“Since parliament has failed to come to the ghetto, then we shall bring the ghetto to parliament”, said the musician turned populist politician.
On Fidel Castro’s Death, And ‘Small’ Cuba’s Outsized Influence In Africa
Cuba is a small island nation that has had a huge impact on post-colonial Africa, and possibly no other figure would have as towering an influence on Africa’s revolutionary imagination than Fidel Castro.
Is The Term ‘Peasant’ Derogatory? What A Word Can Tell Us About A Country’s Political Imagination
I find the word ‘peasant’ to describe a rural subsistence farmer very jarring, yet my Ugandan friends use it quite casually. What’s going on?
How African Courts Uphold All Incumbent Victories – And Entrench Electoral Cheating
No court in Africa has ever overturned a presidential election result in favour of the challenger. Judgements have always favoured the incumbent candidate, the candidate sponsored by the ruling party, or the presumptive winner.