Leadership

No one who stood in one of the long snaking queues outside polling stations on 27 April 1994 will ever forget the...

As the August 9 general elections draw ever closer in Kenya, the month of April saw political party “nominations”, when the respective...

Watch the inaugural joint webinar of the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at the University of Cape Town...

Since the conflict in Tigray started in 2020, Eritrea has become further entangled in Ethiopian politics. Young Eritrean conscripts assigned to the...

Following a series of interviews with former colleagues, this is an attempt to profile one of Africa's most reclusive and authoritarian leaders....

The current government in Zambia has placed the fight against corruption among its top priorities. To this end, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),...

For the last decade or so, more and more governments have moved in the direction of gender parity cabinets – the appointment...

The discrepancies between Belgian colonial propaganda and the lived experience of Congolese collided on 30 June 1960 before the eyes of a...

Oda van Cranenburgh recently retired from Leiden University after a career of researching the politics of what are often called "developing countries",...

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera came to power promising to tackle corruption. But his handling of a deepening corruption scandal of state capture...