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In 1990, Cape Verde, an island country off the coast of Africa, voted to peaceably institute a multiparty democracy after 15 years as a revolutionary one party state. Given how "revolutionary one party states" usually go when democracy is demanded by people, how did Cape Verde avoid this fate?

by /u/SaintShrink in /r/AskHistorians

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