The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) emerged as an incongruous liberation in the mid-1970s. Theirs was a befuddled agenda that…
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Eritrea is endowed with enormous potential. Boasting a 1,200-kilometer coastline and a fair share of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait —…
By Prof John Harbeson There is something problematic about presuming to quantify the quality of democracy. Democracy is too fundamentally…
By Clarisse Juompan-Yakam From the 1930s onwards, several African women who were ahead of their time made their mark in…
By Matthew Colin Wealth can travel around the world with relative ease, but a government’s ability to keep track of…
By Muthomi Thiankolu The political branches of government have an interest in how courts interpret and apply the law. Thus,…
African governments have resorted to new laws against false information, that don’t reduce harm. They also don’t promote media literacy…
Lack of cogent succession planning, risk aversion and the halo effect are just some of the obstacles. By Patrick Smith Law…
By Professor John Harbeson The most widely recognized democracy-measuring indices all concur that democracy has diminished across sub-Saharan Africa as…
By Professor John Harbeson In my columns for the Nairobi Law Monthly, I try to write in ways relevant to…
