AFRICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE REVUE AFRICAINE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE NKVV SERIES Volume 2 Number! June 1997 Special Issue: Elections in Africa Guest Editor: L. Adele Jinadu ISSN 1027 0353 African Journal of Political Science (formerly African Journal of Political Economy) Revue Africaine de Science Politique New Series Vol. 2 No. 1 June 1997 A Journal of the African Association of Political Science, it is published two times a year (June and December). Articles in the AJPS represent neither the views of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) nor its officers. Responsibility for opinions or views expressed, and the accuracy of facts presented and published rests solely with the individual authors concerned. ©African Association of Political Science, June 1997 Printed by: Print-Source (Private) Limited P.O. Box HG 640, Highlands, Harare, Zimbabwe Editor: Kwame A. 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Veuillez joindre un resume de 250 mots ainsi qu' une Declaration signee indiquant que le manuscrit n'a ni ete publie, ni ete presente ailleurs afin d'etre publie dans une autre revue. Toutes les correspondances doivent etre adressees a: The Editor, AJPS African Association of Political Science P.O. Box MP 1100, Mt. Pleasant Harare, ZIMBABWE Telephone: 739023-5 Fax : (263-4) 730403 E-mail: aapp@harare.iafrica.com iv AFRICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (Formely African Journal of Political Science) REVUE AFRICAINE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE NEW SERIES Volume 2 Number 1 June 1997 CONTENTS/SOMMAIRE Articles L. Adele Jinadu Matters Arising: African Elections and the Problem of Electoral Administration 1-11 Stephen N. Ndegwa The Relevance of the Electoral System: A Simulation of the 1992 Kenyan Election 12-40 Walter O. Oyugi Ethnicity in the Electoral Process: The 1992 General Elections in Kenya 41-69 Murray Faure Elections for Parliament and the Provinces in the New South Africa: 1994-2004 70-88 Luc Sindjoun Elections et Politique au Cameroun: Concurrence Deloyale, Coalitions de stabilite Hegemonique et Politique d'Affection 89-121 Masipula Sithole and John Makumbe Elections in Zimbabwe: The ZANU (PF) Hegemony and its Incipient Decline 122-139 Khabele Matlosa The 1993 Elections in Lesotho and The Nature of the BCP Victory 140-151 Ezekiel Kalipeni Regional Polarisation in Voting Pattern: Malawi's 1994 Elections 152-167 Muhumuza William Money and Power in Uganda's 1996 Elections 168-179 BOOK REVIEWS Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 1935-1947 180-183 Reviewed by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja The Truman Administration and the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africail 184-186 Reviewed by Godwin Rapando Muruga