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 ...

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 ...

Digital authoritarianism is a new way governments are trying to control citizens using digital and information technology. It ...

Australia has been, and continues to be, remarkably resilient. But the fragile machinery of democracy needs some long overdue ...

The global environmental crisis is also a crisis of information. The destruction of forests, reefs, and rivers proceeds ...

A nation does not prosper simply because it has a constitution—it prospers because it has leaders who serve with compassion and competence. The cry of the people isn’t against democracy—it is against ...

Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in ...

Democracy Now!'s Anjali Kamat reports on working-class South Asian support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani ...

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

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday charged the newly appointed Service Chiefs to act decisively against emerging security threats across the country, warning that Nigerians expect results, not ...

The '70s were a time of deep mistrust, and art imitated life, with cinema producing some all-time great conspiracy thrillers like Klute and Chinatown.