Africa Spectrum

1997 - 2017

From Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
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Volume 52, issue 3, 2017

Review: Godfrey Kanyenze, Herbert Jauch, Alice D. Kanengoni, Masego Madzwamuse, and Deprose Muchena (eds), Towards Democratic Developmental States in Southern Africa (2017) pp. 12o-122

Henning Melber

The Power of Mixed Messages: Women, Peace, and Security Language in National Action Plans from Africa pp. 3-29

Heidi Hudson

Sustainability and Depoliticisation: Certifications in the Cut-Flower Industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya pp. 31-53

Gerda Kuiper and Andreas Gemählich

Renegotiated (Post)Colonial Relations within the New Portuguese Migration to Angola pp. 55-80

Pétur Waldorff

Bob’s Out, the Croc Is In: Continuity or Change in Zimbabwe? pp. 81-94

Roger Southall

The State of Electoral Reforms in Ghana pp. 95-109

Ransford Edward Van Gyampo

Conference Report: Middle Classes, Protest, and Social Change in Africa and Beyond pp. 111-116

Antje Daniel and Florian Stoll

Review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds (2017) pp. 117-119

Edlyne Eze Anugwom

Review: Alexander Thurston, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2017) pp. 123-125

Roman Loimeier

Review: Tony Karbo and Tim Murithi (eds), The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa (2018) pp. 126-128

Katharina Döring

Volume 52, issue 2, 2017

Land Reform and Conflict in South Sudan: Evidence from Yei River County pp. 3-28

Peter Hakim Justin and Han van Dijk

The Making of Dangerous Communities: The “Peul-Fouta” in Ebola-Weary Senegal pp. 29-51

Ato Kwamena Onoma

Resistance against Conservation at the South African Section of Greater Mapungubwe (Trans)frontier pp. 53-77

Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule

The Institutionalisation of Power Revisited: Presidential Term Limits in Africa pp. 79-102

Denis M. Tull and Claudia Simons

Mutiny in Côte d’Ivoire pp. 103-115

Rebecca Schiel, Christopher Faulkner and Jonathan Powell

Press Freedom and Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment pp. 117-127

Raymond Adibe, Cyril Chinedu Ike and Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu

Review: Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen and Rebecca Jones (eds.), Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian and Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town pp. 129-131

Roman Loimeier

Review: Anika Becher, Explaining Ethnic and Election Violence: Kenya and Malawi in Comparison (2016) pp. 132-133

Kristine Höglund

Volume 52, issue 1, 2017

Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi pp. 3-32

Eric Mutisya Kioko

Land Grabbing and the Axis of Political Conflicts: Insights from Southwest Cameroon pp. 33-63

Frankline A. Ndi and Simon Batterbury

Representations of Oil in Chad: A Blessing or a Curse? pp. 65-83

Seign-goura Yorbana

ECOWAS and the Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia pp. 85-99

Christof Hartmann

Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic "Survivalism" in the BBC’s Welcome to Lagos pp. 101-113

Aghogho Akpome

Review: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life (2016) pp. 115-117

Ulf Engel

Review: Roman Loimeier, Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa (2016) pp. 118-121

Heinrich Bergstresser

Review: Dale McKinley, South Africa’s Corporatised Liberation: A Critical Analysis of the ANC in Power (2017) pp. 122-125

Roger Southall

Review: Rita Kesselring, Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2016) pp. 126-129

Beatrice Schlee

Volume 51, issue 3, 2016

The Metastable City and the Politics of Crystallisation: Protesting and Policing in Kampala pp. 3-32

Joschka Philipps and Jude Kagoro

Nigeria and Democratic Progress by Elections in Africa pp. 33-59

Giovanni Carbone and Andrea Cassani

South Korean Development Cooperation in Africa: The Legacy of a Developmental State pp. 61-75

Thomas Kalinowski and Min Joung Park

Investigative Journalism and Human Trafficking in West Africa pp. 77-92

Veronika Gyuracz

Cows, Bandits, and Violent Conflicts: Understanding Cattle Rustling in Northern Nigeria pp. 93-105

Azeez Olaniyan and Aliyu Yahaya

Democracy in Reverse: The 2016 General Election in Zambia pp. 107-121

Edward Goldring and Michael Wahman

Conference Report: The Legacy of Armed Conflicts: Southern African and Comparative Perspectives pp. 123-134

Giulia Piccolino

Review: Roger Southall, The New Black Middle Class in South Africa (2016) pp. 135-139

Lena Giesbert and Simone Schotte

Review: Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu and Miranda Strydom (eds), The Thabo Mbeki I Know (2016) pp. 140-143

Roger Southall

Review: Lawrence Hamilton, Are South Africans Free? (2014) pp. 144-146

Henning Melber

Volume 51, issue 2, 2016

Burundi after the 2015 Elections: A Conference Report pp. 3-14

Julia Grauvogel

Exploring the Legacies of Armed Rebellion in Burundi’s Maquis par Excellence pp. 15-37

Tomas Van Acker

Legal Loopholes and the Politics of Executive Term Limits: Insights from Burundi pp. 39-63

Stef Vandeginste

Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi pp. 65-78

Filip Reyntjens

Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Oil Revenues in Ghana pp. 79-91

Ransford Edward Van Gyampo

The Elections in Uganda, February 2016 pp. 93-101

Ryan Gibb

Zupta's Next Nightmare: The South African Local Government Elections of 3 August 2016 pp. 103-115

Ulf Engel

History, Tyranny and Democracy in Zimbabwe pp. 117-130

Roger Southall

Review: Luise White, Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization (2015) pp. 131-134

Tinashe Nyamunda

Review: Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille, and Richard Rottenburg (eds), Emerging Orders in the Sudans (2015) pp. 135-137

Annette Weber

Review: Benjamin Rubbers, Le paternalisme en question: Les anciens ouvriers de la Gécamines face à la libéralisation du secteur minier katangais (RD Congo) (2013) pp. 138-140

Katja Werthmann

Volume 51, issue 1, 2016

Across the Spectrum pp. 3-4

Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber

Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession, and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia pp. 5-28

Fana Gebresenbet

Informal Land Sale and Housing in the Periphery of Pointe-Noire pp. 29-54

Gabriel Tati

Foreign Direct Investment and the Transfer of Technologies to Angola’s Energy Sector pp. 55-83

Albert Edgar Manyuchi

50 Years of Africa Spectrum pp. 85-95

Andreas Eckert

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Côte d’Ivoire’s 2015 Presidential Polls pp. 97-110

Giulia Piccolino

The Eagle’s Nest in the Horn of Africa: US Military Strategic Deployment in Djibouti pp. 111-124

Degang Sun and Yahia H. Zoubir

Review: Michael Walls, A Somali Nation-State: History, Culture and Somaliland’s Political Transition (2014) pp. 125-128

Markus V. Höhne

Review: Leander Schneider, Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania (2014) pp. 129-131

Goran Hyden

Review: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, and Rosemarie Mwaipopo (eds), Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production (2014) pp. 132-134

Katja Werthmann

Review: Julia Vorhoelter, Youth at the Crossroads: Discourses on Socio-Cultural Change in Post-War Northern Uganda (2014) pp. 135-137

Mareike Schomerus

Review: David Birmingham, A Short History of Modern Angola (2015) pp. 138-139

Jon Schubert