How has political Africa behaved over the past decade? Across the continent, some countries have maintained institutional ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for a fundamental rethink of the democratic model practised across Africa, arguing that the Western liberal system inherited by many countries has failed ...

MBALE, Uganda — Wilson Watira offered his hand when he met his political rival at a funeral, gesturing for a proper handshake. The man didn’t want contact, instead folding a piece of paper that he ...

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The Academy’s inaugural cohort of 40 women political leaders, selected from more than 1,300 applications across 28 African countries and the Caribbean, brings together cabinet ministers, ...

For the moment there is not much to see in Bugesera, a district replete with verdant bush 45km south of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. But it is the site of what Paul Kagame, the president of the central ...

The latest court challenge by Operation Dudula – an anti-immigration South African movement that campaigns for tougher action against undocumented migrants – has put the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP ...

The Age of Change explains how demographic trends and unsatisfying political narratives are converging to trigger new volatility in African politics, and how that volatility informs African countries’ ...

Among the Somali people, as among the Igbo society immortalisedby Chinua Achebe, proverbs are not casual decorations of speech; they are thepalm oil with which words are eaten. They carry wisdom, ...