Intervening to Undermine Democracy in Africa: Russia’s Playbook for Influence
Joseph Siegle reviews Samuel Ramani’s Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? (Hurst, 2023).
It is often said that since the...
#BookClub: What’s up with WhatsApp in West Africa?
It’s refreshing to find research on digital media in African contexts that avoids framing the analysis solely around policy ‘problems’ of ‘development’,...
#BookClub. Democracy Under Pressure: Where do we go from here?
There is an increasing mood of pessimism, or even alarm, about the fragile state of our world today. We have climate change that...
Reflections on Democracy in South Africa
South Africa has always been on my mind. I published my first article about South Africa in 1986 – a piece very...
#BookClub: Lords of Impunity – how the United Nations failed the...
My latest book, Lords of Impunity: How the United Nations Failed the World and What Can Be Done to Transform It shows...
#BookClub: Why South Africans are Prisoners of the Past
South African democracy is limited not because its governing elite has changed too much but because it has been unwilling or unable...
#BookClub Nigerian politics & journalism: Embers of empire
Why are calls for the restructuring of Nigeria a recurring subject of debate? For our popular #BookClub feature, Mercy Ette celebrates the...
#BookClub: Arbitrary States & Museveni’s Uganda – interview and blog!
As part of DiA's popular #BookClub feature, we invited Rebecca Tapscott to discuss her brilliant new book, Arbitrary States, with Gerald Bareebe....
#BookClub: Contesting Sovereignty in Africa and the Global South
The year 2016 saw populism go mainstream in the West, when the phenomena of Brexit and Donald Trump’s US election sharpened the...
#BookClub: Dissidents and Democracy in Africa
Any article proposing possible ways to create durable and equitable democracies in Africa should be humble in its goals. A cursory glance...
What next for UK-Africa relations after Brexit?