ABSTRACT

Sub-Saharan Africa has seen surprisingly little in the way of Protestant political parties, despite the huge growth of Protestant Christianity in most countries and the region’s generally good record on religious freedom.1 One reason for this lack is the absence of multi-party democratic politics in most of Africa for most of the postindependence period. One-party states or military regimes predominated until the ‘third wave’ of democratization broke rather tamely on African shores in the early 1990s.