It has been brewing for some time ndash; but now it is gaining momentum. And the West has only itself to blame. For decades ...

UNECA's Africa Governance Report (2005) and the UNDP's Human Development Report (2002) both emphasised that the focus should be on how democracy might be modified to fit African histories instead of ...

At least 31 people died and more than 500 were arrested in anti-government protests across Kenya on Monday, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) said in a statement on Tuesday. Kenyan ...

American children are taught that democracy is the best form of government. I remember teachers saying that popularly elected governments are the “natural” endpoint of all societies. But is this true?

The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

On Oct. 25, 2023, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, stood before his colleagues and the world in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was his first speech since his unlikely rise from ...

For decades, it promised Africans the benefits of democracy as a form of freedom and prosperity for its people; it then offered assistance in the form of grants-in-aid, loans for development and ...