This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

The flawed 2020 Tanzanian elections are typically blamed on an authoritarian turn
instigated by the late President John Magufuli (1959–2021). This articles argues that …

Tanzania's ruling party has long employed authoritarian methods to stay in power, but the
2020 election was a turning point. The party apparently manipulated the results at scale …

This article is about how ideologies legitimize authoritarianism. The literature argues that
liberation nationalists discursively construct “liberation” as an ongoing struggle and justify …

Abstract Deputy President William Ruto's victorious presidential campaign in Kenya's 2022
elections saw him champion the plight of the 'hustlers', young informal economy workers on …

A central claim common to all populist movements is that they are committed to giving voice
and power to those who have been forgotten, maligned, or marginalised by the status quo …

Authoritarian populists offer a vision of state. This ideologically fixed imaginary provides an
electoral-authoritarian template for how to shape states once in power. Yet not all those …

This article analyses the political rise of the Ugandan opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi,
aka Bobi Wine, arguing that he has a deployed a novel type of generational populism–a …

Previous analyses of Tanzanian political cartoons unearthed corruption practices,
impingement of democratic processes, stereotype representation of gender relations, and …

The debate on the 'perils of presidentialism'has been raging for over 30 years and gone
through at least three waves. It began with the influential work of Juan Linz and most …