A new Working Paper on party presence in Africa by Steering Committee members Matthias Krönke (UCT), Sarah J. Lockwood (Columbia University and UCT) and Robert Mattes (University of Strathclyde and UCT) was published this month. This paper titled 'Party footprints in Africa: Measuring local party presence across the continent', forms part of the PPA project and was co-published by Afrobarometer and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA).