist in the process of improving the quality of governance in Africa. Was going to publish a Review of African Public Policy & Practice, an electronic journal.

Governance (Oxford, U.K.): An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. Published in association with the IPSA's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG). Full text by subscription only. Libraries pay $398-$461 per annum. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/gove

Governance and the Economy in Africa:Tools for Analysis and Reform of Corruption (1996): The full-text of a monograph about the "ways in which contemporary developing nations have begun to impose discipline on those holding power...". Uses examples from Benin, Niger, Uganda. Contributors are from USAID, IRIS (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector) and others (Robert Klitgaard, Susan Rose-Ackerman, etc.). There is a bibliography. http://www.iris.umd.edu/publications/detail.asp?ID=bk&number=8

Great Britian. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. "Private Military Companies: Options for Regulation 2001-02": Full text, in Adobe pdf, of a Green Paper issued Feb. 12, 2002. HC 577. (London: The Stationery Office, 2002). Discusses Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo (Kinshasa), other African countries, Executive Outcomes, Sandline International, etc. Concerns options for regulating private military companies (mercenaries). It describes the extent of the private military company sector. http://files.fco.gov.uk/und/hc577.pdf

H-AfrPol: A moderated discussion forum on the study of current African politics." Sponsored by H-Net, American Political Science Association, and the African Political Science Association. http://www.h-net.org/~afrpol/.

H-Democracy: Moderated d iscussion list sponsored by the Democracy Program of the Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society. http://www.h-net.org/~democ

Harvard University. Africa Research Program: Concerned with the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa. The information component of the program surveys and collects political and economic data on sub-Saharan Africa. "In the Data area we have aggregated a number of the most commonly used publicly available variables used in the study of African political economy." The Samples area contains graphical representations of the occurrence of coups, guerrilla warfare and demonstrations over time and graphs showing the evolution of executive and legislative institutions over time. http://africa.gov.harvard.edu/

Harvard University. Kennedy School of Government. Africa Caucus: "The Africa Caucus is the Kennedy School student organization focusing on Africa. Our community brings together students, policy makers, academics and supporting members..." See also the Africa Policy Journal with full text articles such as China in Africa - They’re Back by George Moose (Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa) and Rejuvenating African Economies: The Role of Engineering in International Development by Bob W. Bell, Jr. and Calestous Juma. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kssgorg/AfricaCaucus/index.htm

Hearn, Julie - "Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda": (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K. Discussion Paper, 368). Has the full text. 28 p. paper in Adobe PDF. "The first section identifies who the major foreign donors to civil society are in Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. It examines the relative importance and differences in approach of the United States, Germany, the World Bank and the Like-minded Group of donors..." "The second major section discusses the broad objectives of donors in African countries." [KF] http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/dp/dp368.pdf

Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict Research HIIK / Heidelberger Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung HIIK e.V.: In English and German. Publishes annual Conflict Barometers which include African conflicts (see also Conflict Barometer 2003). The Institute is based at the Department of Political Science, University of Heidelberg. http://www.hiik.de/de/index_d.htm

Heinrich Boll Foumdation. Regional Office for the East & Horn of Africa: Its main programs are on Gender, the Environment and Conflict and Dialogue. Its partners are in the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Uganda. Based in Nairobi, Kenya. [KF] http://www.hbfha.com/

Full text reports include -

Somalia’ s Transition: The Role of Senior Professionals and Scholars (16 p. in PDF)

NEPAD A New Path? 2002. (359 pages in PDF) - covers historical background, democratic governance, economic governance, environment consequences, role of women, regional integration. Authors include Adebayo Adedeji, Archie Mafeje, Thandika Mkandawire, Yash Tandon, Horace Campbell, Peter Anyang' Nyong'o and others.

The Study of African Politics. A Critical Appreciation of a Heritage. By Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. 2002. (114 pages in PDF)

Law, the Social Sciences and the Crisis of Relevance: A Personal Account. By Dani Nabudere. 2001. (African Social Scientists Reflections, Part 2.) (137 pages in PDF) - includes law in African colonies, the post-colonial state, the Dar es Salaam School, legal education, African Studies (afrocentricity), Nabudere's law student days in the early 1960s and activist law career in Uganda.

Anthropology in Post-Independence Africa: End of an Era and the Problem of Self-Redefination. By Archie Mafeje. 2001. (African Social Scientists Reflections, Part 1.) (79 pages in PDF)

WTO - Agreement on Agriculture: Impact of Liberalisation and Globalisation of Agricultural World Trade upon Sustainable Agriculture and Development in Kenya
(15 p. in PDF) - dumping of maize, sugar in Kenya

The Potential Contribution of Renewables in Ethiopia's Energy sector. 2004 (44 p. in PDF) - Geothermal and Cogeneration Technologies.

Sustainable Development, Governance, Globalisation: African Perspective. 2002 (188 p. in PDF) - women's issues, human settlements, Uganda, the Horn, Great Lakes, environment, peace & conflict. Authors include Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Archie Mafeje, Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Bereket Selassie and others.

Gender and Constitution-Making in Kenya. 2002 (71 p. in PDF)

Gender Gaps in Our Constitutions: Women's concerns in selected African Countries. 2002 (119 p. in PDF) - women in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Hopes on the Horizon; Africa in the 1990s: Web site for the two-hour PBS documentary from Blackside, Inc. ("Eyes on the Prize"), which "chronicles the rise of pro-democracy movements and the expansion of civil society" in Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa, during the final, decade of the twentieth century. For each country has facts, a brief background to the democracy movement, an essay, questions (for high school / university students), suggested readings, and the complete transcript. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/hopes

Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC - Modern Constitutions Database: The South African research organization, HSRC, has a Modern Constitutions Database to enable scholars to analyze and compare constitutions. For Africa it has the constitutions for Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa 1993. They plan to add Zimbabwe. Constitutions Database: http://star.hsrc.ac.za/modcon.htm

[Ibrahim] Mo Ibrahim Foundation: In English, French, Portuguese, Kiswahili, Arabic. Issues the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, a ranking of sub-Saharan African nations according to governance quality. The first Index appeared Sept. 2007 with details of rankings.Awards the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership to a former African head of state "who has demonstrated excellence in African leadership." Mo Ibrahim is the Sudanese founder of Celtel International, a mobile telephone company. [KF] http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/

IFEX, International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House: Issues Actions Alerts, tracks threats to freedom of the press, radio. Do a keyword search by country to retrieve reports about African newspapers, and media related civil liberties issues. Has past alerts from 1995 to date. Main Page: http://www.ifex.org/

Imai, Kosuke and Jeremy M. Weinstein - Measuring the Economic Impact of Civil War: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Center for International Development, Harvard University, Year: 2000. 30 pages. Abstract and full text in Adobe pdf. (Series: CID working paper; no. 51; Harvard University. Center for International Development.) http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/wopcidhav/51.htm

Independent Advocacy Project (IAP): Nigerian NGO. "promotes - through advocacy, coalition building, research, publications and information sharing - respect for good governance in Nigeria." "works to promote open and transparent governments – at the federal, state and local government levels..." Based in Lagos, Nigeria. http://www.ind-advocacy-project.org

Information Project for Africa, Inc. (Washington, D.C.): " founded in 1990 by professional journalists from the U.S. and several African nations for the initial purpose of conducting research into matters of international relations as they affect the people of Africa and persons of African descent all over the world." Has the text of "AIDS as a national security issue: National Intelligence Estimate, January 2000, Central Intelligence Agency." http://www.africa2000.com/INDX/indx.htm

Inter Press Service - Election Watch Africa: Current election news. IPS is a civil society news agency "an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath." Based in Rome, Italy. [KF] http://ipsnews.net/focus/africa_election/

International Anti-corruption Conference, 10th, October 7-11, 2001, Prague, Czech Republic: Conference hosted by the Czech Republic government and Transparency International, Czech Republic. http://www.10iacc.org/

International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, 4th, Cotonou, Benin, 4-6 December: http://www.un.org/events/democraties.htm

See also the 1998 Ministerial Conference with statements by Mozambique's Foreign Affairs Minister and Benin's Foreign Affairs Minister. [KF]

International Constitutional Law: Has the full text of Constitutions for Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia. Based at the Institut für öffentliches Recht, Bern, Switzerland. http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/

International Foundation for Election Systems, IFES: Based in Washington, D.C. Has some issues of their printed journal, Elections Today, from 1990 + with articles on African elections. Their Elections Guide lists past and forthcoming elections worldwide.

The Democracy at Large magazine ceased publication Jan. 2007 but has online, "Evaluating Democratic Progress in Africa". IFES has a resource center with election laws, statistics, ballots, training materials, a computerized database of election information, etc. They have an extensive publications program. http://www.ifes.org/

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA (Stockholm, Sweden): "Created in 1995 by 14 countries,...promotes and advances sustainable democracy..." Its June 2001 forum is on Democracy and the Information Revolution. http://www.idea.int/
Has many full text publications -

Voter Turnout from 1945-1997: A Global Report on Political Participation, with voting statistics for each country.
"Democracy in Burkina Faso: Assessment Mission Report," has most of the text.
"Democracy in Nigeria: Continuing Dialogue(s) for Nation-Building," an assessment report on the challenges facing Nigeria in anchoring democracy (in Adobe PDF).
Towards Sustainable Democratic Institutions in Southern Africa, reports on political parties in the SADC region, from a Botswana May 2000 conference.
Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers which contains a case study, "Women Empowered -- Women in Parliament in South Africa" by Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA - Democratic Republic of the Congo. Election July 30, 2006: Report on key issues in the July 30 presidential and legislative elections, the first democratic elections in 45 years. Reports on DRC political parties (109 pages in PDF), SADC political parties. Women in the DRC elections, etc. http://www.idea.int/elections/drc_elections06.cfm

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance - Women in Parliament: 2002 edition. Full text. On obstacles for women, how to overcome barriers, how to make a greater impact in parliament. Case study on South Africa (4 p. in PDF). IDEA is an intergovernmental organization based in Stockhom, Sweden. [KF] http://www.idea.int/publications/wip/index.cfm

International Monetary Fund. Working Paper: No 164: The Quality of Governance: Second-Generation Civil Service Reform in Africa. By Nadeem Ul Haque and Jahangir Aziz. Nov. 1998. 40 pages. Has the full text in Adobe .pdf format. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/CAT/longres.cfm?sk=2806.0

International Political Science Association: In English and French. It 19th Triennial Congress is in Durban, South Africa, June 28 to July 4, 2003. "IPSA was founded in 1949 under UNESCO sponsorship. Since then, national political science associations have constituted its core." They publish the bimonthly, International Political Science Abstracts. The African Association of Political Science is an affiliate. http://www.ipsa.ca

International Republican Institute: IRI is a private, nonprofit institute, not part of the Republican Party of the United States. The "IRI conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law." Has a weekly news summary, testimony by IRI representatives to Congress on African affairs, African programs. http://www.iri.org/

Inter-Parliamentary Union (Geneva)

The international organization of national parliaments, established in 1889. http://www.ipu.org/ Has -

Parline Database - directory of national parliaments with addresses (includes email), the electoral system, results of the last election, seats held by party, etc. One can search by country or region.
Parlit Database - citations to articles "on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science....The database includes references to over 7,000 books and studies as well as 30,000 articles taken from 160 periodicals."
women in national parliaments statistics, globally and by country
the IPU's work on behalf of women in political life
links to national parliament web sites
the 1998 IPU conference is in Windhoek. There is an April 1998 Harare conference on the Contribution of Parliaments to Democracy in Africa.
their publications, some of which are free

Issue: a Journal of Opinion: Journal sponsored by the African Studies Association (U.S.). Covers many political events. The tables of contents of the 1995-1996 issues are online. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/ASA/MIssue.html

Johnson, R. W. "Sooner or Later Africa Must Face Some Form of Recolonisation": Article by Professor Johnson in the Daily Telegraph, May 22, 2000. "in much of Africa local people regard it as uncontroversially true that things were better under colonialism." http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/00/5/22/do01.html

Journal of African Elections (Johannesburg)
: Print journal published by EISA, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa. "an interdisciplinary biannual publication of research and writing in the human sciences, which seeks to promote scholarly understanding of electoral developments and democratic change in Africa." http://www.eisa.org.za/EISA/publications/pubjournals.htm

Journal of African Policy Studies: Published by the Institute on African Affairs, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on African public policy issues. Has the table of contents, subscription information. The Editor is Dr. Moses K. Tesi. Libraries pay $78.00. http://journalofafrica.tripod.com

Journal of Cultural Studies (Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria): Published by the Nigerian Group for the Study of African Cultures (NIGSAC), a non-profit organisation which focuses on cultural and development issues in Africa. Based in the Department of English, Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. Has the tables of contents and abstracts of article. Photocopies of articles can be ordered. Pay by check or money order. From the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (London). http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/journals/jcs/index.html

Journal of Democracy: For those whose institutions subscribe to the Project Muse online journals (Stanford, etc.), you can access the full-text of articles on democracy, elections, politics in African countries. Has an Election Watch from 1990 + Published for the National Endowment for Democracy. http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/ or http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/

Kane, Edward J. and Tara Rice - "Bank Runs and Banking Policies: Lessons for African Policymakers": "We present evidence that over 1980-99 the average length of time an African banking system spent in crisis increased with the level of government corruption." (NBER Working Paper No. W8003). Pub. Nov. 2000. [KF] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=249507

Kaplan, Robert D., "The Coming Anarchy": Subtitle: "How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet." Full-text of the article from The Atlantic Monthly, February 1994. Uses examples from West Africa (Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea) and other countries. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarchy.htm

Klipsan Press Election Notes (Richmond, VA): Daily election information for all African countries. Information may be very brief. Its Elections Calendar lists forthcoming presidential, national, parliamentary, provincial elections. Has back issues of Election Notes from 1996 + online. Has many ads now. http://www.klipsan.com/elecnews.htm

Kruiter, A. 1996. Good Governance for Africa: Whose Governance? Maastricht:ECDPM: Summary of a conference organized by the Univ. of Limburg and the European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1995. Has the full text of some conference papers. http://www.oneworld.org/ecdpm/pubs/govahk.htm

Lusotopie (Paris): From the Association des chercheurs de la revue Lusotopie. Pub. by Editions Karthala, Paris. Abstracts in French, Portuguese, English. Full text articles on-line. Annual academic journal first published in 1994. Political analysis of Portuguese-speaking countries. Search by keyword across all issues in English, Portuguese, and French. http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/lusotopie/

Makerere Political Science Review: Published by the Department of Political Science and Public Adminsitration of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Has the full-text of the June 1997 issue. http://wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/Makerere/index.htm

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels - Communist Manifesto / Isibophezelo Senhlangano Yamakhomanisi: Translated into Zulu by Brian Ramadiro. With a foreword by Neville Alexander. ([Egoli]: WOSA (Workers' Organisation for Socialist Action [2002] 60 pages. On the web site of Voice of the Turtle, an online journal of left-wing politics and culture. http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/library/Communist%20Manifesto%20in%20Zulu.pdf

Mbeki, Thabo: The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World - South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks at the United Nations University, 9 April 1998. 16 p. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/mbeki.html

The African Renaissance Statement of Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki - SABC, Gallagher Estate, 13 August 1998. 3 p. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mbeki/1998/tm0813.htm

Midwest Political Science Association: Holds its 63rd Annual National Conference, April 7-11, 2005, Chicago, Palmer House Hilton Hotel. The Conference has sections on African politics and comparative politics. The Midwest Political Science Association is a national association of researchers with an interest in politics and policy. Founded in 1939, publishes the American Journal of Political Science. http://www.mwpsa.org

Minibus Media: Sells a DVD on the 2004 Malawi Presidential Election called "Making of a President". Online movie trailer.Minibus Media was created in 2004 in Malawi by Hans-Christian Goertz and Mirella Domenich to produce documentaries on human rights issues in young democracies. In progress is a film on the third Mozambique general election, "And the Struggle Still Continues." Hivos, a Dutch development agency supported the DVD production. IDFA article. ConectaSur article. [KF] http://www.minibusmedia.org/

Minorities at Risk: "independent, university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in countries with a population of at least 500,000." Has a dataset which "contains over 900 variables on 275 ethnopolitical groups around the globe." Covers many African ethnic groups. For each group has an overview, detailed chronology (strongest for 1990s), and risk assessment. Project headed by Ted Robert Gurr, based at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, since 1988. [KF] http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/

Monga, Célestin - The Anthropology of Anger, Civil Society and Democracy in Africa: Access only to universities subscribing to Columbia International Affairs Online. The full text of the book. Translated by Linda L. Fleck and Célestin Monga. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1996. http://www.ciaonet.org/book/monga/index.html

[Mozambique] Centro de Integridade Pública de Moçambique / Center for Public Integrity: In Portuguese and English. Promotes good governance, transparency. Full text documents such as Relatório do Estudo sobre Transparência, Áreas de Riscos e Oportunidades de Corrupção em Seis Autarquias Moçambicanas; Corrupcao no sector da Justiça; Corrupcao no sector da Saúde; Pequena Corrupção na Educação; Análise à Estratégia Anti-Corrupção. Educational posters, other full text documents (UN, Swiss aid, World Bank). Publishes the CIP Newsletter. Based in Maputo, Mozambique. [KF] http://www.integridadepublica.org.mz/

Muyebe, Stanlaus - The Religious Factor within the Body of Political Symbolism in Malawi, 1964-1994: A Bibliographical Essay: "To what extent do the politicians in Africa use the cultural symbols as a tool for
construction of political realities in African countries?" "Malawi is identified as a case study. Interconnections between the cultural traditions in Malawi and the politics in Malawi are identified and analyzed."

The first 25 pages are free online in .pdf format. Or pay $6 thru credit card to access the entire book online. The book is also in print form from uPublish.com http://www.upublish.com/books/muyebe.htm

Namibia Instituite for Democracy (Windhoek, Namibia): Non-political organization founded in 1991, develops civic education programs. Has many full text reports (in Adobe pdf) and posters prepared for campaigns on violence against women and children and disability. Full text reports cover democracy, affirmative action, the Married Persons Equality Act, the government and opposition, Labour Act, Accountability and Corruption in Namibia, What Every Voter Needs to Know, the Association of Regional Councils Consultative Conference, Law for All; Wills, Testaments and Estates; private arbitration, etc. [KF] http://www.nid.org.na

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Washington, D.C.): A nonprofit NGO which seeks to promote democratic institutions in new and emerging democracies. Has many full text reports regarding Africa (Central / East / West Africa and Southern Africa). http://www.ndi.org
: Transparency and Accountability in Africa's Extractive Industries: The Role of the Legislature.
107 p. in PDF. Edited by Shari Bryan & Barrie Hofmann. 2007. Covers Angola, Botswana, Chad, Congo - Brazzaville, Dem Rep. of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa. http://www.accessdemocracy.org/library/2191_extractive_080807.pdf

National Endowment for Democracy, NED - Democracy Net ( Washington, D.C.): Publishes the Journal of Democracy, supports DemocracyNews, "an electronic mailing list for sharing news, announcements, and information among democracy activists, scholars, and others working to promote democracy around the world", has a Democracy Experts Database, full text Conference Reports (Nigeria 1999 election, South Africa, Nigeria 1995). http://www.ned.org

National Parliaments Web Sites: Maintained by Steven S. Smith, Professor in the Political Science Dept., Univ. of Minnesota. Includes British, French, South African Parliament links.
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~sssmith/Parliaments.html

New Partnership for Africa's Development: In English and French. Site only works in MS Internet Explorer. "This initiative was endorsed by the OAU summit of Heads of State and Governments in Lusaka, Zambia on the 11 July 2001." http://www.nepad.org/; See also G8 Canada (Kananaskis) Summit, 2002
The Leaders at the Kananaskis Summit discussed three major priorities: Strengthening Global Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, building a new partnership for Africa's development (based on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD), and fighting terrorism. The G8 Africa Action Plan was approved. http://www.g8.gc.ca/

New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): Full text document, in Adobe pdf, 63 pages. NEPAD is "a pledge by African leaders...that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty..." "African peoples have begun to demonstrate their refusal to accept poor economic and political leadership." On the site of South Africa's Dept. of Foreign Affairs. http://www.dfa.gov.za/events/nepad.pdf

[New Partnership...... ] Partnership with the Private Sector for financing Africa's growth through NEPAD'' Dakar, on April 15 - 17, 2002: "The Dakar Conference will be an opportunity for participants to review concrete projects in 10 priority areas, including those dealing with Infrastructure, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Energy and Agriculture." http://www.nepadsn.org/

New York Times Book Reviews: Search for past book reviews from 1980 to date from the New York Times and the New York Times Book Review section by author, title, subject. Seaching on an African country generally pulls up one or more titles. The site is updated daily and includes the complete Sunday Book Review section. One can read the first chapters from a selection of best sellers and recently reviewed books, http://www.nytimes.com/books/

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet / Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala, Sweden) - Publications: Extensive books and electronic publications program. Publications in English, Swedish, French. Some full text titles are free online, in Adobe pdf. For example has the full text of Language, Democracy and Education in Africa, by Birgit Brock-Utne, (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Discussion Papers No 15). 2002. 46 p. In Adobe pdf. [KF] http://www.nai.uu.se/webbshop/ShopGB/index.html

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD): In English and Norwegian. "a directorate under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Describes Norway's development assistance to African countries (statistics, projects). Includes an annotated bibliography with Africa-related citations, "Corruption - A selected and annotated bibliography." http://www.norad.no/

Open Democracy - Africa and Democracy: Original articles by journalists, stories from African newpapers on the political situation in Africa. "....take part - in the forums, or by sending your own material to the editors...." Has a forum on Africa and Democracy. Mainly funded by the the Open Trust, a registered UK charity, based in London. [KF] http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/issue.jsp

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, OSISA