Namibia’s liberation movement is quickly losing ground At the first cabinet meeting of 2020, on 4 February, Namibian president Hage Geingob, in a custom he had started in his first full year in office in 2015, titled...
Good Govenance Africa
Is South Africa ready for coalition government?
What India’s post-independence experience can tell us about South Africa’s political future The ANC’s share of electoral votes has been in decline for the better part of the past decade. Based on its current service...
Civil-military relations: An uneasy alliance
Africa’s post-liberation legacy of toxic civil-military relations Unable to achieve their political objectives by peaceful means, African national liberation movements took up arms to compete for power militarily....
Malawi’s democratic milestone
An independent judiciary and a grassroots movement give Malawians a stronger voice When Malawians went to the polls in June 2020 – for the second time in little more than a year - the election not only marked the...
Africa’s mass trauma
Why Africans still vote for toxic post-liberation tyrants Since the end of colonialism, apartheid and white-minority regimes, many African countries appear to have had disproportionally large numbers of psychopathic,...
Rocky ride for Nigeria’s power sector
West Africa's powerhouse - bedevilled by infrastructural decay, corruption, inefficiency and lack of capacity Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy in GDP terms, is one of the most underpowered countries...
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