Africa Spectrum

1997 - 2017

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Volume 44, issue 3, 2009

Introduction: Power-Sharing in Africa pp. 2-10

Andreas Mehler

The Perils of Power-Sharing: Africa and Beyond pp. 11-39

Chandra Sriram and Marie-Joëlle Zahar

The Prevalence of Power-Sharing: Exploring the Patterns of Post-Election Peace pp. 41-62

Anna Jarstad

Power-Sharing, Conflict and Transition in Burundi: Twenty Years of Trial and Error pp. 63-86

Stef Vandeginste

Using Power-Sharing to Win a War: The Implementation of the Lomé Agreement in Sierra Leone pp. 87-107

Helga Binningsbø and Kendra Dupuy

Power-Sharing in the Local Arena: Man. a Rebel-Held Town in Western Côte d.Ivoire pp. 109-131

Kathrin Heitz

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Dynamics of Post-Conflict Political Partnership in Sudan pp. 133-147

Einas Ahmed

Kenya.s Grand Coalition Government. Another Obstacle to Urgent Constitutional Reform? pp. 149-164

Henry Amadi

Review: Robert H. Bates: When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late-Century Africa (2008) pp. 165-168

Thomas Bierschenk

Volume 44, issue 2, 2009

The Ethiopian Second Republic and the Fragile.Social Contract pp. 3-28

Jon Abbink

Social Research and Development Policy: Two Approaches to West African Land-tenure Problems pp. 29-52

Volker Stamm

The Vitality of Kabiye in Togo pp. 53-76

Komlan Essizewa

Democracy as a Limiting Factor for Politicised Cultural Populism in Malawi pp. 77-94

Reuben Chirambo

Reform in Defence of Sovereignty: South Africa in the UN Security Council, 2007-2008 pp. 95-110

Paul-Henri Bischoff

The South African Election of 2009 pp. 111-124

Roger Southall and John Daniel

Voting Behaviour in the 2009 South African Election pp. 125-133

Norbert Kersting

Cape Verde: Marketing Good Governance pp. 135-147

Bruce Baker

.We must move towards a conference of national reconciliation... Professor Boubacar Barry on the Guinean crisis pp. 149-159

Boubacar Barry

Review: Susanne Buckley-Zistel: Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda. Remembering after Violence (2008) pp. 161-163

Rita Schäfer

Volume 44, issue 1, 2009

From the Editors’ Desk pp. 5

Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber

New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa – A New Inclination? pp. 7-18

Norbert Kersting

“New” Nationalism and Autochthony – Tales of Origin as Political Cleavage pp. 19-38

Morten Bøås

Discrimination, Despoliation and Irreconcilable Difference: Host-Immigrant Tensions in Brazzaville, Congo pp. 39-59

Bruce Whitehouse

Africa for Africans or Africa for “Natives” Only? “New Nationalism” and Nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa pp. 61-78

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Ethiopian Nationalism: An Ideology to Transcend All Odds pp. 79-97

Belachew Gebrewold

Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa pp. 99-110

Loren Landau and Jean Misago

New Nationalism and Development in Africa pp. 111-123

Dirk Kohnert

Review: Manfred Schulz (ed.): Entwicklungsträger in der DR Kongo. Entwicklungen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Religion, Zivilgesellschaft und Kultur (2007) pp. 125-127

Peter Ay

Review: Wolbert G. C. Smidt, Kinfe Abraham (eds.): Discussing Conflict in Ethiopia. Conflict Management and Resolution (2007) pp. 128-130

Ulrich Braukämper

Review: Hans Eric Stolten (ed.): History Making and Present Day Politics. The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa (2007) pp. 131-134

Rita Schäfer

Review: Christoph Haferburg: Umbruch oder Persistenz? Sozialräumliche Differenzierungen in Kapstadt (2007) pp. 135-138

Theo Rauch

Review: Holger Stoecker: Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes (2008) pp. 139-140

Katrin Bromber

Volume 43, issue 3, 2008

The growing influence of Civil Society actors in African development processes pp. 309-332

Walter Eberlei

This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of Ake’s contribution to the social sciences and knowledge production in Africa. It discusses the relevance of Ake’s works for adapting the intellectual legacies of Marxist scholarship to understanding the political economy and social history of contemporary Africa. It also highlights the shortcomings noted in his orientation, and dispositions to expatriate knowledge generally, and the Western social science in particular. Given his advocacy of the need to reconstruct existing disciplinary fields following uniquely African critiques and interpretations, the study presents Ake’s works as a corrective intervention to Euro-centrism and advocates the practice of ‘non-hierarchical’ ‘cross-regional’ ‘dialogue’, in which neither the North nor the South is taken as the paradigm against which ‘the other’ is measured and pronounced inadequate pp. 333-351

Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe

The China Shop Phenomenon: Trade Supply within the Chinese Diaspora in South Africa pp. 353-370

Rachel Laribee

Algeria as a Destination of Migrants – A Comparative Study of Sub-Saharan and Chinese Migrants pp. 371-392

Dalila Nadi

Volume 43, issue 2, 2008

Do African parties contribute to democracy? Some findings from Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria pp. 175-201

Sebastian Elischer

Clientelism and social structure: an analysis of patronage in Yoruba social thought pp. 203-224

Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale

Rites of passage overseas? – On the sojourn of Mozambican students and scholars in Cuba pp. 225-244

Hauke Dorsch

Education policy and transnationalism in post-colonial Angola – Angola’s cooperation with Cuba and the challenges it poses pp. 245-268

Christine Hatzky

Volume 43, issue 1, 2008

Pastoral conflicts and state-building in the Ethiopian lowlands pp. 19-38

Tobias Hagmann and Alemmaya Mulugeta

Political history of the Afar in Ethiopia and Eritrea pp. 39-66

Yasin Mohammed Yasin

Productivity of refugee camps: social and political dynamics from the Somaliland-Ethiopia border (1988–2001) pp. 67-90

Luca Ciabarri

Newspapers in Hargeysa: Freedom of speech in post-conflict Somaliland pp. 91-114

Markus V. Höhne

Volume 42, issue 3, 2007

The promise and perils of water reforms: Perspectives from Northern Ghana pp. 419-437

Wolfram Laube

Appropriate ‘governance-technology’? – Somali clan elders and institutions in the making of the ‘Republic of Somaliland’ pp. 439-459

Marleen Renders

Selecting therapies in Benin: making choices between informal, formal, private and public health services pp. 461-481

Thamar Klein

German-African research co-operation: practices, problems and policies pp. 483-505

Veronika Fuest

Volume 42, issue 2, 2007

Autonomy or security: the negotiation of family norms in Sudanese families pp. 167-194

Ulrike Schultz

Valentine’s Day in Kumasi, Ghana: sexuality and changes in intergenerational relations pp. 195-218

Astrid Bochow

Yakuba’s new life – on the changes of child fosterage among the rural Fée (Mokollé) in northern Benin pp. 219-249

Jeannett Martin

‘My baby is my paper!’– Family ties of Nigerian female migrants on their way to Europe pp. 251-273

Kristin Kastner

Normative images of the family for Africa: the UN Convention and the African Charter on the rights of the child pp. 275-300

Ulrike Wanitzek

Nigeria’s ‘manifest destiny’ in West Africa: dominance without power pp. 301-321

Daniel C. Bach

Volume 42, issue 1, 2007

Appropriating the mosque: women's religious groups in Khartoum pp. 5-27

Salma A. Nageeb

'We don't want equality; we want to be given our rights': Muslim women negotiating global development concepts in Senegal pp. 29-48

Nadine Sieveking

Diamantenhandel und der Krieg in Kongo/Zaire [The diamond trade and the war in Congo/Zaire] pp. 49-71

Volker Kaul

Conflict mediation in decolonisation: Namibia's transition to independence pp. 73-94

Henning Melber and Christopher Saunders

Lake Kivu's methane gas: natural risk, or source of energy and political security pp. 95-110

Martin Doevenspeck

Wahlen in der DR Kongo 2006 [The elections in DR Congo 2006] pp. 111-123

Eckart Rohde