Afrobarometer x Pasiri Junior Scholars' Workshop

Call for Proposals: Prospects and Perils for African Democracy

Afrobarometer and the Program on African Social Research (Pasiri) invite proposals for

our second Junior Scholars’ Workshop to be held in Accra, Ghana, June 22-24, 2022.

Recent coups in West Africa and elsewhere have again demonstrated the precarity of

democracy in Africa. Even as surveys reveal that the majority of Africans prefer

democratic rule, African political elites seem incapable of entrenching substantive

democratic institutions.

For this workshop, we welcome proposals from scholars working on the trajectory of

democracy across Africa’s 54 countries. What are the prospects for substantive

democracy in Africa? What role has the COVID pandemic played in undermining or

promoting democratic rule? How are populist politicians and social movements

transforming the nature of democracy? What about the military and other violent

actors? What impact has foreign investment and economic growth had on

democratization? What role, if any, for th