Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] ...

There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

The most glaring failure in building democratic principles in Africa has been the lack of sanctions from the AU when ...

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Hundreds of men and women sat in rows in a wooden hall listening to the leader of Congo’s M23 rebellion at the end of a ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...