Foreign Affairs

For years, Africans have been told that the gravest threats to their democracies are internal: fragile institutions, disputed elections, and the slow violence of governance failure, but a recent cross‑border investigation has torn that narrative apart.

When 23 year old Zimbabwean domestic worker, Fungai Dema first came to Botswana, it was not by choice. In 2010, Dema was brought to...