Leadership

In August 2021, Zambia’s opposition party, under the leadership of Hakainde Hichilema, secured a historic victory over the authoritarian ruling party. In...

China has become the key political and economic partner for Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s reliance on China dates back to the pre-independence period when...

Equatorial Guinea is a small African state located on the central west coast of the continent where democracy has yet to arrive....

Given the imperial like constitutional powers endowed to the President of Tanzania, it is easy to assume that one person – the...

South Africa has always been on my mind. I published my first article about South Africa in 1986 – a piece very...

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

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

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

As Ghana goes to the polls for the 2020 general elections, Ryan Colton looks back at the life and legacy of one...

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