Panel Discussion: Africa’s Future | The 2023 Africa Ideas Festival
The 2023 Mandela Washington Fellows are lawyers, civil society activists, and advocates for civil and human rights – all among…
Geographical Coverage: Africa
How does climate change affect African youths?
The Youth Cafe’s policy brief titled African Youth and Climate Change was written in light of COP27 to address significant…
Toolkit on Pro-Environmental Youth Engagement
We created this toolkit under the ACP MEAs 3 Youth Empowerment and Training Initiative (YETI) Europe. The overall objective of…
Loophole masters: how enablers facilitate illicit financial flows from Africa
Public Health Systems and Emergency Preparedness in Post COVID-19 West Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the vulnerabilities in West Africa’s healthcare systems exposing disparities that demand urgent attention. In response…
State of Civic Space in Uganda: A Call to Action
Civic space is the physical, virtual, legal, regulatory, and policy space where people can, among other things, securely exercise their…
Promoting political finance transparency
The role of African EMSs and political party registrars.
How free is too free? Across Africa, media freedom is on the defensive
Popular support for media freedom – a majority view just three years ago – is now in the minority, exceeded…
Democracy in Africa: Demand, supply, and the ‘dissatisfied democrat’
Overall, Africans say they get less democracy than they want. But in some countries, the perceived supply of democracy is…
Does less engaged mean less empowered? Political participation lags among African youth, especially women
Young women’s political engagement lags behind that of their male peers across all the indicators under consideration, although these differences…