Kenya: Anarchy, Endless Power Tussles as Kenya's Opposition Splinters

opinion

The June 28, 2020 swearing-in of Malawian opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera as the country's sixth president has created the false impression of a rising opposition in Africa's emerging democracies.

The truth is different. Opposition parties, like liberal democracy itself, are on a recession globally. In Western democracies, a new bout of right-wing populism has turned the opposition into a hub of racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic blitzes and hate-mongering.

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