There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

Discontent must never translate into disenfranchisement or disruption. We all share a responsibility to protect free and fair ...

Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. “This is where the students who were marching peacefully ...

Following the attempted coup in Benin on December 7, the Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist Achille Mbembe ...

UNIDENTIFIED VOTER #1: We can't even describe the feelings, but we are just so happy that at long last, we have been given this opportunity to vote. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Almost exactly 30 years ago, ...

South Africa's democracy faces a critical impasse: voters continue supporting the ANC despite its failures, while opposition ...

CAPE TOWN, South AfricaCAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country will take its most significant political step since the moment 30 years ago when it ...

South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Mosotho Moepya’s call to his Indian counterpart ahead of the Bihar polls, an exercise involving 75 million voters, quietly signalled ...

Marikana is in South Africa’s story where Gukurahundi stands in Zimbabwe’s: A defining moment that stripped away the moral ...

This is the tragic portrait of Tunisia today: a nation once lauded for its democratic courage now suffocated by repression, ...