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Africa: African Countries Are Adopting Two Houses of Parliament to Boost Democracy - but That's Not Always What Happens

allAfrica.com Friday, 13 September 2024 ()
[The Conversation Africa] At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers - a lower and upper chamber - in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.
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