How Ghana’s economic crisis is reshaping its democracy
Ghana’s legislature could take the unusual move of censuring the finance minister — and demanding greater accountability from the executive branch
Will Ghana’s new e-levy help the economy recover from the pandemic?
Richard Aidoo - August 9, 2022
Ghana isn’t the only country to try to tax mobile money transactions
Why are Africans dissatisfied with democracy? Think corruption.
Robert Mattes and Christiaan Keulder - November 18, 2021
The fifth in Afrobarometer’s special democracy summit series on Africa
Long-serving African presidents say the people want them to stay on. Is that true?
Boniface Dulani - November 4, 2021
The third in Afrobarometer’s special democracy summit series on Africa.
Ghana’s election was largely a referendum on President Akufo-Addo’s economic vision
Richard Aidoo - December 15, 2020
His goal of developing without foreign aid could prove challenging after the pandemic
A longtime leader in Ghana has died. Jerry John Rawlings leaves a complicated legacy.
Jeffrey Paller and George Bob-Milliar - November 14, 2020
He was an authoritarian who then won two multiparty elections
African countries have started to push back against Chinese development aid. Here’s why.
Richard Aidoo - October 16, 2018
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Could a power-sharing arrangement end protests in Togo? It’s complicated.
Alexander Noyes - February 24, 2018
Togo experimented with power-sharing more than a decade ago, with mixed results.
Why do some elections in Africa turn violent?
Meshack Simati - November 22, 2017
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60 years later, are colonial-era laws holding Africa back?
Ryan Briggs and Maya Berinzon - January 20, 2017
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