• William Shoki

2024 has been the ultimate election year. Just Us Under A Tree rejoins the Africa Is a Country Podcast to reflect on South Africa’s May poll and what it reveals about contemporary democratic politics.

• William Shoki

This month, Algeria quietly held its second election since Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted in 2019. On the podcast, we ask what Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s second term means for the country.

• Harrison Stetler

The results of France's snap election show that there is an alternative to right-wing nihilism and business-as-usual centrism.

• William Shoki

In France, the nationalist right wing is ascendant. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the country’s upcoming legislative elections.

• Sushovan Dhar

The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.

• Niall Reddy

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.

• William Shoki

The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.

• Sushovan Dhar

In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.

• Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.

• 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.