by Kate Hein | Apr 10, 2024 | Ursinus College
Senegal has been a democracy since 1960 when it first gained independence. It is one of the only countries in Africa to have never suffered a coup since their independence. Now, in the past month, Senegal has seen dramatic backsliding. However, all of the backsliding...
by Brendan Green | Feb 14, 2022 | Boston University
On January 24th, 2022, the army of Burkina Faso successfully waged a coup against their government and took control of the country. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration deposed Burkina Faso’s...
by Eli Ameyibor | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
When All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Muhammadu Buhari defeated the incumbent Johnathan Goodluck from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 Nigerian election, many saw the country as finally heading toward democracy. Goodluck had been in...
by Marley Belanger | Dec 9, 2021 | Suffolk University
Cameroon is a country facing three major humanitarian emergencies: the Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonia Civil War, conflict with the terrorist organization Boko Haram in the Far North, and a massive refugee crisis. All of this is coupled with the impact of COVID-19....
by Tzion Jones | Jan 19, 2021 | Brown University
Social media and democracy often share a love-hate relationship in the Global South. In many cases, the blessing of free communication arrives alongside an infectious misinformation curse. In Nigeria, widespread use of WhatsApp makes the two especially hard to...
