• Ignacio Villalón

The real danger of an Emmanuel Macron victory is that, simply by virtue of not being Marine Le Pen, his policies will be treated as reasonable.

• Sara Salem

The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.

• Tone Sommerfelt

How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.

• Jason K. Stearns

The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.

• Anakwa Dwamena
• Sean Jacobs

We asked a group of experts--journalists, academics and an architect--a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?

• Florence Bernault

The longevity of the Gabonese political system also lies in the many channels of redistribution that connect politicians (known colloquially as “les Grands”) to ordinary citizens.

• Patrick Litanga

Until Joseph Kabila publicly recuses himself from running for a third term, many Congolese will be suspicious of any dialogue proposed by the government.

• Kamissa Camara

• Will Monteith

One effect of the deployment of tear gas and military equipment in Kampala is in the fear it invokes in the electorate, reminding them of the close relationship between the president, police and military.

• Camilla Houeland
• Sean Jacobs

Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules? 

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Here's what to read and who to follow on social media if you want to make sense of Ugandan politics now.

• Paul Bjerk

After a tough election in Tanzania, won by the ruling party, a constitutional crisis looms in Zanzibar.

• Dominika Koter

The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.

• Mohammed Ademo

• Ebenezer Obadare

Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.

• Sean Jacobs

Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.

• Ebenezer Obadare

A conscious effort must be made - mustering Nigeria's considerable human capital at home and in the diaspora- to build alternative structures of political engagement.

• Carl LeVan

Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.