Liberia held its general elections in 2023. The young democracy of the West African country withstood the challenge of former president George Weah’s populism. Weah had sought a second term, but ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa needs a democracy of its own context that delivers to all people. Obasanjo said this on Monday in Abuja, while speaking at a Colloquium to mark the 60th ...

This weekend marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, officially ending the country's era of apartheid. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with journalist Redi Thlabi.

One of President Biden’s final state visits was slated to be Angola this week — it would have been his first visit to the African continent as president. However, the White House announced on Tuesday ...

South Africa observed Freedom Day on April 27, commemorating three decades since the historic transition from apartheid to ...

At a time when democracy is in crisis around the world, threatened by the lure of authoritarianism on the one hand, and the disillusionment with democracy on the other, we will, once again, turn to a ...

JUST WEEKS ahead of a planned presidential election in Senegal, on February 3rd President Macky Sall called it off. The move has sparked a constitutional crisis and dealt a blow to democracy across ...

A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal In ...

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Narratives around the state of democracy in Africa tend to swing between exuberant optimism and gloomy pessimism. Recent electoral outcomes across the continent, however, reveal a more nuanced reality ...