Kenyan civil society has played a critical role in holding the State to account and in promoting a human rights-based approach to governance.
Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
Malawi can alleviate poverty and become a model for development and democracy by investing in and improving the quality of human capital, the quality of infrastructure,...
An increasing number of political theorists are convinced that what is often called “the failure of democracy in Africa” is really “the failure of liberal democracy...
The current COVID-19 pandemic has shown why pro-democracy movements in Zimbabwe should disentangle themselves from the fallacious promise of neoliberal democracy and the magic of the...
The mass protests and the coronavirus crises in the United States and Europe have exposed the fault lines in representative democracies, and appear to confirm the...
Wanjiru Gikonyo serves as founder and National Coordinator of The Institute for Social Accountability (TISA), which has been instrumental in advocating for effective devolution and meaningful...
The Elephant speaks to one of Kenya's leading political scientists Prof. Karuti Kanyinga, Director, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi on the politics of...
Prof. Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University...
The rise of right-wing populist leaders in many countries across the globe suggests that democracy’s days are numbered. However, as PATRICK GATHARA argues, populism is less...
