African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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Lesotho’s tenth general election, held on 7 October 2022, swept away the incumbent government of Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro, replacing it with a three-party coalition headed by the newly formed Revolution for Prosperity Party (rfp). Led by Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane, who is described as a ‘millionaire’ and the country’s richest person, the rfp had been launched in March 2022, Matekane claiming that he was entering politics to end corruption, tackle economic recession, and ‘Make Lesotho Great Again’. The election, which had been prefaced by bitter in-fighting within the All Basotho Convention (abc), saw the defeat of many established politicians, and was heralded by optimists as inaugurating a shift away from Lesotho’s faction-ridden politics towards a new era of stability and development.