Africa Elects is a pan-African media specialising in election coverage and socio-electoral data analysis. Together with our American, Asian, European and Oceanian sister projects, we contextualise the data for free for tens of thousands of followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Africa Elects’ work attempts to break the national narrative and report local politics from a transnational perspective.
A team of 14 volunteers runs Africa Elects. We reinvest 100% of our income into Africa Elects.
Our vision
For too long, racism, neo-colonialism and lack of easily accessible information have damaged the global understanding of African politics. We try to participate, to our extent, in creating freely accessible education materials and developing a pan-African democracy led by a politically empowered citizenry.
Our mission
We aim to make big data related to polls and elections accessible for researchers, journalists, politicians, and citizens for free and across borders.
Contact Us
General Inquiries: contact@africaelects.com
Editorial: tidsaleh@proton.me
Tidjani joined Africa Elects in June 2021, helping with the coverage of Mauritania and Western Sahara, where he's originally from. Tidjani joined Europe Elects in 2022 to cover Spain, of which he also is a national. He is currently studying Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. He speaks four languages: Spanish, Hassaniya Arabic, English and French. He became Africa Elects' team coordinator in January 2023.
Adรจle has been part of Africa Elects since July 2020, covering polls and elections in Rรฉunion and Mayotte. Responsible for covering France, she also is a member of Europe Elects, America Elects and Oceania Elects. She has also been covering Chile for America Elects between 2019 and 2022. Adรจle studies environmental policies.
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Li Zhi has been a part of Africa Elects since October 2022, making graphs as well as covering politics, polls, and elections in South Africa. He is currently studying political science at George Washington University.
Tobias founded Africa Elects in 2018, four years after creating Europe Elects. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication Science with a Political Science minor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Haifa University, Israel. In 2019, Tobias obtained his Master of Arts in International Development Studies in Halifax, Canada. He is currently working towards his PhD at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
Our Algerian correspondent has chosen not to be featured on the website.
Our Motswana correspondent has chosen not to be featured on the website.
Our Libyan correspondent has chosen not to be featured on the website.
Our Moroccan correspondent has chosen not to be featured on the website.
Since publishing polls or reporting on election irregularities is illegal in some countries, several volunteers have decided to remain anonymous or use authors’ names.
Africa Elects wants to thank team members who helped to build the project in the past:
Lucan Dylan Page (South Africa, 2020-2021)
Mathew Nicolson (English-speaking countries and Team coordination, 2019-2022)
Michael Fayรฉ (Rwanda, 2020-2022)
Mohamed Fuad (Djibouti, 2021-2022)
Mohamed Nour Jallow (Tunisia, 2022)