Digital Technologies and Election Management in Africa’s Democratisation Process: More Technocratic than Democratic? par Okechukwu Obinna Ibeanu

is a Professor of Political Science and concurrently Research Professor in Development Studies at the University of Nigeria. He was at different times the Dean of Social Sciences, Director of the Institute for Development Studies and Dean of Postgraduate Studies of the University. Professor Ibeanu was also the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission on the adverse effects of toxic wastes on human rights. He served as Chief Technical Adviser and later National Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s election management body. Professor Ibeanu has published extensively on democracy and elections. His forthcoming book, Anonymous Power (2021), explores the growing informalization of political decision-making in Nigeria