Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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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

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