April 2024, Volume 35, Issue 2
Why Malawi’s Democracy Endures
Malawi is a “hard place” for democracy—its economy struggles and state capacity is weak. So how has it avoided the pitfalls that have doomed so many others?
Kim Yi Dionne
Kim Yi Dionne is associate professor of political science at the University of California–Riverside. She is the author of Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa (2018), editor-in-chief of the political science blog Good Authority, and cohost of the Ufahamu Africa podcast.