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The democratic countries must courageously show a willingness to apply the principles on which their internal system is based to the global sphere

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Stephen Ellis

Stephen Ellis is the director of the Africa programme at the International Crisis Group (ICG). He is the former director of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, and former editor of the newsletter Africa Confidential. His most recent book (with Gerrie ter Haar) is Worlds of Power: religious thought and political practice in Africa (2004)

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