Why Africa must stop confusing visibility, charisma, and rhetoric with leadership.
By Wavinya Makai Across the African continent, elections unfold with ritual precision. Ballots are printed, campaigns are waged, international observers are deployed, and citizens queue patiently...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Daki Nkanyane Every awakening carries a cost. To awaken is not merely to see more clearly – it is to become responsible for what one...
By Farhia Noor I come from a continent where leadership was once a responsibility carefully passed from one generation to the next. In our tribes and...
By Godfred Zina After emerging from the ashes of the 2010–11 post-election violence – a crisis that left over 3,000 dead and deepened national fractures –...
By Godfred Zina In a dramatic turn that has sent shockwaves across Africa and beyond, former Congolese President Joseph Kabila has been sentenced in absentia to...
By Dishant Shah In an era when African leadership is often scrutinized through the lens of longevity, dynastic politics, or Western approval, one figure has emerged...
By Gregory Simpkins The wave of coups in Africa’s western region, including the Sahel, offered hope that Pan-Africanism had taken hold and that neocolonial powers, notably...
By Des H Rikhotso In 2024, women hold 26 percent of parliamentary seats across Africa – a one-percentage-point increase from 2021. While this signals progress, the...
By Gregory Simpkins When the Soviet Union dissolved more than three decades ago, hope rose globally that an end to the Cold War would allow democracy...
By Gregory Simpkins South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (Madiba – clan name of respect in the Xhosa language), Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah (Osagyefo – redeemer in the Akan...
By Yaw Kissi “If China did this, the world would scream. If Russia attempted it, headlines would flood every news cycle. But when France does it,...
By Mary Alorh A truly profound moment during Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s inauguration occurred when she shared the stage with former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Sirleaf, a...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The decision by three landlocked nations—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger – to leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has...
Zambia President., Michael Sata An unverified alteration on Wikipedia that Zambian President Michael Sata had died in an assassination Sunday morning prompted the presidency to strongly...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s supreme court confirms President Joseph Kabila’s election victory. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara‘s party won a parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections, the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission said early Friday. The...
Preliminary results from Congo’s presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, although the country’s election chief warned only a small percentage of...
Laurent Gbagbo. PHOTO/Sia Kambou / AFP – Getty Images Ivory Coast’s ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo was set Tuesday to be transferred to the International Criminal Court...
Lindiwe Mazibuko Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24/Nasief Manie South Africa’s main opposition party has for the first time elected a black woman to lead it in parliament. Thursday’s...
Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata (pictured), has been sworn in as president Friday after an upset poll victory that ushered in a smooth handover of power...
Latest polls place Zambian opposition Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata as a probable winner of the presidency with 54% of the vote after the next...
KINSHASA, Congo — The race to lead sub-Saharan Africa’s largest country kicks off this week with presidential candidates registering for the November election, a vote that...
LUSAKA, Zambia — A Zambian judge has dismissed a petition from the main opposition party trying to block President Rupiah Banda from running for re-election next...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s president says the southern African country will hold national elections in September and that he will run for his first full five-year...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president is proposing limiting the president and governors to one term. A spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan says the term would be...
Fledgling nation forms cabinet and details plan for release of new money, two days after independence from North Sudan.
DOUALA, Cameroon — A government official says Cameroon’s parliament has adopted a new law allowing citizens living overseas to vote in the country’s upcoming presidential election....
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — East African leaders say the African Union and United Nations should impose sanctions on Eritrea’s mining sector. The leaders who met in...
DAKAR, Senegal — Activists in the West African nation of Senegal are vowing to keep up their protests unless the president’s son resigns from his government...
