Selected Books on African Politics and Elections in Africa
African Politics
- A certain amount of madness : the life, politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara. Edited by Amber Murrey. (London : Pluto Press, 2018)
- Abbink, Jon. A decade of Ethiopia : politics, economy and society, 2004-2016. ( Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017])
- Africa : dilemmas of development and change. Edited by Peter Lewis. (Boulder, Colo : WestviewPress,: 1998)
- Africa in global international relations : emerging approaches to theory and practice. Edited by Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning, and Amitav Acharya. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016)
--See also: E-book
- Africa in world politics : sustaining reform in a turbulent world order. 7th ed. E-book. Edited by John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild. (New York: Routledge, 2023)
--See also, previous editions: 2017 ; 2013 ; 2009 and 2000
- Africa's big men : predatory state-society relations in Africa. Edited by Kenneth Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018)
--See also: E-book
- African democracy and development : challenges for post-conflict African nations. Edited by Cassandra R. Veney and Dick Simpson. (Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, c2013)
- African studies in social movements and democracy. Edited by Mahmood Mamdani and Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba. (Dakar, Senegal : CODSRIA, 1995)
- Ajulu, Rok. Post-colonial Kenya: the rise of an authoritarian and predatory state. E-book. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- Assessing Barack Obama's Africa policy : suggestions for him and African leaders. Edited by Abdul Karim Bangura. (Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2015])
--See also: Offsite copy
- The A-Z of South African politics : people, parties and players. Written and compiled by Kashiefa Ajam, Kevin Ritchie, Lebogang Seale, Janet Smith & Thabiso Thakali. (Auckland Park : Jacana Media, 2019)
--See also, previous editions: 1999 ; 2004; and, 2009
- Ba, Oumar. States of justice : the politics of the international criminal court. E-book. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Bates, Robert H. Markets and states in tropical Africa : the political basis of agricultural policies. Updated and expanded with a new preface. E-book
(Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014)
--See also, in print: 2005 ed. and 1981 ed.
- Big African states. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, and Greg Mills. (Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2006)
- Bøås, Morten and Kevin Dunn. Politics of origin in Africa : autochthony, citizenship and conflict. (London : Zed Books, 2013)
--See also: E-book
- Boone, Catherine. Property and political order in Africa : land rights and the structure of politics. (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014)
--See also: E-book
- Branch, Adam and Zachariah Mampilly. Africa uprising : popular protest and political change. (London : Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation, 2015)
--See also: E-Book
- Bratton, Michael, Robert Mattes, and E. Gyimah-Boadi. Public opinion, democracy, and market reform in Africa. (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005)
--See also: E-book
- Bratton, Michael and Nicolas van de Walle. Democratic experiments in Africa : regime transitions in comparative perspective. (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997)
- Building regionalism from below : the role of parliaments and civil society in regional integration in Africa. Edited by Korwa G. Adar, Giovanni Finizio and Angela Meyer. (New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2018)
- Cheeseman, Nicholas. Democracy in Africa : successes, failures, and the struggle for political reform. (New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015)
--See also: E-book
- Chigudu, Simukai. The political life of an epidemic : cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. E-book. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Christensen, Darin and David D. Laitin. African states since independence : order, development, & democracy. (New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019])
- Citizenship, belonging, and political community in Africa : dialogues between past and present. Edited by Emma Hunter. (Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016])
- Civic agency in Africa : arts of resistance in the 21st century. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare & Wendy Willems. (Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, [2014])
- Civil society and the political imagination in Africa : critical perspectives. Edited by John L. and Jean Comaroff. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999)
- Clarke, Kamari Maxine. Affective justice : the International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist pushback. (Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019)
--See also: E-book
- Coethnicity : diversity and the dilemmas of collective action. [Co-authored by James Habyarimana ... [et al.].] (New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2009) Case study of Kampala, Uganda
--See also: E-book
- Collective mobilisations in Africa : enough is enough! =Mobilisations collectives en Afrique : ça suffit!. Edited by Kadya Tall, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Michel Cahen. (Leiden : Brill, [2015])
- Contesting transformation : popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa. Edited by Marcell C. Dawson and Luke Sinwell. (London : Pluto Press, 2012)
--See also: E-book
- Daly, Samuel Fury Childs. A history of the Republic of Biafra : law, crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. E-book. (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Democratic struggle, institutional reform, and state resilience in the African Sahel. E-book. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and Abdourahmane Idrissa. (Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020)
--See also: 2nd E-book copy
- Democratic trajectories in Africa : unravelling the impact of foreign aid. Edited by Danielle Resnick and Nicolas van de Walle. (Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013)
--See also: E-book
- Democratic transition in East Africa : governance and development at the grassroots. (Dar es Salaam : Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania, c2011)
- De Waal, Alex. The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power. (Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2015)
- Dunn, Kevin C. Imagining the Congo : the international relations of identity. (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
--See also: E-book
- Elischer, Sebastian. Political parties in Africa : ethnicity and party formation. E-book. (New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013)
- Elmi, Afyare Abdi. Understanding the Somalia conflagration : identity, political Islam and peacebuilding. (London ; New York : Pluto Press ; Oxford : Pambazuka Press ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
- Emerson, Stephen and Hussein Solomon.African security in the twenty-first century : challenges and opportunities. (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018)
- Falola, Toyin. Understanding modern Nigeria : ethnicity, democracy and development. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
--See also: E-book
- Federalism and democracy in Nigeria : fifty years after. Edited by J. Isawa Elaigwu. (Jos : Institute of Governance and Social Research, 2014)
- Ferguson, James. The anti-politics machine : "development," depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1994]).
- Ferguson, James. Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. (Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999])
--See also: E-book
- Ferguson, James. Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order. (Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006)
--See also: E-book
- Fujii, Lee Ann. Killing neighbors : webs of violence in Rwanda. (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009)
--See also: E-book
- Governance and the crisis of rule in contemporary Africa : leadership in transformation. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- Grovogui, Siba N'Zatioula. Sovereigns, quasi sovereigns, and Africans : race and self-determination in international law. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
- The hard road to reform : the politics of Zimbabwe's global political agreement. Edited by Brian Raftopoulos. (Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2013)
- Harris, David. Civil War and Democracy in West Africa : conflict resolution, elections and justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (New York : I .B. Tauris, 2012)
--See also: E-book
- Harsch, Ernest. Burkina Faso : a history of power, protest and revolution. (London : Zed Books Ltd., 2017)
- Hassan, Mai. Regime threats and state solutions : bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya. E-book. [New York] : [Cambridge University Press], [2020]
- Henderson, Errol Anthony. African realism? : international relations theory and Africa's wars in the postcolonial era. (Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015])
--See also: E-book
- Herbst, Jeffrey Ira. States and power in Africa : comparative lessons in authority and control. (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000)
--See also: 2014 e-book edition -or- in print.
- Honwana, Alcinda Manuel. The time of youth : work, social change, and politics in Africa. (Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2012)
- Honwana, Alcinda Manuel. Youth and revolution in Tunisia. (London ; New York : Zed Books in association with International African Institute, the Royal African Society and the World Peace Foundation ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
--See also: E-book
- The Horn of Africa : intra-state and inter-state conflicts and security. Edited by Redie Bereketeab. (London : Pluto Press ; New York, NY : Distributed by Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)
--See also: E-book
- Idris, Amir H. Conflict and politics of identity in Sudan. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2005)
-- See also: E-book
- Institutions and democracy in Africa : how the rules of the game shape political developments. Edited by Nic Cheeseman. (Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018)
--See also: E-book
- Jok, Jok Madut. Sudan: race, religion and violence. (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007)
- Keller, Edmond J. Identity, citizenship, and political conflict in Africa. (Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014)
--See also: E-book
- Kelly, Catherine Lena. Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa : Senegal in comparative perspective. (Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
--See also: E-book
- Kidane Mengisteab. The Horn of Africa. Hot spots in global politics. (Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2014)
- Kisangani, Emizet F. Civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010. (Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012)
- Land, law and politics in Africa : mediating conflict and reshaping the state. Edited by Jan Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011)
- Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa. Edited by Sam Moyo, Dzodzi Tsikata, Yakham Diop. (Dakar, Senegal : Counsel for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2015])
- Legislative power in emerging African democracies. Edited by Joel D. Barkan. (Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009)
--See also: E-book
- LeVan, A. Carl. Dictators and democracy in African development : the political economy of good governance in Nigeria. (New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015)
--See also: E-book
- Le Vine, Victor T. Politics in Francophone Africa. (Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004)
- Lyons, Terrence. The puzzle of Ethiopian politics. (Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2019)
- Mamdani, Mahmood. Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism. (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996)
--See also: E-book (2018 ed.)
- Mamdani, Mahmood. Neither settler nor native : the making and unmaking of permanent minorities. (Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020)
--See also: E-book ; 2nd e-book
- Mamdani, Mahmood. When victims become killers: colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda. (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press. 2001)
-- See also: E-book
- Mampilly, Zachariah Cherian. Rebel rulers: insurgent governance and civilian life during war. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011)
-- See also: E-book
- Manby, Bronwen. Struggles for citizenship in Africa. (London ; New York Zed Books c2009)
- Marcus, Richard R. The politics of institutional failure in Madagascar's Third Republic. (Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016])
- Martins, Vasco. Colonialism, ethnicity and war in Angola. E-book. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021)
- McGovern, Mike. Making war in Côte d'Ivoire. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Mueller, Lisa. Political protest in contemporary Africa. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- Mugabeism? : history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe. Edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. (New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
- Munemo, Ngonidzashe. Domestic politics and drought relief in Africa : explaining choices. (Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2012)
--See also: E-book
- Mũngai, Mbũgua wa and G. M. Gona. (Re)membering Kenya. 3 vols. (Nairobi : Twaweza Communications Ltd., c2010-)
--See also: E-book, vol. 1 ; E-book, vol. 2
- Murray, Rachel. The African Charter on Human and People's Rights : a commentary. (Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Ndongo, Abou Moussa, Darlene Miller, Priscilla Wamucii, and Diana Sanchez. South Africa in Africa: annotated bibliography, 1994-2008. E-book. (Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2010)
- Neocosmos, Michael. From 'foreign natives' to 'native foreigners' : explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa : citizenship and nationalism, identity and politics. [2nd ed.] (Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, c2010)
--See also: E-book
- New Sudan in the making?: essays on a nation in painful search of itself. Edited by Francis M. Deng. (Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, c2010)
- Nigerian politics. E-book. Edited by Rotimi Ajayi and Joseph Yinka Fashagba. (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021)
- North African politics : change and continuity. Edited by Yahia H. Zoubir and Gregory White. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, 2016)
--See also: E-book
- Nugent, Paul. Africa since independence : a comparative history. (Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- Nyabola, Nanjala. Digital democracy, analogue politics : how the Internet era is transforming Kenya. (London : Zed Books, 2018)
- Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Insiders and outsiders : citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary Southern Africa. (Dakar, Senegal : Codesria Books ; London ; New York : In association with Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
--See also: E-book
- Oliveira, Ricardo Soares de. Magnificent and beggar land : Angola since the Civil War. (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015])
--See also: UK edition
- Opalo, Ken Ochieng'. Legislative development in Africa : politics and postcolonial legacies. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019)
--See also: E-book
- Our turn to eat : politics in Kenya since 1950. Edited by Daniel Branch, Nic Cheeseman, Leigh Gardner. (Berlin : Lit ; London : Global [distributor], c2010)
- The Oxford handbook of Kenyan politics. Edited by Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, and Gabrielle Lynch. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020)
--See also: E-book
- The Oxford handbook of Nigerian politics. Edited by A. Carl Levan and Patrick Ukata. (Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2018)
--See also: E-book
- The Oxford handbook of Zimbabwean politics. E-book. Edited by Miles Tendi, JoAnn McGregor, and Jocelyn Alexander. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Peasant organisations and the democratisation process in Africa. Edited by Mahmoud Ben Romdhane & Sam Moyo. (Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2002)
- The performance of Africa's international courts : using international litigation for political, legal, and social change. E-book. Edited by James Thuo Gathii. (Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Peterson, Brian James. Thomas Sankara : a revolutionary in Cold War Africa. E-book. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
- Practices of citizenship in East Africa : perspectives from philosophical pragmatism. E-book. Edited by Katariina Holma and Tiina Kontinen. (London ; New York : Routledge, 2020)
--See also: DOAB e-book
- Ramani, Samuel. Russia in Africa : resurgent great power or bellicose pretender?. (New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2023)
- The recurring Great Lakes crisis: identity, violence and power. Edited by Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Richard Banégas. (London : Hurst & Co., 2008)
- Reno, William. Warlord politics and African states. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynner Rienner Publishers, 1998)
- Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa. Edited by Harri Englund & Francis B. Nyamnjoh. (London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- The roots of African conflicts: the causes and costs. Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. (Oxford: James Currey; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2008)
-- See also: E-book
- Rothchild, Donald S. Managing ethnic conflict in Africa : pressures and incentives for cooperation. (Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1997)
- Sesay, Amadu and Charles Ukeje...[et al.]. Post-war regimes and state reconstruction in Liberia and Sierra Leone. (Dakar : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2009)
--See also: E-book
- Shinn, David Hamilton and Joshua Eisenman. China's relations with Africa : a new era of political and security engagement. (New York : Columbia University Press, 2023)
- Shivji, Issa G., Saida Yahya-Othman, and Ng'wanza Kamat. Development as rebellion : a biography of Julius Nyerere. 3 vols. (Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, [2020])
- Southall, Roger. Liberation movements in power : party and state in Southern Africa. (Oxford : James Currey, 2013)
- State and society in the Gambia since independence : 1965-2012. Edited by Abdoulaye Saine, Ebrima Ceesay and Ebrima Sall. (Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2013)
- State versus ethnic claims : African policy dilemmas. Edited by Donald Rothchild and Victor A. Olorunsola. (Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1983)
- Straus, Scott. The order of genocide: race, power, and war in Rwanda. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006)
-- See also: E-book
- Thurston, Alexander. Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel : local politics and rebel groups. E-book. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Traditional cures for modern conflicts: African conflict "medicine". Edited by I. William Zartman. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2000)
- Tripp, Aili Mari Women and power in postconflict Africa. (New York : Cambridge University, 2015)
--See also: E-book
- Turner, Thomas. The Congo wars: conflict, myth and reality. (London; New York: Zed Books Ltd.; New York: Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
- Turning points in African democracy. Edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha & Lindsay Whitfield. (Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2009)
- Van de Walle, Nicolas. African economies and the politics of permanent crisis, 1979-1999. (Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- Vaughan, Olufemi. Religion and the making of Nigeria. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
--See also: E-book
- Voices of protest : social movements in post-apartheid South Africa. Edited by Richard Ballard, Adam Habib and Imraan Valodia. (Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006)
- Walraven, Klaas van. A decade of Niger : politics, economy and society 2008-2017. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019])
--See also: E-book
- The war within : new perspectives on the civil war in Mozambique, 1976-1992. Edited by Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen & Domingos Manuel do Rosário. (Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2018)
- Who is an African? : identity, citizenship and the making of the Africa-nation Edited by Jideofor Adibe. (London : Adonis & Abbey, 2009)
- Women in African parliaments. Edited by Gretchen Bauer and Hannah E. Britton. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
--See also: E-book
- Women's activism in Africa : struggles for rights and representation. Edited by Balghis Badri and Aili Mari Tripp. London : Zed Books Ltd, 2017.
- Women's movements in post-"Arab Spring" North Africa. Edited by Fatima Sadiqi. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
--See also: E-Book
- Young, Crawford. The African colonial state in comparative perspective. (New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1994)
--See also: E-book
- Young, Crawford. The postcolonial state in Africa : fifty years of independence, 1960-2010. (Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012)
--See also: E-book
- Zunes, Stephen and Jacob Mundy. Western Sahara : war, nationalism, and conflict irresolution. (Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010)
--See also: E-book
Elections in Africa
- Bleck, Jaimie and Nicolas van de Walle. Electoral politics in Africa since 1990 : continuity in change. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019)
--See also: E-book
- Burchard, Stephanie M. Electoral violence in sub-Saharan Africa : causes and consequences. (Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, A Division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2015)
- Cheeseman, Nicholas and Brian Klaas. How to rig an election. (New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, [2018])
- Cheeseman, Nicholas, Gabrielle Lynch, and Justin Willis. The moral economy of elections in Africa : democracy, voting, and virtue. E-book. (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2020])
- Contested power in Ethiopia : traditional authorities and multi-party elections. Edited by Kjetil Tronvoll, Tobias Hagmann. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012)
--See also: E-book
- Election fever : Kenya's crisis. Edited by Nic Cheeseman & Dan Branch. (Abingdon : Routledge, 2008)
- Election management bodies in East Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy ; a review by AfriMAP and the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. [Compiled by] Alexander B. Makulilo ...[et al.]. (Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016)
--See also: E-book
- Election management bodies in Southern Africa : comparative study of the electoral commissions' contribution to electoral processes / a review by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and ECF-SADC. (Johannesbug, South Africa : OSISA ; Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016)
--See also: E-book
- Election management bodies in West Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy. E-book. [Compiled by] Ismaila Madior Fall ... [et al.]. (Dakar : Open Society Foundations ; South Africa : distrib. by African Minds, c2012)
--See also: E-book (Project Muse)
- Election observation and democratization in Africa. Edited by J. Abbink and G. Hesseling. (New York : St. Martin's Press ; London : Macmillan, 2000)
--See also: Law Library copy
- Elections and democratization in West Africa, 1990-2009. Edited by Abdoulaye Saine, Boubacar N'Diaye, and Mathurin Houngnikpo. (Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011)
- Electoral reform in Africa : challenges and opportunities. Edited by Mikewa Ogada. (Nairobi, Kenya : Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists, 2011)
--See also: Law Library copy
- Frère, Marie-Soleil. Elections and the media in post-conflict Africa : votes and voices for peace?. (London ; New York : Zed Books ; Paris : Institut Panos Paris ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
--See also: E-book
- Harding, Robin F. H. Rural democracy : elections and development in Africa. E-book. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Hounkpe, Mathias and Ismaila Madior Fall. Electoral commissions in West Africa : a comparative study. (Abuja, Nigeria : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2010)
- Ibrahim, Jibrin and Dauda Garuba. A study of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria. E-book (Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, c2010)
- Institutionalising democracy : the story of the Electoral Commission of South Africa, 1993-2014. Edited by Mcebisi Ndletyana. (Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015)
- Kramon, Eric. Money for votes : the causes and consequences of electoral clientelism in Africa. (Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018)
--See also: E-book
- Morse, Yonatan L. How autocrats compete : parties, patrons, and unfair elections in Africa. (Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019)
--See also: E-book
- Multi-party elections in Africa. Edited by Michael Cowen & Liisa Laakso. (New York : Palgrave, 2001)
- Social media and elections in Africa. Volume 1: theoretical perspectives and election campaigns -and- Volume 2: challenges and opportunities. E-book. Edited by Martin N. Ndlela and Winston Mano. (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
- When elephants fight : preventing and resolving election-related conflicts in Africa. Edited by Khabele Matlosa, Gilbert M. Khadiagala and Victor Shale. (Johannesburg : EISA, 2010)
- Violence in African elections : between democracy and big man politics. Edited by Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs and Jesper Bjarnesen. (London : Zed ; Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, [2018])
- Votes, money and violence : political parties and elections in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Matthias Basedau, Gero Erdmann and Andreas Mehler. (Stockholm : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007)
- Voting in fear : electoral violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Dorina A. Bekoe. (Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2012)