Journal of Modern African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Modern African Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World edited by Valeria Fargion & Mamoudou Gazibo Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. Pp. 304. $155 (hbk).18
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Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller & John C. Yoder London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 316. $160.00 (hbk).12
Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone11
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana11
The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvii + 260.9
Citizenship as Political Lens: Laws, Loss, and Lived Experiences of Belonging in Africa - Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging by Bronwen Manby Oxford: Hart, 2018. Pp. 416. $130 (hbk) $79.45 (p8
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)8
Memories of Africa: home and abroad in the United States by Toyin Falola Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. 256. $99.00 (hbk), $30.00 (pbk); https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/978148
The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi7
Good Governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by Portia Roelofs Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix+335. US$99.99 (hbk).7
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition7
Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $100 (hbk).6
Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections6
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica and Afroasia by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 301. $35.00 (hbk).6
Divided by the Word: colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities by Jochen S. Arndt Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45 (hbk).6
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African Military Politics in the Sahel. Regional Organizations and International Politics by Katharina P. W. Döring Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 265 pp., 85£ (hb), ISBN: 97810095
Researching Africa and the offshore world5
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity4
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Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa by Peer Schouten Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.4
The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $95 (hbk).4
Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).3
Conflict at the Edge of the African State. The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland by Lindsay Scorgie Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.3
Women and Power in Africa: aspiring, campaigning, and governing by Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 248 + xiiipp. Hardback, $98. 93
Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk). – ERRATUM3
Sacrificing environmental degradation and conflict risks for economic development: public attitudes to LAPSSET in Turkana County, Kenya3
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.3
Congo's Dancers: women and work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. xiii+201. US$79.95 (hbk).2
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge2
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Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime2
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Embodied Engineering: gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth century Mali by Laura Ann Twagira Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 344. $64.00 (hbk).2
Mugabe's Legacy: coups, conspiracies, and the conceits of power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore London: Hurst, 2023. Pp. 304. £22 (pb). ISBN: 9781787387713.2
Yearning and Refusal: an ethnography of female fertility management in Niamey, Niger by Hadiza Moussa Edited by Alice J. Kang and Barbara Cooper. Trans Natalie Kammerer. Oxford: Oxford University Pres2
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies1
State Fragility, Business, and Economic Performance An Ethiopian perspective by Belay Seyoum Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xiv + 465. €152.59 (hbk), €117.69 (e-book). doi: https://doi.org/10.1001
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Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana1
Theorizing in Comparative Politics: democratization in Africa by Goran Hyden Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii+186. £25.99 (pbk).1
Political trust and informal traders in African cities1
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: how the state shapes private governance by Shelby Grossman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 200. $77 (hbk).1
The legislature as political control: change and continuity in Cameroon's National Assembly (1973–2019)1
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide by Marie-Eve Desrosiers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii-386. US$ (hbk).1
Legitimising regimes and legalising self-defence groups: the case of Burkina Faso's VDPs1
Africa's Urban Youth: challenging marginalisation, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus & Megan Hershey Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 202. UK£25.99 (paper1
The Scare State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland by Noah L. Nathan Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xv + 313 pp. $145.00 (hardback) $34.95 (ebook). 978 1 009 2611
‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone1
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel Marie Niehuus. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. Pp. 201. $ 26.95 (pb)1
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Trade Makes States. Governing the Greater Somali Economy by Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat London: Hurst, 2023. ISBN 978-1-78738-705-8. Price: £22.0
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Street Sounds: listening to everyday life in modern Egypt by Ziad Fahmy Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $90 (hbk), $28 (pbk).0
Senghor's Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology by David Tonghou Ngong Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023. Pp. 176. $59.99 (pb), ISBN 9781481317795.0
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’0
The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: ecumenism, feminism, and communal practice by Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. x+232. US$65 (hbk).0
Understanding Modern Nigeria: ethnicity, democracy, and development by Toyin Falola Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 672. £74.99 (hbk).0
Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 418. US$43.99.0
Party ideology in Nigeria's Four Republics: a case of right-wing convergence0
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign0
The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia0
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When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal0
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France's Wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa by Nathaniel K. Powell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $99.99 (hbk).0
Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration0
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy0
Powerful Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare Devices by Abimbola A. Adelakun London: Rutgers University Press, 2023. Pp. 194. $125 (hbk) $34.95 (pbk).0
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Dress Cultures in Zambia: interwoven histories, global exchanges, and everyday life by Karen T. Hansen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 210; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009350310.0
Kwame Nkrumah: visions of liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $16.95 (pbk).0
Lessons not learned: Ten years of French military intervention in the Sahel0
Commissions of inquiry and pathways to accountability in Plateau State, Nigeria0
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta0
Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999–2023 edited by Wale Adebanwi. USA: James Currey, 2023, 464 pp. £90.76 (hardback). ISBN: 9781847013514.0
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Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 322. $89.99 (hbk) $29.99 (pbk).0
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement0
Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline0
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University0
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We are not Starving: the struggle for food sovereignty in Ghana by Joeva Sean Rock0
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania0
From dependence to conviviality: unaccompanied youth and host communities at the Zimbabwean–South African borderland0
Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk).0
Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa by Laura German Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 331, ISBN: 9780472075331. doi: 10.3998/mpub.120
The Security Arena in Africa: local order-making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan by Tim Glawion Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $99.99 (hbk).0
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. Pp. 362. $35 (paperback).0
Voting for war, to secure peace: weaponising the Tigray 2020 election in Ethiopia0
The Infrastructural South: techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization by Jonathan Silver Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 330. 6 × 9 in, 54 b&w illus; https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpres0
Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya0
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Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections0
China's Relations with Africa: a new era of strategic engagement by D. H. Shinn and J. Eisenman New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 251. £23.39; https://doi.org/10.7312/shin20
Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands0
The costs and values of life in South Sudan's militarised charcoal economy0
Populist parties shifting the political discourse? A case study of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa0
Architecture of Migration: the Dadaab refugee camps and humanitarian settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 432. US$31.95 (pbk). doi: https://doi.org/10.12150
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Woodbridge: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 2700
Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform0
A Tapestry of African Histories: with longer times and wider geopolitics edited by Nicholas K. Githuku Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 408. $125 (hbk).0
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria by Olufemi Vaughan Madison-Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 289. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 97802993445420
Against Decolonization: taking African agency seriously0
Business elites and the political economy of philanthropy in West and Central Africa0
Social media and parliamentary candidates in Uganda0
Belonging, Identity and Conflict in the Central African Republic by Gino Vlavonou Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 256, $88.95 (hb), ISBN 9780299345709.0
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: the pressure of being a man in an African city by Mario Schmidt London: James Currey, 2024. Pp. x + 174. US$36.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9781847013521.0
The religion of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel and the power of positive thinking0
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya0
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel by Leonardo A. Villalón Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 832. $165.00 (hbk).0
Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo0
Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics0
‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’0
The Ideological Scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945–1966 by Frank Gerits Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp xi + 304. US$64.95 0
Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918: a genealogy of colonial religion by Jörg Haustein Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. Pp. xvi + 435. $99 (e-book), $129 (hb0
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Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2024. $34.95 (pb).0
Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi0
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Every Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth Cambridge University Press, 2022.0
Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin0
Africa's liberation generation0
Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya0
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: family, religion and the state by Ludovic Lado. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2023, Pp. xii+161.0
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. Martin Plaut & Sarah Vaughan: Hurst, 2023. 392 pages. $34.95 (pbk).0
Apartheid's Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence by Faeeza Ballim, Athens, Ohio 45701: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. 159.0
Truth Commissions and State Building edited by Bonny Ibhawoh, Jasper A. Ayelazuno and Sylvia Bawa Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago: McGill Queen's University Press, 2023. ISBN 9780228018995. C0
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A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research0
Historical Dictionary of Niger (Fifth Edition) by Rahmane Idrissa. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 642. $140 (hbk), $133 (eBook).0
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The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia0
The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929 By Adam Mohr Baylor University Press, 20230
Shari‘a, Inshallah: finding God in Somali legal politics by Mark Fathi Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 391. £26.99 (pbk).0
Residual Governance: how South Africa foretells planetary futures by Gabrielle Hecht Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp.288. $27.95 (pb). doi: 10.1215/97814780272630
‘Assuming our place in the concert of nations’: Burundi as imagined in Pierre Nkurunziza's political speeches0
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana0
The Work of Repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa by Thomas Cousins Fordham University Press, 2023.0
Crashed Realities? Gender Dynamics in Nigerian Pentecostalism by Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 241. EUR 121.90 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-54570-0.0
A party with China: political party affiliation and perceptions of China in African countries0
Land Politics: How customary institutions shape state building in Zambia and Senegal by Lauren Honig Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 365. $29.99 (Pb). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1010
Children of the Soil: the power of built form in urban Madagascar by Tasha Rijke-Epstein Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. xi + 347. $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 978-1-4780-2529-00
How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa0
Undoing Coups: the African Union and post-coup intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt London: Zed Books, 2020. Pp. 296. $95 (hbk).0
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: literature, philosophy, and Nigerian world by Nimi Wariboko New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. Ix + 193. ISBN 978-1-5013-9807-00
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: spatial entanglements by Joseph Godlewski London and New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 312. 144$ (Hb), ISBN 9781032704043.0
Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal by Bernard Moitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. XVIII + 232, 99.20 EUR. ISBN: 9781009296441. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/978100920
Africa's Railway Renaissance: the role and impact of China edited by Tim Zajontz, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bagwandeen and Anthony Leysens London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xxiii + 258 + Index.0
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Constraining Dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes by Anne Meng Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 278. $105 (hbk).0
Africa on the cusp of natality – from Afropessimism to African becoming A Review of Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr's edited volumes: To Write the Africa World (Polity Press, 2023a) and The 0
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo0
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Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries0
‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks0
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Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa0
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‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone0
Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia0
A Court struggling for impact: complementarity at work in Guinea0
Multiethnic Democracy: the logic of elections and policymaking in Kenya by Jeremy Horowitz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. $85 (hbk)0
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties by Miranda Ruwart Melcher London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. pp. 246. US$103.50 (hbk). ISBN 97813504079300
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania by Hansjörg Dilger Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 226. $99.99 (hbk).0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow Oxford: OUP, 2022. Ppviii + 352. £75.00 (hbk).0
Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony by Shadrack W. Nasong'o London, UK: Anthem Press, 2024. Pp. 234 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978-1-83998-027-5.0
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Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa0
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar Es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 by George Roberts Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. XVI+336. 32.99$ (Pb). doi: https:/0
Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence0
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Historical Dictionary of Togo edited by Jennifer C. Seely and Samuel Decalo Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th edition, 2021. Pp. 467. $180 (hbk).0
‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown0
Unruly Ideas. A History of Kitawala in Congo by Nicole Eggers Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. xii+291. US$80,00 (hbk); US$34,95 (pbk); Open Access (https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/cgi/v0
Tensions in Sino-African labour relations: the view from the Karuma hydroelectric dam in Uganda0
The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya0
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Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies0
Development studies meet Pierre Bourdieu: the case of Chinese Private FDI in Zambia0
Exploring the impact of Chinese firms in the Ethiopian infrastructure sector: implications for local development0
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Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali0
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Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta edited by Joanne B. Eicher Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 330. $30 (pbk)0
Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice0
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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa by Stephanie Diepeveen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $110 (hbk).0
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