Fixing “Frontier Africa”

Anna Nadgrodkiewicz  at CIPE highlights Richard Joseph's contentions on a "key weakness" of 'frontier Africa' one:

...that undermines not only political stability, but also sustained growth: the overwhelming power of the executive. Despite the introduction of formal elections, many African democracies persist in the old ways of seeing the government as a way of getting rich. Newly elected leaders tend to move toward accumulating more power and influence with the end result not much different from the personal rule of their authoritarian predecessors.