Abstract

DIAS, António Luís. A democratization wave in África?. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2018, n.59, pp.29-42. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2018.59a03.

A Democratization Wave in Africa between 1990 and 1995, a wave of protests swept Sub-Saharan Africa and started a process of political change, some merely cosmetic other more substantial. Yet, it is still not clear the relationship between these processes and other processes of political transition already identified, namely the third wave of democratization, which affected other continents. Is the African process part of this third wave or is it clearly distinct from it? This article aims to answer this question, by reexamining the causes, the processes and the results of the third wave and comparing them with what happened in Africa.

Keywords : Democratization; Sub-Saharan; Africa; third wave.

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