Content
2017, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 3-29 The Power of Mixed Messages: Women, Peace, and Security Language in National Action Plans from Africa
by Heidi Hudson - 12-122 Review: Godfrey Kanyenze, Herbert Jauch, Alice D. Kanengoni, Masego Madzwamuse, and Deprose Muchena (eds), Towards Democratic Developmental States in Southern Africa (2017)
by Henning Melber - 31-53 Sustainability and Depoliticisation: Certifications in the Cut-Flower Industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
by Gerda Kuiper & Andreas Gemählich - 55-80 Renegotiated (Post)Colonial Relations within the New Portuguese Migration to Angola
by Pétur Waldorff - 81-94 Bob’s Out, the Croc Is In: Continuity or Change in Zimbabwe?
by Roger Southall - 95-109 The State of Electoral Reforms in Ghana
by Ransford Edward Van Gyampo - 111-116 Conference Report: Middle Classes, Protest, and Social Change in Africa and Beyond
by Antje Daniel & Florian Stoll - 117-119 Review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds (2017)
by Edlyne Eze Anugwom - 123-125 Review: Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2017)
by Roman Loimeier - 126-128 Review: Tony Karbo and Tim Murithi (eds), The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa (2018)
by Katharina Döring
2017, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 3-28 Land Reform and Conflict in South Sudan: Evidence from Yei River County
by Peter Hakim Justin & Han van Dijk - 29-51 The Making of Dangerous Communities: The “Peul-Fouta” in Ebola-Weary Senegal
by Ato Kwamena Onoma - 53-77 Resistance against Conservation at the South African Section of Greater Mapungubwe (Trans)frontier
by Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule - 79-102 The Institutionalisation of Power Revisited: Presidential Term Limits in Africa
by Denis M. Tull & Claudia Simons - 103-115 Mutiny in Côte d’Ivoire
by Rebecca Schiel & Christopher Faulkner & Jonathan Powell - 117-127 Press Freedom and Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment
by Raymond Adibe & Cyril Chinedu Ike & Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu - 129-131 Review: Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen and Rebecca Jones (eds.), Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian and Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
by Roman Loimeier - 132-133 Review: Anika Becher, Explaining Ethnic and Election Violence: Kenya and Malawi in Comparison (2016)
by Kristine Höglund
2017, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 3-32 Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi
by Eric Mutisya Kioko - 33-63 Land Grabbing and the Axis of Political Conflicts: Insights from Southwest Cameroon
by Frankline A. Ndi & Simon Batterbury - 65-83 Representations of Oil in Chad: A Blessing or a Curse?
by Seign-goura Yorbana - 85-99 ECOWAS and the Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia
by Christof Hartmann - 101-113 Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic "Survivalism" in the BBC’s Welcome to Lagos
by Aghogho Akpome - 115-117 Review: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life (2016)
by Ulf Engel - 118-121 Review: Roman Loimeier, Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa (2016)
by Heinrich Bergstresser - 122-125 Review: Dale McKinley, South Africa’s Corporatised Liberation: A Critical Analysis of the ANC in Power (2017)
by Roger Southall - 126-129 Review: Rita Kesselring, Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2016)
by Beatrice Schlee
2016, Volume 51, Issue 3
- 3-32 The Metastable City and the Politics of Crystallisation: Protesting and Policing in Kampala
by Joschka Philipps & Jude Kagoro - 33-59 Nigeria and Democratic Progress by Elections in Africa
by Giovanni Carbone & Andrea Cassani - 61-75 South Korean Development Cooperation in Africa: The Legacy of a Developmental State
by Thomas Kalinowski & Min Joung Park - 77-92 Investigative Journalism and Human Trafficking in West Africa
by Veronika Gyuracz - 93-105 Cows, Bandits, and Violent Conflicts: Understanding Cattle Rustling in Northern Nigeria
by Azeez Olaniyan & Aliyu Yahaya - 107-121 Democracy in Reverse: The 2016 General Election in Zambia
by Edward Goldring & Michael Wahman - 123-134 Conference Report: The Legacy of Armed Conflicts: Southern African and Comparative Perspectives
by Giulia Piccolino - 135-139 Review: Roger Southall, The New Black Middle Class in South Africa (2016)
by Lena Giesbert & Simone Schotte - 140-143 Review: Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu and Miranda Strydom (eds), The Thabo Mbeki I Know (2016)
by Roger Southall - 144-146 Review: Lawrence Hamilton, Are South Africans Free? (2014)
by Henning Melber
2016, Volume 51, Issue 2
- 3-14 Burundi after the 2015 Elections: A Conference Report
by Julia Grauvogel - 15-37 Exploring the Legacies of Armed Rebellion in Burundi’s Maquis par Excellence
by Tomas Van Acker - 39-63 Legal Loopholes and the Politics of Executive Term Limits: Insights from Burundi
by Stef Vandeginste - 65-78 Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi
by Filip Reyntjens - 79-91 Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Oil Revenues in Ghana
by Ransford Edward Van Gyampo - 93-101 The Elections in Uganda, February 2016
by Ryan Gibb - 103-115 Zupta's Next Nightmare: The South African Local Government Elections of 3 August 2016
by Ulf Engel - 117-130 History, Tyranny and Democracy in Zimbabwe
by Roger Southall - 131-134 Review: Luise White, Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization (2015)
by Tinashe Nyamunda - 135-137 Review: Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille, and Richard Rottenburg (eds), Emerging Orders in the Sudans (2015)
by Annette Weber - 138-140 Review: Benjamin Rubbers, Le paternalisme en question: Les anciens ouvriers de la Gécamines face à la libéralisation du secteur minier katangais (RD Congo) (2013)
by Katja Werthmann
2016, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 3-4 Across the Spectrum
by Andreas Mehler & Henning Melber - 5-28 Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession, and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia
by Fana Gebresenbet - 29-54 Informal Land Sale and Housing in the Periphery of Pointe-Noire
by Gabriel Tati - 55-83 Foreign Direct Investment and the Transfer of Technologies to Angola’s Energy Sector
by Albert Edgar Manyuchi - 85-95 50 Years of Africa Spectrum
by Andreas Eckert - 97-110 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Côte d’Ivoire’s 2015 Presidential Polls
by Giulia Piccolino - 111-124 The Eagle’s Nest in the Horn of Africa: US Military Strategic Deployment in Djibouti
by Degang Sun & Yahia H. Zoubir - 125-128 Review: Michael Walls, A Somali Nation-State: History, Culture and Somaliland’s Political Transition (2014)
by Markus V. Höhne - 129-131 Review: Leander Schneider, Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania (2014)
by Goran Hyden - 132-134 Review: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, and Rosemarie Mwaipopo (eds), Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production (2014)
by Katja Werthmann - 135-137 Review: Julia Vorhoelter, Youth at the Crossroads: Discourses on Socio-Cultural Change in Post-War Northern Uganda (2014)
by Mareike Schomerus - 138-139 Review: David Birmingham, A Short History of Modern Angola (2015)
by Jon Schubert
2015, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 3-27 Universal Rights versus Exclusionary Politics: Aspirations and Despair among Eritrean Refugees in Tel Aviv
by Tanja R. Müller - 29-48 Straining: Young Men Working through Waithood in Freetown, Sierra Leone
by Brandon Finn & Sophie Oldfield - 49-79 China’s and Japan’s Foreign Aid Policies vis-à-vis Lusophone Africa
by Pedro Miguel Amakasu Raposo de Medeiros Carvalho - 81-107 “Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa
by Bernard C. Lategan - 109-121 “Thousands of New Sankaras”: Resistance and Struggle in Burkina Faso
by Sten Hagberg & Janis van der Westhuizen - 123-138 Down to Earth Again: The Third Stage of African Growth Perceptions
by Helmut Asche & Marcus Leaning - 139-141 Review: Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly, Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (2015)
by Joschka Philipps - 142-144 Review: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War (2015)
by Jon Schubert - 145-147 Review: Abdul Raufu Mustapha (ed.), Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria (2014)
by Heinrich Bergstresser - 148-150 Review: Manfred Öhm, War and Statehood in South Sudan (2014)
by Katrin Seidel - 151-153 Review: Martine Guichard, Tilo Grätz, and Youssouf Diallo (eds), Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives (2014)
by Astrid Bochow - 154-156 Review: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson (eds), Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective (2014)
by Frederick Cooper - 157-159 Review: Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015)
by Reinhart Kößler
2015, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 3-29 “No die, no rest”? Coercive Discipline in Liberian Military Organisations
by Ilmari Käihkö - 31-55 Ready or Not: Namibia As a Potentially Successful Oil Producer
by Andrzej Polus & Dominik Kopinski & Wojciech Tycholiz - 57-71 Indigenous Knowledge and Public Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Munyaradzi Mawere - 73-85 The 2015 Nigerian General Elections
by Nkwachukwu Orji - 87-100 Why Corporatism Collapsed in South Africa: The Significance of NEDLAC
by Yejoo Kim & Janis van der Westhuizen - 101-111 The Use of “Community” in South Africa’s 2011 Local Government Elections
by Udo Richard Averweg & Marcus Leaning - 113-123 Conference Report: Neopatrimonialism, Democracy, and Party Research: The German and International Debate – In Remembrance of Gero Erdmann (1952–2014)
by Marianne Kneuer & Andreas Mehler & Jonas Sell - 125-135 A Backward Look into South Africa’s Future
by Ivor Sarakinsky - 137-139 Review: Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash (2014)
by Henning Melber - 140-142 Review: Klaas van Walraven, The Yearning for Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger (2013)
by Gabriella Körling - 143-145 Review: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana (2014)
by Nelson Oppong - 146-148 Review: Jenny Kuhlmann, Transnational Diaspora Politics: Cross-Border Political Activities of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom (2013)
by Brian Raftopoulos - 149-151 Review: Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015)
by Ute Rietdorf - 152-154 Review: Thomas Bierschenk and Eva Spies (eds), 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika: Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven (2012)
by Geert Castryck
2015, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 3-4 Africa Spectrum at 50
by Andreas Mehler & Henning Melber - 5-23 Tactical Communication: Mutiny as a Dialogue in West and Central Africa
by Maggie Dwyer - 25-47 A Future beyond HIV/AIDS? Health as a Political Commodity in Botswana
by Astrid Bochow - 49-64 The "Protests against Charlie Hebdo" in Niger: A Background Analysis
by Jannik Schritt - 65-78 What Is Nigeria? Unsettling the Myth of Exceptionalism
by Aghogho Akpome - 79-92 The Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Elections in Malawi, May 2014
by Nandini Patel & Michael Wahman - 93-94 Obituary: Gerhard Grohs, 24 June 1929 – 18 February 2015
by Dieter Neubert - 95-98 Review: Chris Alden, Sergio Chichava (eds), China and Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalists (2014) / Giles Mohan et al., Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development: New Imperialists or Agents of Change? (2014)
by Laurence Marfaing - 99-103 Review: Review of: Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights and Political Development in Eritrea, Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2014, ISBN-10: 1847010695, 223 pp. and Andebrhan Welde Giorgis, Eritrea at a Crossroads: A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope
by Salih O. Nur - 104-106 Review: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Political History of Guinea since World War Two (2014)
by Carole Ammann - 107-109 Review: Meredith Terretta, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon (2013)
by Sebastian Elischer - 110-111 Review: Devan Pillay, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Prishani Naidoo and Roger Southall (eds), New South African Review 4: A Fragile Democracy – Twenty Years On (2014)
by Ian Taylor - 112-114 Review: Joseph Patrick Ganahl, Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State: A Critical Analysis of the Political-Economic Foundations of Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013)
by Reinhart Kößler - 115-118 Review: Ian Taylor, Africa Rising? BRICS – Diversifying Dependency (2014)
by Johannes Plagemann
2014, Volume 49, Issue 2
- 3-26 Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines
by Jeroen Cuvelier - 3-26 Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines
by Jeroen Cuvelier - 27-51 Violence and Votes in Nigeria: The Dominance of Incumbents in the Use of Violence to Rig Elections
by Hakeem Onapajo - 27-51 Violence and Votes in Nigeria: The Dominance of Incumbents in the Use of Violence to Rig Elections
by Hakeem Onapajo - 53-77 Civil Society and Land Use Policy in Uganda: The Mabira Forest Case
by Patrick Hönig - 53-77 Civil Society and Land Use Policy in Uganda: The Mabira Forest Case
by Patrick Hönig - 79-89 South Africa: The 2014 National and Provincial Elections
by Ulf Engel - 79-89 South Africa: The 2014 National and Provincial Elections
by Ulf Engel - 91-103 Zimbabwean Politics in the Post-2013 Election Period
by Brian Raftopoulos - 91-103 Zimbabwean Politics in the Post-2013 Election Period
by Brian Raftopoulos - 105-112 The Demise and Rise of the Coy San, Review: De Jongh, Michael (2012), Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People; Glyn, Patricia (2013), What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers, Johannesburg: Picador; Myburgh, Paul John (2013), The Bushman Winter Has Come: The True Story of the Last Band of /Gwikwe Bushmen on the Great Sand Face; Taylor, Julie J. (2012), Naming the Land: San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi; Zips-Mairitsch, Manuela (2013), Lost Lands? (Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of Indigeneity in Africa
by Robert J. Gordon - 105-112 The Demise and Rise of the Coy San, Review: De Jongh, Michael (2012), Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People; Glyn, Patricia (2013), What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers, Johannesburg: Picador; Myburgh, Paul John (2013), The Bushman Winter Has Come: The True Story of the Last Band of /Gwikwe Bushmen on the Great Sand Face; Taylor, Julie J. (2012), Naming the Land: San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi; Zips-Mairitsch, Manuela (2013), Lost Lands? (Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of Indigeneity in Africa
by Robert J. Gordon - 113-115 Review: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity (2013)
by Tinashe Nyamunda - 113-115 Review: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity (2013)
by Tinashe Nyamunda - 116-119 Review: Sanya Osha (ed.), The Social Contract in Africa (2014)
by Damian Chukwudi Ukwandu - 116-119 Review: Sanya Osha (ed.), The Social Contract in Africa (2014)
by Damian Chukwudi Ukwandu - 120-122 Review: Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick (eds), Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing (2012)
by Sung-Joon Park - 120-122 Review: Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick (eds), Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing (2012)
by Sung-Joon Park
2014, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 3-25 Political Representation of Minorities as Collateral Damage or Gain: The Batwa in Burundi and Rwanda
by Stef Vandeginste - 27-54 Traditional, Democratic, Accountable? Navigating Citizen-Subjection in Rural South Africa
by Robin L. Turner - 55-67 The Efficacy of Water Treaties in the Eastern Nile Basin
by Wuhibegezer Ferede & Sheferawu Abebe - 69-77 The Crisis in CAR: Navigating Myths and Interests
by Ilmari Käihkö & Mats Utas - 79-99 Threats to Constitutionalism by Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
by Roger Southall - 101-114 Death or Dearth of Democracy in Zimbabwe?
by David Moore - 115-119 Review: Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa (2013)
by Reinhart Koessler - 120-122 Review: MaryEllen Higgins (ed.), Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 (2012)
by Thomas Klein - 123-125 Review: Roman Loimeier, Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology (2013)
by Bruce Whitehouse
2013, Volume 48, Issue 3
- 3-31 Insurgent Nationalism: Political Imagination and Rupture in Côte d'Ivoire
by Till Foerster - 33-53 Frames in the Ethiopian Debate on Biofuels
by Brigitte Portner - 55-84 Negotiated Peace, Denied Justice? The Case of West Nile (Northern Uganda)
by Artur Bogner & Dieter Neubert - 85-97 At the Margins of the Economy? Chinese Migrants in Lesotho's Wholesale and Retail Sector
by Sarah Hanisch - 111-120 Africa and the Middle Class(es)
by Henning Melber - 121-123 Review: Lorenzo Cotula, The Great African Land Grab?: Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System (2013)
by Kerstin Nolte - 124-126 Review: Richard Bourne, Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe (2011)
by Sören Scholvin - 127-130 Review: Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era (2013)
by Chris Saunders - 131-133 Review: Hermann Giliomee, The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power (2012)
by Adam Houldsworth - 134-135 Review: Christine Hatzky, Kubaner in Angola: Süd-Süd-Kooperation und Bildungstransfer 1976-1991 (2012)
by Reinhart Kößler
2013, Volume 48, Issue 2
- 3-24 Ominous Inevitabilities: Reflecting on South Africa’s Post-Transition Aporia in Achmat Dangor’s "Bitter Fruit"
by Aghogho Akpome - 51-70 Nigeria’s Quest to Recover Looted Assets: The Abacha Affair
by David U. Enweremadu - 71-83 Oil Multinational Corporations, Environmental Irresponsibility and Turbulent Peace in the Niger Delta
by Daniel E. Agbiboa & Benjamin Maiangwa - 85-97 A Critical Review of Environmental Conservation in Zimbabwe
by Munyaradzi Mawere - 99-106 Reflections on the 22nd Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD e.V.) in Cologne, Germany (30 May–2 June 2012)
by Martina Gockel-Frank & Michael Bollig - 107-115 Comparison Re-invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies (Conference Report)
by Franzisca Zanker & Katharina Newbery - 117-121 Not Studying White, Up or Down, but Around Southern Africa: A Response to Francis Nyamnjoh
by Robert J. Gordon - 123-126 "Poor Whites" Do Matter
by Annika Teppo - 127-139 From Quibbles to Substance: A Response to Responses
by Francis B. Nyamnjoh - 141-143 Review: Ulf Engel (ed.), New Mediation Practices in African Conflicts (2012)
by Johannes Vüllers - 144-146 Review: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (eds.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011)
by Jon Schubert - 147-148 Review: Derek Hook, A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial: The Mind of Apartheid (2012)
by Danielle Faye Tran - 149-152 Review; Ønulf Gulbrandsen, The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and Its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies (2012)
by Reinhart Kößler
2013, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 3-24 (Re)making the Social World: The Politics of Transitional Justice in Burundi
by Sandra Rubli - 49-70 Becoming Zimbabwe or Becoming Zimbabwean: Identity, Nationalism and State-building
by Alois S. Mlambo - 71-87 Serving in Africa: US Peace Corps in Cameroon
by Julius A. Amin - 89-105 Gender, Gays and Gain: The Sexualised Politics of Donor Aid in Malawi
by Emmie Chanika & John L. Lwanda & Adamson S. Muula - 99-110 The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe: End of an Era for Human Rights Discourse?
by Cornelias Ncube - 107-112 On Gaining Access: A Response to Francis Nyamnjoh’s “Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa”
by Andrew Hartnack - 113-116 On Agnotology as Built-in Ignorance
by Jean-Pierre Warnier - 117-127 Anthropology and Whites in South Africa: Response to an Unreasonable Critique
by Isak Niehaus - 129-134 The Value of Outsiderdom, or, Anthropology’s Folly
by Sanya Osha - 135-137 Review: Lisa Mackenrodt, Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania: The Jinn Fly on Friday (2011)
by Jigal Beez - 138-140 Review: Klaus Grütjen, Lokale Selbstverwaltung im Spannungsfeld von afrikanischer Tradition und europäischer Moderne: Dezentralisierung und Dekonzentration in den frankophonen Staaten Westafrikas am Beispiel Burkina Fasos (2011)
by Katja Werthmann - 141-144 Review: Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier (eds.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011)
by Oluwaseun Bamidele - 145-147 Review: Jutta Bakonyi, Land ohne Staat: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im Krieg am Beispiel Somalias (2011)
by Markus V. Höhne - 148-150 Review: Volker Matthies, The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire Against the Emperor of Ethiopia (2012)
by Tekeste Negash - 151-154 Review: Josiah Brownell, The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race (2011)
by Tinashe Nyamunda
2012, Volume 47, Issue 2-3
- 3-4 From the Editors' Desk
by Andreas Mehler & Henning Melber - 5-31 Deals and Dealings: Inconclusive Peace and Treacherous Trade along the South Sudan–Uganda Border
by Mareike Schomerus & Kristof Titeca - 33-62 Beyond Marikana: The Post-Apartheid South African State
by Vishwas Satgar - 63-92 Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa
by Francis B. Nyamnjoh - 93-110 The Force of Action: Legitimizing the Coup in Bamako, Mali
by Bruce Whitehouse - 111-125 Socio-political Turmoil in Mali: The Public Debate Following the Coup d’État on 22 March 2012
by Sten Hagberg & Gabriella Körling - 127-135 KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies
by Sverker Finnström - 137-155 Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria
by Roman Loimeier - 137-155 Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria
by Roman Loimeier - 157-166 “Green” or “Red”? Reframing the Environmental Discourse in Nigeria
by Akin Iwilade - 167-185 Polish African Studies at a Crossroads: Past, Present and Future
by Konrad Czernichowski & Dominik Kopinski & Andrzej Polus - 187-193 Conference Report: “Thirty Years of German–Beninese Cooperation in Social Science Research on Benin: Topics, Conclusions, Future Prospects” – Thurnau/Bayreuth, 8–10 March 2012
by Jeannett Martin & Laetitia Wayaffe - 195-199 Locally and Beyond: West African Land Relations and Global Citizenship
by Raluca Pernes - 201-203 Review: John S. Saul, Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa (2011)
by Henning Melber - 204-206 Review: Jeremy I. Levitt, Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta (2012)
by Stef Vandeginste - 207-209 Review: Steven Radelet, Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way (2010)
by Matthijs Bogaards
2012, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 1-99 Review: Andreas Eckert, Ingeborg Grau and Arno Sonderegger (eds.), Afrika 1500–1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2011); Arno Sonderegger, Ingeborg Grau and Birgit Englert (eds.), Afrika im 20. Jahrhundert: Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2011)
by Jamie Miller - 3-19 Multilingualism and Hip Hop Consumption in Nigeria: Accounting for the Local Acceptance of a Global Phenomenon
by Olusegun Fariudeen Liadi - 21-49 Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse
by Ole Frahm - 51-72 Land Transactions and Chieftaincies in Southwestern Togo
by Marco Gardini - 73-88 The Democratic Impact of ICT in Africa
by Alexandra Dobra - 89-96 Three Views of a Secret: Land Rights and the Constitution of Local Citizenship in West Africa
by Jean-Pierre Jacob & Pierre-Yves Le Meur - 97-98 Review: Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs (eds.), Encyclopedia of South Africa (2011)
by Felix Brahm
2011, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 3-26 Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta
by Edlyne Anugwom - 27-44 The Neglected Economic Dimensions of ECOWAS’s Negotiated Peace Accords in West Africa
by Kwesi Aning & Samuel Atuobi - 45-70 The Limits of the EU as a Peace and Security Actor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
by Meike Froitzheim & Fredrik Söderbaum & Ian Taylor - 71-75 Property and Citizenship: Conceptually Connecting Land Rights and Belonging in Africa
by Christian Lund - 77-81 Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya’s Arid Areas
by Clemens Greiner & Michael Bollig & J. Terrence McCabe - 83-97 Too Soon to Tell? Land Reform in Zimbabwe
by Roger Southall - 99-101 Review: Hérodote: Revue de géographie et de géopolitique, 2011/3, no. 142: Géopolitique du Sahara, Paris: La Découverte
by Laurence Marfaing - 102-104 Review: Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho and Anne Serafin (eds.), African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices (2010)
by Anja Oed - 105-108 Review: Peter Vale, Keeping a Sharp Eye: A Century of Cartoons on South Africa’s International Relations 1910-2010 (2011)
by Ian Phimister
2011, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 3-41 The Ethnic Politics of Coup Avoidance: Evidence from Zambia and Uganda
by Stefan Lindemann