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#OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de publishing original research on politics, societies, and economics in Africa. Publisher: SAGE Journals. Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com and @marthacj.bsky.social Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
🆕Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa examines subtle #decolonial practices in Enugu State, #Nigeria, highlighting a decline in foreign name use & the revival of indigenous socio-cultural and spiritual practices.
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🆕Kevin Anthony Oduor, Martin Ouma & Edwin Abuya analyse how faith-based organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, #Kenya, ease the refugee burden on host states & communities by supplementing service delivery to refugees & fostering peaceful coexistence.
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🆕Taofik Oyewo Hussain examines #USAID's aid suspension in #Nigeria & #China's growing role, showing how Chinese infrastructure fills gaps but can't replace USAID's social sector support & recommends a balanced donor strategy to ensure sustainability.
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📕Book Review: Christopher Amos appraises Dineo Skosana's "No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa", highlighting its 'essential contribution' to studies on mining, land politics, environmental justice, & resistance in Africa.
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🎉Congrats to Victor Agboga, who received an honourable mention from the African Politics Conference Group for his dissertation, "Where do your loyalties lie? Party Switching & Voters' Response in Nigeria".
Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930
🆕Vlastimil Fiala & @lucietungul.bsky.social investigate presidential constitutional engineering in Sub-Saharan #Africa, classifying how leaders manipulate term limits, change electoral systems & candidacy rules to retain power through legal constitutional means.
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📕Martial Fanga Agbor reviews "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa" by @msobelcohen.bsky.social & Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, describing it as a compelling examination of the media landscapes in Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya.
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🆕 Eyo Mensah et al. explore how heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern #Nigeria use praise names to navigate gender boundaries - sometimes reinforcing, other times resisting patriarchy - while shaping self-worth, visibility, and social identity.
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➡️Did you know? We have a Book Review Newsletter webpage, where you can easily browse past editions!🤓
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Check out Africa Spectrum's latest issue! Everything is open access, which means you can read it for free and (hopefully) share widely 😉📩
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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.
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🆕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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