Beyond the struggle for land and water, new triggers of conflict between farmers and herders have emerged in northern Nigeria.
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Corruption has been a constant feature of South African political life for much of the past 350 years; solutions will also take time.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi deserves better than being dismissed as an apartheid stooge. But he deserves little praise as an advocate for human rights and civil liberties.
Female traditional leaders are an important community bloc that needs to be utilised more often.
Citizens have been denied their right to elect officials at the grassroots and this has allowed the central government to maintain rigid control of the country’s regions.
Mali’s precarious political situation has been the subject of ECOWAS resolution attempts for months
The transition to a civilian government won’t be smooth.
Far from the myth of the omnipotent father of the nation, big man or dictator, the Kenyan presidential system was built on divisions and uncertainty.
The occurrence of violence in Kenya is a joint production between political elites and ordinary citizens.
African countries need to make a concerted effort to establish a continental two-term policy.
The time is long past that Pretoria’s admonitions of bad behaviour by Zimbabwe’s leaders are backed by a credible threat of sanction and punishment.
The gap between the continent’s most democratic and authoritarian regions is likely to continue to grow.
Author shows how politicians intent on settling problems by physically eliminating opponents tap into a ready source of assassins from within the taxi industry.
Nigeria must eschew nepotism and ethnic or religious sentiments in the war against terror.
A great deal still needs to be done to ensure that Kenyans have proper access to the justice system.
Increased pressure on women academics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying the fractured landscape of gender parity in academia.
Given their ability to accept correction, children have a better claim to rehabilitation, reorientation and reintegration.
Kwame Nkrumah and Ali Mazrui associated nuclear weapons with imperialism and racism, but proposed different approaches to address the problem they present.
The death of Al-Shabaab’s leader triggered deadlier suicide bombings as the group desperately tried to demonstrate its resilience.
More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Refugees invest a great amount of effort in solving disputes among themselves, and with surrounding host community members.
South Africans have experienced significant shocks to their livelihoods, and the threat of hunger presents a major concern for health, political and social stability.
Although a commited veteran of the ANC, Mlangeni was no party apparatchik. He was outspoken against endemic corruption in government.
Young people continue to find new ways to connect on social media, in spaces that are increasingly hard for governments to regulate.