
China has lessons worth learning, but governance without elections and choice of ruling party isn’t one of them.

With a Hate Speech Bill and a shrinking democratic space, Nigerian lawmakers have become no different from the country's military rule which saw dictatorship thrive. The...

Despite ugly smear campaigns to discredit them, violent threats and racist comments 23-year-olds Safiya Khalid and Nadia Mohamed who are both former refugees still managed to...

Facebook’s revelation about fake accounts designed to influence elections shows the risks for Africa’s already fragile democracies.

The unstable authoritarian pathway that many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements within African societies.