Voters in Shadows by Zambian author Hicks Sikazwe
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Book Review Title: Voters in Shadows Author: Hicks Sikazwe Publishers: HPS Communications Pages: 323 WHILE many scholars argue that only ethnicity drives voting behaviour in Africa, recent quantitative work finds government performance also matters. But under what conditions do Africans use ethnicity or performance to inform their vote? Veteran journalist and author Hicks Sikazwe answers all these electoral intricacies in his classic latest book Voters in the Shadow by arguing authoritatively that the importance of ethnicity and performance is conditional on whether voters evaluate co-ethnics and incumbent candidates. In chapter one under the title Violence, murder, fraud, intimidation in Africa...