DEMOCRACY EXPERIENCE IN AFRICA

Abstract

More than five decades have passed since the sub-Saharan African cot consumed by the frantic flames of Democratization. This paper provides an overall evaluation of the lack of progress made in democratization and the consequences that come with it. This research deals with various areas of progress and setbacks of democratization made so far in Africa and her quest for development. An analytical method was employed in order to understand the increasingly illegitimate actions that come with democratization. We shall conclude on the steps forward that remain greater than reversals and that typically, though not across the world, sub-Saharan African countries like Nigeria in particular are more exposed to the system of democracy today than they were back then in the early late 1980s down to the early 1990s.