LONDON — Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country’s most ...

Strikes in the late-1970s left supermarket shelves bare - Ken Goff/Getty Images During the 1979 election, Whitehall civil servants prepared briefings for incoming ministers should there be a change of ...

As this column has had cause to mention in the past few weeks, the 2023 presidential election of February 25 in Nigeria, was a reincarnation in key respects of the 1979 presidential election that was ...

Nearly four and a half decades between Nigeria’s critical presidential election of 1979 and the no less momentous presidential polls of this year, many analysts have rightly noted the striking ...