The Gambia: From coup to elections

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Wiseman, John A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 18744422108     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1998.0035     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Wole Soyinka, "The Shape of Things to Come," Index on Censorship, September-October 1993, 32-33.
2. For fuller accounts of the coup and the military period, see John A. Wiseman and Elizabeth Vidler, "The July 1994 Coup d'Etat in The Gambia: The End of an Era," The Round Table, January 1995, 53-65; and Wiseman, "Military Rule in The Gambia: An Interim Assessment," Third World Quarterly 17 (December 1996): 917-40.
3. For fuller accounts of the coup and the military period, see John A. Wiseman and Elizabeth Vidler, "The July 1994 Coup d'Etat in The Gambia: The End of an Era," The Round Table, January 1995, 53-65; and Wiseman, "Military Rule in The Gambia: An Interim Assessment," Third World Quarterly 17 (December 1996): 917-40.
4. While one might question the PDOIS leaders' choice of tactics, their integrity is beyond doubt. Having spent nearly a decade opposing the Jawara regime, they declined the cabinet posts that Jammeh offered them after his coup, citing their principled objections to military intervention in politics. Subsequently, they were arrested and detained for deliberately flouting a military decree by continuing to publish their party newspaper Foroyaa (meaning "freedom" in the Wolof language).
5. Terrence Lyons, "Ghana's Elections: A Major Step Forward" and E. Gyimah-Boadi, "Ghana's Elections: The Challenges Ahead," Journal of Democracy 8 (April 1997): 65-77 and 78-91.
6. Terrence Lyons, "Ghana's Elections: A Major Step Forward" and E. Gyimah-Boadi, "Ghana's Elections: The Challenges Ahead," Journal of Democracy 8 (April 1997): 65-77 and 78-91.