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🆕Augustine Gyan explores the land disputes that arise as community members in Ghana work to protect their interests against mining companies, revealing why land digitalisation is unlikely to fix land governance challenges.
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📕Buyisile Ntaka describes Abu Bakarr Bah & Nikolas Emmanuel's "International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire" as a valuable examination of post-conflict reconstruction.
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📚Book Review Section
📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.
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9⃣ Promise Frank Ejiofor critiques Eurocentric views of cultural racism by analysing ethnic racialisation in #Nigeria. Arguing that it extends beyond the black-white dichotomy, he calls for a new framework to study ethnic discrimination in #Africa.
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8⃣ Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women activists in #Senegal draw on Islamic values to pursue secular reform through #genderparity activism while challenging patriarchal norms.
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7⃣ Edem Adotey reconciles two "contradictory" perspectives of the borderlands by historicising bordering practices based on people's lived experiences at the Ghana-Togo border.
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6⃣ Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou trace how shifting political regimes have prompted moderate versus extreme changes in agri-policy in #BurkinaFaso since 1983.
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5⃣ In the research articles section, James Boafo, Kristen Lyons, & Senyo Dotsey examine how donor-driven aid pushes #Ghana's agri-sector toward market-oriented reforms that do not meet the needs of smallholder farmers.
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4⃣ For our Analyse and Reports section, Humphrey Agyekum, George Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach & Alena Thiel explore voter concerns ahead of # Ghana's 2024 elections, revealing a disconnect between promises & voters' everyday realities.
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3⃣ Matthew Sabbi draws on cases in #Rwanda & #Ghana to show how Global South states use strategic ambiguity to navigate international encounters, offering a framework rooted in homegrown concepts.
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2⃣ Mingqing Yuan unpacks Deng Changwu's literary narrative “Feipiao” ("Drifting in Africa"), revealing how it reimagines China–Africa relations through personal & transnational networks in #Kenya.
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1⃣ Raoul Bunskoek & Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino introduce the special section on pluriversalism, exploring how African & non-African actors co-produce knowledge in #Rwanda, #Ghana & #Kenya, challenging Eurocentric norms.
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📢🆕New issue of @africaspectrum.bsky.social is out! Issue 60(2) features a Special Section on Pluriversalism in Africa, alongside research articles on elections, borders, gender, agriculture & more.
A thread 🧵
🆕Silas Udenze reflects on #Nigeria's #EndSARS protest on its anniversaries across 2021–2023, demonstrating how these carry distinct meanings that blend collective memory, unresolved challenges, and future aspirations for change and social justice.
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On #MandelaDay, we're highlighting THE DECOLONIAL MANDELA: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, which has a FREE TO READ introduction!
Read more here: bit.ly/40gt0bG
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#History
🆕 Romanus Aboh & Isaac Ishamali explore how young #Nigeria’s hip-hop artists use music as a tool of resistance to critique power, injustice, & systemic failure while voicing youth demands for social justice and change in the post-1999 democratic era.
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🆕 Kwame Adovor Tsikudo explores labour agency by examining how Ghanaian workers engage with their Chinese employers at #BuiDam as well as how history, socio-politics, and institutional dynamics influence a more balanced partnership.
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💭Have you been thinking of submitting a book review to Africa Spectrum, but are not sure where to start?
📚 Our brilliant in-house librarian, Christine, @giga-hamburg.de has done the legwork—check out the July edition of suggested titles for review.
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📈 GIGA Journals @jplaeditor.bsky.social, @africaspectrum.bsky.social, and @current-sea-aff.bsky.social continue to gain international recognition with rising Impact Factors. A big thank-you to our editorial teams! 👏
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📚Saefudin et al. review Giuseppe T. Cirella's "Uncertainty Shocks in Africa: Impact and Equilibrium Strategies for Sound Economic and Social Development," praising its contributions to debates on sustainable development and community resilience.
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🆕Raoul Bunskoek & Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino explore pluriversalism in Africa, highlighting knowledge co-production by African & non-African actors. Focusing on #Rwanda #Ghana & #Kenya, they challenge Eurocentric universalism.
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🆕Humphrey A. Agyekum, George M. Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach, and Alena Thiel assess voters' concerns ahead of Ghana’s 2024 elections, highlighting a disconnect between campaign promises and voters’ existential worries about the future.
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🆕Focusing on political regimes, Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou explain radical, pro-peasant, pro-business, & moderate agricultural policy change in #BurkinaFaso since 1983, highlighting the importance of societal influence & state adaptive capacity.
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We are looking forward to representing the journal at more such conferences in the future.
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She was joined by Joey Kok(African Studies), Justin Pearce(@jsas-journal.bsky.social), Bettina Engels(@roapejournal.bsky.social), George Bob-Milliar(African Affairs) & Stephanie Rudwick(Modern Africa) for a roundtable discussion on how publishers can address asymmetries in knowledge production.
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📰We are excited to share that our Co-Editor-in-Chief,
@maxinerubin.com represented the journal at the European Conference on African Studies #ECAS2025!
Alongside other #AfricanStudies journals, she gave tips for how to get published🌍📚
🆕Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women in Senegal utilise Islam as a framework to navigate patriarchal norms and advance secular change through #genderparity activism.
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Africa Spectrum's impact factor is at its highest yet - 2.2!
We're still tied as no. 1 African studies journal, and now we're in the top 10 area studies journals 🤩
Thank you to our authors, associate editors, reviewers, editorial board, and YOU - our readers!
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