Election campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa, Content, mechanisms and challenges

Abstract:
 The African Sub-Saharan countries had accumulated an electoral experience that they had started decades ago, through which they seem to have paved the way for a turnover of political power and many of these countries knew a peaceful transition of presidency as well as parliaments could contain different political trends of diverse intellectual backgrounds, however this experience is still surrounded by numerous challenges such as those linked to the election campaigns that did and still stand upon the trilogy of race, religion and region, and which seem to have trigged many civil wars in this particular region, some political systems even resist and reject the change through many practices that are in contradiction with basic democratic standards that are in the democratic countries whereas for instance the use of the State institutions and resources for the favorite candidates of the power in place, while it allows no financial aid for competitors, and creates all kinds of legal and media restrictions and even use violence acts against them and use repression on their supporters to prevent the opposition candidates to get to power.