![]() Introduction: general trends in sub-Saharan AfricaĪgenda 2063 represents an expression of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and shared prosperity. In May 2013, the year of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the member states of the African Union (AU, relaunched in 2002) signed the 50th Anniversary Solemn Declaration, which laid the foundations for developing the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Although the results are uneven, the countries on the continent have kept moving in this direction, equipping themselves with the tools and goals they need to continue progressing towards greater levels of democracy, political participation and stability. This has gradually led to the consolidation of multi-party systems based on political plurality and the participation of civil society, with a slow move away from the single-party state systems that had progressively established themselves in most countries on the continent since the 1970s. (eds) (2017) Women´s Activism in Africa, ZedBooks. Popular protest and political change, ZedBooks, London Badri, Balghis and Tripp, Aili M. ![]() ![]() Since the early 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing what some authors call the “third wave of democratisation in Africa” 1 - See for example: Branch, Adam and Mampilly, Zachariah (2015) Africa Uprising. ![]()
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