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Mo Ibrahim addresses the 2017 Tutu Fellows and delivers the Kaye Whiteman lecture
2017 Tutu Fellowships On Thursday, 14 September, Mo Ibrahim addressed the 2017 Tutu Fellows on the leadership challenges of Africa. Mo touched on questions from the Fellows on his life as a businessman as well as the work of the Foundation. He answered three main questions: Is democracy essential for development? Currently a… Read more
Horst Köhler joins the Prize Committee
Horst Köhler, former President of Germany, has joined the Foundation’s Prize Committee. President Köhler is an economist and politician, who served as President of Germany between 2004 and 2010.
Democracy Day 2017: what matters for African governance?
Democracy: a world-wide work in progress for millennia Some 2,500 years ago the Athenian democracy originated; the first known model of democracy. Many years and many leaders later, democracy is still a work in progress globally. Today’s world looks far more complex than the Greek polis – and so does modern democracy. However, those initial… Read more
Constructing the 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
The 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) is the 11th iteration of this Index. The IIAG is an annual statistical assessment of the quality of governance in every one of the 54 African countries, covering a 17-year time series from 2000-2016 inclusive. As the Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF), Dr Mo Ibrahim says: The Index… Read more
Youth Radicalisation and Distrust
7,000 young Tunisians have joined Daesh in Syria, constituting the largest foreign fighters’ group to date. My 22-year-old cousin could have been among them. He explained that while others have taken advantage of the political vacuum of the revolution, “I felt more marginalised”. Since 2012, Tunisia has projected into the public imagination a… Read more
Re-imagining Democracy and Life
The democratic governance system that dominated politics for the past seven decades is in a deep-seated crisis. The global experience now is of a broken political and economic system driven by insatiable self-indulgence and individualism. It has created an unprecedented ecological crisis – one that threatens not only the human race, but all life… Read more
Reading the 2017 IIAG results
To construct the 2017 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the Foundation’s research team collected 177 variables that measure governance concepts from 36 independent sources. These were combined to form 100 indicators, which are organised under the IIAG’s key governance dimensions: the 14 sub-categories and four categories that make up the… Read more
Measurement of government involvement in armed conflict in the 2017 IIAG
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) includes a variable that assesses the extent to which a government is involved in an armed conflict. The indicator Government Involvement in Armed Conflict, which sits in the National Security sub-category of the Index, is coded by the Foundation’s research team using the source variables Primary… Read more
Measuring Free and Fair Executive Elections in the 2017 IIAG
As Kenya’s Supreme Court set a new precedent by annulling the presidential vote held last August citing irregularities, a recurrent debate on democratic elections as essential ingredients for governance is accentuated. In the past decade Africa witnessed several elections, with peaks of 15 a year in 2011 and 2016. However, as the regularity of… Read more
Measuring international human rights instruments in the 2017 IIAG
The 2017 IIAG data will be released on 20 November. You will be able to download the Foundation’s report on our homepage and explore all the data for yourself with our interactive Data Portal. Human Rights Conventions: an indicator assessing the status of de jure respect for human rights The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human… Read more
