Tag Archive: Democracy

Who to vote for: South African National Elections 2019

For those of us who don’t reflexively vote for the same political party in every election, regardless of contextual details like their performance, their...

Role of Young People in Africa Today

You know that moment when someone says something that you have been thinking but been unable to either put it into the right words...

Having Friends in Power

Why aren’t you writing about it, a former colleague asked. She/He was referring to my practice of analyzing political appointments in Tanzania. In this...

Age Isn’t a Problem, Malawi Needs to Move Away from Personality Politics

Malawi appears to be living in a never-ending electoral cycle. The local politics is always about the next elections, as much as it is...

Kabila’s opponent Moses Katumbi prevented from returning to DRC

In the DRC, only members and relatives of the regime can move freely in the country. They enter and leave the country without problem....

DR Congo: An Electoral Commission under Kabila’s orders

There are ten months left for the elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but there is no evidence that these elections will...

Of Kenya’s ‘Illiberal’ Democracy

GUEST BLOG The recent happenings in Kenya call for sober reflection on the nature of our democracy, and by extension, our political culture. When...

Why Yahya Jammeh’s Ouster Was Not A Triumph For Democracy

In an article published on Aljazeera, Solomon Ayele Dersso, a senior legal scholar and an analyst on Africa and African Union affairs, avers that...

Magufuli and The Politics Of Information Sharing

On November 20, 2016 the President of Tanzania, Dr. John Magufuli, sacked the chair of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Board, Bernard Mchomvu. According...

Obama’s sour story on governance in Africa

Barack Obama famously said “Africans must build Africa for Africa!”. A nice message, but what do you do, when Africans themselves fight each other...

Democracy, my foot

Like many other Ugandans, whatever illusions I might have had about our being a “democracy” were quashed in February. But, every now and then...