Simon Allison

US democracy is stronger than it looks

World Simon Allison - 7 Jan 2021

We learnt this week that an American president, no matter how rogue, cannot keep himself in power against the will of the people

‘Don’t vote, overthrow the dictators’

Africa Simon Allison - 21 Nov 2020

Tanzania’s opposition leader, who is again in exile, says ‘instead of telling people to vote, we should be telling them to prepare for popular revolt

Blackout makes it hard to report on Ethiopia’s civil war

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Nov 2020

Between a communications shutdown and tight restrictions on movement, reporters — and the world — knows little about what is going on in Tigray. But the little that is emerging is terrible

Lowdown on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine

Coronavirus Simon Allison - 15 Nov 2020

The recent announcement of a promising Covid-19 vaccine is good news. But don’t get too excited, cautions Simon Allison: other more affluent countries have already bought up most of the doses, and we do not own the expensive technology necessary to store and transport it

Joe Biden’s debate guests run the only Zimbabwean restaurant in America

Africa Simon Allison - 29 Oct 2020

A Zimbabwean restaurant feeding people in need formed an unlikely addition to Joe Biden’s election campaign

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Africa Simon Allison & Simon Mkina - 30 Sep 2020

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

The cost of Covid: 25 years of progress, halted

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Sep 2020

Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report

In Softie, politics takes a personal toll on Boniface Mwangi – and his family

Africa Simon Allison - 26 Aug 2020

Softie is an intimate portrait of how political activism complicates family life

Good news: Africa is declared free of wild polio

Africa Simon Allison - 25 Aug 2020

The global polio eradication initiative, involving governments, the World Health Organisation and other institutions, was launched in 1988. It took three decades of immunising children to eradicate the poliovirus on the continent

Why do presidents cling to power?

Africa Simon Allison, Dhashen Moodley & Kiri Rupiah - 24 Aug 2020

Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like

10 rules for aspiring politicians, according to Namibia’s First Lady

Africa Simon Allison - 13 Aug 2020

Pick your battles. Be careful who you sleep with. And learn to accept defeat

Saving southern Africa’s oldest languages

Africa Simon Allison & Refiloe Seiboko - 20 Jul 2020

The decline of N|uu dates all the way back to 1652, when the first Europeans arrived by ship at the Cape of Good Hope.

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