As Zimbabwe’s election season heats up, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF is playing up the chilling effect through violence, public incitement of followers, weaponisation of Covid-19...
Outgoing Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta turns 61 in October. In Africa, 60 years of age, in presidential terms, is considered to be a toddler – in...
Electoral malpractice can be justified by some as preventing a greater injustice to the individual, community or nation.
Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
The Gambia has a unique system of voting that does not involve the use of paper ballots in casting votes – instead it uses marbles.