Asafika Mpako

Jun 10, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Matthias Krönke |Rorisang Lekalake |Asafika Mpako

President Bola Tinubu has just celebrated his first year in office, having assumed office on 29 May 2023. As 12 June is also Nigeria’s “Democracy Day”, this is a particularly good moment to ask when he has achieved during his first 12 months in office – and what we might expect in the years to come. When evaluating a president, it usually helps to go over manifesto pledges and campaign promises.

Jun 10, 2024 | t.ly | Matthias Krönke |Rorisang Lekalake |Asafika Mpako

President Bola Tinubu has just celebrated his first year in office, having assumed office on 29 May 2023. As 12 June is also Nigeria’s “Democracy Day”, this is a particularly good moment to ask when he has achieved during his first 12 months in office – and what we might expect in the years to come. When evaluating a president, it usually helps to go over manifesto pledges and campaign promises.

Jun 6, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Nic Cheeseman |Matthias Krönke |Rorisang Lekalake |Asafika Mpako

DiA’s own Nic Cheeseman, aka @fromagehomme, has published a new column looking at what we know about democracy in Africa after twenty five years of research by the Afrobarometer survey. “Twenty five years ago an unheralded development transformed the way we understand Africa. It wasn’t an election victory for the opposition, or a new scandal about what an irresponsible government had been up to.

May 29, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Salih Noor |Matthias Krönke |Rorisang Lekalake |Asafika Mpako

On May 29, 2024, South Africans will vote in the seventh national election since the end of Apartheid in 1994. This election marks a political milestone as the African National Congress (ANC) party dominating power for 30 years faces its toughest challenge. Once glamourized for its prolonged struggle for racial democracy, the ANC’s reputation has been tarnished by high unemployment, widespread poverty, failing government services, and over a decade of corruption scandals.

Apr 29, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Anna Reuss |Asafika Mpako |Mikhail Moosa |Matthias Krönke

DiA’s very own Fromagehomme (aka Prof Nic Cheeseman) has a new column out on what we can learn from Senegal – and Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia – about how opposition parties can win unfair elections. He argues that opposition parties in Africa don’t usually win elections because governments play by the rules, but because they secure enough votes to make it unfeasible to manipulate the outcome … and identifies three things opposition parties can do to increase their chance of success.