Institutions

At a time when authoritarian leaders across Africa are looking to scrap the two term limits imposed by their respective constitutions, the...

DiA note: to read and add your signature to a statement in support of Sishuwa Sishuwa from academics around the work, click...

Research shows that political elites tend to favour their home region when distributing resources. But what explains how political power is distributed...

Nobody was surprised that President John Magufuli won a second term in Tanzania’s 2020 general elections. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi has...

Malawi’s first female President, Joyce Banda, came to power under peculiar circumstances. She was never elected as president, but as the country’s...

Since the establishment of Ghana’s fourth republic in 1992, the country’s two major political parties have both, at different times, held a...

In recent months it has felt like election rigging has run riot. Citizens killed, beaten and intimidated and election...

The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa, the new book by DiA's very own Nic Cheeseman and his colleagues Gabrielle Lynch and...

Until December 2020, the Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) of ex-president Joseph Kabila held a majority of 338 out of 500...

Election-day lines in the Global South are often cast as a gauge of citizens’ commitment to democracy. The European Parliament observer report...