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.
Kayode Samuel argues that Nigeria’s elections are about two quarrelsome camps, with little ideological divergence, each seeking a popular mandate to determine the nation’s future. ...
Although never popular, taxation is an essential component of consensual and representative government. Property tax has been posited as the ideal source of income for municipal governments. ...
