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Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Adam Moe Fejerskov, Meron Zeleke
The multifaceted notion of ‘returning home,’ and not least the dualities between expectation, anticipation and the realities facing migrants upon their return, is a key component in understanding E...
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Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Lone Riisgaard
This article explores the social protection coverage, needs, and preferences of informal micro traders in Tanzania. In particular, it examines the social protection models implemented ‘from below’ ...
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Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Benjamin Kirby, Erik Meinema, Hans Olsson
This article stages a comparative analysis of Muslim politics in coastal Kenya and Tanzania between 2010 and 2023. We explore parallels, discontinuities, and entanglements between different express...
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Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sarah Longair, Fatma Said, Stephanie Wynne-Jones
The House of Wonders (or Beit al-Ajaib), one of the iconic buildings of Zanzibar’s waterfront, partially collapsed on 25th December 2020. This catastrophic incident, which included the famous clock...
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Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930 Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Richard Waller
This article offers a re-assessment of Maasai history from 1800 to 1930, taking a critical look at both the existing historiography and the sources on which it is based. It examines how Maasai inst...
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“Little Dubai” in the crossfire: trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Katrin Sowa
Against the promise that new trade corridors in Africa lead to political stability and state control, this article presents a contradictory case. In the context of the implementation of the LAPSSET...
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Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Willow Berridge
This paper discusses the long-term history underpinning the tension between the “national” army and provincial “militias” that led to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023. Sudan’s Britis...
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Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002–2012 Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Michael Clarke Shand
This article interrogates place, process and people’s quest for enhanced welfare during the 2002–2012 global mineral price boom in northwest Tanzania. Mass in-migration of miners, traders and servi...
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Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Pamela Khanakwa
This article explores how the people of Bududa used culturally and spiritually embedded knowledge to tame extreme weather and ably live with the spectre and reality of landslides since the turn of ...
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Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Smith Ouma
This paper draws from two experiences with decentralisation in Kenya to illustrate the different ways through which the central government has sought to bolster its power at the expense of the loca...
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A non-event: ratifying the African Women’s Rights framework in Ethiopia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Karmen Tornius
Ethiopia, the host of the African Union, did not ratify the African Women’s Rights framework (the Maputo Protocol) for fifteen years. While realist, liberal and constructivist scholars have theoris...
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Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Bula Wayessa
This paper examines the effects of changes in land tenure on female potters in the southern highlands of Ethiopia. Communal land has historically played an important role in the livelihoods of pott...
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Military decolonisation and Africanisation: the first African officers in the Kenyan army, 1957–1964 Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Poppy Cullen
On 15 July 1961, the first eight African officers were commissioned into the King’s African Rifles in Kenya. This was very late to begin Africanising the colonial military force. The colonial army,...
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The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Diana Felix da Costa
The article offers a nuanced account of how identities are negotiated and contested in South Sudan, by focusing on how Murle and ŋalam identities were deployed in different ways in different places...
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From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond) Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Uroš Kovač, Anna Lisa Ramella
ABSTRACT In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, much future-making in Kenya is taking place in ruins of unfinished promising projects, failed capitalist enterprises, and decades of colonial and postcolonial exclusion and marginalization. When discussing future-making in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally, especially in the context of vision-driven developmentalist narratives that
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Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Sam Wilkins, Richard Vokes
ABSTRACT While the framing of the past remains a critical terrain of political discourse in Uganda, competing political visions oriented towards the future have emerged as equally salient as the country undergoes significant social and economic changes. Against the image of gridlock that characterises Ugandan politics after President Yoweri Museveni’s latest controversial re-election in 2021, the aim
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‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Flora McCrone
ABSTRACT The shadow of election violence has hung over Kenyan politics since 2008, when post-election violence erupted across the country. These events paved the way for major national reforms, including the devolution of central government, designed to counteract tendencies of ethnic patronage and violence. Kenya’s subsequent election cycles have not seen the same explosion of nationwide violence
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Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Moses Khisa
ABSTRACT Since coming to power, President Museveni has consistently stitched together disparate actors and representatives of divergent constituencies in his ruling coalition. This became especially necessary as his rule grew less popular and more precarious. This article argues that the nature of the ruling coalition reflects the structure of politics and menu of priorities for the incumbent. The
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Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Sam Wilkins
ABSTRACT In July 2018, the office of village chairperson (Local Council 1/LC1) was contested throughout Uganda in open elections for the first time in almost two decades. These offices, central to the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) famed decentralisation project in its early years in power, continue to have immense significance in the daily lives of most Ugandans. While their long-awaited re-election
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A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 O’Brien Kaaba, Marja Hinfelaar, Koffi Sawyer
ABSTRACT In this paper, we focus on the role of the institution of external and domestic observers in electoral turnovers. Observers have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly following their assessments of the Kenya and Malawi elections, for which they raised no serious concerns, but the polls were subsequently annulled by courts on the basis of serious irregularities. By comparing and
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Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Nicole Beardsworth, Hangala Siachiwena, Sishuwa Sishuwa
ABSTRACT The world is experiencing a new wave of autocratisation, characterised by a global democratic reversal. From 2010 to 2020, the share of the world population living in autocracies increased from 48 to 68%. Electoral autocracies are now the world's most common regime type, and along with closed autocracies they number 87 of the world's 195 states. Even during the height of the third wave of
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Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Gabrielle Lynch, Elena Gadjanovaa
ABSTRACT President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front used a range of incumbency advantages to tilt the playing field in their favour in the run-up to Zambia’s 2021 elections and, as a result, were more visible offline than the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) and its flagbearer, Hakainde Hichilema. In this paper, we draw on an original survey of party officials and activists
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Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Jeremy Seekings
ABSTRACT Might incumbency entail disadvantages as well as advantages? This article examines the performance of incumbent president Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front (PF) in Zambia's Eastern Province in the 2021 election. Eastern Province was a ‘swing’ region in that neither of the two major national political parties had deep-rooted support, despite Lungu's and the PF's strong performance in 2015-16
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The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Hangala Siachiwena
ABSTRACT This article analyses Afrobarometer survey data to understand popular attitudes toward the economy of Zambia amongst residents in the ruling party strongholds. The Patriotic Front (PF) won the most votes in urban provinces from 2006 to 2016 but crucially lost to the opposition in 2021 while retaining majorities in its rural base. Historically, opposition parties have won the most votes in
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‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Nicole Beardsworth, Samuel Kalonde Mutuna
ABSTRACT Presidents have access to a range of resources unavailable to challengers, and often the most important are derived from control of the state. This allows incumbents to build more inclusive elite coalitions, distribute clientelist resources to their political base and co-opt opposition politicians. Cabinet and government appointments are some of the most visible, direct and identifiable indications
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‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Sishuwa Sishuwa
ABSTRACT This article uses a longitudinal comparative perspective to analyse Zambia's 2021 transfer of power. The article takes the previous elections since the transition to multi-party democracy in 1991 as a body in which patterns of incumbency failure can be seen. It identifies five pervasive patterns that seem present in all polls that have resulted in leadership change or turnovers: a struggling
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Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Henni Alava
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of citizenship moods to analyse citizens’ emotional (dis)engagements with the state in Uganda. Through a reflexive analysis of ethnographic and media material from 2019–2021, we claim that around the time of the 2021 elections, after 35 years of rule by Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, the most prevalent moods among Ugandans were fear, contentment
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Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Anna Macdonald, Arthur Owor, Rebecca Tapscott
ABSTRACT What explains youth political mobilization in Uganda – or lack thereof? This article challenges the simple dichotomy of youth as either a dangerous or disengaged political constituency. Instead, we analyze the conditions that determine whether youth can coalesce as a politically salient category. For many, the outcome of the 2021 Ugandan elections defied expectations. A large and underemployed
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Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Emma Wild-Wood, Yossa Way, Amuda Baba, Sadiki Kangamina, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Liz Grant, Nigel Pearson
ABSTRACT This article explores the perceptions of COVID-19 among faith communities in north-eastern DR Congo and their intersection with public health responses to disease outbreaks. In a situation of a political and economic insecurity and significant unaddressed health needs, faith communities have a strong trusted public presence and offer resilience in the face of political insecurity, limited
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Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Timothy Downing, Daniel Olago, Tobias Nyumba
ABSTRACT Climate change will have differential effects on communities around the world due to different vulnerabilities. Two climate-vulnerable areas in Kenya – Mount Elgon and Mount Kenya – were compared in this study to see how their differing histories may have impacted their inherent adaptive capacities. A literature review was used to outline the differences in the history of the two areas, and
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Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Jannis Saalfeld, Hassan A. Mwakimako
ABSTRACT In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya’s coastal region saw the rise of Islamist activism(s). Revisiting this rise, this article traces the history of two contrasting politico-religious groups seeking to address the historical marginalisation of Kenyan Muslim communities: the Mombasa-based Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) and the southern coastal Ansar Sunnah movement. While the IPK accepted
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Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 David Greven
ABSTRACT In the course of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development plan, the Kenyan Northern Rift Valley recently became the playground for new stakeholders, interests and speculations. Large-scale development projects, such as the geothermal exploration in Tiaty East sub-county, is one of them and is described as game-changer in a formerly marginalized area. This article explores the case of Mt. Paka, a dormant
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Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Marja Hinfelaar, Lise Rakner, Sishuwa Sishuwa, Nicolas van de Walle
ABSTRACT Zambia experienced an episode of distinct democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021. Autocratisation resulted from the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to enhance executive power. Tracing key legal changes through legal documents, press reports and informant interviews, the article examines this recent episode of autocratisation as a consequence of a poorly institutionalised party system
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Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Christopher Day, William Moreto, Riley Ravary
ABSTRACT In recent years, several African states have increasingly militarized their wildlife authorities in response growing threats to protected areas (PAs) that come from a range of actors including hunters, poachers, and armed groups. As park rangers now face the overlapping challenges of conservation, law enforcement, and security in PAs, many are provided with paramilitary training, lethal weapons
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Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Wangui Kimari
ABSTRACT Building on ethnographic fieldwork and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, this article historicizes poor urban settlements in Nairobi as ruins – the product of systemic ruination from the colonial period to the present. In so doing, it offers the provocation to think ‘slum’ dwellers as relics: remains of past/present conterminous ruins who are treated as subhuman hauntings of a foregone
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The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Franziska Fay
ABSTRACT Up until the 1990s, the Two Fishes Hotel on the South Kenya Coast was among the ten major hotels in Diani Beach. Today, the consequences of capitalist ruination on tourism can be observed in the decay of some once prospering hotels along on one of East Africa’s most popular tourist shores. In this article, I engage with the ruins of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach by taking as point of
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In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Léa Lacan
ABSTRACT This article explores how local inhabitants living near the Katimok Forest in Baringo County, Kenya, engage with the traces of their past embedded in the landscape, and refigure them into politically powerful ruins. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, the study examines the traces left behind by former forest dwellers before they were relocated by colonial and post-colonial governments
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Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Anna Lisa Ramella, Mario Schmidt, Megan A. Styles
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new
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The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Kennedy Mkutu
ABSTRACT Rural parts of Kenya are undergoing or are expected to undergo massive social-ecological change as a result of the government’s ambitious development agenda driven by infrastructure and extraction. The pastoralist rangelands near the dormant Mount Suswa volcano in Narok, Kajiado and Nakuru counties have witnessed the creation of a modern railway and a geothermal project, and plans for further
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Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Julian Sommerschuh
ABSTRACT Why do members of a southwest Ethiopian ethnic minority claim wanting to ‘stop being Aari’ and ‘become Amhara’? Since the mid-1990s, ethnic-based federalism has led many Ethiopians to identify more closely with ‘their’ ethnic group. This article presents a contrary case: building on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss Aari people’s quest to adopt the pan-Ethiopian identity of ‘Amhara’
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‘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 Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Camille Pellerin, Johanna Söderström
ABSTRACT Taxation practices are embedded in a complex web of institutional and social factors, norms and values, some of which encourage, some of which depress tax compliance. Rather than simply constituting a revenue generating practice, taxation also represents a powerful tool to govern citizens. Studying the everyday practices of paying taxes means analysing how tax rules are applied, respected
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‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Julaina A. Obika, Patrick W. Otim
ABSTRACT The encounters between Acholi and Europeans, beginning in 1904 with the settlement of the Church Missionary Society in Acholiland, had a profound impact on the people. Scholars have long examined the impact of these encounters on various aspects of life. But a study of their impact on mortuary practices in the region has largely been neglected. Recently, scholars have shined a spotlight on
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The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019) Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Erik Gobbers
ABSTRACT The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held multi-party elections in 2006, 2011 and 2018. This paper highlights that ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province have been politically involved in the DRC’s electoral process. Such associations were originally founded in cities to organise mutual aid among migrants hailing from the same region. The attractiveness of ethnicity
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The leasehold system and drivers of informal land transactions in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Wolelaw Getahun Derso, Brightman Gebremichael
ABSTRACT In Ethiopia, informal land transactions are proliferating in urban centers and triggering wider socio-economic and environmental challenges in the sustainable development of cities. Taking the case of Bahir Dar city, this paper examines informal land transactions in Ethiopia in terms of its rule-structuring processes, roles of actors in the transaction, and factors for its emergence and continued
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State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Yidneckachew Ayele Zikargie, Poul Wisborg, Logan Cochrane
ABSTRACT This article critically analyses the history of the Ethiopian sugar industry, with emphasis on drivers, decision-making and processes of incorporation and exclusion aiming to transform lowlands. We argue that the government has used a state-led modernization and expansion of the sugar industry to consolidate the power of central governments. Through the creation of sugar-based agribusinesses
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Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Anna Adima
ABSTRACT Vibrant social scene, intellectual hub and diverse glitterati: this was Kampala for its beau monde in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The city enjoyed a liberal reputation with ‘rosy’ race relations, attracting thinkers and socialites from across Africa and the world. It was in this singular space that Barbara Kimenye, a Black mixed-race woman of dual English and Caribbean heritage, self-identified
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Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019) Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Hewan Semon
ABSTRACT This article contextualizes football fandom in Ethiopia during a period of increasing political dissent, drawing on interviews and first-hand observations as well as historical and contemporary media and academic sources. The analysis takes into consideration socio-political realities while presenting the complexity of identity and belonging in contemporary Ethiopia. By engaging with spectator
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Cuba’s involvement in and against the Eritrean liberation struggle: a history and historiography Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Gaim Kibreab, Georgia Cole
ABSTRACT The growing availability of previously declassified material on the Cold War has allowed scholars to revisit old questions with new, more decisive, evidence. In this paper, we draw on this archival material to address the unresolved question of what Cuba’s involvement against the Eritrean Liberation struggle consisted of in the late 1970s, and importantly why they engaged in this way, given
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The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 An Ansoms, Elena Aoun, Benjamin Chemouni, René-Claude Niyonkuru, Timothy P. Williams
ABSTRACT The article links policy adaptation in Rwanda to the wider phenomenon of authoritarian persistence. We analyse political decision-making and implementation in a variety of policy domains (agriculture, energy, and education) to argue that the reality of governance in Rwanda requires more nuance than what is commonly portrayed in the literature. Hovering through the past decade, we first reflect
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The 1958 cotton crisis and the advent of military rule in Sudan Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Harry Cross
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1958 cotton crisis in Sudan, an event that has hitherto been absent in histories of the country and the region. I present the cotton crisis as a crisis of capital during which political, religious, and corporate elites each struggled to regain liquidity and to determine the resulting distribution of money, debts, and power in Sudanese society. The ways in which each
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Mountain farmers and ecosystems: changing land use and livelihoods in Mount Rungwe, Tanzania Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Verdiana T. Tilumanywa
ABSTRACT This paper analyses long-term and incremental land use changes that have taken place in Mount Rungwe ecosystem in Tanzania from 1973 to 2010 basing on information derived from satellite images, household socio-economic data, focus group discussions and interviews with key informants. While most literature on land use change reports negative effects, land use changes in Mount Rungwe ecosystem
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Decolonizing African history: Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975 Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Benoît Henriet
ABSTRACT This article analyses the social and intellectual dynamisms of the Lubumbashi campus of the Université Nationale du Zaïre in the 1970s. It first highlights how Lubumbashi scholars participated in an early post-colonial attempt to radically transform the university’s teaching, research and operations, at the crossroads of intellectual decolonization and cosmopolitanism. These efforts both overlapped
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Editorial announcement Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Emma Hunter, Jason Mosley, Paul Tiyame Zeleke
(2022). Editorial announcement. Journal of Eastern African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-1.
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Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Aisha Ahmad, Tanya Bandula-Irwin, Mohamed Ibrahim
ABSTRACT Why has the Somali government failed to provide public order and essential services, while Al-Shabaab has had relatively more success in its governance objectives? To explain this variation in governance success, we offer a political economy explanation of wartime order-making based on the competing bargains that governing actors create to uphold their power. We identify two key political
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Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu
ABSTRACT Social networks such as Twitter are transforming political engagements in contemporary societies. Dominant literature places emphasis on the counter-hegemonic opportunities offered by social media in the Zimbabwean political landscape. However, there is a need to draw scholarly attention to how supporters of the ruling party, Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), are
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Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Alex Veit, Sarah Biecker
ABSTRACT Age-of-consent legislation serves to protect children from sexual abuse. In Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, however, the reform of laws against sexual violence has led to a criminalisation of non-violent and consensual sexual interactions with and between underage teenagers. These reforms have been inspired by evolving international norms, but discourses in both countries emphasised
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Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 David Otieno Ngira
ABSTRACT Plural-legal societies are often characterized by a clash between various conflicting socio-legal realities. This paper starts by exploring the various contestations in human rights and the clash between rights and moral values. Using fieldwork from the Kipsigis community in Kenya, this paper explores the clash between community customary value systems and the language of rights as contained
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The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta, Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Joanne Tomkinson
ABSTRACT In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the ‘great tradition’ in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia’s architecture. Within these stories we find two ideas in apparent tension. One is an attachment to state history as exceptional, unified and ordained by God. This is told through architectural
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Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 James Drew
ABSTRACT Kenya's drylands have experienced a recent rise in large-scale land acquisitions, including energy extraction and infrastructure projects. The “scramble” for land and resources involves a range of actors, including pastoralists, many of whom have attempted to secure rights over land in anticipation of new opportunities associated with future investments. Such “economies of anticipation” among
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Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions Journal of Eastern African Studies (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Ane Karoline Bak, Ole Therkildsen
ABSTRACT Revenue losses from tax exemptions have become substantial in an increasing number of African countries. We argue that, under conditions of democratisation and economic liberalisation, the growing use of tax exemptions is central to the supply and demand of campaign financing. This argument is explored in relation to Tanzania, where the abolition of one-party rule in 1992 meant reduced state