Content
July 2024, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 1-1 Correction
by The Editors - 345-365 ‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya
by Martha Gayoye - 366-387 (Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC
by Carsten Müller - 388-407 Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps
by Hassan Aden - 408-430 Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)
by Marco Roque de Freitas - 431-450 Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy
by Eun Kyung Kim - 451-470 Power in floating spaces and closed spaces: lessons from a Chinese volunteer tourism organization’s practice in Nairobi, Kenya
by Yi Wang - 471-491 Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania
by Aidan Barlow - 492-511 Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’
by Mads Yding
April 2024, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 175-195 Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia
by Yalemget Abebe & Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta - 196-218 Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya
by Karol Czuba - 219-239 Religion, healthcare, and social media use in urban Tanzania: an ethnographic study of faith-based organizations
by Mussa Said Muhoja - 240-260 Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections
by Nic Cheeseman & Karuti Kanyinga & Gabrielle Lynch & Justin Willis - 261-281 Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome
by Denis Galava & Karuti Kanyinga - 282-300 The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections
by Nic Cheeseman & Mwongela Kamencu - 301-320 Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections
by Ngala Chome & Justin Willis - 321-343 Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election
by Eman Abboud & Fredrick Ajwang & Geoffrey Lugano
January 2024, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Announcement
by Jason Mosley & Florence Brisset-Foucault & Paul Tiyambe Zeleza - 2-17 Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards
by Luca Ciabarri & Anja Simonsen - 18-35 The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats
by Antonio M. Morone - 36-57 Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia
by Chiara Pagano - 58-77 Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib, 2005–2020
by Luca Ciabarri - 78-96 Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement
by Ja’afar Dirie - 97-116 Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s
by Elia Vitturini - 117-134 Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community
by Anja Simonsen & Mohamed S. Tarabi - 135-154 Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy
by Valentina Fusari - 155-173 Amongst agaish: the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care
by Carla Hung - 174-174 Correction
by The Editors
October 2023, Volume 17, Issue 4
- 535-556 Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present
by Willow Berridge - 557-574 Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland
by Amina-Bahja Ekman - 575-593 Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences
by Adam Moe Fejerskov & Meron Zeleke - 594-614 Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders
by Sarah Longair & Fatma Said & Stephanie Wynne-Jones - 615-639 Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930
by Richard Waller - 640-661 Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements
by Benjamin Kirby & Erik Meinema & Hans Olsson - 662-685 Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania
by Lone Riisgaard
July 2023, Volume 17, Issue 3
- 363-383 Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi
by Smith Ouma - 384-403 Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda
by Pamela Khanakwa - 404-423 The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity
by Diana Felix da Costa - 424-444 “Little Dubai” in the crossfire: trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale
by Katrin Sowa - 445-465 Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia
by Bula Wayessa - 466-488 A non-event: ratifying the African Women’s Rights framework in Ethiopia
by Karmen Tornius - 489-514 Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002–2012
by Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Jesper Bosse Jønsson & Michael Clarke Shand - 515-533 Military decolonisation and Africanisation: the first African officers in the Kenyan army, 1957–1964
by Poppy Cullen
April 2023, Volume 17, Issue 1-2
- 1-21 The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76
by George Roberts - 22-39 The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya
by Kennedy Mkutu - 40-56 Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya
by Jannis Saalfeld & Hassan A. Mwakimako - 57-78 Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda
by Christopher Day & William Moreto & Riley Ravary - 79-100 Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo
by Emma Wild-Wood & Yossa Way & Amuda Baba & Sadiki Kangamina & Jean-Benoit Falisse & Liz Grant & Nigel Pearson - 101-120 Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya
by Timothy Downing & Daniel Olago & Tobias Nyumba - 121-140 ‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north
by Flora McCrone - 141-164 From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)
by Uroš Kovač & Anna Lisa Ramella - 165-185 Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm
by Anna Lisa Ramella & Mario Schmidt & Megan A. Styles - 186-206 In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya
by Léa Lacan - 207-221 Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi
by Wangui Kimari - 222-240 The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya
by Franziska Fay - 241-261 Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya
by David Greven - 262-279 Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda
by Sam Wilkins & Richard Vokes - 280-300 Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election
by Anna Macdonald & Arthur Owor & Rebecca Tapscott - 301-324 Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis
by Jimmy Spire Ssentongo & Henni Alava - 325-343 Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation
by Moses Khisa - 344-362 Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election
by Sam Wilkins
October 2022, Volume 16, Issue 4
- 515-535 Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies
by Nicole Beardsworth & Hangala Siachiwena & Sishuwa Sishuwa - 536-557 Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections
by Gabrielle Lynch & Elena Gadjanovaa - 558-575 Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections
by Marja Hinfelaar & Lise Rakner & Sishuwa Sishuwa & Nicolas van de Walle - 576-599 Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election
by Jeremy Seekings - 600-618 The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka
by Hangala Siachiwena - 619-642 ‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections
by Nicole Beardsworth & Samuel Kalonde Mutuna - 643-658 A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections
by O’Brien Kaaba & Marja Hinfelaar & Koffi Sawyer - 659-680 ‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election
by Sishuwa Sishuwa
July 2022, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 355-374 Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye
by Anna Adima - 375-394 ‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s
by Julaina A. Obika & Patrick W. Otim - 395-414 ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
by Camille Pellerin & Johanna Söderström - 415-433 The leasehold system and drivers of informal land transactions in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia
by Wolelaw Getahun Derso & Brightman Gebremichael - 434-454 State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation
by Yidneckachew Ayele Zikargie & Poul Wisborg & Logan Cochrane - 455-471 Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia
by Julian Sommerschuh - 472-494 Adolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia
by Bethelihem Gebre Alwab & Els Lecoutere & Nicola Jones - 495-514 The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019)
by Erik Gobbers
April 2022, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 181-204 Cuba’s involvement in and against the Eritrean liberation struggle: a history and historiography
by Gaim Kibreab & Georgia Cole - 205-227 The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education
by An Ansoms & Elena Aoun & Benjamin Chemouni & René-Claude Niyonkuru & Timothy P. Williams - 228-247 Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)
by Hewan Semon - 248-268 ‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
by Alula Pankhurst & Mesele Araya & Agazi Tiumelissan & Kiros Birhanu - 269-288 Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement
by Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma & Lungile Augustine Tshuma & Mphathisi Ndlovu - 289-308 The 1958 cotton crisis and the advent of military rule in Sudan
by Harry Cross - 309-334 Mountain farmers and ecosystems: changing land use and livelihoods in Mount Rungwe, Tanzania
by Verdiana T. Tilumanywa - 335-354 Decolonizing African history: Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975
by Benoît Henriet
January 2022, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial announcement
by Emma Hunter & Jason Mosley & Paul Tiyambe Zeleke - 2-24 The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia
by Julia Gallagher & Daniel Mulugeta & Atnatewos Melake-Selam & Joanne Tomkinson - 25-46 Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya
by David Otieno Ngira - 47-67 Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions
by Ane Karoline Bak & Ole Therkildsen - 68-91 Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia
by Aisha Ahmad & Tanya Bandula-Irwin & Mohamed Ibrahim - 92-114 Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya
by Brendon J. Cannon & Mikiyasu Nakayama & Dominic R. Pkalya - 115-137 Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018
by Tompson Makahamadze & Muluken Fikade - 138-159 Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
by Alex Veit & Sarah Biecker - 160-179 Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands
by James Drew
October 2021, Volume 15, Issue 4
- 527-545 Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi
by Prince K. Guma & Mwangi Mwaura - 546-567 Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia
by Mehdi Labzaé - 568-584 The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991
by Fantahun Ayele - 585-603 Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005
by Magnus Treiber - 604-623 The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict
by John R. Campbell - 624-644 How do I chase away this man? From Bosco to Dismas, unpacking the situated knowledges of MTN Uganda’s adverts
by Robert Madoi Nasaba - 645-662 Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs
by Roberto Gaudioso - 663-684 Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions
by Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Jesper Bosse Jønsson & Michael Clarke Shand - 685-706 Revisiting a colonial landmark: caravanserais as tools of urban transformation in early colonial Tanzania
by Andreas Greiner - 707-727 Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya
by Kennedy Mkutu & Marie Müller-Koné & Evelyne Atieno Owino
July 2021, Volume 15, Issue 3
- 359-377 The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park
by Daniel Mains & Robel Mulat - 378-399 ‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania
by Atenchong Talleh Nkobou & Andrew Ainslie - 400-420 ‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past
by Joanna Nayler - 421-441 When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists
by Allen Munoriyarwa - 442-463 Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania
by Charlotte Cross - 464-484 Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya
by Natascha Mueller-Hirth - 485-504 The strategic internationalism of Rwandan heritage
by Annalisa Bolin - 505-526 ‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69
by Jonathan M. Jackson
April 2021, Volume 15, Issue 2
- 189-189 Editorial announcement
by Emma Hunter & Jason Mosley & Richard Vokes - 190-213 Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa
by Anuarite Bashizi & An Ansoms & Guillaume Ndayikengurutse & Romuald Adili Amani & Joel Baraka Akilimali & Christian Chiza & Innocent Karangwa & Laurianne Mobali & Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga & David Mutabesha & René-Claude Niyonkuru & Joseph Nsabimana & Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka & Emmanuelle Piccoli - 214-235 The “Civilizational Project” and the southern Sudanese Islamists: between assimilation and exclusion
by Willow Berridge - 236-254 Dependence after independence: Sudan’s bounded sovereignty 1956–1958
by Moritz A. Mihatsch - 255-273 State identity narratives and threat construction in the Horn of Africa: revisiting Ethiopia's 2006 intervention in Somalia
by Katharina M. B. Newbery - 274-296 Language policy in public space: a historical perspective on Asmara’s linguistic landscape
by Sjaak Kroon - 297-316 Mobile hearings in the Eastern DRC: prosecuting international crimes and implementing complementarity at national level
by Bilge Sahin - 317-338 A common situation? Canadian technical advisors and popular internationalism in Tanzania, 1961–1981
by Will Langford - 339-357 Public letters and the culture of politics in Kenya, c.1960-75
by Daniel Branch
January 2021, Volume 15, Issue 1
- 1-22 Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators
by Mohammed Ibrahim Shire - 23-42 Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement
by Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer - 43-62 Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty
by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes - 63-84 Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia
by Marja Hinfelaar & O’Brien Kaaba & Michael Wahman - 85-107 Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014
by Martin S. Shanguhyia - 108-127 Revenues on the hoof: livestock trade, taxation and state-making in the Somali territories
by Ahmed M. Musa & Finn Stepputat & Tobias Hagmann - 128-146 Contested practices of trade and taxation: (in)formalization and (il)legitimization in Eastleigh, Nairobi
by Kirstine Strøh Varming - 147-167 Governing the economy: rule and resistance in the Ethiopia-Somaliland borderlands
by Tezera Tazebew & Asnake Kefale - 168-188 Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya
by Ong'ao P. Ng'asike & Tobias Hagmann & Oliver V. Wasonga
October 2020, Volume 14, Issue 4
- 591-612 Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88
by Sishuwa Sishuwa - 613-632 Interpreting contemporary Oromo politics in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach
by Terje Østebø & Kjetil Tronvoll - 633-650 Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika
by Stephanie Lämmert - 651-668 Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia
by Harald Aspen & Bedemariam Woldeyesus - 669-688 Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa
by Bram J. Jansen & Milou de Bruijne - 689-689 Correction
by The Editors - 690-706 Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation
by Wangui Kimari & Luke Melchiorre & Jacob Rasmussen - 707-723 War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi
by Wangui Kimari - 724-742 ‘Our time to recover’: young men, political mobilization, and personalized political ties during the 2017 primary elections in Nairobi
by Jacob Rasmussen & Naomi van Stapele - 743-762 Building a culture of resistance: securitising and de-securitising Eastleigh during the Kenyan government’s Operation Usalama Watch
by Tomáš František Žák - 763-779 Youth on the margins: criminalizing Kenya's pastoral frontier, c. 1930-present
by Hannah Whittaker - 780-801 “A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000
by Luke Melchiorre - 802-822 Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future
by Elisabeth King & Daphna Harel & Dana Burde & Jennifer Hill & Simon Grinsted
July 2020, Volume 14, Issue 3
- 375-395 Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects
by Biruk Terrefe - 396-412 The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning
by Eric Morier-Genoud - 413-432 Between grassroots contention and elite manoeuvring: sub-nationalism in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya
by Jannis Saalfeld - 433-454 One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind
by Paul Nugent & Isabella Soi - 455-472 Beyond associations: emerging spaces of self-organization among vendors in Zambia
by Lennert Jongh - 473-491 The Gaboye of Somaliland: transformations and historical continuities of the labour exploitation and marginalisation of hereditary groups of occupational specialists
by Elia Vitturini - 492-511 New wine in an old wineskin? Socio-political context and participatory budgeting in Kenya
by Kibui Edwin Rwigi & Erick Manga & George Michuki - 512-528 Agency in constrained circumstances: adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
by Marina de Regt & Felegebirhan B. Mihret - 529-552 Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935
by Daniel K. Thompson - 553-571 Militant Islamism and local clan dynamics in Somalia: the expansion of the Islamic Courts Union in Lower Jubba province
by Michael Skjelderup & Mukhtar Ainashe & Ahmed Mohamed Abdulle “Qare” - 572-589 Prosperity in a crisis economy: the Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993
by Nathaniel Chimhete
April 2020, Volume 14, Issue 2
- 165-184 Feeling the heat: responses to geothermal development in Kenya’s Rift Valley
by Lotte Hughes & Daniel Rogei - 185-203 Children of the revolution: the citizenship of urban Muslims in the Burundian decolonization process
by Geert Castryck - 204-226 ‘Sufurias cannot bring blessings’: change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya
by Samuel F. Derbyshire & Henrietta L. Moore & Helena Cheptoo & Matthew I.J. Davies - 227-249 ‘They just move in with relatives’: translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya
by Gerda Kuiper - 250-269 Forever vanguards of the revolution: the Uganda People’s Defence Forces’ liberation legacy, 30 years on
by Anna Reuss - 270-290 Refugees in uniform: community policing as a technology of government in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
by Hanno Brankamp - 291-309 ‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa
by Ngala Chome & Euclides Gonçalves & Ian Scoones & Emmanuel Sulle - 310-331 Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county
by Ngala Chome - 332-353 Bureaucrats, investors and smallholders: contesting land rights and agro-commercialisation in the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania
by Emmanuel Sulle - 354-374 Agricultural corridors as ‘demonstration fields’: infrastructure, fairs and associations along the Beira and Nacala corridors of Mozambique
by Euclides Gonçalves
January 2020, Volume 14, Issue 1
- 1-23 Revisiting colonial legacies in knowledge production on customary authority in Central and East Africa
by Judith Verweijen & Vicky Van Bockhaven - 24-42 Authority that is customary: Kitawala, customary chiefs, and the plurality of power in Congolese history
by Nicole Eggers - 43-62 Politics, prophets and armed mobilizations: competition and continuity over registers of authority in South Sudan’s conflicts
by Naomi Ruth Pendle - 63-83 Anioto and nebeli: local power bases and the negotiation of customary chieftaincy in the Belgian Congo (ca. 1930–1950)
by Vicky Van Bockhaven - 84-102 Legacies of Kanjogera: women political elites and the transgression of gender norms in Rwanda
by Sarah E. Watkins & Erin Jessee - 103-124 In search of chiefly authority in ‘post-aid’ Acholiland: transformations of customary authorities in northern Uganda
by Sophie Komujuni & Karen Büscher - 125-144 Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
by Kasper Hoffmann & Koen Vlassenroot & Emery Mudinga - 145-163 Locating the ‘customary’ in post-colonial Tanzania’s politics: the shifting modus operandi of the rural state
by Felicitas Becker
October 2019, Volume 13, Issue 4
- 565-583 Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management
by Daniel Mulugeta - 584-600 La Belle Époque from Eastern Africa: an individual experience of the “globalizing” world, 1898–1918
by Morgan Robinson - 601-620 Re-evaluating international observation of Kenya’s 2017 elections
by Thomas Molony & Robert Macdonald - 621-641 Water, sugar, and growth: the practical effects of a ‘failed’ development intervention in the southwestern lowlands of Ethiopia
by Benedikt Kamski - 642-660 Reproducing the state? Organising primary education between state and non-state actors in Somaliland
by Tobias Gandrup & Kristof Titeca - 661-677 Constructing citizens and subjects in eastern Ethiopia: identity formation during the British Military Administration
by Namhla Thando Matshanda - 678-697 Change and continuity in the politics of government-business relations in Museveni’s Uganda
by Roger Tangri & Andrew M. Mwenda - 698-717 Local power dynamics and petty corruption in Burundi
by Guillaume Nicaise - 718-738 Ethnic associations and politics in contemporary Malawi
by Gift Wasambo Kayira & Paul Chiudza Banda & Amanda Lea Robinson - 739-757 ‘Almost everybody does it … ’ gambling as future-making in Western Kenya
by Mario Schmidt
July 2019, Volume 13, Issue 3
- 371-388 Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
by Gianluca Iazzolino & Mohamed Hersi - 389-408 Imagined futures, mobility and the making of oil conflicts in Uganda
by Paddy Kinyera & Martin Doevenspeck - 409-427 Muted market signals: politics, petroleum investments and regulatory developments in Tanzania
by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Peter Bofin - 428-444 He who pays the piper, calls the tune? Non-African involvement in Sudan’s African-led mediation processes
by Allard Duursma - 445-464 Donors dealing with ‘aid effectiveness’ inconsistencies: national staff in foreign aid agencies in Tanzania
by Molly Sundberg - 465-484 The limits of Malawian headmen’s agency in co-constructed development practice and narratives
by Thomas McNamara - 485-503 Phone calls and political ping-pong: nodding syndrome and healthcare provision in Uganda
by Karin van Bemmel - 504-524 The Dats’in: historical experience and cultural identity of an undocumented indigenous group of the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland
by Almudena Hernando & Alfredo González-Ruibal & Worku Derara-Megenassa - 525-545 South Asian entrepreneurs in the automotive age: negotiating a place of belonging in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania
by Katie Valliere Streit - 546-564 A currency muddle: resistance, materialities and the local use of money during the East African rupee crisis (1919–1923)
by Karin Pallaver
April 2019, Volume 13, Issue 2
- 215-234 Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?
by Nic Cheeseman & Karuti Kanyinga & Gabrielle Lynch & Mutuma Ruteere & Justin Willis - 235-252 Judicialisation of politics and Kenya’s 2017 elections
by Karuti Kanyinga & Collins Odote - 253-271 Violence, security and the policing of Kenya’s 2017 elections
by Patrick Mutahi & Mutuma Ruteere - 272-293 Treacherous coattails: gubernatorial endorsements and the presidential race in Kenya’s 2017 election
by Elena Gadjanova - 294-312 Intensified local grievances, enduring national control: the politics of land in the 2017 Kenyan elections
by Michelle D’Arcy & Marina Nistotskaya - 313-333 Women’s political inclusion in Kenya’s devolved political system
by Yolande Bouka & Marie E. Berry & Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru - 334-352 Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
by Hannah Waddilove