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INFOGRAPHIC: Longest serving African presidents, removing term limits

Friday May 08 2015

'Life presidents' bringing back the “Big Man Syndrome” of African politics by removing term limits.

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In the 1990s when African countries were introducing democratic reforms, term limits were introduced too to end the undemocratic phenomenon of “life presidents.”

Through the late 1990s to the early 2000s, about seven presidents brought back the “Big Man Syndrome” of African politics by removing term limits.

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