Africa in Transition: Witness to Change

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Africa in Transition: Witness to Change is written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by Intercontinental Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9987160085 (ISBN 10) and 9789987160082 (ISBN 13).

Godfrey Mwakikagile looks at the major changes Africa has gone through since the end of colonial rule including some of the events he witnessed in his home country Tanganyika – later Tanzania – since the late 1950s, the dawn of a new era when Africa was headed towards independence. One of the fundamental changes he looks at took place in the 1990s when most countries across the continent gradually moved from authoritarian rule to democracy, although he contends that the gains made during that transitional period have not been consolidated and sustained through the years. The majority of Africans still live under one form of authoritarian rule or another including outright dictatorship.