Nigeria’s Search for a New Political Order

Africa is a battleground between formal democratic institutions and rule by the will of the "big man." Civil society groups are waging this struggle, and technology is equipping them with…

Once touted as a regional success story, Mozambique has been backsliding toward one-party-dominant rule, and has now slipped off the Freedom House list of electoral democracies. How and why did…

After the ethnic violence that marred its 2007 presidential election, Kenya must reform its institutions to better represent its diverse polity.