Unpacking the nostalgia for strongmen, the failures of authoritarianism, and the urgent need for accountable leadership in ...

In the aftermath of the shameful abduction of the Chibok Girls on April 14, 2025, during the era of President Goodluck ...

As the Venezuelan president enters custody in the US looking more roadman than statesman, we pine for the days of quirky ...

Featuring Louisa Lombard, Richard Moncrieff, Gino Vlavonou. This is Part 3 of 3.

A new year brings new beginnings in the Central African Republic. President Bokassa attempts to modernise. But at the same time, the mass incarcerations and torture ramp up and corruption takes hold.

In Cameroon, President Paul Biya has been declared winner of the October 12 election by the electoral authority. He is said to have received 53 per cent of the votes to the 35 per cent by the ...

Dear Arafat, I sincerely admit, I wrote the article on former president Idi Amin, which you disproved in an article last weekend, ‘Amin’s regime was marked by killings, economic collapse’ (Sunday ...

Former Central African Republic President Jean Bokassa salutes dancers on arrival in Kampala, Uganda, on December 18, 1967. [File, Standard] While enjoying a walk in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1998, I ...

If ever a revolution swept a continent, it was Black Africa’s independence movement, which in one wild decade transformed 28 European colonies into nations. This year, for better or for worse, the ...