The low bar for African elections
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.
After an 11-year wait to vote in my own country, the whole thing took 3 minutes. One week later I'm still waiting to hear who won.
How easily white landowners in Kenya can utilize the trope of "the maddened land invader" to conjure global support for an unequal land system.
In much Algerian discourse, including by its human rights NGO's, black Africans are pathologized as disease carriers.
There is a worrisome, undue accent on ethnic and sub-ethnic affiliations deserving scrutiny in Nigeria. Until the day when an Igbo ceases to be a visitor or stranger in Lagos and the growing number of northerners in Igboland become more than outsiders, secessionist agitations and their associated conflicts will remain components of the Nigerian ensemble. […]
It is difficult to find a credible Left political party or tendency within or outside the existing mainstream political structure in Nigeria.
Human rights cannot offer a framework for humanizing the non-human savage - the non-human black body - because it is not designed to do so.
Peace narratives cover up the need to address historical injustice and end a culture of impunity dating back to the days of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta and continuing via his son, President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Paul Kagame has won with more than 90 percent of the vote in 3 successive presidential elections in Rwanda.
Whoever wins the election, must protect refugees agains forced repatriation by the state or spontaneous attacks from partisan electoral violence.
Improving socio-economic conditions may prove to be the precondition for fighting corruption.
South Africa may be Kabila’s closest bilateral ally and represents a key lifeline for his continued grip on power.
The largest South Sudanese rebel movement is now in a leadership dispute proving more pernicious than Khartoum’s counter-insurgency strategies.
There are Namibians, including Black Namibians, who resist fully addressing the genocide.
Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to for-profits from the United States?
South African students have confronted us with a range of political, economic and intellectual questions to be answered – not merely posed a problem that needs to be managed.
Jonathan Jansen channels the worst versions of average center right American ideas in debates about transforming South African universities.
The "business model" of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa's education problems, comes under scrutiny.
Over the past fifteen years, global health has emerged as one of the most prominent faces of American influence in Africa.
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.