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  • Africa Was Not Given Democracy. It Was Given a System Designed to Fail.

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    Ouma Don Collins | Popular Participation & Democratization
    17.04.2026

    Africa's democratic decline is not a failure of culture or capacity — it is the logical outcome of a system designed from the beginning to extract, not liberate.

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  • Integration Without Representation: Executive Power and the Democratic Deficit in the East African Community

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    Carolyn W. Gatonye | Popular Participation & Democratization
    06.02.2026

    How executive power in the EAC limits democracy and curtails meaningful regional participation.

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  • Trump’s Withdrawal from Global Climate Governance: Symptoms of Moral and Systemic Failure

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    Kola Ibrahim | Popular Participation & Democratization
    22.01.2026

    A geopolitical-economic assessment of US withdrawal from climate-related international organizations and implications for climate justice movements.

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  • Declaration of the First IDEAS – Africa Network (IDAN) Conference: Rethinking Regional Integration in Africa

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    International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) | Popular Participation & Democratization
    19.12.2025

    The IDEAS Conference held in Dakar, Senegal, in November 2025, emphasizes integration and transformative tasks for Africa and its peoples

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  • 98% Victory, 100% Fracture: Tanzania’s Post-Election Reckoning

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    Evans Rubara | Popular Participation & Democratization
    19.12.2025

    Amid the fracturing of Tanzania following repressive rule and blood-stained undemocratic elections, what must (not) be done for the country’s peace and reconstruction?

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  • The Benin Coup, ECOWAS Struggles and the Democratic Future of the Beninese People

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    Pambazuka News Editors | Popular Participation & Democratization
    12.12.2025

    An assessment of the failed coup in Benin and the implications for democratic struggles within West Africa.

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  • A Warning: Uvira and Rwanda’s De Facto Annexation of Eastern DRC

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    Theogene Rudasingwa | Popular Participation & Democratization
    12.12.2025

    A critical analysis of the M23 capture of Uvira amid the signing of the US-brokered peace deal between the Rwanda and DRC.

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  • The Gen Z Madagascar Movement: How Youth Used Digital Tools to Redistribute Political Power

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    Jenny Rakoto | Popular Participation & Democratization
    12.12.2025

    How digital platforms redistributed political power during Madagascar’s Gen Z uprising, enabling horizontal coordination, contesting narratives, reshaping political geography, and supporting diaspora participation and counter-surveillance.

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  • Blood on the Cloves: State Capture, Party Fissures, and the Constitutional Betrayal of Tanzania’s Youth

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    Evans Rubara | Popular Participation & Democratization
    11.12.2025

    A psychoanalysis of Suluhu’s actions and events surrounding the October 2025 Tanzania elections and the aftermath 

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  • On Tanzania: Elections, Human Loss, and Rebuilding

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    Pambazuka News Editors | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.11.2025

    Pambazuka expresses grief with the departed and their families, condemns the killings and calls for restructuring of Tanzania.

     

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  • Where is U-Ndugu?: A Reflection in the Aftermath of the October 29 Elections Violence in Tanzania

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    Eliud A.  Kabamanya | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.11.2025

    Where is U-Ndugu? A burning question surrounding the inhumane, anti-cultural and anti-spiritual treatments of the living and the dead in Tanzania’s 2025 elections.

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  • Tanzania’s 2025 Elections, Chief Hangaya, and the Fragile Quest for National Unity

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    Evans Rubara | Popular Participation & Democratization
    13.11.2025

    In the wake of killings and deaths associated with Tanzania’s 2025 elections, Rubara reflects on persisting challenges and how unity and transformation may be forged. 

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  • Historicizing, Interrogating, and Critiquing Raila Odinga’s Ideological and Political legacy

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    Willy Mutunga and Alamin Mazrui | Popular Participation & Democratization
    30.10.2025

    A tribute to Raila Odinga and the lessons from his legacy for the collective struggles that remain

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  • ASUU Strikes and The Battle For Nigeria’s Universities

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    Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu | Popular Participation & Democratization
    30.10.2025

    Exploring the relations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Nigerian government: From strikes and the erosion of public education—symptomatic of national decay—to pathways for renewal. 

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  • From Protest to Regime Change in Madagascar: Positive Development or Mere Change in Ruling Uniform?

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    Pambazuka News Editors | Popular Participation & Democratization
    16.10.2025

    Explaining the Gen Z protests and the overthrow of the President of Madagascar

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  • KATIBA DAY

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    Raphael Obonyo | Popular Participation & Democratization
    16.10.2025

    A commemoration and reflection on Kenya’s constitutional journey and a challenge to the youths about the defence of the Katiba. 

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  • Will Tigray Pass the Crossroad or Fail?

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    Raid M. Adem | Popular Participation & Democratization
    19.09.2025

    Adem draws on direct engagement with communities in the Horn of Africa, especially in Tigray, and highlights perspectives often absent in international debates on Ethiopia’s post-war future.

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  • Political Repression in the Lead Up to Cameroon’s October 2025 Presidential Election

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    Amber Murrey | Popular Participation & Democratization
    04.09.2025

    The calculated exclusion of opposition leaders from Cameroon’s upcoming presidential election is a consequence of more than four decades of deliberate authoritarian political architecture. 

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  • An Open Letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa

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    Nelvis Qekema | Popular Participation & Democratization
    04.09.2025

    Nelvis Qekema reminds South Africa’s President Ramaphosa of his Black consciousness roots and calls for social justice for the country’s majority Black community living under historical and persisting injustices.

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  • Togo’s Constitutional Coup and the African Struggle for Dignity: A Call for Revolutionary Solidarity

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    Ernesto Yeboah | Popular Participation & Democratization
    07.08.2025

    Yeboah examines the issues surrounding the constitutional coup in Togo and the struggles of the ordinary people and the Togolese working class guiding this year’s recurring protests that began in June.

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