ABSTRACT
More than 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall came down, an event followed in sub-Saharan Africa by pressures for political liberalization and transitions to multi-party rule. In addition, more than 10 years have elapsed since the Afrobarometer embarked (in Ghana in 1999) on a pioneering effort to conduct surveys of public opinion about these changes. The Afrobarometer Network – an international consortium of researchers1 – has since accumulated interviews with over 100,000 Africans in four rounds of surveys in up to 20 countries.2
