Archbishop Tutu’s radical commitment to humanity led him to criticize parties, people and institutions
The beloved anti-apartheid activist demanded that the African National Congress also meet the standards of ‘ubuntu’
Autocratic governments are using coronavirus as a pretext to clamp down on opponents
Here’s what we found in Uganda and Zimbabwe.
African dictators have been losing power — some to democratic governments. Militaries can tip the scales toward democracy.
These five factors make the difference between militaries that support autocracy and those that allow free elections.
What’s behind South Africa’s xenophobic violence in 2019?
Violence against immigrants has sparked a diplomatic crisis
Robert Mugabe has died. But Zimbabwe’s institutional legacies that shaped his repressive regime live on.
The stakes are high for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who promised to reboot the economy
Sudan’s upheaval is the latest example of a ‘gray-zone coup’
Autocrats learned “coup-proofing” — and militaries learned negotiating.