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As the terrible abduction of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in Zimbabwe demonstrates, free speech and civil liberties are under threat in Africa during the pandemic. The...

Interview with Fromagehomme about corruption, democracy, and more!

Our very own fromagehomme has been interviewed by the great team at Charter Cities, in a wider ranging discussion that takes in...
Credit: The MV Liemba trading with locals on its way to Kigoma, Tanzania/Maximillian Köster

The African Continental Free Trade Area: A Catalyst for Development?

In July 2019 Nigeria finally signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, after it had pulled out days before the signing was due. Now...

Decolonizing the Commentariat Contact List – UPDATED

Here at DiA we get requests almost every day for @fromagehomme to give an interview or comment on a particular story from...

Celebrating Africa Day With A New Encyclopedia of African Politics!

Africa Day celebrates the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963. It’s all about recognising, as the First Congress of Independent African...
Decolonizing the Academy The African Politics Reading List 2022

UPDATED FOR 2022! The Decolonizing the Academy Reading List

In response to requests from colleagues and friends, some of whom said that they wanted to diversify their course material but were...

The DRC: An unexpected transfer of power, but was it the...

Africa has been holding its breath as the people of the DRC participate in a remarkable election that has featured prolonged delays, electronic voting, and...

First Roland, Now Fariba!

Democracy in Africa previously joined the campaign to free our colleague Roland Marchal from jail in Iran. Wonderfully, he has been released, but Fariba...

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Here at DiA we know that many people are too busy fighting the corona virus and dealing with the impact on their families to...

Why there’s a case for giving foreign aid to authoritarian regimes

Should democracies give foreign aid to countries that are not democracies? That’s the topic I will be debating with leading thinkers from Islamic Relief,...