Before passage of the Voting Rights Act, an estimated 23 percent of eligible Black voters were registered nationwide; by 1969 that number rose to 61 percent. By 1980, the percentage of the adult Black population on Southern voter rolls surpassed that in the rest of the country, the historian...
Ambassador McCarter has tempered his language of American support to emphasize a robust debate with wananchi involvement on “which provisions to enact”. At the same time, three months now since the release of the original BBI Report and almost two years after the Handshake, it remains unclear...
As the participant explained: “You can't import American rules into Nigeria or Africa, just because we are not America. So corporate governance should be tailored to the modus operandi of the country”. This view confirms the concern outlined by members of the Nigerian business community in ...
African National Congress (ANC),South Africanpolitical partyand Black nationalist organization. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it had as its main goal the maintenance ofvoting rightsfor Coloureds (persons of mixed race) and Black Africans inCape Province. It was ren...