History is often taught as if effective governance followed a single European arc—from Roman law to feudalism to modern nation-states—while Africa appears politically fragmented, informal, or despotic ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

“AIDS is not over in Africa and continued African leadership is essential,” said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of ...

Foremost politician and daughter of Ghana’s former President Kwame Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah has described as critical the need for Africans to revisit their indigenous political knowledge systems in ...

African presidencies fail less from poor leadership than from powerful offices resting on ...

When gunfire echoed through Cotonou, Benin, last Sunday and a small group of soldiers appeared on national TV claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon, the reaction felt painfully familiar.

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 ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa for failing to provide the leadership necessary to catalyse broad-based ...

Surveillance by the Africa Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention shows one of the continent’s most severe cholera waves in decades, with more than 300,000 suspected cases and over 7,000 ...