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Joel D. Barkan is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Iowa and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. A long-time student of democratization and political economy across Anglophone Africa, his numerous publications include Beyond Capitalism and Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania. In this lecture, he exposes the slow, complex, and halting process of African democratization. Exploring the constraints of legislative power and political turmoil in Africa - and how members are breaking free from them - Barkan sheds new light on the impact of the teetering political economy in Africa and what this means for the United States government as a whole. More information on the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council can be found here.