New Ideas

DiA is delighted to be launching a new series on Internet shutdowns and control in Africa, edited by Mwai Daka and Marisa...

Early this year, the Centre for Research on Democracy (CREDO) at Stellenbosch University launched a nationwide essay competition open to undergraduate students...

It’s nice to be recognised, even for the wrong reasons. Over the past year or so, we have been thinking and writing...

Citizenship is and has always been a complicated and multi-faceted concept. Across African contexts, as a recent IDAP webinar reiterated, this complexity...

Check out the latest IDAP event on the changing idea of citizenship in Africa, with great speakers and...

In response to requests from colleagues and friends, some of whom said that they wanted to diversify their course material but were...

DiA occasionally publishes long reads which allow writers to go into depth on a topic of particular significance. This piece by E.A....

Check out the brilliant round table on the importance of ideologies and ideas in Africa. https://youtu.be/iWHxNa8DePQ

Democracy in Africa is delighted to announce the fourth joint webinar with the fantastic Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa of...

Nic Cheeseman has written an obituary of his friend and Colleague Alex Magaisa for the Guardian newspaper. To read it click here....