Why subnational governments and public institutions should move to integrated, real-time, decision-oriented public financial management

  A writer can spend years learning how to construct a sentence, only to lose his reputation because someone decides the sentence is too polished

  Credible elections are fundamental to democratic legitimacy. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption of digital electoral tools has grown steadily, reflecting a broader continental effort

As a lawyer who has spent more than two decades working within Kenya’s justice system and, more recently, alongside prison paralegals and formerly incarcerated people, I have come to realize that this question exposes a deeper contradiction in our criminal justice system.

  When Félix Tshisekedi became president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), little attention was paid to what may be the most consequential shift

Africa’s strongest card at the climate table is also the ledger of its poverty. The way out is not to play the card better, but to build past it.

The IIAG reveals that Africa’s governance gap is not structural but institutional, smaller states succeed by building disciplined systems, while larger underperformers can close the gap by embracing transparency, inclusion, and rule bound institutions.

  When, in June 1976, thousands of South African secondary school students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in schools,

In many Kenyan communities, a man can pay school fees or chair a school committee without anyone questioning his role in a child’s life. But