In his 2017 New Year message, President Uhuru Kenyatta expressed confidence at being reelected. Indeed, polls showed him likely to…
Not Yet Uhuru: Is This the Making of Kenya’s First One-Term President?
Special Issues
The Land Question in Kenya’s 2017 General Election: A Historical Review
All major violent conflicts in Kenya have had a connection to land. Presently, villagers have vacated large swathes of land…
The Bankruptcy of Peace, and of the Constitution, in Kenya’s 2017 Elections
The 2010 Constitution of Kenya is transformative, to say the least. It is, however, bankrupt on peace; so is the…
The Ethnicity Factor and Risk of Conflict in the 2017 Kenyan Elections
Kenya has held elections every five years since it obtained independence in 1963. The August 8, 2017, elections will be…
Party Doesn’t Matter: Ethnic Parties and Multiethnic Coalitions in Kenya
Since the historic merger of opposition parties ahead of the 2002 elections, political party formation and composition in Kenya has…
Special Issue: Kenya’s 2017 Presidential Elections
Kenyans go to the polls on August 8, 2017. President Uhuru Kenyatta of the ruling Jubilee Party is up against…
Consolidating Democracy in Ghana: An Overview
A few days after the December 2016 elections in Ghana, a cartoon appeared in Uganda’s Sunday Monitor depicting a civics…
Ghana: Another Peaceful Alternation of Power
On December 7 2016, Ghana held its seventh national elections since the beginning of the Fourth Republic. [1] In the…
Assessing the Performance of the First Female Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission
Ghana’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections were presided over by the country’s first female chair of the Electoral Commission (EC).…
‘My Wife, My Sister, My Mother’ : Electing More Women to Parliament in Ghana [1]
In Ghana’s 2016 election six more women were elected to parliament than were elected in 2012; this brought the number…