SIERRA LEONE ELECTIONS 2018: MANAGEMENT, CHALLENGES AND SUCCESS

This book provides a comprehensive and readable account of of the management of Sierra Leone’s 2018 multi-tier elections, including the challenges and successes . It critically analyzes the political economy of elections management, civil society, security sector and party politics in a highly divided etho-regional bifurcation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is co-edited by Mr Mohamed N Conteh – Chief Electoral Commissioner of the National Electoral Commission and Dr. Idrissa Mamoud Tarawallie of the Department of Political Science, University of Sierra Leone. In addition to thirteen chapters on the electoral management process, challenges and success (by Mr Conteh), it has two specialist chapters; on the controversial role of civil society in the 2018 elections, by Dr. Idrissa Mamoud Tarawallie, a civil society activist and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, and another on the role of the Security Sector in the elections written by a practicing security expert, Mr Francis L Kelli of the Office for National Security (ONS). The book is useful to election practitioners, political parties, researchers on elections processes and the general reader.