Michael G. Schatzberg is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (1988) and Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960–1990 (1991).
On 9 December 2011, incumbent president Joseph Kabila was declared the official winner of the DRC’s deeply flawed presidential election, resulting in a legal president without legitimacy and an uncertain…
As more and more African presidents attempt to remove or circumvent constitutional term limits, African populations increasingly are mobilizing en masse, at great risk, to defend their constitutions.