• Jan Bornman

Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

With a coalition government likely after South Africa's elections in May, many are looking at the West for examples of coalition politics. South Africans, however, should look next door.

• Florian Bobin

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise.

• Florian Bobin

Closed since June 2023, the University of Dakar has become a symbol of the collapse of Senegalese democracy.

• Rachel Dubale

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Young people have become an influential demographic in Nigerian politics. But are they a coherent political constituency?

• William Shoki

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is running for a third term. On the Africa Is a Country podcast, we discuss what this means for the country.

• William Shoki

What’s at stake in Sierra Leone’s elections on June 24? We discuss on this episode of the Africa Is a Country podcast.

• Jibrin Ibrahim

Although calling for the cancellation of Nigeria’s February elections is counterintuitive, the truth is that they were marred by fraud, voter suppression, technical glitches and vote-buying.

• Zama Mthunzi

South Africa has had formal democracy for 30 years, but more of its citizens are tuned out of the democratic process.

• Umar Aminu Yandaki

The personal archives of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist, suggests that same-faith presidential tickets are not necessarily about religious domination.

• Nanre Nafziger

In Nigeria’s recent election cycle, many citizens looked to Peter Obi for change. But the country needs people-led social transformation, not saviors.

• Camilla Houeland

A few days after Nigeria’s presidential elections, with a disputed winner declared, here are some initial conclusions and prospects.

• Camilla Houeland
• Sa’eed Husaini

Peter Obi, one of the three main candidates for Nigerian president, is neither a savior nor a socialist, but his candidacy and his supporters have enlivened Nigerian elections.

• William Shoki

With the working classes down and out, it is arguably the middle classes that will play the more decisive role in African politics going forward.

• António Tomás

The specter of Angola's 1992 elections continues to impact the country's democratic process.

• William Shoki

This month, Africa's largest democracy and economy goes to the polls. On the AIAC podcast, we discuss Nigeria's upcoming elections.

• Samuel Anim

The Nigerian presidential candidate’s claim of 'emi lokan' (it’s my turn) reveals complex ethnic politics and a stagnated democracy. Most responses to it, humor and rumor, reflect how Nigerians enact democratic citizenship.

• William Shoki

That reactionary politics today lack a mass character is what makes them so dangerous.