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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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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
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana15
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 (p13
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition13
The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvii + 260.13
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/9781413
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)10
The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi10
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica and Afroasia by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 301. $35.00 (hbk).9
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).9
MOA volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Back matter8
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).7
Compounding the peasant struggles: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers’ adaptation to climate change6
Researching Africa and the offshore world6
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).5
When the cross-border remittance system fails: the impact of COVID-19 regulations on the food provision and access for cross-border migrant households in north-western Zimbabwe5
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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
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity5
Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).4
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. 94
Conflict at the Edge of the African State. The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland by Lindsay Scorgie Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.4
Mugabe's Legacy: coups, conspiracies, and the conceits of power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore London: Hurst, 2023. Pp. 304. £22 (pb). ISBN: 9781787387713.4
Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa by Peer Schouten Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.4
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.4
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 Pres4
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).3
Sacrificing environmental degradation and conflict risks for economic development: public attitudes to LAPSSET in Turkana County, Kenya3
Between the ghetto and the establishment: Bobi Wine, Uganda’s NUP and the challenges of movement-to-party transition in an electoral autocracy3
MOA volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge3
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Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by Nathanael J. Homewood. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp. viii + 281. Paperback. ISBN: 3
Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime3
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 (paper2
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies2
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 2612
Political trust and informal traders in African cities2
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
Insurgent Nations: Rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan by Paula Cristina Roque. London: Hurst & Company, 2024. Pp. xv+372. £22 (sbk). ISBN: 9781787389434.2
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/10.1002
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).2
Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 284. $28.95 (Pb), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/97814780598201
MOA volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Theorizing in Comparative Politics: democratization in Africa by Goran Hyden Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii+186. £25.99 (pbk).1
Legitimising regimes and legalising self-defence groups: the case of Burkina Faso's VDPs1
‘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
Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana1
Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow Oxford: OUP, 2022. Ppviii + 352. £75.00 (hbk).1
Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970–2023 by Frédérick Madore Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii + 259. €79.99 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
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta1
Africa's liberation generation1
The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya0
Party ideology in Nigeria's Four Republics: a case of right-wing convergence0
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
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Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo0
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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
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana0
The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia0
Multiethnic Democracy: the logic of elections and policymaking in Kenya by Jeremy Horowitz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. $85 (hbk)0
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
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
Development studies meet Pierre Bourdieu: the case of Chinese Private FDI in Zambia0
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
Review of: A.A. LaRocco, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana Ohio University Press, 2024, 408 pp., $34.95 (Pb.), ISBN: 9780896803343.0
Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana by Ernest Harsch Athens: Ohio University Press, 2024, 380 pp., 36.95 $ (Pb), ISBN 97808968034420
The roots of political transformation in Ethiopia: a review essay - ‘Ethiopia’s Developmental State: Political Order and Distributive Crisis’, by Tom Lavers, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 116.71 0
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
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania–ADDENDUM0
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Tensions in Sino-African labour relations: the view from the Karuma hydroelectric dam in Uganda0
Fashioning inland communities: Trade and popular culture in Central East Africa by Yaari Felber-Seligman Madison: University Wisconsin Press, 2025. Pp.308. $89.95. hardback (ISBN: 9780299350406)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
MOA volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Against Decolonization: taking African agency seriously0
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Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya0
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
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Exploring the impact of Chinese firms in the Ethiopian infrastructure sector: implications for local development0
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Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform0
Understanding Modern Nigeria: ethnicity, democracy, and development by Toyin Falola Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 672. £74.99 (hbk).0
Apartheid's Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence by Faeeza Ballim, Athens, Ohio 45701: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. 159.0
Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya0
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University0
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The overthrow of Robert Mugabe: gender, coups and diplomats by Blessing-Miles Tendi Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, Pp. ix + 282. UK£ 30.00 (hbk).0
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
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence 1964–1979 by Charles G. Thomas Ohio University Press, Athens, 2024. Pp. vii–xv, 282. ISBN 978-0-8214-2458-6, Price: $34.950
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
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Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries0
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. Martin Plaut & Sarah Vaughan: Hurst, 2023. 392 pages. $34.95 (pbk).0
Africanfuturism: African imaginings of other times, spaces, and worlds by Kimberly Cleveland Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024. Pp. v+200. US$29.95.0
Shari‘a, Inshallah: finding God in Somali legal politics by Mark Fathi Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 391. £26.99 (pbk).0
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
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Woodbridge: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 2700
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
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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
Voting for war, to secure peace: weaponising the Tigray 2020 election in Ethiopia0
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel by Leonardo A. Villalón Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 832. $165.00 (hbk).0
‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone0
ZANU-PF, FAZ and the politics of hybrid governance in Gutu District in Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections0
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The religion of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel and the power of positive thinking0
Subnational ethnic conflict: the case of the African Great Lakes Region0
Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi0
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya0
Review of Daniel K. Thompson, Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands, Cambridge University Press, 2025, €105.04 (Hb), ISBN: 97810095562860
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar Es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 by George Roberts Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. XVI+336. 32.99$ (Pb). doi: https:/0
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya by Emma Park Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2024. xv + 282 pp. US$28.95 (pbk).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
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement0
The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise by Pritish Behuria Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. xviii + 351.0
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Every Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth Cambridge University Press, 2022.0
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
Colin Leys, Norman Leys & Settler Colonialism in Kenya, with a foreword by Paul Gilroy Dagenham: Merlin Press, 2025. Pp. v + 200. L9.99 (pbk). ISBN 97808503679660
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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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
Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections0
Business elites and the political economy of philanthropy in West and Central Africa0
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror by Samar Al-Bulushi. Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp. ix + 274. US$29.00 (pb).0
A party with China: political party affiliation and perceptions of China in African countries0
Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin0
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Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections, and Mobility in Central Africa by Gillian Mathys Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. xviii + 378, £105.00 (Hb), ISBN: 90
Historical Dictionary of Togo edited by Jennifer C. Seely and Samuel Decalo Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th edition, 2021. Pp. 467. $180 (hbk).0
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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The Work of Repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa by Thomas Cousins Fordham University Press, 2023.0
Money, value and the state. Sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa - Kevin P. Donovan (2024), Money, value, and the state. Sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa. Cambridge University Press. 0
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’0
The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa: Cuba and the independence war in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde by Víctor Dreke Cruz (Commander ‘Moja’) New York: Pathfinder Press, 2025. Pp. 176. US$12 0
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding by Shelley Liu New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. vi + 321. US$30.99 (pbk), $105 (hbk).0
Beyond the urban–rural divide: urban duration, rural connections, and sociopolitical (re)orientation in Kenya0
Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics0
Review of Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice (London; Zed, 2024, 27.00$ (Hb), ISBN: 97813503338020
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When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal0
Lessons not learned: Ten years of French military intervention in the Sahel0
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania0
Coercion, co-optation and kinship: Uganda’s militarised family state - ‘Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control’, by Moses Khisa , ed. Zed Books, 2024, $130.000
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign0
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
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy0
Social media and parliamentary candidates in Uganda0
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
Review of Celina de Sá, Diaspora without Displacement by The Coloniality & Promise of Capoeira in Senegal. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2025, 268 pp., $29.95 (Pb), ISBN: 978-1-4780-0
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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
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Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa0
The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia0
Review of Africa and the Olympics. Winning Away from the Podium by Todd Cleveland Ohio University Press and London: Duke University Press, 2024. 208 Pages, $34.95 (Pb), ISBN: 9780896803527.0
The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929 By Adam Mohr Baylor University Press, 20230
Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands0
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. Pp. 362. $35 (paperback).0
A Court struggling for impact: complementarity at work in Guinea0
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
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
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
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
Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic State of Gajaaga by Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-009-28234-5. Price: 35€0
Manhood, money and survival: rethinking child soldiers in Somalia0
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa by Daren E. Ray Athens: Ohio University Press, 2024, Pp. 329, $36.95 (Pb), ISBN: 97808214261350
We are not Starving: the struggle for food sovereignty in Ghana by Joeva Sean Rock0
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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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
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
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo0
Examining convergence and divergence in the fighting patterns of Islamic State-aligned jihadist groups in the wider Sahel0
The costs and values of life in South Sudan's militarised charcoal economy0
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
Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 418. US$43.99.0
Curating the Colonial Past: The “Migrated Archives” and the Struggle for Kenya’s History by Riley Linebaugh, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025. 320 pp.0
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
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
Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa0
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
Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice0
A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research0
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
Long shadow of the ‘maquis’: discursive practices surrounding Cameroon’s hidden war0
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 5 by Ulf Engel (ed.) Leiden/Boston, Brill 2025, 94.34 € (Hb), ISBN 978-90-04-75071-50
Understanding foreign policy through political settlements: insights from Tanzania0
Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty by Delia Duong B. Wendel Duke University Press, 2025, 456 pp., $36.95 (Pb), DOI: 10.1215/97814780613110
Review of Niger Delta: The Business of the Oil Curse by Marc-Antoine Perouse De Montclos. Boston: Brill, 2024, €139.92 (Hb), ISBN: 97890046973480
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The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: spatial entanglements by Joseph Godlewski London and New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 312. 144$ (Hb), ISBN 9781032704043.0
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria by Wale Adebanwi DOI:10.2307/jj.15369554 Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024. Pp. lvii+0
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