Afrobarometer under scrutiny: Can Africans trust the data?

Botswana ended 58 years of one-party rule with a promise of delivering jobs, reform, and starting a new political era. Two years later, President Duma Boko admits his government has failed to deliver on its pledges.

We put African leaders in the hot seat. Now it's our turn! Viewers from Ghana, Cameroon and Zambia tell us what we got right, what we missed and whether we're asking politicians the tough questions. Did we pass the test?

After its 2024 defeat, the New Patriotic Party is regrouping under Mahamudu Bawumia, but has it truly learned why voters turned away from the party?

Opposition leaders arrested. Election petitions blocked. Zambia's government says democracy is intact, but critics disagree. We ask UPND's Elvis Nkandu: What's really happening in Zambia after the 2026 election?

He commanded the Multinational Joint Task Force and led the Nigerian Army at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Yet jihadist violence spread while military coups returned to West Africa. So what went wrong?

Four years or five? Ghana is considering major changes to its 1992 Constitution — and one proposal is already stirring debate: extending the presidential term.

Afrobarometer tells governments, journalists and the world what Africans think. But critics question donor influence, Western standards and possible bias. Afrobarometer CEO Joseph Asunka responds.

Sierra Leone wants to change key election rules, including lowering the presidential threshold from 55% to 50%+1. The opposition is challenging the reforms in court. Will they strengthen democracy or weaken voter power?

Donor funding slashed. Clinics closing. Prevention programs collapsing. With less than four years to end AIDS as a public health threat, Africa faces a brutal choice: fund its own future or watch decades of progress unravel. Under The Baobab confronts the leaders, the numbers, and the hard truth about who will be held accountable when 2030 arrives.

As Zambian prepare to vote on August 13, the countrys' electoral commission faces one of its biggest tests yet: a new voter register, new constituencies, ballot security, campaign tensions and public questions over trust.