For Africa to accomplish the ambitious but laudable Sustainable Development Goals, strong institutions and good governance must be in place to ensure inclusion, democracy, and security, according to Brookings’ Foresight Africa…. Read more »
As a leader on a policy reform project I worked on in Africa a few years back, I learned many things, writes Adeola Akinremi, Director of Strategic Communications at Policy… Read more »
While wars, terrorism, and rapidly changing economic conditions in the Middle East are in the headlines, the close links between these issues and governance challenges are increasingly relegated to the… Read more »
China has defied predictions of the “autocratic fallacy,” which suggests that authoritarian governments cannot ensure indefinite increases of public goods without increasing their level of democratic accountability and openness, says… Read more »
Africa’s recent coups should not be misinterpreted as reformist, according to a new analysis. Military coups that occurred within already authoritarian governments—Chad, Gabon, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—were led by actors who… Read more »
Many Africans have lost faith in democracy, The Economist notes. Afrobarometer, a pollster, found that the share who prefer democracy to any other form of government has fallen from 75%… Read more »
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has forgotten that the outside world’s principled rejection of neutrality sustained the struggle against apartheid, Johannesburg-based political analyst Eusebius McKaiser writes for Foreign Policy. Earlier… Read more »
A new scramble for Africa is in full swing between the United States, China, Russia, and Europe, with regional players such as Turkey and the Gulf nations also in contention,… Read more »
Africans consistently show a strong desire for democratic and accountable governance, but they are not satisfied with the quality of democracy in their countries, according to Boniface Dulani, Afrobarometer* Director… Read more »
Africa is grappling with democratic backsliding, according to recent studies. In 1985 there were only three democracies while there were 42 authoritarian regimes on the continent. By 2015, the number… Read more »