Author: Brett L. Carter and Andrea Ngombet
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Andrea Ngombet is a civil society leader and founder of the Sassoufit Collective, which advocates for democracy and the rule of law in the Republic of the Congo. He is a member of the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal and has been recognized as a Reagan-Fascell Fellow, Stanford Draper Hill Fellow, and McCain Global Leader Fellow. Ngombet holds a Bachelor's degree in History from Sorbonne Paris IV University. His recent work includes an essay titled "Congo-Brazzaville’s Chinese Roulette" and a self-published book titled Toxic Ideology: How China is shaping the modern Republic of the Congo, both of which highlight how China facilitates Congo-Brazzaville's deeply kleptocratic regime.
Brett L. Carter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is the author of Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which received the William Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association. He is currently finishing a book about politics in Africa's autocracies.
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On 15 March, the Republic of Congo staged its fifth presidential election since Denis Sassou Nguesso reclaimed power after the 1997 civil war. Few citizens bothered ...
