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Term Limits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
Chapter 6 explores the highly mediatized issue of constitutional limits to the number of mandates that African presidents can serve, whether consecutively or not. It looks at how term limits were widely adopted on the continent during the reforms of the 1990s, and how in many countries they became the object of fierce political struggles and social tensions that in a number of cases turned violent. We look at the factors that explain why some leaders respected the term limits to which they were subject, while others tried to bypass such constraints, and, among the latter group, why some succeeded while others failed. The role of constitutionally limited mandates is examined in the broader context of the changing dynamics of leadership duration in office and increased rotation in power. Finally, the comparatively few cases of dynastic or familial successions in office are discussed to complete this overview of unlimited (and post-death) continuity in power
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