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Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows how sport is able to reshape race and power.

The past 12 months provided further evidence of the danger of democratic backsliding in Africa. But it also saw powerful presidents suffer embarrassing setbacks in a number of countries.

Coup leaders in Gabon are using democratic tools to extend their stay in power.

Southern Africa’s liberation movements have been losing popularity and confronting a crisis of legitimacy.

Only psychologists could discern how Dumiso Dabengwa maintained his legendary composure, a necessary trait for an intelligence supremo.

Things had been going largely well for Botswana since 1966. But the wheels started coming off when Ian Khama became president in 2008.

The new forms of protest in Zimbabwe raise the possibility that the country’s long-simmering crisis may have reached boiling point. The time could indeed be ripe for a unique form of politics.

Maize production in Zimbabwe in 2017 is at its highest for decades.

Zimbabwe has high hopes for a post-Mugabe era, but it has some serious growing pains to deal with first.

Mugabe is gone, but chaos reigns.