The late British-Czech anthropologist Ernest Gellner once wrote admiringly about America that it “was born modern; it did not have…
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Carolyn Kissane, academic director and clinical professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, leads the conversation…
When South African opposition leader Julius Malema addressed the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association the apex body…
If elite jousting over constitutional provisions and political structure is an indication of political vibrancy, Nigerian democracy has never been…
My fellow African: For some time now, I have been meaning to get a few words across to you about…
Burkinabe dictator, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, is the dashing poster boy for military rule in the West African Sahel. Not too…
To judge by the tone of commentary coming out of Africa in recent times, liberal democracy could not be in…
The divided reaction of the Nigerian public to the emergence of forty-four-year-old Kemi Badenoch as the first black woman to…
This past week, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brought together some of the biggest names in the country’s political firmament…
The bitter feud between former President of Botswana Ian Khama and his chosen successor-turned-rival, current President Mokgweetsi Masisi, persists in…