Getting the Youth Bulge Wrong
By Aaron Stanley Africa’s population is growing and quickly. Even those who are generally unaware of happenings on…
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Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship
By Yolande Bouka for Denver Dialogues Next week, Marvel Studios will release one of its most anticipated films…
Democracy in Peril: Ten Elections to Watch in 2018
By Timothy D. Sisk for Denver Dialogues Democracy’s resilience into the 21st century is rightly questioned. In 2017,…
Searching for Silver Linings from 2017
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Conflict scholarship can be a grim work, and 2017 provided bushels of…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Contradictory Progress of Gender Representation in Kenya
By Alexis Coopersmith “A nation without women leaders is like a family without a mother.” The billboard, plastered…
Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa
Guest Post by Rebecca Schiel and Jonathan Powell This Sunday, 17 September 2017, marks two years since the…
Why Multinational Resource Owners Incite Social Dissent
Guest Post by Tim Wegenast and Gerald Schneider Angola’s capital Luanda is considered to be the most expensive…
When Zuma #Falls: Stress-Testing Democracy in South Africa
By Timothy D. Sisk for Denver Dialogues. South Africa is witnessing an escalating crisis as the succession of…
Prospects for Peace in South Sudan
By Patrick Pierson. Late last week, US Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison stood before the UN Security Council and…
Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d’Ivoire
Guest post by Rebecca Schiel and Christopher Faulkner. On May 12th, 2017, disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny in…