Academics sometimes call the form of government Cleisthenes established isonomy (meaning a government of equals) because it would take until the time of Pericles before democracy really came into own.

In 551 BC, the famous Chinese Scholar Confucius was born. Probably writing around the same time as Cleisthenes brought democracy to Athens, Confucius died in 479 BC, a year before the Battle of ...

But, while we might say that our East African politicians are true to the vision of Cleisthenes (the ‘Father of Democracy’), we might say that politicians in the countries from which the ...