During thirty years in the cold of non-recognition as a state by the international community and the African Union, Somaliland has engineered a unique hybrid democracy...
Ms Atsango Chesoni, constitutional lawyer, former member of the constitution of Kenya Committee of Experts (COE) and a former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights...
In the last 25 years, the nations in the horn of Africa have enjoyed a winding path towards perfecting free and fair models of choosing leaders....
In a far-reaching long-read, writer and commentator Yusuf Serunkuma argues that ‘democracy’ in Africa is not just a language of (colonial) exploitation, it is the practice...
We may not be aware of it yet, because of the hold the nation has on global media, but America’s decline appears to be terminal.
The IIAG report concludes that 2020 was a terrible year for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa where political freedoms have deteriorated over the last decade, with citizens...
In recent months it has felt like election rigging has run riot. Citizens killed, beaten and intimidated and election results falsified in Uganda. Ballot boxes illegally...
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...
