GAIM KIBREAB retired as Professor of Research and Director of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University in 2021. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred (James Currey, 2009), People on the Edge in the Horn (James Currey, 1996) and The Eritrean National Service (2017).

This edited volume by Kidane Mengisteab brings together a range of scholars of and from the Horn of Africa to produce a rare scholarly work with pragmatic intent.

• Introduction: Structural and Institutional Factors in the Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa - Kidane MengisteabProblematizing "Liberation" and Democratization in Post-independenceEritrea - Gaim KibreabProspects for Democracy in the Newest Country, South Sudan - Leben Nelson Moro and Kuyang Harriet LogoThe Quest for Alternatives in Overcoming the Democratization Deficit in Ethiopia - Kassahun BerhanuParliament-Public Engagement in Ethiopia: A Weak Link in Democratic Transformation - Meheret AyenewChallenges and Prospects of Democratization in Sudan - Amr M A Mahgoub MahgoubA Caring Patronage System for the Sudanese Democratization Process: Compilation of Incompatibles? by Asma Hussein M. Adam - Asma Hussein M. AdamContestation of Democracy in Kenya - Macharia MuneneUnderstanding the Three Paradoxical Trajectories: Democracy, Clan, and Islam in the State-Building Process of Somaliland - Mohamed A. Mohamoud MohamoudDeveloping an Alternative Approach to Democratization in the Transitional Societies of the Greater Horn - Kidane MengisteabConclusion - Kidane Mengisteab

GAIM KIBREAB retired as Professor of Research and Director of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University in 2021. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred (James Currey, 2009), People on the Edge in the Horn (James Currey, 1996) and The Eritrean National Service (2017).

This edited volume by Kidane Mengisteab brings together a range of scholars of and from the Horn of Africa to produce a rare scholarly work with pragmatic intent.

• Introduction: Structural and Institutional Factors in the Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa - Kidane MengisteabProblematizing "Liberation" and Democratization in Post-independenceEritrea - Gaim KibreabProspects for Democracy in the Newest Country, South Sudan - Leben Nelson Moro and Kuyang Harriet LogoThe Quest for Alternatives in Overcoming the Democratization Deficit in Ethiopia - Kassahun BerhanuParliament-Public Engagement in Ethiopia: A Weak Link in Democratic Transformation - Meheret AyenewChallenges and Prospects of Democratization in Sudan - Amr M A Mahgoub MahgoubA Caring Patronage System for the Sudanese Democratization Process: Compilation of Incompatibles? by Asma Hussein M. Adam - Asma Hussein M. AdamContestation of Democracy in Kenya - Macharia MuneneUnderstanding the Three Paradoxical Trajectories: Democracy, Clan, and Islam in the State-Building Process of Somaliland - Mohamed A. Mohamoud MohamoudDeveloping an Alternative Approach to Democratization in the Transitional Societies of the Greater Horn - Kidane MengisteabConclusion - Kidane Mengisteab

GAIM KIBREAB retired as Professor of Research and Director of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University in 2021. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred (James Currey, 2009), People on the Edge in the Horn (James Currey, 1996) and The Eritrean National Service (2017).

This edited volume by Kidane Mengisteab brings together a range of scholars of and from the Horn of Africa to produce a rare scholarly work with pragmatic intent.

• Introduction: Structural and Institutional Factors in the Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa - Kidane MengisteabProblematizing "Liberation" and Democratization in Post-independenceEritrea - Gaim KibreabProspects for Democracy in the Newest Country, South Sudan - Leben Nelson Moro and Kuyang Harriet LogoThe Quest for Alternatives in Overcoming the Democratization Deficit in Ethiopia - Kassahun BerhanuParliament-Public Engagement in Ethiopia: A Weak Link in Democratic Transformation - Meheret AyenewChallenges and Prospects of Democratization in Sudan - Amr M A Mahgoub MahgoubA Caring Patronage System for the Sudanese Democratization Process: Compilation of Incompatibles? by Asma Hussein M. Adam - Asma Hussein M. AdamContestation of Democracy in Kenya - Macharia MuneneUnderstanding the Three Paradoxical Trajectories: Democracy, Clan, and Islam in the State-Building Process of Somaliland - Mohamed A. Mohamoud MohamoudDeveloping an Alternative Approach to Democratization in the Transitional Societies of the Greater Horn - Kidane MengisteabConclusion - Kidane Mengisteab