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"Kenya is an East African country with a more recent history of emigration. The early emigration patterns of Kenyans began in the late 1950s where migration was primarily for educational purposes for citizens to train overseas and return home to dev…
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Citizenship of a country is not always as clear as it seems. Citizenship can be gained through birth right, registration, naturalisation, descent or adoption. This however has been the reason for conflict in many African countries. This survey looks…
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"This policy brief attempts to examine Joseph Kabila’s relationship with the Banyamulenge and assess whether this relationship would lead to the Banyamulenge’s feeling more accepted as Congolese or continuing to be regarded as ‘foreigners’, as the…
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"The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration (MHAI) in Namibia has sole responsibility for implementing and managing migration policy and legislation; the registration of births, deaths and marriages; and the issuing of identity documents, passpor…
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Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo were a milestone in the peace process but much remains to be done to consolidate the gains. A return to full-scale war is unlikely but violence in Bas-Congo and Kinshasa in early 2007 with over 400 peopl…
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Burundi has made relatively rapid, substantial progress in democracy and easing of inter-ethnic tensions, due to its citizens desire to embrace national unity and compromise, as well as the international community’s heavy involvement in the Arusha p…
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"This edition of Synopsis forms part of the Centre for Policy Studies-Trust Africa project on Regional Citizenship and Identity, and we start with an apt preoccupation on ‘regional citizenship and identity’ in southern Africa as an emerging concern …
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Statelessness in Southern Africa is driven primarily by colonial history, border changes, migration, poor civil registry systems, and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity and religion. There are concerning signs that states are using sta…
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After an unstable political history of autocratic rule, coups and counter-coups, and a destructive decade-long civil war, Sierra Leoneans want to live in a democracy with elections and multiparty competition. They are divided, however, on the questi…
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Lesotho’s Constitution prohibits Lesotho citizens from holding the citizenship of any other country. Basotho who want to become citizens of another country must renounce their Lesotho citizenship, giving up certain rights and benefits to which Lesot…
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In the first installation of the 'Digital ID Dispatches from Africa' series, Research ICT Africa's doctoral fellow Anri van der Spuy looks at why digital IDs matter in Africa, and why we need to continue examining them and their impac…
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In the second installation of the 'Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, Research ICT Africa researcher Kristophina Shilongo unpacks what digital IDs mean in uniquely African contexts.
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In the latest instalment of the 'Digital ID Dispatches from Africa' series, researchers from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) outline the evaluation framework CIS developed for digital ID, and assess how India's Aadhaar syste…
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In the fourth instalment of the Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, we have our first piece from a country partner who used the CIS Evaluation Framework to examine digital ID in Zimbabwe. Nhlanhla Ngwenya reflects on three developments that he…
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In the fifth installation of theDigital ID Dispatches from Africa series, we have our second piece from a country partner who used the CIS Evaluation Framework to examine digital ID in Uganda. In this piece, Neema Iyer and Bonnita Nyamwire from the …
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In the sixth instalment of the Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, we have our third piece from a country partner who used the CIS Evaluation Framework to examine digital ID in Nigeria. In this piece, Babatunde Okunoye, fellow at the Berkman K…
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The African Union Commission (AUC) is working towards the adoption of a new policy framework on digital ID this year. When Research ICT Africa launched the Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, we noted that this is partly why it is important to…
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In the seventh instalment of the Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, we have our fourth piece from a country partner who used the CIS Evaluation Framework to examine digital ID in Tanzania. In this article, Patricia Boshe, co-director of the A…
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In the eighth instalment of the Digital ID Dispatches from Africa series, Grace Mutung'u discusses Kenya's digital ID scheme, Huduma Namba, and the challenges of access and inclusion for marginalised communities. She questions whether it i…
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At least 48 countries in Africa have national identity programs at several stages of development. The widespread effort to ensure that people can identify themselves stems partly from the low civil registration rates in many African countries, where…
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