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  • The PEACELESS Agreement Between Congo and Rwanda

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    Rosa Moro | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Moro highlights the omissions and lack of justice in the Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, arguing that it is in reality a ‘peaceless’ agreement. 

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  • Of Gen Z Protests and the Demand for People Centred Leadership and Governance in Kenya and beyond

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    Stephen Musau | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Musau provides context to the June 2025 protests in Kenya as they relate to the protests that took place the previous year while highlighting the need for a people centered government. 

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  • Glorifying and Celebrating the Martyrs of June 25, 2024 Gen Z Revolution in Kenya

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024. 

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  • Expropriation Without Compensation: Deception By the Ruling Elite In South Africa

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    Essy M. Letsoalo | Popular Participation & Democratization
    27.06.2025

    Land reform in South Africa remains a major challenge for the post-apartheid state. Letsoalo explores the various attempts, deceptions and elitist interests that frustrate policy framing and implementation beneficial to dispossessed South Africans.

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  • Celebrating 250 years of the US Army: Extirpation, Genocidal Violence, Deception, Lies and Insecurity

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    Horace Campbell | Popular Participation & Democratization
    27.06.2025

    Will the contradictions inside the US Army break out into major crises similar to the Civil War or the period after the Vietnam War? 

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  • The Significance of South Korea’s Presidential Election

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    Dae-Han Song | Popular Participation & Democratization
    26.06.2025

    Song discusses the importance of the recent elections in South Korea, relating it to the power of the people in their pursuit of a more democratic South Korea. 

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  • Equity, Equality, and Inclusiveness of All Spiritualities in Kenya

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    In a world where diversities in spirituality are weaponized to divide peoples, bridges across spiritual practices are emerging to ensure constitutional strive towards equity, equality, and inclusivity of religious inclinations succeeds. Mutunga explores this development in Kenya.

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  • The Limits of Infrastructure-Led Politics in Kenya on Our Protests/ Our protests are limited by infrastructure-led politics

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    Mwangi Mwaura | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    How does the obsession with infrastructure-led politics limit protests and calls for social and political transformation? In this article, Mwaura shows how it happens in Kenya and the adverse consequences for demands for real changes.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya

  • Globalectics of George Natembeya’s Arrest is a lesson in Geo-Politics of East Africa

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    Alexander Opicho | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Opicho draws on the arrest of George Natembeya and uses Ngugi’s concept -globalectics - to call global attention to the injustice festering in the democratic dictatorships of the East African region.

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  • Democracy in Africa and the Dangers of Judicial Selectorate

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    Chidi Anselm Odinkalu | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Odinkalu charts the increasing role of the courts in resolving contested elections in Africa, and asks what are implications for democracy in Africa.

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  • Rwanda’s Migration Agreement with the Trump Administration: A Carefully Calculated PR Move Amid International Pressure

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    Rene Claudel Mugenzi | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Unravel with Mugenzi the realpolitik around Rwanda’s deportation deal with Trump in the light of international backlash on its involvement with M23 violence in the DRC.

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  • Dictatorships are Gender Neutral 

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    29.05.2025

    Mutunga recounts the maltreatment, suppressive and dictatorial experiences he and his colleagues from Kenya and Uganda endured under the Tanzania leadership in efforts to visit the country and solidarize with the Opposition Chadema Party leader, Lissu’s trial on alleged treason charges.

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  • From the Streets to the Seats: Trade Unionists in the New Trinidad and Tobago Government and What Should We Expect?

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    Zophia Edwards | Popular Participation & Democratization
    15.05.2025

    Trade union leaders helped secure a UNC victory in Trinidad and Tobago’s 2025 election—now voters must ask whether these former working-class champions will truly represent workers from within the government.

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  • The Integration of the African Justice Systems (AJS) into the Judicial System in Kenya and its Challenges

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    01.05.2025

    Willy Mutunga highlights milestones in the integration of indigenous legal systems with European court systems in Kenya, emphasizing remaining tasks in ensuring justice for all and social transformation in Kenya

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  • Reflections on Rwandan Plunder in the Congo: The Global Pan African Movement (GPAM’s) Internal Education Meeting on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    Kailey Smith | Popular Participation & Democratization
    17.04.2025

    The Global Pan-African Movement held an internal education on Rwanda’s role in the imperialist destabilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

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  • Freedom of, and from, belief, religion, and spirituality under the Constitution of Kenya, 2010

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    03.04.2025

    Willy Mutunga highlights the limits on religious practices and observances within Kenya as failures of the 2010 Constitution as contextualized within the broader struggles taking place within the country. 

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya Kenya

  • The Rwandan Development Model: Breaking the Myth of a Western-Scripted Success

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    Moussa Ibrahim | Popular Participation & Democratization
    03.04.2025

    So much propagandistic hype has been given to Rwanda’s development model. Moussa Ibrahim exposes its imperialist and maldeveloped nature.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Rwanda Rwanda

  • KENYA: The Quest for an Alternative Political Leadership Continues

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    20.03.2025

    Willy Mutunga exposes the lies of existing Kenyan leadership pacts, and highlights the birth of an alternative political leadership.

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  • African Union Elections 2025 and the Servility of the Current African Leadership

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    Horace Campbell | Popular Participation & Democratization
    06.03.2025

    A thought-provoking reflection on the African and geopolitical currents that shaped the recent AU Commission Chairperson elections

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  • Struggles for Bread, Peace and Social Justice in a Multi-Polar World: Ten Major Changes Ushering in a New Era

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    Horace Campbell | Popular Participation & Democratization
    20.02.2025

    An examination of shifts in global imperial power dynamics over the last 50 years and the ongoing struggles for justice, peace, and self-determination in an increasingly multipolar world.

     

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