Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jim Robert Brennan

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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

Volume 12, issue 4, 2018

Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier pp. 613-631

Asebe Regassa and Benedikt Korf

Power, production, and land use in German East Africa through the photographs of Walther Dobbertin, c. 1910 pp. 632-654

Chris Conte

Forest imageries and political practice in colonial coastal Kenya pp. 655-673

David Bresnahan

Ethiopian church forests: a socio-religious conservation model under change pp. 674-695

Izabela Orlowska and Peter Klepeis

‘National resources’? The fragmented citizenship of gas extraction in Tanzania pp. 696-715

Robert Ahearne and John Childs

Regional derailment: the saga of the East African Railways pp. 716-734

Patrick Y. Whang

Before the Bright Star: football in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan pp. 735-753

Christopher Tounsel

The murder of Wilbert Klerruu: collective agriculture on trial in Tanzania pp. 754-771

Michael F. Lofchie

Volume 12, issue 3, 2018

“No war, no peace” in a region in flux: crisis, escalation, and possibility in the Eritrea-Ethiopia rivalry pp. 407-427

Michael Woldemariam

“One People, One Struggle”: Anya-Nya propaganda and the Israeli Mossad in Southern Sudan, 1969–1971 pp. 428-453

Yotam Gidron

Sudan and the assassination attempt on President Mubarak in June 1995: a cornerstone in ideological reverse pp. 454-472

Mohammed Hussain Sharfi

Maasai group ranches, minority land owners, and the political landscape of Laikipia County, Kenya pp. 473-493

Graham R. Fox

“Ambiguous citizens”: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging pp. 494-513

Tabea Scharrer

Understanding Rwandan politics through the longue durée: from the precolonial to the post-genocide era pp. 514-532

Filip Reyntjens

Mobile phones in the transformation of the informal economy: stories from market women in Kampala, Uganda pp. 533-551

Caroline Wamala Larsson and Jakob Svensson

Aid, trade and the post-war recovery of the Rwandan coffee sector pp. 552-574

Andrea Guariso and Marijke Verpoorten

Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry pp. 575-593

Gundula Fischer

Identifying the most deprived in rural Ethiopia and Uganda: a simple measure of socio-economic deprivation pp. 594-612

John Sender, Christopher Cramer and Carlos Oya

Volume 12, issue 2, 2018

African cities and violent conflict: the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa pp. 193-210

Karen Büscher

Wartime speculation: property markets and institutional change in eastern Congo's urban centers pp. 211-231

David Peyton

Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo pp. 232-253

Gillian Mathys and Karen Büscher

Agency, social space and conflict-urbanism in eastern Congo pp. 254-273

Silke Oldenburg

The politics of everyday policing in Goma: the case of the Anti-gang pp. 274-289

Maarten Hendriks

Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC pp. 290-309

Fons van Overbeek and Peter A. Tamás

From rural rebellion to urban uprising? A socio-spatial perspective on Bujumbura's conflict history pp. 310-328

Tomas Van Acker

Small towns and rural growth centers as strategic spaces of control in Rwanda’s post-conflict trajectory pp. 329-347

Ine Cottyn

Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town: aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda pp. 348-366

Karen Büscher, Sophie Komujuni and Ivan Ashaba

Planning amidst precarity: utopian imaginings in South Sudan pp. 367-385

Naseem Badiey and Christian Doll

Hybrid security governance, post-election violence and the legitimacy of community-based armed groups in urban Kenya pp. 386-404

Moritz Schuberth

Corrigendum pp. 405-405

The Editors

Volume 12, issue 1, 2018

Power, contested institutions and land: repoliticising analysis of natural resources and conflict in Darfur pp. 1-21

Brendan Bromwich

Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing pp. 22-43

Peter Ventevogel, Jérémie Niyonkuru, Aline Ndayisaba, Ria Reis and Joop T.V.M. de Jong

Age and gender voting trends in the 2015 Tanzanian general election pp. 44-62

Robert Macdonald

“Umoja ni ushindi (Unity is victory)”: management of factionalism in the presidential nomination of Tanzania's dominant party in 2015 pp. 63-82

Machiko Tsubura

Talking ‘land grabs’ is talking politics: land as politicised rhetoric during Tanzania’s 2015 elections pp. 83-101

Sina Schlimmer

The unintended consequences of foreign military assistance in Africa: an analysis of peacekeeping training in Kenya pp. 102-119

Marco Jowell

The Burundian army’s trajectory to professionalization and depoliticization, and back again pp. 120-135

Nina Wilén, Gérard Birantamije and David Ambrosetti

An uncertain future: South Africa’s national defence force caught between foreign-policy ambitions and domestic development pp. 136-153

Thomas Mandrup

Rwanda’s military as a people’s army: heroes at home and abroad pp. 154-171

Josefine Kuehnel and Nina Wilén

Joining AMISOM: why six African states contributed troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia pp. 172-192

Paul D. Williams