On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British
colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation …

Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging
task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and …

In recent years, scholars of authoritarianism have noted a trend in which institutions
designed to check arbitrary power have been hollowed out to facilitate its exercise. As they …

This special issue is about politics, patronage and violence in Zimbabwe. These themes
provide a means of exploring Zimbabwe's dramatic upheavals in the light of broader …

This article asks what Kenya's 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new
constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability …

This article draws on a world-systems approach and decolonial epistemic perspectives to
reveal how Development Studies has remained deeply interpellated by its Euro-American …

The power-sharing literature lacks a review that synthesizes its findings, despite spanning
over 50 years since Arend Lijphart published his seminal 1969 article 'Consociational …

From 2000, ZANU (PF) suffered repeated electoral defeat in the cities and lost control of
municipalities to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). This turned urban …

There is a general recognition that resilience is not necessarily a new concept. Rather, it is
an old concept passed on through generations. Yet, far too little attention has been given to …

Abstract Reflections on South African diplomacy regarding Zimbabwe, inspired by hopes
that Nelson Mandela's discourse of cross‐border support for liberal human rights would …