By Prof John Harbeson The fifteen-year gradual but clear decline in democratic practice around the globe, especially in sub-Saharan Africa,…
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Why withdrawal of high-profile cases by the ODPP is a threat to constitutionalism in Kenya By Felix Okanga The Constitution…
By Carmel Rickard As judicial interest grows in the role that judges and courts should play relative to elections, the…
The dimensions and scale of leadership required to end backsliding and restore or initiate sustainable democratic progress have received insufficient…
Why Kenyans who value constitutional democracy have no reason to hold their breath. By Shadrack Muyesu The late justice Antonin…
By Kanyi Gioko The current announcement of a task force to review the education needs of Kenya is welcome and…
Despite the country’s pre-civil war continent-leading economic development, little has occurred to suggest that socioeconomic terms for a post-imperial Ethiopian state might at least partially supplant ethnic identities.
By Bertrand Bertie There is a human tendency to consider that everything is the same as before. It is a…
The recent abrupt shattering of a fragile five-month-old truce has punctuated the restarting of Ethiopia’s third year of civil war…
The August 9 presidential election lived up to expectations by producing probably the most fiercely contested poll in the history…
