Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962) pp. 187-206: Thijs Costers
The public political ideologies of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–1980 pp. 207-225: Hugh Pattenden
The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya pp. 226-245: Niels Boender
Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985 pp. 246-262: Jodie Kay Marshall
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea pp. 263-282: Solomon Haile Gebrezgabher
Coordination and governance bottlenecks to smallholder vegetable producers’ capacity for supermarkets supply in Kenya pp. 283-304: Mwangi Joseph Kanyua and Hillary Bett
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations pp. 305-325: Kamotho Waiganjo, Collins Odote and Nkatha Kabira
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya pp. 326-346: Francesca Di Matteo

Editorial Announcement pp. 1-1: The Editors
Between settler colonialism, regionalisation and Africanisation: the making of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, 1954–1970 pp. 2-23: Mariusz Lukasiewicz
Contesting the Zanzibari revolution: the origins of political opposition in Tanzania pp. 24-42: G. Thomas Burgess
A 1960s odyssey from Zanzibar to Cairo: educational mobility and anti-heroic anticolonialism in Adam Shafi’s travelogue Mbali na Nyumbani pp. 43-68: Eric Burton
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present pp. 69-89: Maxmillian Julius Chuhila
Ever-changing sites: the salient dynamics of sacred forests in Tanzania’s postcolonial Njombe region, 1961–2019 pp. 90-111: Edward Simon Mgaya
Ambivalent Disinheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness in older-age at a time of privatisation of inherited colonial housing-estates in Jinja, Uganda pp. 112-139: Andrew Byerley
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism pp. 140-159: Mehdi Labzaé
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya pp. 160-185: Kenny Cupers

Djibouti first: local agency and the geopolitics of ports in infrastructure-led development pp. 513-533: Jessica Larsen
The moral economy behind the commoditisation of camel milk in northern Kenya pp. 534-555: Tahira Shariff Mohamed and Michele Nori
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement pp. 556-574: Cathy A. Wilcock
Populism-in-state-practice under neoliberalism: Museveni’s ad-hoc squads to ‘halt all evictions’ from land in Uganda pp. 575-602: Rose Nakayi and Jörg Wiegratz
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda pp. 603-626: Matthew A. Schnurr, Christopher D. Gore, Lincoln Addison, Sylvia Bawa, Alanna Taylor, Henry Nsereko and Sarah Mujabi-Mujuzi
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940 pp. 627-648: Thaddeus Sunseri

Correction pp. I-I: The Editors
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya pp. 345-365: Martha Gayoye
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC pp. 366-387: Carsten Müller
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps pp. 388-407: Hassan Aden
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994) pp. 408-430: Marco Roque de Freitas
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy pp. 431-450: Eun Kyung Kim
Power in floating spaces and closed spaces: lessons from a Chinese volunteer tourism organization’s practice in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 451-470: Yi Wang
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania pp. 471-491: Aidan Barlow
Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’ pp. 492-511: Mads Yding

Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia pp. 175-195: Yalemget Abebe and Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya pp. 196-218: Karol Czuba
Religion, healthcare, and social media use in urban Tanzania: an ethnographic study of faith-based organizations pp. 219-239: Mussa Said Muhoja
Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections pp. 240-260: Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis
Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome pp. 261-281: Denis Galava and Karuti Kanyinga
The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections pp. 282-300: Nic Cheeseman and Mwongela Kamencu
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections pp. 301-320: Ngala Chome and Justin Willis
Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election pp. 321-343: Eman Abboud, Fredrick Ajwang and Geoffrey Lugano

Editorial Announcement pp. 1-1: Jason Mosley, Florence Brisset-Foucault and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards pp. 2-17: Luca Ciabarri and Anja Simonsen
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats pp. 18-35: Antonio M. Morone
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia pp. 36-57: Chiara Pagano
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib, 2005–2020 pp. 58-77: Luca Ciabarri
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement pp. 78-96: Ja’afar Dirie
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s pp. 97-116: Elia Vitturini
Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community pp. 117-134: Anja Simonsen and Mohamed S. Tarabi
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy pp. 135-154: Valentina Fusari
Amongst agaish: the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care pp. 155-173: Carla Hung
Correction pp. 174-174: The Editors