ARI is the UK’s only think-tank to focus exclusively on sub-Saharan Africa. Our work encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom”. We draw attention to actions and ideas that have worked in Africa, and seeks to identify new thinking where needed.
ARI’s publication “Diehards and Democracy: Elites, inequalities and institutions in African elections” quoted in Polity’s article “Coups in West Africa: A reflection of deficiencies in Africa’s electoral democracies?” ...
Piotr Cieplak notes that with a median age of just 18.7 years less than half of Rwanda’s population experienced the genocide first-hand. He asks whether this will change the way Kagame publicly discusses the events of 1994. ...
In his speech to mark the 18th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, President Paul Kagame noted that the first generation of men and women born during the genocide will come of age this year. There is more to this than obvious symbolism. Rwanda’s median age is estimated at 18.7, ...