Yearly Archives: 2016
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President Sassou Nguesso prepares for final stage of his constitutional coup: elections in the Republic of Congo
The people may want change, but the government has made sure they won’t get it at the ballot box on 20 March. When citizens of the Republic ... -
AAP#11: No, Angola’s President dos Santos will not step down just yet
Just hours after President José Eduardo dos Santos declared his intention to step down in 2018, we sat down with Angolan journalist/activist Rafael Marques de Morais ... -
Rwanda isn’t opposed to international justice, it’s opposed to independent justice
Rwanda claims its withdrawal from an African Court declaration just as that court was about to begin Victoire Ingabire’s hearing was pure coincidence. During an African ... -
Virtual mining in Cameroon: How to make a fortune by failing
Cameroon has a growing portfolio of failed mining projects in which a few well-connected individuals have made millions, all the while the minerals have remained deep ... -
How to “not understand” Nigeria
In A New History of a Turbulent Century, Richard Bourne says anyone who claims to understand Nigeria is either deluded or a liar. It’s hard to ... -
Hassan al-Turabi: Sudan’s democrat turned authoritarian (1932-2016)
The core of the Islamist’s ideology can be difficult to pin down, but what united his many conflicting visions was the belief that they could be realised through ... -
Elections: Benin gears up for wide open 33-horse race
No one wants to call this one. When applications to contest Benin’s presidential elections opened at the start of this year, there was certainly no shortage ... -
“Just let us fight, and the war will end” – a review of Justine Brabant’s new book on the eastern Congo
Over plates of bugali and cups of hot tea, Brabant met with countless militants across the Kivu regions and asked them questions as straightforward as: Why do ... -
Niger’s presidential run-off: same cast, different script?
In 2011, a coalition of opposition figures rallied behind Mahamadou Issoufou to secure him the presidency. In 2016, those same forces could now drive him from ... -
It’s time to axe Kenya’s big dick politics
There’s one huge theme that cuts across all Kenyan politics and it’s not ethnicity and it’s not land. [Once you’ve read this, read Ngala Chome’s response ...
