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Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.
Gabon is a wealthy and stable country and this might explain why the January 7 coup attempt failed.
Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba has watched over constitutional changes that have given him far reaching powers.
Africa needs strong institutions. But they can only be built if there’s a change in leadership.
Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
National electoral commissions are crucial in shaping public perceptions of how well democracy is working. Poor electoral management can enable fraud and produce political alienation.
Ali Bongo seems to have won Gabon’s elections. Yet his contested “victory” has radically changed the political field in this soft democracy, one of Africa’s richest and most stable.
Gabon has the lowest trust ratings of any election commission among the 36 African countries surveyed by Afrobarometer.
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Director of the Leaders of Africa Institute and Research Affiliate with Davidson College, Davidson College
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