Democracy’s Future: Between Africa’s Extremes

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

Parliamentary elections in 2008 secured the MPLA's hegemony and decimated the opposition, while paradoxically increasing the government's legitimacy.

In Senegal, voters, civil society, and the media remain active and engaged, but as the reelection of Macky Sall showed, the president’s ability to limit competition and centralize power remains…