Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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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

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