Michelle Obama succeeded in Americanizing her husband, Barack Obama, on Day 1 of the Democratic Party convention in Denver. Michelle painted an intimate portrait of her husband, Barack, as a father and family man with faith in the American dream.
In a most eloquently delivered speech aimed at reassuring voters, she buries any doubts [...]

I love Obama for what he stands for, and for what he has done, to get to where he is today. And I will most likely vote for him for those reasons, not because he is black, like me.
But this is not how some of my countrymen in Nigeria see him. He’s their [...]

Ending 48 hours of delays, Zimbabwean power-sharing talks between the country’s ruling ZANU-PF party and both formations of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change got under way Thursday at an undisclosed location in the South African capital of Pretoria. Political analyst John Makumbe of the University of Zimbabwe discusses the talks with Blessing Zulu of [...]

Africa researcher Emira Woods of Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies has been following the Liberian leader’s efforts to raise conditions for African rulers to achieve power and govern their people through democratic means. She points out that Mrs. Sirleaf is one of a growing number of African voices to speak out for the people of [...]

A Security Council draft resolution to impose severe sanctions on Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, and some of his closest allies was just vetoed by Russia and China. Both powers have argued that such measures are not necessary. Rarely do super-powers veto resolutions. However, the fragrant difference of opinion between the “West” and the “East” is [...]

The already high levels of politically motivated violence in Zimbabwe’s rural areas are escalating, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change told IRIN.
Violence surged in the aftermath of the 29 March elections, in which ZANU-PF lost it majority in parliament for the first time since independence from Britain in 1980, and its leader, Robert Mugabe, come [...]

How does African Union deal with presidents who inaugurate themselves in faulty elections? There are lot of elections that have not been not been free and fair.