The co-leaders for the 2009 APSA Africa Workshop (Accra, Ghana, June 21–July 11) were officially selected by the Project Steering Committee after an open and competitive process that concluded in January. The U.S.-based leaders of the workshop will be Dr. Dan Smith (University of Florida) and Dr. Kevin Fridy (University of Tampa) and their Africa-based colleagues will be Dr. Beatrix Allah-Mensah (University of Ghana, Legon) and Dr. Ukoha Ukiwo (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria). The theme of the 2009 workshop will be “Elections and Democracy: Exchanging African and Comparative Perspectives.”