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Introduction: Elections and electoral politics in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Tom Young
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The new British ambassador to Maputo, Richard Edis, recently travelled to the Renamo base at Maringue to meet its leader Alfonso Dhlakama. He carried with him a letter from Overseas Development Minister Baroness Lynda Chalker, two footballs and a pile of books on ‘democracy’ for Dhlakama's library.’

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Africa , Volume 63 , Issue 3: Understanding Elections in Africa , July 1993 , pp. 299 - 312
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Copyright © International African Institute 1993

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