Jeffrey Smith is the founding director of Vanguard Africa, an organization that partners with pro-democracy African leaders to build campaigns for ethical leadership and free and fair elections. Often quoted by major news outlets and deliberately misquoted by authoritarian leaders, he has been honoured many times for his work, including by the Government of Gambia in 2017 as a Champion of Democracy.
Today, nearly every African country holds multiparty elections of some kind, but – as in the case worldwide – relatively few fully respect political rights and civil liberties. This situation was already worrying before the pandemic. In 2019, advocacy group Freedom … Read more
