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  • So, Who is a Terrorist in Kenya?

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    25.07.2025

    Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya

  • The Silence of Authority: Allegations of a Predator Operating in Plain Sight—and the Institutions that Looked Away

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    Nathan Wangusi | Popular Participation & Democratization
    24.07.2025

    Wangusi challenges the loud silence of those in authority regarding the investigations of Africa Uncensored into the alleged grooming and sexual exploitation in Kenya’s Alliance Girls High School.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Exceptionalism, Please Meet Inevitability

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    Katim Seringe Touray | Popular Participation & Democratization
    24.07.2025

    Touray explores an assertion that US Exceptionalism must come to terms with the Inevitability of China’s rise as a Superpower.

    This article was previously published in Modern Diplomacy on July 13, 2025.

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  • The Togo Protests: A Challenge to a Revised Political Dynasty?

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    Pambazuka News Editors | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    An exploration of the current protests in Togo, the background, and the demands that continue the recurrence of the agitations.

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  • Kenya’s ‘Goons’, Necropolitics and the Ghosts of  Kill Me Quick (Mwangi, 1973)

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    Carolyn W. Gatonye | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    How Kenya’s ‘protest goons’ reflect necropolitical control, through the lens of Kill Me Quick and lived realities of systemic youth abandonment, and how this turns youth into disposable political instruments.

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  • The PEACELESS Agreement Between Congo and Rwanda

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    Rosa Moro | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Moro highlights the omissions and lack of justice in the Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, arguing that it is in reality a ‘peaceless’ agreement. 

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  • Of Gen Z Protests and the Demand for People Centred Leadership and Governance in Kenya and beyond

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    Stephen Musau | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Musau provides context to the June 2025 protests in Kenya as they relate to the protests that took place the previous year while highlighting the need for a people centered government. 

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  • Glorifying and Celebrating the Martyrs of June 25, 2024 Gen Z Revolution in Kenya

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    10.07.2025

    Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024. 

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Expropriation Without Compensation: Deception By the Ruling Elite In South Africa

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    Essy M. Letsoalo | Popular Participation & Democratization
    27.06.2025

    Land reform in South Africa remains a major challenge for the post-apartheid state. Letsoalo explores the various attempts, deceptions and elitist interests that frustrate policy framing and implementation beneficial to dispossessed South Africans.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Celebrating 250 years of the US Army: Extirpation, Genocidal Violence, Deception, Lies and Insecurity

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    Horace Campbell | Popular Participation & Democratization
    27.06.2025

    Will the contradictions inside the US Army break out into major crises similar to the Civil War or the period after the Vietnam War? 

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  • The Significance of South Korea’s Presidential Election

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    Dae-Han Song | Popular Participation & Democratization
    26.06.2025

    Song discusses the importance of the recent elections in South Korea, relating it to the power of the people in their pursuit of a more democratic South Korea. 

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  • Equity, Equality, and Inclusiveness of All Spiritualities in Kenya

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    In a world where diversities in spirituality are weaponized to divide peoples, bridges across spiritual practices are emerging to ensure constitutional strive towards equity, equality, and inclusivity of religious inclinations succeeds. Mutunga explores this development in Kenya.

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  • The Limits of Infrastructure-Led Politics in Kenya on Our Protests/ Our protests are limited by infrastructure-led politics

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    Mwangi Mwaura | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    How does the obsession with infrastructure-led politics limit protests and calls for social and political transformation? In this article, Mwaura shows how it happens in Kenya and the adverse consequences for demands for real changes.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya

  • Globalectics of George Natembeya’s Arrest is a lesson in Geo-Politics of East Africa

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    Alexander Opicho | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Opicho draws on the arrest of George Natembeya and uses Ngugi’s concept -globalectics - to call global attention to the injustice festering in the democratic dictatorships of the East African region.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Democracy in Africa and the Dangers of Judicial Selectorate

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    Chidi Anselm Odinkalu | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Odinkalu charts the increasing role of the courts in resolving contested elections in Africa, and asks what are implications for democracy in Africa.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Rwanda’s Migration Agreement with the Trump Administration: A Carefully Calculated PR Move Amid International Pressure

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    Rene Claudel Mugenzi | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.06.2025

    Unravel with Mugenzi the realpolitik around Rwanda’s deportation deal with Trump in the light of international backlash on its involvement with M23 violence in the DRC.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • Dictatorships are Gender Neutral 

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    29.05.2025

    Mutunga recounts the maltreatment, suppressive and dictatorial experiences he and his colleagues from Kenya and Uganda endured under the Tanzania leadership in efforts to visit the country and solidarize with the Opposition Chadema Party leader, Lissu’s trial on alleged treason charges.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • From the Streets to the Seats: Trade Unionists in the New Trinidad and Tobago Government and What Should We Expect?

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    Zophia Edwards | Popular Participation & Democratization
    15.05.2025

    Trade union leaders helped secure a UNC victory in Trinidad and Tobago’s 2025 election—now voters must ask whether these former working-class champions will truly represent workers from within the government.

    Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization

  • The Integration of the African Justice Systems (AJS) into the Judicial System in Kenya and its Challenges

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    Willy Mutunga | Popular Participation & Democratization
    01.05.2025

    Willy Mutunga highlights milestones in the integration of indigenous legal systems with European court systems in Kenya, emphasizing remaining tasks in ensuring justice for all and social transformation in Kenya

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  • Reflections on Rwandan Plunder in the Congo: The Global Pan African Movement (GPAM’s) Internal Education Meeting on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    Kailey Smith | Popular Participation & Democratization
    17.04.2025

    The Global Pan-African Movement held an internal education on Rwanda’s role in the imperialist destabilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

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