Elections ordinarily serve two main purposes. One, they facilitate the peaceful change of leaders or the renewal of the mandate of incumbents, which is necessary for their legitimacy regardless of the ...
When Ugandans head to the presidential polls on 15 th January, they will be voting for the seventh time under the mostly liberal 1995 constitution that opened the country up to political participation ...
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Of all dead and living revolutionaries, perhaps none elicits as much fear in the Western ruling class today as Frantz Fanon. As a new generation of radical activists and scholars draws on Fanon to ...
The US invasion of Venezuela and the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro Moros this weekend doesn’t come as a surprise, but is no less shocking. American military forces have been building in the ...
Africa’s post-colonial promise of democratization that began in the 1980s and 1990s with the “second independence” struggles now confronts a defining and painful reckoning. The optimism that ...
From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and ...
It seems inevitable that oil in Turkana will be extracted and turned into money. But who makes sure that the landowners themselves benefit from this wealth? What does “development” really mean in ...
Amidst Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...
The current unrest in Kenya, which is being kept in motion by its youngest adults, cannot be looked at in isolation from the troubles on the rest of the continent, just in terms of difference. The ...
Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic ...
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