We would like to inform you about the new publication in our series “Democracy and Development” edited in the framework of the project “Dialogue on Development Policy” at the European Office Brussels of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Please find attached Volume V entitled “Systems of Representation and Democratic Practice in sub-Saharan Africa”. This booklet is the result of a conference organised by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Brussels in September 2006.