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 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.
The importance of churches across much of sub-Saharan Africa as sites of social gathering, public service provision, and ideational leadership cannot be underestimated.