My recent book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus argues for what political scientist Lisa Miller, in her review in these pages, dubs “aspirational federalism.” I like and will embrace this label.

Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972. He believed in a federal government whose job was to provide financial help to states and localities — and then to get out of the way. (Richard Nixon ...

To address these serious challenges, the more powerful Centre needs to engage with the states through the democratic processes of wide consultation, accommodation, compromise and self-restraint.

Professor Peter Ekeh contends that critical to appreciating the evolution and challenges of federalism in post-colonial Nigeria is the understanding of the disputes between the immigrant Fulani ...

Most of the 54 countries in Africa are unitary – the power to govern them resides mostly in a centralised government. Only Ethiopia and Nigeria are fully federal while others like South Africa, the ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during his 2021 inauguration. Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority ...