Lede:
Elections loom for Nigeria and Kenya, neither of which, as Azubuike Ishiekwene chronicles, have a good track record with electoral stability.
Azubuike Ishiekwene, a member of the editorial board of World Policy Journal, has been an investigative reporter and a features writer. He has served as the executive publications director of Punch and is the author of Nuhu Ribadu, a book on Nigeria’s stalled anti-corruption war.