Rita Kiki Edozie, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor in International Relations at Michigan State University. She has held appointments as the Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and visiting assistant professor with the department of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. She is the author of People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement Against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999. She has published "Promoting African Owned and Operated Development: Reflections on the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)" in African and Asian Studies and "Third World Democracies: Learning From Each Other" in the ATWS-Journal of Third World Studies and has contributed book chapters to several edited volumes.

• 1 Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic TheoryChapter 2 Chapter 1: Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and IssuesChapter 3 Chapter 2: The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social ConstructionChapter 4 Chapter 3: Establishing Modern Democracy: The Global Second Wave and De-colonizationChapter 5 Chapter 4: Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis"Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human RIghts in a Global Democratic EraChapter 7 Chapter 6: Electoral Authoritarians and Delegative Democrats: Reconstructing Democratic Consolidation in AfricaChapter 8 Chapter 7: Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy: Democracy and Development9 Conclusion: Predicting the Future for Democracy in Africa

Rita Kiki Edozie, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor in International Relations at Michigan State University. She has held appointments as the Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and visiting assistant professor with the department of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. She is the author of People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement Against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999. She has published "Promoting African Owned and Operated Development: Reflections on the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)" in African and Asian Studies and "Third World Democracies: Learning From Each Other" in the ATWS-Journal of Third World Studies and has contributed book chapters to several edited volumes.

• 1 Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic TheoryChapter 2 Chapter 1: Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and IssuesChapter 3 Chapter 2: The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social ConstructionChapter 4 Chapter 3: Establishing Modern Democracy: The Global Second Wave and De-colonizationChapter 5 Chapter 4: Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis"Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human RIghts in a Global Democratic EraChapter 7 Chapter 6: Electoral Authoritarians and Delegative Democrats: Reconstructing Democratic Consolidation in AfricaChapter 8 Chapter 7: Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy: Democracy and Development9 Conclusion: Predicting the Future for Democracy in Africa