What Future Awaits Refugees in Kenya?
On March 23, the Kenyan government gave the UN’s refugee agency a two-week-long ultimatum to prepare a plan to close two refugee...
#BookClub. What drives election rigging – and when citizens resist it?
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 is out now!
The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa, the new book by DiA's very own Nic Cheeseman and his colleagues Gabrielle Lynch and...
Digital technologies and the new public square: revitalising democracy?
Over the past 15+ years, the world has witnessed an astonishing transformation in information and communications technologies (ICTs) across both developed and...
Fake News in Africa – How Big is the Problem?
How dangerous is fake news in Africa? And how much of it is there? Do people know when they are circulating fake news? And...
How Social Media is Changing Politics in Africa
In our popular Book Club feature, Maggie Dwyer and Thomas Molony reflect on the key lessons of their important new volume on Social Media...
Adapting to climate change while combatting COVID-19 in East Africa
The race to contain the COVID-19 pandemic comes against the backdrop of the worldwide need to adapt to climate change, which remains...
Do election queues change election outcomes?
Election-day lines in the Global South are often cast as a gauge of citizens’ commitment to democracy. The European Parliament observer report...
How AI is transforming Africa’s political landscape
The recent 2020 Government AI Readiness Index posits that, even though Africa is “relatively better prepared - compared to the 2019 index...
African Youth in Focus: Realizing the African Union’s politics of November
After two decades of an academic and policy focus on the demographic “challenges” prompted by a growing youth population in Africa, young...
What next for UK-Africa relations after Brexit?