African politics continue to elicit profound interest within and outside the continent. In recent decades, the political processes of African countries have attracted global interest. This is probably due to the developmental and other crises facing the continent. This interest is once again aglow with a series of consequential elections coming up on the continent. Senegal led the race with an electoral process that was almost scuttled by Africa’s age-long malaise of sighttight syndrome in power. However, the Senegal judiciary showed that the African judiciary can help midwife electoral systems based on justice, fairness, equity, and constitutionalism. The election was also noteworthy as it threw up the continent’s youngest democratically elected president. The just-concluded elections in South Africa also proved that Africans are ready to challenge social, economic, and political challenges via the polls, with the result showing that the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority in parliament for the first time since 1994. The foregoing instances of recent successes of African countries in their democratic trajectory show that Africans are now ready to deploy elections as a reward system that can discipline members of the political class toward good governance. Beyond recent elections, the continent is still facing social, economic, and political problems. In line with the long-observed pattern of military engagement and transition in Africa, the Malian junta extended its transition term by five years. The malaise of endless transition has been a hallmark of military rule in Africa and observes only the hope that other military juntas on the continent will not do the same. This is because military policy on the continent has always been guided by the contagion. African leaders continue to be poor students of history as they continue to have poor governance, leading to poverty, underdevelopment, and even political instability on the continent. This recalcitrant approach to learning from history drives a new wave of military coups in West and Central Africa. Unfortunately, African countries continue to bandwagon their development priorities for foreign aid and foreign financing of some development mandates, but their leaders continue their rapacious onslaught on their countries’ commonwealth. The poor performance of African countries in terms of development requires continuous intellectual and policy engagement. The African Renaissance, as the leading journal of African politics, has been at the forefront of engaging the foregoing issues within the African political process. This issue of the journal continues the tradition of rigorous examination and discourse on the issues and challenges of politics in Africa. The issues covered in this journal include party politics, elections, national security, energy politics and policy, human security, secessionist agitations, knowledge production, Pan-Africanism, judiciary and the judicial process, e-governance, democracy and democratization, intergovernmental relations, human rights and rule of law, and healthcare and health policy. This is a collection of well-researched and well-discussed issues in the politics of African countries. The single recommendatory threat that runs through the articles in the issue is that African countries must revamp their political process to deliver development and set it on the part of sustainable development. These recommendations and other offerings of the issue have practical political and policy relevance that the continent needs during this particular period.