All articles in 'Democracy'


S. Sudan Conflict: IGAD Must Go Back to the Drawin...

IGAD needs to underscore the fact that the Government of Nation Unity (GNU) is not a magic bullet th...

23rd March 2015
Remittances as Spiritual Investment: A Senegalese...

The form of Baraka generated through these spiritual transactions is enduring and omnipotent, and un...

14th December 2015
Typologies of Coups in Africa

What Africa must guard against are coups from above, by ruling regimes rigging elections or perpetra...

8th December 2015
Obama Victory and Kenya's Democratic Leadership

It’s normal to rejoice over Obama’s victory but we must be ready to inculcate and embrace the ideals...

12th November 2012
Open Letter to IGAD on South Sudan

IGAD and Troika’s Absence of Sagacity in Shepherding the Peace Agreement in South Sudan is unaccommo...

23rd November 2015
Somalia: A Democratic Proposal

Installing a new legitimate parliament that has the quality and the mandate to move the nation forwa...

12th January 2015
Democracy, Good Governance & Human Rights in Afric...

Indeed, the biggest threats to democracy, good governance and human rights are poverty, lack of oppo...

10th November 2014
A New Era for Malawi Begins - Mutharika

Today, we declare ourselves ready for the next fifty years. We get new faith and belief in ourselves...

3rd June 2014
Africa: Does Democracy Guarantee Development?

If democracy is imported, it disregards local realities and is partial and disjointed.

23rd September 2014
Elections 2013: All Kenyans Must Vote

Those of us who have arranged sexy reasons not to vote ought to know that decisions are made by thos...

22nd January 2013
ICC Must Zero In On South Sudan

the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to rein in aiming at creating fear and sanity for both...

14th January 2014
The Meaning of Barack Obama in World Politics

It is my thesis that Presidential candidate Ben Carson's good performance in the polls is attributab...

3rd November 2015
Michael Sata: Asset or Liability to Zambia’s Demo...

Zambia is greater than President Sata – and Zambians must exert their mastership over the presidency...

8th April 2013
Kagame Should Have Declined Third Term

Amending the constitution is a common practice in the making of the laws of the country. However, th...

28th December 2015
Africa Must Not Tempt The World – Yoweri Museveni

Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga and VP Kalonzo Musyoka handled the election outcome like statesmen - Museveni

9th April 2013
Can PAC Win Elections Through The Ballot?

It’s clear that Pan-Africanism is a headache for the West, which is why the PAC of Azania has an ins...

14th December 2015
The ICC On Trial

In 2014, the International Criminal Court, ICC, needs to reexamine itself and its skewed...

14th January 2014
South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: Mangosuthu But...

South Africa’s liberation struggle did not begin in 1912, when my uncle, Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme, fo...

3rd February 2014
Kenya Elections: The Diaspora Factor

IEBC must abandon its rigid superficial stand against Diaspora voting and let the will of the majori...

24th December 2012
Abahlali baseMjondolo: Growing From Strength to St...

South Africa shack dwellers movementToday marks the Tenth Anniversary of our movement. F...

12th October 2015
Elections 2013: Obama Advises Kenyans

The eyes of the world will be on Kenya this March, and the United States stands with the Kenyan peop...

5th February 2013
Power Sharing: A Panacea for South Sudan?

If you square these assumptions in the round but also hugely complex context of South Sudan, then yo...

7th January 2014
Presidential Commission System Will Save Africa

The divide and rule system that colonialists used to conquer and control Africa is still manifested...

14th July 2015
Long Walk To Freedom: The Frantz Fanon Perspective

The national bourgeoisie turns its back more and more on the interior and on the real facts of its u...

26th November 2013
I Will Be President of All Kenyans - Uhuru Kenyatt...

The time has come, not to ask what community we come from but rather what dreams we share.

9th April 2013
Waititu and Sonko : Triumph of Sabalterns?

People who live in the comfortable and privileged parts of the City have no clue about life in the h...

21st January 2013
Elections 2013: Kenya on Right Path

In a nutshell, wherever there is political willingness and readiness, all is possible as Kenya has j...

11th March 2013
Zimbabwe Braces for Change

Violence shall remain alive in Zimbabwe as long as politicians and the media continue to fan it thro...

7th January 2013
Kenya Elections: Summary of the CORD Petition

Glaring anomalies were observed in the process from voter registration, to transmission of results,...

19th March 2013
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari: President-Elect's Acceptanc...

I want to assure our fellow African nations that Nigeria will now stand as a more constructive partn...

6th April 2015
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African Perceptions of the Eur...