Africa Spectrum
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#OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de publishing original research on politics, societies, and economics in Africa.
Publisher: SAGE Journals.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com and @marthacj.bsky.social
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Publisher: SAGE Journals.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com and @marthacj.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
🆕Julien Durand de Sanctis & Jean-Noël Ferrié analyse shifting Morocco–France relations. They juxtapose France's decreasing presence in Africa with Morocco’s renewed African engagement to explore both countries’ foreign policies in Africa.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🆕Julien Durand de Sanctis & Jean-Noël Ferrié analyse shifting Morocco–France relations. They juxtapose France's decreasing presence in Africa with Morocco’s renewed African engagement to explore both countries’ foreign policies in Africa.
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➡️Recently, #Cameroon's President Biya secured his 8th term in office, making him the world's oldest president.
Erick Sourna Loumtouang analyses Cameroon's failed 1984 coup to show how President Biya consolidated power, silenced opposition, & more.
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Erick Sourna Loumtouang analyses Cameroon's failed 1984 coup to show how President Biya consolidated power, silenced opposition, & more.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
➡️Recently, #Cameroon's President Biya secured his 8th term in office, making him the world's oldest president.
Erick Sourna Loumtouang analyses Cameroon's failed 1984 coup to show how President Biya consolidated power, silenced opposition, & more.
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Erick Sourna Loumtouang analyses Cameroon's failed 1984 coup to show how President Biya consolidated power, silenced opposition, & more.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🆕Oliver Bakewell explores how Ethiopians & Eritreans in #Nairobi, #Khartoum & #AddisAbaba form diasporic ties shaped by local political & economic conditions, focusing on improving their lives rather than driving socio-political change.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🆕Oliver Bakewell explores how Ethiopians & Eritreans in #Nairobi, #Khartoum & #AddisAbaba form diasporic ties shaped by local political & economic conditions, focusing on improving their lives rather than driving socio-political change.
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🆕Tanja R. Müller(@globaldevinst.bsky.social) explores how #Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa experience, create & contest belonging using the lens of lived citizenship, revealing how its affective dimension underpins spatial, intersubjective & performed dimensions.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🆕Tanja R. Müller(@globaldevinst.bsky.social) explores how #Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa experience, create & contest belonging using the lens of lived citizenship, revealing how its affective dimension underpins spatial, intersubjective & performed dimensions.
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🆕Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa examines subtle #decolonial practices in Enugu State, #Nigeria, highlighting a decline in foreign name use & the revival of indigenous socio-cultural and spiritual practices.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🆕Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa examines subtle #decolonial practices in Enugu State, #Nigeria, highlighting a decline in foreign name use & the revival of indigenous socio-cultural and spiritual practices.
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🆕Kevin Anthony Oduor, Martin Ouma & Edwin Abuya analyse how faith-based organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, #Kenya, ease the refugee burden on host states & communities by supplementing service delivery to refugees & fostering peaceful coexistence.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🆕Kevin Anthony Oduor, Martin Ouma & Edwin Abuya analyse how faith-based organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, #Kenya, ease the refugee burden on host states & communities by supplementing service delivery to refugees & fostering peaceful coexistence.
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🆕Taofik Oyewo Hussain examines #USAID's aid suspension in #Nigeria & #China's growing role, showing how Chinese infrastructure fills gaps but can't replace USAID's social sector support & recommends a balanced donor strategy to ensure sustainability.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🆕Taofik Oyewo Hussain examines #USAID's aid suspension in #Nigeria & #China's growing role, showing how Chinese infrastructure fills gaps but can't replace USAID's social sector support & recommends a balanced donor strategy to ensure sustainability.
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📕Book Review: Christopher Amos appraises Dineo Skosana's "No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa", highlighting its 'essential contribution' to studies on mining, land politics, environmental justice, & resistance in Africa.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📕Book Review: Christopher Amos appraises Dineo Skosana's "No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa", highlighting its 'essential contribution' to studies on mining, land politics, environmental justice, & resistance in Africa.
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🎉Congrats to Victor Agboga, who received an honourable mention from the African Politics Conference Group for his dissertation, "Where do your loyalties lie? Party Switching & Voters' Response in Nigeria".
Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930
Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎉Congrats to Victor Agboga, who received an honourable mention from the African Politics Conference Group for his dissertation, "Where do your loyalties lie? Party Switching & Voters' Response in Nigeria".
Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930
Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930
🆕Vlastimil Fiala & @lucietungul.bsky.social investigate presidential constitutional engineering in Sub-Saharan #Africa, classifying how leaders manipulate term limits, change electoral systems & candidacy rules to retain power through legal constitutional means.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🆕Vlastimil Fiala & @lucietungul.bsky.social investigate presidential constitutional engineering in Sub-Saharan #Africa, classifying how leaders manipulate term limits, change electoral systems & candidacy rules to retain power through legal constitutional means.
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📕Martial Fanga Agbor reviews "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa" by @msobelcohen.bsky.social & Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, describing it as a compelling examination of the media landscapes in Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📕Martial Fanga Agbor reviews "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa" by @msobelcohen.bsky.social & Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, describing it as a compelling examination of the media landscapes in Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya.
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🆕 Eyo Mensah et al. explore how heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern #Nigeria use praise names to navigate gender boundaries - sometimes reinforcing, other times resisting patriarchy - while shaping self-worth, visibility, and social identity.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🆕 Eyo Mensah et al. explore how heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern #Nigeria use praise names to navigate gender boundaries - sometimes reinforcing, other times resisting patriarchy - while shaping self-worth, visibility, and social identity.
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➡️Did you know? We have a Book Review Newsletter webpage, where you can easily browse past editions!🤓
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August 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
➡️Did you know? We have a Book Review Newsletter webpage, where you can easily browse past editions!🤓
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🆕Augustine Gyan explores the land disputes that arise as community members in Ghana work to protect their interests against mining companies, revealing why land digitalisation is unlikely to fix land governance challenges.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🆕Augustine Gyan explores the land disputes that arise as community members in Ghana work to protect their interests against mining companies, revealing why land digitalisation is unlikely to fix land governance challenges.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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📕Buyisile Ntaka describes Abu Bakarr Bah & Nikolas Emmanuel's "International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire" as a valuable examination of post-conflict reconstruction.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📕Buyisile Ntaka describes Abu Bakarr Bah & Nikolas Emmanuel's "International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire" as a valuable examination of post-conflict reconstruction.
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📚Book Review Section
📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.
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📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📚Book Review Section
📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.
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📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.
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9⃣ Promise Frank Ejiofor critiques Eurocentric views of cultural racism by analysing ethnic racialisation in #Nigeria. Arguing that it extends beyond the black-white dichotomy, he calls for a new framework to study ethnic discrimination in #Africa.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
9⃣ Promise Frank Ejiofor critiques Eurocentric views of cultural racism by analysing ethnic racialisation in #Nigeria. Arguing that it extends beyond the black-white dichotomy, he calls for a new framework to study ethnic discrimination in #Africa.
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8⃣ Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women activists in #Senegal draw on Islamic values to pursue secular reform through #genderparity activism while challenging patriarchal norms.
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8⃣ Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women activists in #Senegal draw on Islamic values to pursue secular reform through #genderparity activism while challenging patriarchal norms.
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7⃣ Edem Adotey reconciles two "contradictory" perspectives of the borderlands by historicising bordering practices based on people's lived experiences at the Ghana-Togo border.
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7⃣ Edem Adotey reconciles two "contradictory" perspectives of the borderlands by historicising bordering practices based on people's lived experiences at the Ghana-Togo border.
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6⃣ Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou trace how shifting political regimes have prompted moderate versus extreme changes in agri-policy in #BurkinaFaso since 1983.
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6⃣ Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou trace how shifting political regimes have prompted moderate versus extreme changes in agri-policy in #BurkinaFaso since 1983.
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5⃣ In the research articles section, James Boafo, Kristen Lyons, & Senyo Dotsey examine how donor-driven aid pushes #Ghana's agri-sector toward market-oriented reforms that do not meet the needs of smallholder farmers.
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5⃣ In the research articles section, James Boafo, Kristen Lyons, & Senyo Dotsey examine how donor-driven aid pushes #Ghana's agri-sector toward market-oriented reforms that do not meet the needs of smallholder farmers.
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4⃣ For our Analyse and Reports section, Humphrey Agyekum, George Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach & Alena Thiel explore voter concerns ahead of # Ghana's 2024 elections, revealing a disconnect between promises & voters' everyday realities.
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4⃣ For our Analyse and Reports section, Humphrey Agyekum, George Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach & Alena Thiel explore voter concerns ahead of # Ghana's 2024 elections, revealing a disconnect between promises & voters' everyday realities.
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3⃣ Matthew Sabbi draws on cases in #Rwanda & #Ghana to show how Global South states use strategic ambiguity to navigate international encounters, offering a framework rooted in homegrown concepts.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
3⃣ Matthew Sabbi draws on cases in #Rwanda & #Ghana to show how Global South states use strategic ambiguity to navigate international encounters, offering a framework rooted in homegrown concepts.
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