This issue contains:
* The Viability of Somaliland: Internal Constraints and Regional Geopolitics p. 157
Asteris Huliaras
* The End of an Era: The Ghanaian Elections of December 200 p. 183
Klaas van Walraven
* A Basic Human Rights Approach to Democracy in Uganda p. 203
Susan Dicklitch
* When the Bakassi Boys Came: Eastern Nigeria Confronts Vigilantism p. 223
Bruce Baker
* "The Time When Politics Came": Ghana's Decolonisation From the Perspective of a Rural Periphery p. 245
Carola Lentz
* Understanding Telecom Sector Reforms in South Africa: A Political Economy Perspective p. 275
Melvin Ayogu, James Hodge