Politics
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Libya and Cote d’Ivoire: A New Interventionism?
Bonapartism in built-up shoes So the “˜cheese-eating surrender monkeys’ have suddenly gone on the war path. The French (and British) have been attacked in ... -
Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF must be held to promises
The announcement in December 2010 by President Robert Mugabe that his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), would leave the ... -
Presidential Elections in Chad
Small steps forward In many ways, Chad has come a long way since the last presidential election held in 2006. Back then, President Deby’s ... -
Beyond the Beijing Consensus: The everyday politics of China in Africa
Much of the concern with China in Africa focuses on the elite negotiations and large projects that are the most visible. Worried commentators in ... -
Nigeria election blog II – Dowden in Africa
I am woken by a frantic voice blaring from a coarse loudspeaker, demanding, pleading, insisting. The voice rises to a hysterical shriek, then breaks ... -
The African Renaissance and the long Arab spring
The Egyptian "youth revolution" has been compared to innumerable historical instances ranging from France's 1789, to Russia's 1991, Berlin's 1989, via Iran's 1979 and ... -
Cote d’Ivoire and Ouattarra
The man Ivorian Presidents love to hate By Daniel Balint-Kurti Ivory Coast, the one-time poster boy of West Africa, has seen its long-drawn-out crisis ... -
The African Union – compromised from all sides
What is going on with the African Union? Is its drifting away from the bold values declared in its Constitutive Act, meant to signal ... -
Which Way South Sudan? Cultural Diversity and the Fundamentals of Nation-Building
With the successful conduct of the referendum in January 2011, and the overwhelming vote in favor of separation, South Sudan edged a further step ... -
Southern Libya’s Vortex and the Threat to Africa
One reason why Africans worry about Libya is that they see the possibility of a protracted civil war with multiple power centres, which destabilizes ...
