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 ...

Younger political leaders are reshaping South Africa's landscape, ushering in fresh perspectives and dynamic reforms across government and local politics. Discover 15 trailblazers making a ...

In The Age of Change: How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics, Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), explores ...

That scale of gain explains both the promise of integration and the resistance to it. AfCFTA would shift advantage away from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Informality in African cities is not only a symptom of failed governance, but it is also a calculated electoral strategy, deliberately cultivated to serve vested political interests. Politicians ...

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, ...

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 ...

As South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) confronts its steepest political decline since 1994, speculation is growing around a possible leadership bid by billionaire businessman ...