The distance between power and consequence

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The African Union’s decision not to intervene in Burundi’s 2016 crisis reveals a deeper pattern in continental politics: authority is often furthest from consequence, while responsibility falls on those with the least power.

From Burundi to contemporary debates on migration and xenophobia, leadership emerges less as a question of rhetoric than of who is expected to carry the costs of political failure.

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