Fans return to some sports venues, U.S. Open tennis is underway, the NBA is in playoff mode, big putts for a big golf finish, a teen tops his elders as older golfers get new opportunities, Tour de France cycling and another Formula One win for a perennial champion.

In this episode of Straight Talk Africa, guest-host Vincent Makori has an in depth discussion on the presidential elections in Malawi and South Africa. He is joined by Lazarus Chakwera Malawi’s main opposition leader, Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, professor at the Department of African Studies of Howard University and Paul Nantulya, researcher at the National Defense University’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

We are live. In Extra Time Shaka answers your questions about politics in Africa.

In this episode of Straight Talk Africa, host Shaka Ssali interviews the Prime Minister of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga. Buganda is a subnational kingdom with 6 million citizens, in the central region of Uganda, including the capital, Kampala. Since 1993, Buganda is considered a kingdom monarchy with a large degree of autonomy from the Ugandan government. The head of Buganda's government is the Prime Minister or "Katikkiro" who was appointed by the current head of state or king in 2013.

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We are live. In Extra Time Shaka answers your questions about politics in Africa.

In this episode of Straight Talk Africa guest-host Vincent Makori examines the role and influence of the African diaspora. He is joined by Yetunde Odugbesan-Omede,

Visiting Professor of Global Affairs and Politics at Farmingdale State College and Vice Chair of Leadership of the United People for African Congress, Emira Woods of Africans Rising for Justice Peace and Dignity and Gizaw Legesse founding member of Vision Ethiopia.

Vincent Makori joins Paul Ndiho and answers viewer questions about politics in Africa on Shaka: Extra Time. They talk about the need for strong institutions in building a democracy, the challenges Ethiopia is facing, the elections in Malawi and how the job of a journalist is to tell the story of the moment.

In this episode of Straight Talk Africa host Shaka Ssali discusses the upcoming elections in Malawi on May 21st. He is joined, from Lilongwe, by Sangwani Mwafulirwa Director of Media and Public Relations of the Malawi Electoral Commission and in studio by Janet Zeenat Karim, Former Diplomat with the Permanent Mission of Republic of Malawi at the United Nations and Limbani Kamanga, Program Manager of The Grassroot Project.

We are live. In Extra Time Shaka answers your questions about politics in Africa.

In this episode of Straight Talk Africa host Shaka Ssali takes a look at the elections in South Africa. He is joined in studio by Ndaba Mandela, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation and grandson of Nelson Mandela, Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, Professor of African Studies at Howard University and from Johannesburg by Anita Powell, Correspondent of the Voice of America.