The country became a poster child for autocratic rule that buttressed a dynasty of one family.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the dawn of multi-party democracy and the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s renewed hope of a third wave of democratic government that would contribute to an end of the African strongman and a disintegration of the neo-patrimonial state.
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