Looking for a Handshake: Coercive Bargaining in Kenya’s Anti-Government Protests
Over the last several weeks, Kenya has experienced the sudden appearance of major street protests throughout much of the country. On Friday,...
Can President elect Tinubu Solve Nigeria’s Perennial “Restructuring” Problem
If you have spent time on Nigerian social media during the last year and a half leading up to the 2023 elections...
The Nigerian election is too close to call: So what happens...
The question of who will win the Nigerian presidential election is a fascinating one. President Muhammadu Buhari is standing down after serving...
Ethnic quotas and the resilience of power-sharing in Burundi
While ethnic power-sharing has been an enduring institutional feature of Burundian politics over the last two decades, key political and military leaders...
Creating Belonging or Ruling by Exclusion? Politics, Citizenship and African Governance
Citizenship is and has always been a complicated and multi-faceted concept. Across African contexts, as a recent IDAP webinar reiterated, this complexity...
“Muhoozi talk” and the future of Uganda
On 2 December, after a fortnight of silence, Muhoozi Kainerugaba started tweeting again. The National Resistance Movement (NRM), he wrote, “is probably...
The Irony of La Francophonie
As the Summit of La Francophonie begins in Djerba in Tunisia, the organization and the francophone world it represents are faced with...
WATCH: The Political Thought of the Philosopher Kings – with follow...
Check out the latest IDAP event on the political thought of Senghor, Nyerere, Nkrumah, Keïta, Houphouët-Boigny, Kenyatta, Kaunda, Azikiwe, Cabral ... and...
How committed is Zambia’s new government to achieving gender equality?
In August 2021, Zambia’s opposition party, under the leadership of Hakainde Hichilema, secured a historic victory over the authoritarian ruling party. In...
Sixty years after Independence, Uganda’s transition to genuine democracy has stalled
Sixty years ago, on the 9 of October 1962, Uganda’s first Prime Minister Dr. Apolo Milton Obote made these remarks in his...
What next for UK-Africa relations after Brexit?