Sanches, Edalina2020-07-092020-07-092020-06Sanches, E.R. (2020). [Book Review of] Jaimie Bleck and Nicholas Van de Walle. Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity and Change. African Studies Review, 63(2), E1-E30002-0206http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43953Jaimie Bleck and Nicolas van de Walle’s Electoral Politics in Africa offers unique insights into the complex relationship between elections, democracy, and change (or lack thereof) in Africa. The authors claim that electoral politics in Africa since 1990 have been marked essentially by political continuity—for both good and bad. Multiparty elections are an element of continuity, “as once countries started to hold multiparty elections they continued to do so,” but the democratic gains are not yet observable in most countries, and we still find the same political class as well as pervasive clientelism.engjournal article10.1017/asr.2020.18