Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2024

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Volume 14, issue 4, 2020

Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88 pp. 591-612

Sishuwa Sishuwa

Interpreting contemporary Oromo politics in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach pp. 613-632

Terje Østebø and Kjetil Tronvoll

Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika pp. 633-650

Stephanie Lämmert

Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia pp. 651-668

Harald Aspen and Bedemariam Woldeyesus

Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa pp. 669-688

Bram J. Jansen and Milou de Bruijne

Correction pp. 689-689

The Editors

Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation pp. 690-706

Wangui Kimari, Luke Melchiorre and Jacob Rasmussen

War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi pp. 707-723

Wangui Kimari

‘Our time to recover’: young men, political mobilization, and personalized political ties during the 2017 primary elections in Nairobi pp. 724-742

Jacob Rasmussen and Naomi van Stapele

Building a culture of resistance: securitising and de-securitising Eastleigh during the Kenyan government’s Operation Usalama Watch pp. 743-762

Tomáš František Žák

Youth on the margins: criminalizing Kenya's pastoral frontier, c. 1930-present pp. 763-779

Hannah Whittaker

“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000 pp. 780-801

Luke Melchiorre

Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future pp. 802-822

Elisabeth King, Daphna Harel, Dana Burde, Jennifer Hill and Simon Grinsted

Volume 14, issue 3, 2020

Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects pp. 375-395

Biruk Terrefe

The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning pp. 396-412

Eric Morier-Genoud

Between grassroots contention and elite manoeuvring: sub-nationalism in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya pp. 413-432

Jannis Saalfeld

One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind pp. 433-454

Paul Nugent and Isabella Soi

Beyond associations: emerging spaces of self-organization among vendors in Zambia pp. 455-472

Lennert Jongh

The Gaboye of Somaliland: transformations and historical continuities of the labour exploitation and marginalisation of hereditary groups of occupational specialists pp. 473-491

Elia Vitturini

New wine in an old wineskin? Socio-political context and participatory budgeting in Kenya pp. 492-511

Kibui Edwin Rwigi, Erick Manga and George Michuki

Agency in constrained circumstances: adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia pp. 512-528

Marina de Regt and Felegebirhan B. Mihret

Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935 pp. 529-552

Daniel K. Thompson

Militant Islamism and local clan dynamics in Somalia: the expansion of the Islamic Courts Union in Lower Jubba province pp. 553-571

Michael Skjelderup, Mukhtar Ainashe and Ahmed Mohamed Abdulle “Qare”

Prosperity in a crisis economy: the Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993 pp. 572-589

Nathaniel Chimhete

Volume 14, issue 2, 2020

Feeling the heat: responses to geothermal development in Kenya’s Rift Valley pp. 165-184

Lotte Hughes and Daniel Rogei

Children of the revolution: the citizenship of urban Muslims in the Burundian decolonization process pp. 185-203

Geert Castryck

‘Sufurias cannot bring blessings’: change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya pp. 204-226

Samuel F. Derbyshire, Henrietta L. Moore, Helena Cheptoo and Matthew I.J. Davies

‘They just move in with relatives’: translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya pp. 227-249

Gerda Kuiper

Forever vanguards of the revolution: the Uganda People’s Defence Forces’ liberation legacy, 30 years on pp. 250-269

Anna Reuss

Refugees in uniform: community policing as a technology of government in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya pp. 270-290

Hanno Brankamp

‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa pp. 291-309

Ngala Chome, Euclides Gonçalves, Ian Scoones and Emmanuel Sulle

Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county pp. 310-331

Ngala Chome

Bureaucrats, investors and smallholders: contesting land rights and agro-commercialisation in the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania pp. 332-353

Emmanuel Sulle

Agricultural corridors as ‘demonstration fields’: infrastructure, fairs and associations along the Beira and Nacala corridors of Mozambique pp. 354-374

Euclides Gonçalves

Volume 14, issue 1, 2020

Revisiting colonial legacies in knowledge production on customary authority in Central and East Africa pp. 1-23

Judith Verweijen and Vicky Van Bockhaven

Authority that is customary: Kitawala, customary chiefs, and the plurality of power in Congolese history pp. 24-42

Nicole Eggers

Politics, prophets and armed mobilizations: competition and continuity over registers of authority in South Sudan’s conflicts pp. 43-62

Naomi Ruth Pendle

Anioto and nebeli: local power bases and the negotiation of customary chieftaincy in the Belgian Congo (ca. 1930–1950) pp. 63-83

Vicky Van Bockhaven

Legacies of Kanjogera: women political elites and the transgression of gender norms in Rwanda pp. 84-102

Sarah E. Watkins and Erin Jessee

In search of chiefly authority in ‘post-aid’ Acholiland: transformations of customary authorities in northern Uganda pp. 103-124

Sophie Komujuni and Karen Büscher

Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 125-144

Kasper Hoffmann, Koen Vlassenroot and Emery Mudinga

Locating the ‘customary’ in post-colonial Tanzania’s politics: the shifting modus operandi of the rural state pp. 145-163

Felicitas Becker

Volume 13, issue 4, 2019

Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management pp. 565-583

Daniel Mulugeta

La Belle Époque from Eastern Africa: an individual experience of the “globalizing” world, 1898–1918 pp. 584-600

Morgan Robinson

Re-evaluating international observation of Kenya’s 2017 elections pp. 601-620

Thomas Molony and Robert Macdonald

Water, sugar, and growth: the practical effects of a ‘failed’ development intervention in the southwestern lowlands of Ethiopia pp. 621-641

Benedikt Kamski

Reproducing the state? Organising primary education between state and non-state actors in Somaliland pp. 642-660

Tobias Gandrup and Kristof Titeca

Constructing citizens and subjects in eastern Ethiopia: identity formation during the British Military Administration pp. 661-677

Namhla Thando Matshanda

Change and continuity in the politics of government-business relations in Museveni’s Uganda pp. 678-697

Roger Tangri and Andrew M. Mwenda

Local power dynamics and petty corruption in Burundi pp. 698-717

Guillaume Nicaise

Ethnic associations and politics in contemporary Malawi pp. 718-738

Gift Wasambo Kayira, Paul Chiudza Banda and Amanda Lea Robinson

‘Almost everybody does it … ’ gambling as future-making in Western Kenya pp. 739-757

Mario Schmidt

Volume 13, issue 3, 2019

Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics pp. 371-388

Gianluca Iazzolino and Mohamed Hersi

Imagined futures, mobility and the making of oil conflicts in Uganda pp. 389-408

Paddy Kinyera and Martin Doevenspeck

Muted market signals: politics, petroleum investments and regulatory developments in Tanzania pp. 409-427

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen and Peter Bofin

He who pays the piper, calls the tune? Non-African involvement in Sudan’s African-led mediation processes pp. 428-444

Allard Duursma

Donors dealing with ‘aid effectiveness’ inconsistencies: national staff in foreign aid agencies in Tanzania pp. 445-464

Molly Sundberg

The limits of Malawian headmen’s agency in co-constructed development practice and narratives pp. 465-484

Thomas McNamara

Phone calls and political ping-pong: nodding syndrome and healthcare provision in Uganda pp. 485-503

Karin van Bemmel

The Dats’in: historical experience and cultural identity of an undocumented indigenous group of the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland pp. 504-524

Almudena Hernando, Alfredo González-Ruibal and Worku Derara-Megenassa

South Asian entrepreneurs in the automotive age: negotiating a place of belonging in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania pp. 525-545

Katie Valliere Streit

A currency muddle: resistance, materialities and the local use of money during the East African rupee crisis (1919–1923) pp. 546-564

Karin Pallaver

Volume 13, issue 2, 2019

Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? pp. 215-234

Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, Gabrielle Lynch, Mutuma Ruteere and Justin Willis

Judicialisation of politics and Kenya’s 2017 elections pp. 235-252

Karuti Kanyinga and Collins Odote

Violence, security and the policing of Kenya’s 2017 elections pp. 253-271

Patrick Mutahi and Mutuma Ruteere

Treacherous coattails: gubernatorial endorsements and the presidential race in Kenya’s 2017 election pp. 272-293

Elena Gadjanova

Intensified local grievances, enduring national control: the politics of land in the 2017 Kenyan elections pp. 294-312

Michelle D’Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya

Women’s political inclusion in Kenya’s devolved political system pp. 313-333

Yolande Bouka, Marie E. Berry and Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru

Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun pp. 334-352

Hannah Waddilove

The Buffalo and the Squirrel: moral authority and the limits of patronage in Kiambu County’s 2017 gubernatorial race pp. 353-370

Peter Lockwood

Volume 13, issue 1, 2019

Editorial announcement pp. 1-1

James Brennan, Richard Vokes and Jason Mosley

Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age pp. 2-17

Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen and George Karekwaivanane

From baraza to cyberbaraza: interrogating publics in the context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasse pp. 18-34

Irene Brunotti

Knowledge and legitimacy: the fragility of digital mobilisation in Sudan pp. 35-53

Siri Lamoureaux and Timm Sureau

‘Tapanduka Zvamuchese’: Facebook, ‘unruly publics’, and Zimbabwean politics pp. 54-71

George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane

Social diary and news production: authorship and readership in social media during Kenya’s 2007 elections pp. 72-89

Inge Brinkman

Kuchu activism, queer sex-work and “lavender marriages,” in Uganda’s virtual LGBT safe(r) spaces pp. 90-105

Austin Bryan

Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: entertainment websites and the creation of a digital youth public in post-genocide Rwanda pp. 106-123

Andrea Mariko Grant

#Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenya’s digital “practices” and “individuation” as a (non)political act pp. 124-139

George Ogola

News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public pp. 140-157

Peter Chonka

The limits of publicity: Facebook and transformations of a public realm in Mombasa, Kenya pp. 158-174

Stephanie Diepeveen

WhatsApp as ‘digital publics’: the Nakuru Analysts and the evolution of participation in county governance in Kenya pp. 175-191

Duncan Omanga

A tale of two publics? Online politics in Ethiopia’s elections pp. 192-213

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau and Gerawork Aynekulu