Democracy & Governance

Late last month, as a section of the country awaited the triumphant return of James Ibori, an ex-governor of Delta State who was jailed, incidentally, in the UK for his egregious looting of his state’s treasury while in office, the Nigerian media landscape was abuzz with stories about the mind-bo

In the 1990s, post-war Uganda was restructuring the civil service. The country was awash with World Bank funds and donor grants for ‘re-tooling’ public offices, capacity building and rehabilitating infrastructure. At the time, short landings were the order of the day.

After President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Thursday,

A secret history

Mr. President,

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is a professor of African, African American, and diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and professor emeritus of African studies at Howard University.

Thirty-four Congolese civilians were murdered last December and hundreds detained after calling for President Joseph Kabila to respect his constitutional term limits and leave office.

The ‘Arab Spring’ and lessons for South Africa’s student movement