A new Afrobarometer Pan-Africa Profile report reveals that Africans are becoming less insistent on democracy and increasingly open to authoritarian forms of government, especially military rule. Over the past decade, Afrobarometer findings have shown popular demand for democracy outstripping its perceived supply, but new data from 38 African countries show that the gap is narrowing because popular demand for democracy is weakening, not because democratic performance has improved significantly. While a majority of Africans say they support democracy, only about one-third express a full demand for democracy, meaning they prefer democracy over any other regime and reject three authoritarian alternatives. Fewer than half of citizens describe their country as a democracy.
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