The ANC's proposed legislation would clarify the constitutional provisions that already provide for the government to take ownership of land, but not expand them. Ramaphosa and the ANC acknowledge that the constitution’s property clause already “enables the state to effect expropriation of land with just and equitable compensation and also expropriation without compensation in the public interest.”

With tariffs slowing U.S. trade with China, several countries are hoping their exports will become more affordable and that their economies will reap the rewards.

I co-authored an article on innovation in clean-energy technology in Foreign Affairs with my CFR colleagues.

At a moment of deep generational fracture, the political opposition would seem to be the least of Bola Tinubu’s problems.