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African Ambiguities: The Gambia-From Coup to Elections

African AmbiguitiesThe Gambia-From Coup to Elections John A. Wiseman (bio) Explaining the readiness of his fellow Nigerians to accept the contrived and limited process through which their country was supposed to return to democracy in 1993, Nobel prizewinning author and dissident Wole Soyinka observed that “Nigerians made up their minds that even a moldy loaf was better than nothing and that the immediate target . . . was to get rid of the military [dictatorship].” 1 In the event, of course, the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the 1993 presidential election tout court. Instead of …