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By Seye Bassir

• Title: How to Win Elections in Africa
  
• Author: Chude Jideonwo with Adebola Williams
• Publisher: Kamsi Farafina
• Number of pages: 280
• Year of publication: 2017
• Category: Politics

How does one win elections in Africa? A humorous answer to this question might be that you do not. Chude Jideonwo in his book, How to Win Elections in Africa, writes that the African continent is ‘mostly defined by dictatorship’, despite an ‘exceptionally high number of elections’ having held in recent years. A good extension of this point would be that several recent elections across Africa have been flawed or have been smokescreens to create false legitimacy for undemocratic governments. More…