How Digital Repression Is Changing African Politics
Africa’s first election of 2021, featuring a presidential race in Uganda between President Yoweri Museveni and opposition leader Bobi Wine, provided a...
IDAP Launch Event! The importance of ideas and ideologies in Africa...
The importance of ideas & ideologies in Africa
19 JULY 2022
4:00 PM UK/Nigeria, 5:00PM...
You Can’t Eat the Roads: Chinese Leverage and Democratic Resilience in...
Heading into Zambia’s August 2021 elections, many international observers warned that the country, often held up as an example of resilient multiparty...
Sino-Angolan relations: Old oil and new politics
The China–Angola relationship was forged for purely pragmatic reasons at an opportune moment of mutual need in the early 2000s. For that...
Long read: What motivates China’s investment & lending practices in Africa?
Since the wave of independence in the 1960s, African countries have faced numerous instances of debt distress in which they could not...
How fighting fake news hurts free speech
Governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related challenges, fake news has become a source...
LONG READ: Problematizing the Democratic Imperative – The challenge of transition...
DiA occasionally publishes long reads which allow writers to go into depth on a topic of particular significance. This piece by E.A....
Investor Confidence Low in the Horn of Africa, as Geopolitical Competition...
During a visit to Africa, former US President Obama stated that the Horn of Africa - that is, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and...
Africa-China Relations during the COVID Pandemic
The political effects of the current COVID pandemic have been seen in multiple areas of global relations. The case of China’s foreign...
When diplomacy becomes appeasement – a view from Canada
Leading up to the recent vote on non-permanent members to the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked with Rwandan President...
What next for UK-Africa relations after Brexit?