Early in the New Year is report card time on democracy. Organizations monitoring the state of democracy worldwide assess the…
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Chronic shortages of power affect the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 620 million people—60 percent of the region’s population—lack access…
By Prof John Harbeson We are now three years into the second major, multilateral international effort to overcome the most…
More than a dozen national elections will be held across Africa next year. All 55 members of the African Union…
By Prof John Harbeson South Africa’s government appears to be actively considering amending the Constitution to permit some degree of expropriation…
By Prof John Harbeson One of the most fundamental and timeless conceptual and practical policy issues in the multi-disciplinary literature…
By Prof John Harbeson The two countries in sub-Saharan Africa whose trajectories I have most closely followed throughout my professional…
By Professor John Harbeson At a time when European countries as well as the United States are deeply concerned about…
By Richard Joseph A quarter-century after sub-Saharan Africa experienced an upsurge of democracy, a different and more complicated political era has dawned:…
By Joel Okwemba While our ancestors have been around for millennia, industrialisation began in earnest only in the 1800s. The First…
