Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Volume 16, issue 4, 2022

Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies pp. 515-535

Nicole Beardsworth, Hangala Siachiwena and Sishuwa Sishuwa

Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections pp. 536-557

Gabrielle Lynch and Elena Gadjanovaa

Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections pp. 558-575

Marja Hinfelaar, Lise Rakner, Sishuwa Sishuwa and Nicolas van de Walle

Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election pp. 576-599

Jeremy Seekings

The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka pp. 600-618

Hangala Siachiwena

‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections pp. 619-642

Nicole Beardsworth and Samuel Kalonde Mutuna

A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections pp. 643-658

O’Brien Kaaba, Marja Hinfelaar and Koffi Sawyer

‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election pp. 659-680

Sishuwa Sishuwa

Volume 16, issue 3, 2022

Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye pp. 355-374

Anna Adima

‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s pp. 375-394

Julaina A. Obika and Patrick W. Otim

‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia pp. 395-414

Camille Pellerin and Johanna Söderström

The leasehold system and drivers of informal land transactions in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia pp. 415-433

Wolelaw Getahun Derso and Brightman Gebremichael

State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation pp. 434-454

Yidneckachew Ayele Zikargie, Poul Wisborg and Logan Cochrane

Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia pp. 455-471

Julian Sommerschuh

Adolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia pp. 472-494

Bethelihem Gebre Alwab, Els Lecoutere and Nicola Jones

The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019) pp. 495-514

Erik Gobbers

Volume 16, issue 2, 2022

Cuba’s involvement in and against the Eritrean liberation struggle: a history and historiography pp. 181-204

Gaim Kibreab and Georgia Cole

The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education pp. 205-227

An Ansoms, Elena Aoun, Benjamin Chemouni, René-Claude Niyonkuru and Timothy P. Williams

Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019) pp. 228-247

Hewan Semon

‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia pp. 248-268

Alula Pankhurst, Mesele Araya, Agazi Tiumelissan and Kiros Birhanu

Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement pp. 269-288

Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma, Lungile Augustine Tshuma and Mphathisi Ndlovu

The 1958 cotton crisis and the advent of military rule in Sudan pp. 289-308

Harry Cross

Mountain farmers and ecosystems: changing land use and livelihoods in Mount Rungwe, Tanzania pp. 309-334

Verdiana T. Tilumanywa

Decolonizing African history: Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975 pp. 335-354

Benoît Henriet

Volume 16, issue 1, 2022

Editorial announcement pp. 1-1

Emma Hunter, Jason Mosley and Paul Tiyambe Zeleke

The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia pp. 2-24

Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta, Atnatewos Melake-Selam and Joanne Tomkinson

Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya pp. 25-46

David Otieno Ngira

Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions pp. 47-67

Ane Karoline Bak and Ole Therkildsen

Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia pp. 68-91

Aisha Ahmad, Tanya Bandula-Irwin and Mohamed Ibrahim

Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya pp. 92-114

Brendon J. Cannon, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Dominic R. Pkalya

Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018 pp. 115-137

Tompson Makahamadze and Muluken Fikade

Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 138-159

Alex Veit and Sarah Biecker

Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands pp. 160-179

James Drew

Volume 15, issue 4, 2021

Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi pp. 527-545

Prince K. Guma and Mwangi Mwaura

Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia pp. 546-567

Mehdi Labzaé

The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991 pp. 568-584

Fantahun Ayele

Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005 pp. 585-603

Magnus Treiber

The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict pp. 604-623

John R. Campbell

How do I chase away this man? From Bosco to Dismas, unpacking the situated knowledges of MTN Uganda’s adverts pp. 624-644

Robert Madoi Nasaba

Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs pp. 645-662

Roberto Gaudioso

Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions pp. 663-684

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Michael Clarke Shand

Revisiting a colonial landmark: caravanserais as tools of urban transformation in early colonial Tanzania pp. 685-706

Andreas Greiner

Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya pp. 707-727

Kennedy Mkutu, Marie Müller-Koné and Evelyne Atieno Owino

Volume 15, issue 3, 2021

The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park pp. 359-377

Daniel Mains and Robel Mulat

‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania pp. 378-399

Atenchong Talleh Nkobou and Andrew Ainslie

‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past pp. 400-420

Joanna Nayler

When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists pp. 421-441

Allen Munoriyarwa

Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania pp. 442-463

Charlotte Cross

Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya pp. 464-484

Natascha Mueller-Hirth

The strategic internationalism of Rwandan heritage pp. 485-504

Annalisa Bolin

‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69 pp. 505-526

Jonathan M. Jackson

Volume 15, issue 2, 2021

Editorial announcement pp. 189-189

Emma Hunter, Jason Mosley and Richard Vokes

Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa pp. 190-213

Anuarite Bashizi, An Ansoms, Guillaume Ndayikengurutse, Romuald Adili Amani, Joel Baraka Akilimali, Christian Chiza, Innocent Karangwa, Laurianne Mobali, Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga, David Mutabesha, René-Claude Niyonkuru, Joseph Nsabimana, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka and Emmanuelle Piccoli

The “Civilizational Project” and the southern Sudanese Islamists: between assimilation and exclusion pp. 214-235

Willow Berridge

Dependence after independence: Sudan’s bounded sovereignty 1956–1958 pp. 236-254

Moritz A. Mihatsch

State identity narratives and threat construction in the Horn of Africa: revisiting Ethiopia's 2006 intervention in Somalia pp. 255-273

Katharina M. B. Newbery

Language policy in public space: a historical perspective on Asmara’s linguistic landscape pp. 274-296

Sjaak Kroon

Mobile hearings in the Eastern DRC: prosecuting international crimes and implementing complementarity at national level pp. 297-316

Bilge Sahin

A common situation? Canadian technical advisors and popular internationalism in Tanzania, 1961–1981 pp. 317-338

Will Langford

Public letters and the culture of politics in Kenya, c.1960-75 pp. 339-357

Daniel Branch

Volume 15, issue 1, 2021

Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators pp. 1-22

Mohammed Ibrahim Shire

Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement pp. 23-42

Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer

Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty pp. 43-62

Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia pp. 63-84

Marja Hinfelaar, O’Brien Kaaba and Michael Wahman

Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014 pp. 85-107

Martin S. Shanguhyia

Revenues on the hoof: livestock trade, taxation and state-making in the Somali territories pp. 108-127

Ahmed M. Musa, Finn Stepputat and Tobias Hagmann

Contested practices of trade and taxation: (in)formalization and (il)legitimization in Eastleigh, Nairobi pp. 128-146

Kirstine Strøh Varming

Governing the economy: rule and resistance in the Ethiopia-Somaliland borderlands pp. 147-167

Tezera Tazebew and Asnake Kefale

Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya pp. 168-188

Ong'ao P. Ng'asike, Tobias Hagmann and Oliver V. Wasonga