South Africa’s Future: Symposium—Democratic Party

Since Tanzania’s 2015 elections, rising repression and opposition protest have displaced an older dynamic of comparatively restrained and unchallenged dominance by the ruling party. 

For years Kenya was regarded as one of Africa’s sturdiest democracies. The fraudulent 2007 presidential election, however, exposed the fragility of Kenya’s democratic framework.

Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.