Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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Volume 20, issue 2, 2026

Leftovers for legacy: why rebel governance contributed so little to Uganda’s post-insurgent state pp. 147-167

Nelson Kasfir

Bibanda video halls in Uganda: between vernacular transcreation and cinematic reworlding pp. 168-188

Joshua Ibanda, Prince K. Guma and Mabingo Alfdaniels

Disillusionment and queer feminist utopias in Kenyan digital counterpublics pp. 189-207

Martta Kaskinen

A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya pp. 208-233

Ramazan Caner Sayan, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, John Wesonga, John Thompson, Robai Namulekhwa Liambila, Edith Warigia Wairimu and Tim Hess

Ritual topography, time reckoning, and overlapping chronologies: Boran Oromo jila gadamojji rites of passage in colonial and contemporary Kenya (c. 1930–2020) pp. 234-262

Hassan Hussein Kochore

The Karl Braun Collection and the role of the Amani Institute during the German colonial period in Tanzania. A German-Tanzanian research project pp. 263-291

Sebastian Möllers, Peter Mangesho, Victor Mwingira, Mohamed Seif, Antonia Schmidt, Lea Steinkampf and William Kisinza

Omani Arab aspirations, national representation, and political tensions in the Zanzibarisation of the colonial administration, 1947–1963 pp. 292-312

Sebastian Żbik

Introduction: religion and politics in post-EPRDF Ethiopia pp. 313-333

Jörg Haustein, Terje Østebø, Abduletif Kedir Idris and Diego Maria Malara

Weaponising suspicion: allegations of ‘extremism’ as driver of religious conflict in Mota pp. 334-352

Jörg Haustein, Yihenew Alemu Tesfaye and Fasika Gedif

Ownership, nativism, and conflict: the case of the 2020 violence in Shashemene pp. 353-372

Terje Østebø and Yihenew Alemu Tesfaye

Reframing religious conflict in Gondar: land, public visibility, and the politics of difference pp. 373-392

Yihenew Alemu Tesfaye, Fasika Gedif and Jörg Haustein

Volume 20, issue 1, 2026

Good dogs and bad dogs: rabies and the invention of a new canine order under the British South Africa Company government (Southern Rhodesia), 1902–1913 pp. 1-21

Innocent Dande

The Italo-Ethiopian war, Italian colonial rule and ethnic relations in the Borana borderlands of southern Ethiopia, 1935–1941 pp. 22-38

Belete Bizuneh

Serving the state at all costs? Being a civil servant in wartime South Sudan pp. 39-60

Emmanuelle Veuillet

Contesting the capital: Sheger and the spatial politics of nation building pp. 61-82

Ayehu Bacha Teso

Social media and role specialisations in Oromo Protests, Ethiopia: implications of digital inequalities in political protests pp. 83-103

Urgessa Deressa Gutu, Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta and Fana Gebresenbet

‘Climate-smart agriculture’: top-down solutions versus knowledge from the ground in rural Rwanda pp. 104-124

An Ansoms, Jean Paul Kayumba Cyitatire, Assumpta Mugiraneza and Aubaine Hirwa

Becoming a migrant: The refugee-migrant nexus in onward trajectories of displaced Burundians towards South Africa pp. 125-145

Jessica Jordi

Volume 19, issue 4, 2025

Contested development, entangled governmentalities and the politics of pastoralism in the Upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia pp. 535-555

Tefera Goshu, Asebe Regassa and Benedikt Korf

Citizenship dilemma: how second-generation Rwandan migrants navigate life challenges in post-colonial Kenya pp. 556-578

David Mwambari and Clement Sefa-Nyarko

Infrastructure for peace: conflict settlement between pastoralists and farmers in Kilosa/Tanzania pp. 579-600

Conrad Schetter, Lucy Massoi and Venance Shillingi

Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia pp. 601-619

Lahra Smith and Bethania Michael

The politics of beauty: colourism and objectification of Ḥabashiyyah in medieval Arabic literature pp. 620-640

Amir Al-Azraki

Les heurs et malheurs du mariage femme-femme en pays kikuyu, Kenya pp. 641-662

Yvan Droz

The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952 pp. 663-692

Ian Caistor-Parker

Old wounds: embodying the Mau Mau war in post-colonial Kenya pp. 693-710

Rose Miyonga

Locating Kenya's emergency detention camps: place, memory, and the afterlives of colonial violence pp. 711-733

Chao Tayiana Maina

Volume 19, issue 3, 2025

Between marriage and slavery: women, social mobility, and the making of Ngwana power in late-nineteenth-century Central Africa pp. 347-367

Margot Luyckfasseel

Beyond war and politics: Somali kinship and everyday service delivery pp. 368-389

Abdirahman Edle, Peter Albrecht and Karuti Kanyinga

Perspectives on the African Union high level implementation panel in the Sudanese media, 2009–2019: sovereignty and its uses pp. 390-408

Willow Berridge

Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda pp. 409-430

Andrew Gerard, María Alejandra García, Maria Claudia Lopez, Alfred Bizoza and Bridget Vuguziga

Babies, buildings, and bones: the (im)materiality of love and homemaking pp. 431-447

Holly Porter

Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda) pp. 448-464

Alessandro Gusman

Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda pp. 465-482

Susan Reynolds Whyte

On the move, together: intimacy, the ‘elsewhere’ and the imagination of the future in Jinja (Uganda) pp. 483-500

Anna Baral

Courtship and partnerships in northern Uganda: the role of family and friends in the process of marrying pp. 501-516

Jimmy Otim

Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East pp. 517-534

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen and Julaina A. Obika

Volume 19, issue 2, 2025

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

Volume 19, issue 1, 2025

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