Democracy in Africa https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Long Read: Intelligence and Democracy in Africa: Systemic Challenges and Reform Imperatives Wulowulo: Nigeria’s New Terror Threat in a Nation That Never Learns Polling, Prophecy, and Vote Buying: What Ghana’s Primaries Reveal About Democratic Forecasting Constitutional Change in the Democratic Republic of The Congo: A Risk for Democracy or a Path to Stability? Sierra Leone In 2025: A Critical Analysis of “Vision 2025” Museveni’s Seventh Term and the Big Question for Uganda’s Democracy Senegal: Between Democratic Consolidation and Political Instability Democracy in Africa Is Fragmenting Into Three Paths Benin’s failed coup: three factors behind the takeover attempt Silent Protest: Ghost Town Tactics as Electoral Resistance in Cameroon Has Uganda transitioned to “Muhoozi rule”? How Museveni’s son became the centre of power When Survival Is Rewritten as Crime: Civilian Life, Collaboration, and the Law in Sudan The Tyrant and the Con in Nigerian Politics Trump and Africa Why has Sudan descended into mass slaughter? The answer goes far beyond simple ethnic conflict How to Buy a Parliament: Auction Politics and the Coalition Logic That Keeps It Alive in Kenya #BookClub: Political Identity and African Foreign Policies The Real Coup in Benin? Succession Without Political Change The Fluidity of Ethnic Bipolarity at the Subnational Level The History of African Development, an open-source textbook! Why Sierra Leone Should Retain the First Past the Post (FPTP) Constituency System Kenya’s Gen Z Movement: Fighting for Transparency and Accountability in Governance Zimbabwe’s New Authoritarian Template: From Coup to Constitution Informal Settlements Are Not Urban Failures – They Are Africa’s Urban Reality States Without Presence: Geography, Language, and the Architecture of African Instability Happy Holidays! The Senate, the Silence, and the Stubborn Woman: Gendered Punishment in Politics Egypt’s Mixed Signals: Activist Releases Amid Crackdowns Signal Fragile Politics Kenya: political control and its contradictions Political Zoning in Kenya: Elite Strategy or Democratic Erosion? The ‘revenge of context’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Administrative reforms under the weight of the past An Election Without Peace: Ethiopia’s Chronic Legitimacy Crisis Why Vigilantes and Boko Haram are parallel actors in Lake Chad’s hybrid security order – and why that matters Zambia’s Quiet Campaign Masks a Competitive Election #BookClub Empowering Minorities: The Politics of Segmental Incorporation in South Africa Africa’s Youth: From Numbers to Narratives and Participation to Power Political policing in Museveni’s Uganda: what it means for the 2026 elections Ethiopia and Eritrea are on edge again: what’s behind the growing risk of war Libya at a Crossroads: Why U.S. Re-Engagement Must Be About Sustainability, Not Just Stability. Ending Cycles of Violence Means Confronting the Histories That Created Them Elections as Fiscal Earthquakes in Africa Virility politics in the Sahel Can the 2025 Constitutional Reform Process Strengthen Ghana’s Democracy? From Liberation Heroes to Political Outsiders: The Struggle of Zimbabwe’s Youth A Call to Zambians: “Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere” Playing the Long Game in the Horn of Africa Another War is Starting in the Horn of Africa From War-Zone to Wind-Zone: What Skydiving Reveals About Benghazi’s Path to Sustainable Development Rethinking Africa’s Continuous Participation in the United Nations: A Case for UN Headquarters’ Relocation Beyond the ballot: Uganda’s elections and the politics of late Musevenism