Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2024

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2024

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

Volume 18, issue 2, 2024

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

Volume 18, issue 1, 2024

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

Volume 17, issue 4, 2023

Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present pp. 535-556

Willow Berridge

Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland pp. 557-574

Amina-Bahja Ekman

Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences pp. 575-593

Adam Moe Fejerskov and Meron Zeleke

Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders pp. 594-614

Sarah Longair, Fatma Said and Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930 pp. 615-639

Richard Waller

Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements pp. 640-661

Benjamin Kirby, Erik Meinema and Hans Olsson

Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania pp. 662-685

Lone Riisgaard

Volume 17, issue 3, 2023

Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi pp. 363-383

Smith Ouma

Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda pp. 384-403

Pamela Khanakwa

The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity pp. 404-423

Diana Felix da Costa

“Little Dubai” in the crossfire: trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale pp. 424-444

Katrin Sowa

Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia pp. 445-465

Bula Wayessa

A non-event: ratifying the African Women’s Rights framework in Ethiopia pp. 466-488

Karmen Tornius

Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002–2012 pp. 489-514

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Michael Clarke Shand

Military decolonisation and Africanisation: the first African officers in the Kenyan army, 1957–1964 pp. 515-533

Poppy Cullen

Volume 17, issue 1-2, 2023

The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76 pp. 1-21

George Roberts

The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya pp. 22-39

Kennedy Mkutu

Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya pp. 40-56

Jannis Saalfeld and Hassan A. Mwakimako

Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda pp. 57-78

Christopher Day, William Moreto and Riley Ravary

Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo pp. 79-100

Emma Wild-Wood, Yossa Way, Amuda Baba, Sadiki Kangamina, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Liz Grant and Nigel Pearson

Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya pp. 101-120

Timothy Downing, Daniel Olago and Tobias Nyumba

‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north pp. 121-140

Flora McCrone

From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond) pp. 141-164

Uroš Kovač and Anna Lisa Ramella

Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm pp. 165-185

Anna Lisa Ramella, Mario Schmidt and Megan A. Styles

In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya pp. 186-206

Léa Lacan

Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi pp. 207-221

Wangui Kimari

The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya pp. 222-240

Franziska Fay

Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya pp. 241-261

David Greven

Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda pp. 262-279

Sam Wilkins and Richard Vokes

Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election pp. 280-300

Anna Macdonald, Arthur Owor and Rebecca Tapscott

Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis pp. 301-324

Jimmy Spire Ssentongo and Henni Alava

Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation pp. 325-343

Moses Khisa

Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election pp. 344-362

Sam Wilkins