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The large-scale contamination of the public sphere by rumours, hate speech, dangerous conspiracy theories and orchestrated deception campaigns is causing widespread concern around the world. These...
ALEX MAGAISA ELECTIONS are a numbers game, it is often said. It may be a cliché, but it captures the essence of electoral contestation. At the...
MARTIN N NDLELA THE rise in the use of smartphones and an increased adoption of mobile internet in Africa are fundamentally altering the media ecology for election campaigns....
LOREN B LANDAU/JEAN PIERRE MISAGO ONCE relegated to the margins of South African politics, anti-immigrant activism has gone mainstream. Several anti-immigrant groups, including Operation Dudula, All Trucker Foundation and...
A BLITZ for the issuance of national identification documents has kicked off and it will be followed, on 11 April, by the second phase of the...
ZIMBABWEANS voted in critical by-elections on 26 March across 28 parliamentary constituencies and 122 municipalities in the long-delayed polls. The outcome was important in many respects:...
OLAYINKA AJALA IN early MARCH, the United Nation’s General Assembly voted on a resolution demanding Russia immediately stop its military operations in Ukraine. Out of 193 member states,...
WESTEN K. SHILAHO THE recent party nomination of Deputy President William Samoei Ruto (pictured) as a presidential candidate sets the stage for a tight race in Kenya’s elections...
GIBSON NCUBE “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” This is how British Somali poet Warsan Shire begins her now famous poem called Home....
ALEX MAGAISA “THE court of public opinion has spoken,” a reader wrote to me as he petitioned “the good Lord to continue to shine His countenance”...