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africa & democracyFrom Angola to Somalia, Rwanda to Zimbabwe, conflict and poverty scar Africa. But Africans everywhere are investing huge energies in search of democratic change and social betterment. openDemocracy writers examine the new worlds of an old continent.
An eruption of war is rooted in the complex recent politics of an unsettled region
More drug-trafficking networks in west Africa plus state corrosion equal the region’s first narco-state
The failure of power-sharing in Zimbabwe is the result of South Africa's own "regime change"
The argument over whether to indict Sudan's president turns on the character of his regime
The clear victory of Angola's ruling party is a story of history, politics, power - and oil
China embraces the world. But from Beijing to Nairobi there is turmoil beneath the harmony
Ignoring gender issues in development hinders progress in tackling inequality and injustice
In a hard corner of southern Ethiopia, the multiple causes of the global food crisis converge
Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime
African civil-society leaders call for a free election process and an end to violence in Zimbabwe
Regime violence has killed the election. A Harare voice looks to the region for hope
The International Criminal Court is five years old. Is it holding violators to account?
Tokyo was once the unsung hero of African development. China's arrival changes everything
The wave of anti-immigrant in South Africa reflects both local politics and global economics
South Africa's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe may have decisive effects in both countries
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, write a new chapter in their history
People are losing their fear and voting for change even in Robert Mugabe's political strongholds
The systemic realities of political violence in Kenya underpin the post-election crisis
Zimbabwe's president turns 84 with a lavish party in his starving country. Wilf Mbanga, former friend turned exiled editor of "The Zimbabwean", writes to him (archive)
A month of fear has left tens of thousands of Kenyans displaced
Kenyan
citizens living out their country's crisis offer insight into how boundaries of
ethnicity, clan and class can be overcome
The key to post-election crisis in Kenya lies in the role of the
post-colonial state
The political tragedy in Kenya makes the "Zuma tsunami" look good
The post-election violence in Kenya exposes its ethno-political divisions
How far were the pogroms prefigured by Kenya’s political elite long before the first ballot was cast?
It is only by listening to those most
affected, that we can bring about real change in tackling HIV/Aids
Listen to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
Faustina Fynn Nyame talks about returning to her native Ghana to campaign for
womens' right to safe abortion.
Plus: blogging 16 days
“Mosques have never been so full, nor hearts so empty”. In war’s painful aftermath, Algerians are seeking new accommodations between religion and politics
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