No Separation: Can the Church Calm the Crisis in Burundi?
The importance of churches across much of sub-Saharan Africa as sites of social gathering, public service provision, and ideational leadership cannot be underestimated.
Rachel Beatty Riedl
Rachel Beatty Riedl is an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project. She is the author of Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa.