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Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Amanda Lea Robinson
Chiefs in Malawi exercise significant authority based on legitimacy derived from the position's purportedly deep historical origins. But, does such legitimacy confer when a new chieftaincy is created from scratch? I address this question within the context of an ongoing cultural revival of the Lhomwe ethnic group in Malawi, which has included the appointment of many new Lhomwe chiefs and the creation
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The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Hangala Siachiwena, Michael Wahman
Zambia experienced its third electoral turnover in the 2021 election. While the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) lost votes across the territory, the electoral collapse in urban Zambia was particularly remarkable. This paper argues that economic performance voting can explain urban party switching in Zambia. The argument is supported by a unique panel survey of Zambian voters in the period 2019–2022. We
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Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Adib Bencherif
Jihadist groups have found a ‘safe haven’ in northern Mali. They have managed this by operating strategically to establish themselves and to develop relationships with local communities, but characteristics of the environment have also facilitated their development and survival. In northern Mali, the political landscape is fragmented, and replete with competition between the central authority and various
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Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Francesca Di Matteo
In Kenya, the return to the multiparty democracy of the 1990s and the initiation of the Constitutional Review of the early 2000s were two critical junctures that catalysed reform momentum and the development of transnational reform networks. Transnational relations were developed between Kenyan professionals (lawyers and academics among others), their international counterparts, and the local activists
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Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jackson Wachira, Paul Stacey, Joanes Atela, George Outa
Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of local actors, in this case, pastoralists in Samburu County, Kenya. Here, we apply the concept of ‘intimate exclusion’ and show that pastoralist elites' desire and ability to maximise productive and financial gains from customary
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Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Susanna D. Wing
While the challenges of family law reform and barriers to justice are widely studied, there is a gap in our understanding of the gendered nature of the use of courts in West Africa. Through analysis of judicial decisions in Courts of First Instance (Tribunaux de Première Instance) in Allada and Cotonou, Benin, this article examines how women and men use lower courts in family law cases. This article
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Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Fabio de Blasis, Silvia Pitzalis
The article investigates the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the global migration regime against the backdrop of the European Union (EU) border externalisation process in Niger. Over the last few years, UN agencies have been considered an essential component of the EU strategy to prevent irregular migrants from reaching Europe. Drawing on qualitative research and ethnographic
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Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Martha Wilfahrt, Natalie Wenzell Letsa
This paper seeks to broaden the framework for understanding the many different roles that traditional leaders play in their communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from an original public opinion survey along the Ghana–Togo border, we find that one of the most important roles of the chieftaincy is to maintain law and order: resolving disputes and keeping the community safe from crime. However
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Political trust and informal traders in African cities Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Danielle Resnick, Bhavna Sivasubramanian
How do cities foster political trust among informal workers? This question is particularly salient in Africa's growing cities where local governments must reconcile policy priorities across highly heterogeneous constituencies, including a burgeoning middle-class and a large informal economy. We argue that expectations about reciprocity and procedural justice shape the probability that informal traders
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Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Susanne Jaspars, Nisar Majid, Guhad M. Adan
Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how governance analysed as a political marketplace can help explain Somalia's repeated humanitarian crises and the manipulation of response. We argue that between
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Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Courtney Hallink, Hangala Siachiwena
This paper challenges existing analyses of party cleavages in Sub-Saharan Africa which over-emphasise the centrality of ethnicity. Parties express ideological positions that reflect the socio-economic interests of specific regions, which, especially in Zambia, coincide with particular ethnic groups. We demonstrate this through an examination of party manifestos, policy documents and semi-structured
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Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Abosede Omowumi Babatunde
The destructive impacts of oil exploitation on the natural environment, which the inhabitants of the Niger Delta depend on for their livelihood, pose major threats to food security. Environmental damage alienates the local people from their ancestral lands and erodes their sources of livelihood. This study examines the effect of oil exploitation on the local people's access to sufficient, safe and
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Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Jeroen Cuvelier
This article highlights the importance of studying the politics of time in the copper and cobalt mining sector of south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a tense coexistence can be observed between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and large-scale mining (LSM). It is argued that inequality in ASM-LSM settings not only manifests itself spatially but also temporally. Faced with an uncertain
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Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Louis Rice, Andreas Scheba, Adam Harris
In South Africa, informal rental accommodation constructed in the backyards of formal houses is the fastest growing housing segment. These backyard dwellings (BDs) are makeshift structures made from timber frames, metal sheets or wooden planks. Despite the proliferation of BDs, national and local governments have done little to improve the living standards of backyard dwellers. The research uses focus
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The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Bert Ingelaere, Antea Paviotti
Violence based on identity constructs reinforces the experience of ethnic boundaries as felt distance between in-groups and out-groups. But what makes such an experience of rigid ethnic boundaries fade or disappear, if anything? We examined this in Burundi, a country characterised by repeated episodes of violence between Hutu and Tutsi since independence. We analysed the waxing and waning of ethnic
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Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Robert Nyenhuis, Collette Schulz-Herzenberg
Do South Africans hold strong populist attitudes? If so, who is the ‘populist citizen’ and have these attitudes been activated in the electoral arena? In this article, we make use of 2019 Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) data to answer these questions. We find that populist attitudes tend to vary across levels of education, geographic location and racial groups. Given the constant supply
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‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Sukanya Podder
Drawing on empirical research from Pujehun and Port Loko districts in Sierra Leone, this article explains the variable pathways of civic activism mobilised by environmental advocacy, and legal empowerment organisations, in response to two prominent land grabs. By grounding the analysis within the ontology of place, this study examines the dynamic interplay between national politics, global corporate
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A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ane Karoline Bak, Vanessa van den Boogaard
As taxation has become a prominent issue on the international development policy agenda, a growing body of research has focused on taxpayer perceptions and experiences of taxation. A strand of this research emphasises the importance of the historical, political and social context of taxation. We position ourselves in line with this research as we pay attention to the emic definitions of taxation in
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Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Hye-Sung Kim
Communities inhabiting the arid and semi-arid areas of eastern Africa have long suffered from and engaged in pastoral conflicts. However, since some countries in the region became oil producers, the conditions affecting pastoral conflicts have changed. This study examines how oil extraction may influence pastoral conflicts by using a survey experiment conducted in Turkana County, Kenya, on a sample
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African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’ Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Peter O'Reilly
Over the last decade, a new developmentalism has taken root across Africa, centred on promoting local production and industrialisation. One unintended consequence of this has been the proliferation of economically nationalist policy measures that have increasingly come into tension with the aims of regional integration in Africa. This article sets out to offer insights as to why these tensions are
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Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Benjamin Rubbers
This article reflects on the effects of the recent mining boom on the (trans-)formation of the state in D.R. Congo. To do so, it proposes to integrate macro- and micro- approaches to the political economy of mining into a broader analysis of the power practices of actors at different levels of the state apparatus. Taking the copper mining sector as a case study, it explores the various means by which
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Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Alfonso Sánchez, Alvaro Fernandez, Juan B. González
Are conservancies hotspots for communal violence and if so, do rainfall anomalies increase the likelihood of violence? The consensus from a rich number of case studies suggests that conservancies (e.g. national parks, game reserves) increase tensions between communities, which often lead to violent conflicts. Yet, these insights remain to be empirically tested using a large-N study. We examine this
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Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Amalie Ravn Weinrich
This paper explores the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) citizenship regime by investigating the institutional perceptions of five departments of the ECOWAS Commission. Creating a citizenship regime has been a central objective of the organisation's institutional framework but previous research has refrained from examining its multiplicity. The paper uses the concept of citizenship
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The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Jonathan Jansen
In the heat of the decolonisation struggles of the 2000s, there has been little space or tolerance for conceptual criticism of this important moment in global history. Using the South African case, this article outlines some of the dilemmas of decolonisation as a concept and method for dealing with legacy knowledge in the aftermath of colonialism and apartheid. The status of whites as citizens rather
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Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Harry Verhoeven
Sudan has for decades been one of Africa's most fragmented polities. Yet arguably the single most consequential actor in its recent history is among the least well studied: the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). For most of post-independence statehood, Khartoum has been ruled by generals. This article places SAF in a longitudinal context of the expansion and contraction of state power and the functions of the
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Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Joan Ricart-Huguet
Culture is a central concept in the social sciences. It is also difficult to examine rigorously. I study the oldest university in East Africa and a cradle of political elites, Makerere University, where halls of residence developed distinct cultures in the 1970s such that some hall cultures are activist (e.g. Lumumba Hall) while others are respectful to authorities (e.g. Livingstone Hall) even though
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‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Barbara Bompani
Much attention has been paid to the growth of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Uganda and the way it has shifted over the past decades from being a minority religion to influencing and shaping the Ugandan public and political spheres. Most of the literature, however, associates the Pentecostal-charismatic dynamic public action with its motivation to promote conservative Christian values, especially
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Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Jeffrey Haynes
The article examines two decades of Jerry Rawlings’ rule in Ghana. It seeks to explain why Rawlings’ revolutionary populism did not develop in the direction that he envisaged: a new kind of popular democracy. Instead, Rawlings oversaw the reintroduction of Ghana's popularly preferred political system: ‘Western-style’ multi-party democracy, despite his avowed intention of not doing so. To what extent
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When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Erin Accampo Hern
Africa's plural legal systems are often doubly bad for women: reinforcing patriarchal threads in indigenous practices while layering male-dominated Anglo-European laws atop. While these systems generally work to their detriment, women are sometimes able to take advantage of them. Under what conditions are women able to ‘win’ in Africa's plural legal systems? I examine women's interactions with the
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The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Line Kuppens, Arnim Langer
Since Kenya's independence in 1963, ethnicity has been an important factor in Kenyan politics and everyday life. While recent research has shown that ethnic favouritism impacted the allocation of educational resources in the past, so far, no systematic research has been conducted on how teachers exacerbate, mitigate or countervail the political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism. As agents
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Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Dennis Amego Korbla Penu
For the first time in its history, Ghana held a referendum in 2018 to divide some of its regions to create new ones. Though the regions are purely administrative, the division faced resistance in some areas and not in others. This study combines qualitative comparative analysis with process tracing to show that the resistance occurred within regions with relatively high support for the opposition party
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Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
The concept of ‘agency’ and its role in capturing the dynamics between Africa and external actors feature increasingly in the African IR scholarship. Over the past decade, Turkey has become an increasingly prominent actor in Africa, strengthening political, cultural and economic ties with African states and providing humanitarian aid and development assistance. In this paper, we examine Turkey's relationship
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Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Beth Brewer
This article examines the gacaca trials of women accused of perpetrating the Rwandan genocide, asking whether and how ideas about their gender impacted their defences, testimonies and experiences as defendants. It uses court reports of the trials of 91 accused women; a set of sources that provides novel insights into the role of gender in an African transitional justice system. These sources reveal
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Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Mohammad Amir Anwar, Elly Otieno, Malte Stein
This article examines the impact of the pandemic on ride-hailing drivers and their mitigation strategies during lockdown in Africa. Ride-hailing has emerged as one of the latest paid-work opportunities for the continent's many unemployed. Yet, ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Bolt misclassify drivers to avoid regulation and responsibilities towards workers’ welfare. Drawing on 34 in-depth interviews
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‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Tony Binns, Jerram Bateman
Relatively few longitudinal studies have been undertaken of change and development among rural communities in Africa. Drawing on field-based research conducted over almost five decades, the article examines the shocks and adaptive strategies experienced in the remote rural community of Kayima in north-eastern Sierra Leone. In coping with both external and internal shocks and displaying a remarkable
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Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Paul Acheampong Boakye, Daniel Béland
Due to the centrality of education to economic growth and social development, successive governments in post-colonial Ghana have implemented policies to improve the quality of education in the country. In line with this, Ghana embarked on its first major education reform in 1987 under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government. While several studies have been conducted to explain this
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Africa's liberation generation Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Robert I. Rotberg
Today's African political class is much more diverse in character and aspiration than the one that overcame colonial rule and inaugurated independent governments. Sons of early liberation leaders now jostle for power in a few countries (Chad, Kenya), descendants of successful autocrats perpetuate family rule in others (Gabon), several long-serving hegemons remain in control after decades in office
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Researching Africa and the offshore world Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Ricardo Soares De Oliveira
One of the key features of today's global economy is an ‘offshore world’ of financial structures, institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection and tax exemption. While its worldwide impact is very significant, Africa is affected to an unusual extent by the strategies of tax avoidance/evasion, outward financial flows (both legal and illegal) and corruption enabled by the
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Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Yonatan N. Gez, Marie-Aude Fouéré, Fabian Bulugu
In the early 1960s, three pilot agricultural and settlement schemes were set up along the shores of Lake Victoria in the north-western region of Tanzania with the involvement of Israeli development agency Agridev. One of these sites was Mbarika, where the experimental project ran for three years and had mixed results before being discontinued by the young Tanzanian government. This article explores
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Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Johanna Söderström
Tax compliance is a major concern as states try to increase state revenues in order to provide services for their populations. Remarkably, taxation has not figured centrally on the agenda among scholars working on the African voter. This article contributes through studying the social practice of taxes, by asking: how is taxation understood as a political practice? This is studied using focus groups
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Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Krystal Strong, Christiana Kallon Kelly
Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals
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‘Assuming our place in the concert of nations’: Burundi as imagined in Pierre Nkurunziza's political speeches Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Andrea Filipi, Katrin Wittig
Pierre Nkurunziza died in 2020, just a few months short of completing his tenure as the first post-civil war President of Burundi. Critics have cast him as yet another rebel-turned-politician who came to office on a promise of a democratic transformation but became progressively authoritarian, particularly during his third, disputed term in office. As a political figure, however, Nkurunziza remains
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Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Kirk A. Harris
Why do elections in some ethnically diverse constituencies resemble an ethnic census, while in others ethnicity plays a less prominent role? Prior literature on ethnic bloc voting in Africa suggests that political parties acquire ethnic ‘labels’ that tacitly signal which groups belong to the party. In ethnic census-style elections, voters and politicians then use ethnicity as a heuristic for deciding
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From dependence to conviviality: unaccompanied youth and host communities at the Zimbabwean–South African borderland Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Noa Levy
Unaccompanied child and youth migrants negotiate with local host communities in their attempts to find a place to belong to, yet research has generally neglected their participation in the making of relationships with the people around them. Providing a perspective of the longue durée, the Zimbabwean–South African borderland teaches us that time is critical in young migrants’ ability to negotiate their
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How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 William Hatungimana
Recent protests against police brutality in Nigeria and the Arab Spring, which was sparked by an incident of police brutality in Tunisia, led to public demands that brought political reforms. This paper explores the question, how do citizens evaluate their government in regards to corruption? Using the Afrobarometer Wave 6 dataset, I investigate the relationship between the public's perception of police
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‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Ilmari Käihkö
Building on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article draws from military sociology to revisit past portrayals of Liberian former combatant networks and assesses four central assumptions connected to them: that formal wartime command structures continue as informal networks long after the end of the war; that former combatants are united by a wartime identity and form a community to an extent
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‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Kieran Mitton
Within two decades, Sierra Leone's ‘cliques’ have transformed from peripheral social clubs to warring Crips, Bloods, and Black street gangs at the heart of criminal and political violence. Nevertheless, they remain severely under-studied, with scholarship on Sierra Leonean youth marginality heavily focused on ex-combatants. Drawing on extended fieldwork with Freetown's cliques as they played the ‘game’
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Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Foday Kamara, Gelejimah Alfred Mokuwa, Paul Richards
Ebola Virus Disease struck Sierra Leone in May 2014. An international response was instrumental in ending the epidemic by December 2015 and has been extensively documented. Less attention has been paid to local responses. Here, we focus on a case in which there was no infection despite high infection in neighbouring areas. This brings into focus the role of customary public authority in implementing
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Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Lauren Carruth, Lahra Smith
This study uses ethnography along Ethiopian women's irregular migration routes through Djibouti to analyse the complex reasons women leave home to seek labour opportunities in the Gulf States. Theories and policies that either narrowly depict women's motivations as economic in nature or focus only on women's needs for security and protection, fail to account both for the politics of seeking employment
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Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $100 (hbk). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Adventino Banjwa
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Constraining Dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes by Anne Meng Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 278. $105 (hbk). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Andrew Wojtanik
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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). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jonathan H. Shannon
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Kwame Nkrumah: visions of liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $16.95 (pbk). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mark Langan
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Undoing Coups: the African Union and post-coup intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt London: Zed Books, 2020. Pp. 296. $95 (hbk). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jens Herpolsheimer
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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). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jannis Saalfeld
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Historical Dictionary of Niger (Fifth Edition) by Rahmane Idrissa. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 642. $140 (hbk), $133 (eBook). Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Mirco Göpfert
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Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies Journal of Modern African Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Andrea Carboni, Clionadh Raleigh
This article applies a regime cycle framework to understand patterns of change and continuity in African competitive autocracies. We observe that regime change in African autocracies is rarely the result of actions carried out by rebels, opposition leaders or popular masses substantially altering the structure of power. Instead, they are more frequently carried out by senior regime cadres, resulting