The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
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Trouble in Africa’s cities is due to the fact that electoral competition drives leaders to be biased towards rural areas.
The most popular broadcast medium in Ghana has gone through a politically fuelled evolution that has strengthened it.
Will the same electoral commission, so heavily criticised in the court’s ruling, improve its capacity and arrange more credible elections?
Western perceptions of what’s happening in Tunisia differ sharply with Tunisia’s daily reality: the truth is that its political transformation is in trouble.
By placing less emphasis on public opinion, and questioning public morality as the basis of its decision, the latest High Court decision shows that times have indeed changed.
Government restrictions on individual freedoms in the name of public security is increasing.
Despite former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s absence, he continued to influence opposition party loyalties in the country.
The African National Congress faces two big challenges: fewer South Africans trust it, while its electoral support has been waning.
Surveys shows that the majority of Africans prefer democracy, despite its flaws, to the alternatives.
A new survey suggests opposition Zimbabwean leader Nelson Chamisa is closing in on the ruling Zanu-PF’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Local governance can have a real effect - positive or negative - on the quality of schooling.
Zambia has gone from a country where people engaged freely in open political debate to one where most people now look over their shoulders to see who’s listening.
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery of basic services such as water and electricity. They reflect a wider crisis about the failure to build a more equitable society.
The middle class concept in Africa has remained vague and limited to number crunching. The minimum threshold for entering it in monetary terms was critically vulnerable to a setback into poverty.
Most Africans see courts as legitimate but only a slim majority trust them while one in three people believe judges are corrupt.
Opposition parties in sub-Saharan Africa struggle to prove themselves worthy to skeptical voters who, unlike in Western competitive systems, don’t trust them over former liberation movements.
The proposed new constitution would allow Alassane Ouattara to remain as president. Opposition parties see this move as a constitutional “coup” that will also protect his allies.
While some African countries have shown an improvement in press freedom and freedom of expression ratings, others, including South Africa, are seeing worrying trends and a drop in rankings.
Resistance to free movement across borders in many countries suggests that large numbers of African citizens see foreign migrants as competition to local labour and businesses.
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Director of the Leaders of Africa Institute and Research Affiliate with Davidson College, Davidson College
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR)/Afrobarometer Assistant Project Manager for Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Michigan State University
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Deputy Director of the Afrobarometer & Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and MSU’s African Studies Center, Michigan State University
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Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Research Economist, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Senior lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Malawi and Research Associate, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town
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Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Professor of Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and University of the Free State (South Africa), University of the Free State
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
