Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more
President William Ruto of Kenya must still be trying to make sense of the anger of his population against wild taxes (started since 2023). Imposed as part of the usual IMF reform package and... Read more
Kenyans are disciplining democracy, protesting taxation under the Williams Ruto administration. At some point during the week, the country has been basically shut down, right up to the legis... Read more
Rwanda is granting visa to Africans on arrival in the country. Paul Kagame, the president made this known by himself. Kenya, her neighbour, is following that pathway. The two will be joined... Read more
The big question in the 53 page PDF text (at least the one Intervention got) is the tricky question of what judicial activism brings or takes away from democracy/democratisation as the case... Read more
The 27th World Congress of Political Science is underway in Buenos Aires, Brazil, with Africa set to dominate the panel on The Politics of New Resource Discoveries in the “Post-resourc... Read more
As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja It can now be said that the 2022 presidential election in Kenya has come and gone. A winner has been announced and is already being congratulated. The contest has not ended i... Read more
Presidential elections have become a source of apprehension because they have tended to degenerate into violence. The 2022 election has not been free of its own share of rancor. Fortunately,... Read more
Although not a formal piece, this crisp portrait turns out an organised insight into what is happening to all of us, partly as a result of war in Ukraine and partly arising from the structur... Read more
