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South Africa’s Institutions Face Mounting Pressure Ahead of November Elections
South Africa's GNU is governing under coalition conditions for the first time in 30 years. The country's institutions are holding,…
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African Political Systems Expand Participation While Tightening Control Beneath the Surface
More Africans are voting than ever before. The systems governing what those votes can change are getting more sophisticated, and…
Africa
Africa’s Hidden Governance Architecture and the Battle for State Incentives
Beneath Africa's parliaments and constitutions runs a parallel architecture of patronage, customary authority, and rentier incentives that decides how power…
Culture & Soft Power
The Paradox of Power When African Leadership Inherits the Throne and Forgets the People
Africa's leadership paradox is structural, power treated as inheritance rather than service exposes the failure of accountability systems across the…
Africa
Hunger Games A Tale of Two Nigeria’s
Nigeria's National Assembly earns 300x the minimum wage while over 40% of citizens live in poverty. Africa360° examines the structural…
Africa
Nigeria’s Supreme Court and the Local Government Question: Autonomy Won, Architecture Unchanged
Nigeria's Supreme Court ordered direct payment of federal funds to local councils — but enforcement, not the ruling, will determine…