The Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa: The Unfinished Business of Democratic essays in this volume examine a developing political contradiction in Southern Africa represented by the fact that movements which spearheaded mass popular struggles for liberation from colonial rule have in power developed into authoritarian, undemocratic and increasingly corrupt ruling regimes. By contrast, countries like Botswana and Lesotho which achieved independence by negotiation and without mass mobilisation have developed into mature multi-party democracies
