Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-273) and index.
British South Africa Company rule and colonial office administration era -- Liberal politics and the Central African Federation, 1949-1963 -- African opposition to capricorn and federation, 1951-1953 -- Toward independence : liberalism and the triumph of African populist nationalism, 1954-1964 -- The First Republic : from liberal democracy to one-party state, 1964-1972 -- The Second Republic : the myth and realities of one-party participatory democracy, 1973-1991 -- The mixed fortunes of multipartyism in the Third Republic : democracy or mobocracy? 1991-2001