No-Contest African Elections Reduce Voting to Hollow Ritual
Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president, at a polling station in Yaounde on Oct. 12.
Photographer: Daniel Beloumou Olomo/AFP/Getty Images
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Elections have all too often become hollow rituals in Africa.