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Cabo Verde: West Africa’s Democratic ‘Potemkin Village’ |by Abel Djassi Amado

03/08/2015

“the institutional mechanisms that were intended to buttress participation by ordinary citizens’ are either lacking or have simply become part of the pays légal (legal country) without any repercussions in the pays réel (real country).” To bilateral and multilateral foreign donors, the islands of Cabo Verde, West Africa, represent one of the few democratic exceptions … More Cabo Verde: West Africa’s Democratic ‘Potemkin Village’ |by Abel Djassi Amado

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