Rotimi T. Suberu,professor of political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, was Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 2006–2007.
Efforts to do comparative research on political attitudes have been complicated by varying understandings of “democracy.” The Afrobarometer is exploring new techniques to overcome this difficulty.
Once hailed as liberators, Zimbabwe’s ruling party now clings to power through violent repression. How did the country’s founding father become its dictator, and what patterns in his party’s past…
