Pervasive despondency about democracy in Africa urges the imperative to strengthen democratic institutions and practices.  

[Voters in Africa’s most populous country and largest economy cast ballots for a new leader in the Feb. 25 Nigerian general elections. Here are answers to some essential questions about the vote]

Desperate to will a preferred candidate to victory, Western journalists fell into a tunnel vision on Nigerian politics.

The Igbo political elite faces the challenge of transforming an unimpeachable moral argument into a winning political coalition.

The apparent success of the military coup in Niger bodes ill for democracy and stability in the Sahel and the rest of the continent.