France has long trumpeted its close ties to Africa. French troops have not hesitated to jump in to support a favored despot. It appears that the favors went both ways. Robert Bourgi, a longtime ...

Most accounts of African politics begin with corruption, weak institutions and failed governance. Poverty is not a backdrop. It is the terrain on which politics is built and contested. Where the state ...

For the average African citizen, the term "election" no longer evokes the promise of democratic renewal; instead, it triggers a profound existential ...

It is so crucial, and even urgent for the leaders to heed the voices of the youth, if we are to silence the guns," said African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Power-hungry ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

Africa possesses some of the world’s most extensive and diverse natural resource endowments, News.az reports. These include ...

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The Open Society Foundations’ latest report, ‘Analysis of the Nexus between Democratic Governance and Economic Justice in Africa’, authored by Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla, ...

LIBERATION political parties once strode across Africa as giants of history. They were the vanguard of independence, the ...

During the International Parliamentary conference Russia-Africa, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a speech at the plenary session, reminded African parliamentarians that the partnership between ...