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African Governance

By analyzing governance challenges, reforms, and successes across diverse contexts across the African continent, we explore and research strategies to enhance accountability, transparency, citizen participation and to strengthen democratic institutions.

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City park employee plant flowers along one of Johannesburg's major highway as a massive cleanup job gets underway in anticipation of the upcoming G20 summit to be held in the South African economic capital, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Reports & Papers

Striving to Excel? The Rise of South Africa as an Ambitious Global South Agenda Setter

Nov. 20, 2025 by Nieuwkerk, Anthoni van

From Middle Powers

Article

Will Egypt Be the Next Syria?

March 2025 by Shady ElGhazaly Harb
Reports & Papers

Africa Insights: Dialogue, Analysis, and Research on Current African Policy Issues

Aug. 29, 2024 by Nils Olsen, Enitan Okediji and Grace Jones
Reports & Papers

The New Influencers: A Primer on the Expanding Role of Middle Powers in Africa

Aug. 5, 2024 by Grace Jones and Nils Olsen

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Striving to Excel? The Rise of South Africa as an Ambitious Global South Agenda Setter

Nov. 20, 2025 by Nieuwkerk, Anthoni van

Reports & Papers

37 minute read

City park employee plant flowers along one of Johannesburg's major highway as a massive cleanup job gets underway in anticipation of the upcoming G20 summit to be held in the South African economic capital, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Will Egypt Be the Next Syria?

March 2025 by Shady ElGhazaly Harb

Article

from Journal of Democracy

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attends a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024.

Africa Insights: Dialogue, Analysis, and Research on Current African Policy Issues

Aug. 29, 2024 by Nils Olsen, Enitan Okediji and Grace Jones

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Africa Insights

The New Influencers: A Primer on the Expanding Role of Middle Powers in Africa

Aug. 5, 2024 by Grace Jones and Nils Olsen

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Africa and flags

Beyond the Headlines: A Kaleidoscopic Exploration of Contemporary African Politics and International Cooperation

Jun. 21, 2024 by Gloria Yayra A. Ayee

Article

from Africa Beyond the Headlines

Abstract Africa

What Do Africa and the Arctic Have in Common? A Lot, It Turns Out

Jun. 3, 2024 by Elizabeth Hanlon and Tessa Varvares

Event Summary

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

6.5 minute read

Composite image of the African continent and the northern lights.

U.S.-Africa Policy: An Interview with Judd Devermont

Apr. 12, 2024

Article

from Africa in Focus Speaker Series

Judd Devermont

Mapping a Way Forward with African Businesses in a Globalized World

Mar. 19, 2024 by Enitan Okediji

Article

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

26th Africa Business Conference (ABC) held at Harvard Business School (HBS)