--- description: Jeffrey Smith is the founding director of Vanguard Africa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to free and fair elections and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jeffrey Smith ## Jeffrey Smith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close [_Jeffrey Smith_](https://twitter.com/smith%5Fjeffreyt) _is the founding director of_ [_Vanguard Africa_](https://www.vanguardafrica.com/)_, a nonprofit organization dedicated to free and fair elections and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa._ ## Jeffrey Smith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Dec 13, 2022 ### [The Strongman at Biden's Africa Summit](https://time.com/6240443/us-africa-leaders-summit-biden-kagame/) An invitation from Washington legitimizes both deserving democrats and dubious leaders like Rwanda's... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-smith/","name":"Jeffrey Smith"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-smith/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-smith/"},"name":"Jeffrey Smith","jobTitle":null,"description":"Jeffrey Smith is the founding director of Vanguard Africa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to free and fair elections and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-smith/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```