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A protester holds a sign reading 'The people are not the property of the political parties,' during an opposition protest rally, in Dakar, Senegal,  July 23, 2011.

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Analysis & Opinions - Foreign Policy

The African Summer

| July 28, 2011

"It is possible that sudden eruptions of rebellion could occur in other countries, such as Sudan, in ways that mirror some of the events in North Africa. What's much more likely is that sub-Saharan Africa will go on as it has been, with a relatively revolution-proof mixture of slow democratic reforms and gradually rising economic prospects, a dual transformation that has kept its citizens just happy enough to avoid outright rebellion."