The 2013 elections in Zimbabwe confirmed the grip of Mugabe and ZANU-PF on Zimbabwean politics. The electoral outcome was the result of a combination of factors that included not only the longterm legacy of ZANU-PF’s coercive politics, constructed through a radical nationalist discourse, but...

Constribution to the Debate on the Political Culture in (Southern) African States in Africa Spectrum.

Review of the edited volume: Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller (eds.), Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8214-1909-0 (Hardcover) / 978-0-8214-1910-6 (Paperback), 205 pp.

"Anarchy", "religious war", "genocide" and, recently, "cannibalism" – these are some of the most commonly used words in Western news media when referring to the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), at least since the takeover of power by the rebel coalition Séléka in March 2013. In...

Book Review

In many Muslim countries in West Africa and beyond, “protests against Charlie Hebdo” occurred when citizens went out on the streets following Friday prayers on 16 January 2015. However, only in Niger did these protests turn extremely violent. This report analyses the social, political and...

Book Review

Book Review