What is democracy?
Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy
Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy
Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa
Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society
Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space
Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy
The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy
The party system and some specific issues
Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power
Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies
Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.