Tag Archive: Elections

Election Thoughts: South Africa, 8 May 2019

Along with many of you on the 8th May, I made a difficult decision regarding which party to vote for in South Africa’s National...

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...

Joyce Banda’s Return and the Unstable Nature of Malawi Politics

After almost four years away, former president Joyce Banda finally returned to Malawi on 28 April 2018, stepping on home soil for the first...

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...

What Somalia Can Teach Kenya On Elections And Power Transitions

Incumbents losing an election and graciously conceding is not what most associate with the continent, let alone Somalia. By contrast, the Kenyan experience is...

Kenya’s Biggest Electoral Problem? Not Solving Electoral Problems

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth famously declared 1992 an “annus horribilis”, one which, she said, she wouldn’t look back with undiluted pleasure. For many around the...

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...