I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

Enugu State governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has called for greater trust and cooperation between government at all levels and the media to drive democracy and development. He describes both as co-authors of ...

American children are taught that democracy is the best form of government. I remember teachers saying that popularly elected governments are the “natural” endpoint of all societies. But is this true?

My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of engagement with development partners (especially with such multilateral institutions like the ...

With the loss of funding, leaders of the development sector worry that civil society and democracy will suffer, and that new funding from countries like China and India will not prioritise these ...