By Yusuf Bangura* The balance of power in Sierra Leone’s parliament during the next five years suggests that crafting a stable majority for governance is likely to be tricky, if not messy. T... Read more
The March 2018 Presidential Run-off has come and gone but what was playing out and how did that happen? This is what this piece responds. The second part follows shortly. By Yusuf Bangura Th... Read more
Might a strategy of turning corruption allegations into a weapon of electoral warfare have run its course in Nigeria? This appears an inviting puzzle in the aftermath of the stalemate that h... Read more
A list of allegedly corrupt persons is circulating fast on the social media but without anyone claiming to have released it, raising a number of questions: Is it possible this was the origin... Read more
The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the opposition counterpart, the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) have been clawing at each other with accusatory narratives of corruption. The... Read more
In what appears an electoral variant of what some International Relations scholars call ‘acute strategic overstretch’, incumbent president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is stepping out on a p... Read more
There is dialectic to democracy: the time of its highest purchase globally is also the time of great difficulty in determining when it is democratic. There is nowhere as the African continen... Read more
By Dr. Yusuf Bangura With only a week to the March 7 elections, Sierra Leoneans have been asking whether any party will get 55% of the votes to avoid a second round of voting. A PDF document... Read more
Analysts who frame the unfolding scenario in Nigeria as a crisis of Buhari’s elephant in relation to electoral democracy might have a more than interesting story. The idea is that, by captur... Read more
By Dr Yusuf Bangura* Nigerians, like citizens of many large countries, often prioritise news on domestic affairs over what goes on outside of their borders. However, as regional or global po... Read more
