It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Politics often pivots on moments of rupture, and it is in those ruptures that new political calculations are made. West ...

Another Coup In Africa, Soldiers Appear On State TV To Announce Takeover A brief political scare unfolded in West African ...

In this episode of 'How I Make My Money', Stephen Grootes takes you inside the mind of Dr Ralph Mathekga, one of SA’s most ...

The most glaring failure in building democratic principles in Africa has been the lack of sanctions from the AU when ...

Legal expert Dr Suhayfa Bhamjee argues the appointment of South Africa’s next National Director of Public Prosecutions is not ...

To be African must mean more than holding a passport stamped by colonial cartography. It must mean belonging to a shared ...

A top European Union official has warned the United States against interfering in European affairs. European Council President António Costa was reacting Monday to the Trump administration's new ...

The daughter of a former South African president has been accused of illegally recruiting men to fight for Russia in its war ...

Civil society organisations have urged national and sub-national governments to mainstream gender equality across political and governance structures, insisting that women must be given more ...

Last weekend in Congo Town, Liberia saw a familiar scene: a politician once labeled as the embodiment of corruption was suddenly seen as a champion of integrity. Representative Thomas Pangar Fallah, ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...