by AJ Gleason | Mar 11, 2022 | University of Chicago
Paul Kagame’s presidency has been plagued with accusations of election rigging, suppression of free speech, and unjustified imprisonment of political opponents from the very beginning. Succeeding President Pasteur Bizimungu in 2000, he has since faced three...
by Charlie Lowry | Jun 15, 2021 | University of Surrey
Democracy has struggled to take hold in Africa, partly due its lack of economic development amongst other factors. The failure of democracy to spur economic development in Africa has opened a discussion on whether democracy really is a necessary precursor to...
by Jacob Rosenberg | Dec 9, 2020 | Williams College
Above the streets of Rwanda’s capital Kigali, police drones blare reminders to socially distance and wear masks. At intersections, citizens are randomly tested and placed into a government-run contact tracing program. Stadiums which once hosted soccer games have been...
by Rachel Funk | Apr 18, 2019 | Utah State University
Despite its apparent incongruence with representative democracy, direct democracy remains a salient feature of many representative democracies worldwide. The menu of referenda, plebiscites, town meetings, recall elections, and initiatives that make up direct...
by Matt Willis | Apr 15, 2019 | Rollins College
For this post, I have read an article by Kennedy Ndahiro for The Atlantic, titled “In Rwanda, We Know All About Dehumanizing Language.” The concepts elucidated by Ndahiro, a native Rwandan himself, perfectly reinforce those discussed in relation to course...
