Is Eastern Africa Abandoning Democracy?

Democracy is on the decline in East Africa. That was the assessment of Tigare and Chaguta, Amnesty International's regional director for Eastern Southern Africa, and a piece for the nonprofit organization, the Africa Center.

He argued that despite democracy remaining the preferred system of governance in the region, lenders had failed to deliver on its promise and had instead entrenched a steady decline in democratic norms and practices.

And he isn't the only one to make that argument. Political analyst Nanjala Nia Bola and researcher Edmund Bumba made similar points in pieces for Al Jazeera and the Horn International Institute for Strategic Studies, respectively.