Digital Technologies and Election Management in Africa’s Democratisation Process
More Technocratic than Democratic?
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It has been about three decades since strikes and mass demonstrations in the streets of Benin Republic signalled a continent-wide trajectory in Africa that led to the serial toppling of authoritarian and military regimes. Those events have been described as ‘a historic shift in the political landscape of postcolonial Africa’.1 But perhaps more appropriately, they unleashed Africa’s third democratic movement. The first movement took the form of anticolonial struggles, followed by the ‘second independence movement’ in the immediate post-independence era; both failed to meet the aspirations of Africa’s peoples.
