Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.
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Family names provide continuity that other political structures in south-east Asia often cannot.
For Kamala Harris, victory in next week’s US presidential election will mean overcoming the alpha male culture in the world’s alpha military superpower.
President Ruto’s re-awakening of class identities has shifted the character of Kenya’s politics in ways even he could not have predicted.
The politically ambitious Sisulu’s most recent campaigning grenade came in her cynical attack on the country’s constitution and judiciary.
The Dos Santos family and their supporters claim they are the objects of political persecution.
The Khamas have dominated Botswana’s politics since the 1870s, but they are now a discredited, spent force.
Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.
To reach the highest rungs of power, a new study shows, it really helps if your dad was president.
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