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From Conquest to Consent as the Basis of State Formation: Reflections on Rwanda

“1994 was the year the African intelligentsia lost its innocence. Literally in the same week, South Africa began a historic journey to reconciliation and the genocide in Rwanda became an epic tragedy. If we had been told a few years earlier by some clairvoyant that there would soon . . .” read more

Peasants and Democracy in Africa

“The contemporary crisis in Africa is having contradictory political effects. On the one hand, the increasing subordination of the continent’s political life to the calculus of factional interests ensures that even cabinet reshuffles become violent affairs, tragi-comic ‘revolutions’. On the other hand, the deepening socio-economic crisis of the . . .” read more