Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

Democracies survive because institutions can push the pack, when those institutions are hollowed out and become ...

As we witness President Trump’s daily attacks on the rule of law, constitutional rights and democracy, I recall an incident ...

In every democracy, there exists a sacred tension between the presidency and the press, a tension that is not only inevitable ...

Dodoma. The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has emphasised that the nation will continue to learn and self-correct on its democratic journey without being coerced by ...

Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a lecture on reimagining American democracy, the role of the 14th Amendment of the U.S.

That “words have consequences” is not a new idea, but it has gathered momentum of late. Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that words are organic. They evolve, like a living thing, and ...

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian ...

The outcome of the Anambra gubernatorial election was hardly unexpected. Charles Chukwuma Soludo secured a second term in office, conquering it wholesale, ...

The enormous military and war expenditures, paid for through deep social cuts, are fundamentally incompatible with democracy.

Across Africa, democratic governance is facing one of its most severe tests in decades. Since 2020, the continent has ...