Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2024

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Volume 10, issue 4, 2016

Party, patronage and coercion in the NRM’S 2016 re-election in Uganda: imposed or embedded? pp. 581-600

Richard Vokes and Sam Wilkins

The master of institutional multiplicity? The shifting politics of regime survival, state-building and democratisation in Museveni’s Uganda pp. 601-618

Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and Sam Hickey

Who pays for pakalast? The NRM’s peripheral patronage in rural Uganda pp. 619-638

Sam Wilkins

From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement pp. 639-659

Michaela Collord

Primaries, patronage, and political personalities in South-western Uganda pp. 660-676

Richard Vokes

Religious (de)politicisation in Uganda’s 2016 elections pp. 677-692

Henni Alava and Jimmy Spire Ssentongo

Where the wild things are not: crime preventers and the 2016 Ugandan elections pp. 693-712

Rebecca Tapscott

Partisan defections in contemporary Uganda: the micro-dynamics of hegemonic party-building pp. 713-728

Sandrine Perrot

Managing elite defection in Museveni’s Uganda: the 2016 elections in perspective pp. 729-748

Moses Khisa

Challenging dominance: the opposition, the coalition and the 2016 election in Uganda pp. 749-768

Nicole Beardsworth

“Land belongs to the people of Uganda”: politicians’ use of land issues in the 2016 election campaigns pp. 769-788

Lotte Meinert and Anne Mette Kjær

A history of the heritage economy in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda pp. 789-806

Derek R. Peterson

Volume 10, issue 3, 2016

The creation of Lubaland: missionary science and Christian literacy in the making of the Luba Katanga in Belgian Congo pp. 367-392

David Maxwell

‘How come others are selling our land?’ Customary land rights and the complex process of land acquisition in Tanzania pp. 393-412

Martina Locher

Education and extraversion: naming, valuing and contesting ‘modern’ and ‘indigenous’ knowledge in post-war Somaliland pp. 413-433

Christina J. Woolner

Countering threats, stabilising politics and selling hope: examining the Agaciro concept as a response to a critical juncture in Rwanda pp. 434-451

Pritish Behuria

Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia pp. 452-475

Jason Mosley and Elizabeth E. Watson

‘The land does not like them’: contesting dispossession in cosmological terms in Mela, south-west Ethiopia pp. 476-493

Lucie Buffavand

The road to Kenya?: Visions, expectations and anxieties around new infrastructure development in Northern Kenya pp. 494-510

Hassan H. Kochore

Planning, property and plots at the gateway to Kenya’s ‘new frontier’ pp. 511-529

Hannah Elliott

Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya pp. 530-547

Clemens Greiner

The promotion of pastoralist heritage and alternative ‘visions’ for the future of Northern Kenya pp. 548-567

Zoe Cormack

The Kuraz Sugar Development Project (KSDP) in Ethiopia: between ‘sweet visions’ and mounting challenges pp. 568-580

Benedikt Kamski

Volume 10, issue 2, 2016

Agricultural frontier, land tenure changes and conflicts along the Gucha-Trans Mara boundary in Kenya pp. 229-246

Valérie Golaz and Claire Médard

Spies, stonework, and the suuq: Somali nationalism and the narrative politics of pro-Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujaahidiin online propaganda pp. 247-265

Peter Chonka

Politics in everyday Kenyan street-life: the people’s parliament in Mombasa, Kenya pp. 266-283

Stephanie Diepeveen

The skull of Mkwawa and the politics of indirect rule in Tanganyika pp. 284-302

Jesse Bucher

The return of ‘high modernism’? Exploring the changing development paradigm through a Rwandan case study of dam construction pp. 303-324

Barnaby Dye

Food culture and child-feeding practices in Njombe and Mvomero districts, Tanzania pp. 325-342

Devota J. B. Mwaseba, Randi Kaarhus and Zebedayo S. K. Mvena

Victoire in Kigali, or: why Rwandan elections are not won transnationally pp. 343-365

Will Jones

Volume 10, issue 1, 2016

Resilience and collapse: histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya pp. 1-20

David M. Anderson and Michael Bollig

Adaptive cycles in the savannah: pastoral specialization and diversification in northern Kenya pp. 21-44

Michael Bollig

The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century pp. 45-66

David M. Anderson

Landscape, time and cultural resilience: a brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya pp. 67-87

Matthew I. J. Davies and Henrietta L. Moore

Changes in landscape vegetation, forage plant composition and herding structure in the pastoralist livelihoods of East Pokot, Kenya pp. 88-110

Hauke-Peter Vehrs

Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo pp. 111-129

Mathias Becker, Miguel Alvarez, Gereon Heller, Paul Leparmarai, Damaris Maina, Itambo Malombe, Michael Bollig and Hauke Vehrs

Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland pp. 130-149

Clemens Greiner and Innocent Mwaka

Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya pp. 150-167

Ivy L. Pike, Bilinda Straight, Charles Hilton and Matthias Österle

“Dust people”: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape pp. 168-188

Bilinda Straight, Paul Lane, Charles Hilton and Musa Letua

A victory in theory, loss in practice: struggles for political representation in the Lake Baringo-Bogoria Basin, Kenya pp. 189-207

Peter D. Little

What's in a name? The politics of naming ethnic groups in Kenya's Cherangany Hills pp. 208-227

Gabrielle Lynch

Volume 9, issue 4, 2015

Land titling in Uganda crowds out local farmers pp. 559-573

Victoire Chalin, Valérie Golaz and Claire Médard

Women's experiences of gender equality laws in rural Rwanda: the case of Kamonyi District pp. 574-592

Mediatrice Kagaba

Congolese refugees’ ‘right to the city’ and urban (in)security in Kampala, Uganda pp. 593-611

Eveliina Lyytinen

Introduction: Peace and constitution making in emerging South Sudan on and beyond the negotiation tables pp. 612-633

Katrin Seidel and Timm Sureau

South Sudan: state sovereignty challenged at infancy pp. 634-649

Samson S. Wassara

Points of order? Local government meetings as negotiation tables in South Sudanese history pp. 650-668

Cherry Leonardi

Negotiations and morality: the ethnicization of citizenship in post-secession South Sudan pp. 669-684

Ferenc David Marko

‘Recycling oil money': procurement politics and (un)productive entrepreneurship in South Sudan pp. 685-703

Rens Twijnstra

Land, political subjectivity and conflict in post-CPA Southern Sudan pp. 704-722

Andreas T. Hirblinger

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The Editors

Volume 9, issue 3, 2015

Announcement pp. 353-353

James Brennan, Michael Jennings and Jason Mosley

Transitional justice and democracy in Uganda: between impetus and instrumentalisation pp. 354-374

Valérie Arnould

“We are trained to be married!” Elite formation and ideology in the “girls’ battalion” of the Sudan People's Liberation Army pp. 375-393

Clémence Pinaud

The House of Federation: the practice and limits of federalism in Ethiopia's second federal chamber pp. 394-411

Tesfa Bihonegn

Women, marketplaces and exchange partners amongst the Marakwet of northwest Kenya pp. 412-439

Grace Pollard, Matthew I.J. Davies and Henrietta L. Moore

Locating the Indian Ocean: notes on the postcolonial reconstitution of space pp. 440-467

Jeremy Prestholdt

Islam, secularist government, and state–civil society interaction in Mozambique and South Africa since 1994 pp. 468-487

Preben Kaarsholm

Shaykh Abdullahi al-Qutbi and the pious believer's dilemma: local moral guidance in an age of global Islamic reform pp. 488-504

Scott S. Reese

After piracy? Mapping the means and ends of maritime predation in the Western Indian Ocean pp. 505-521

Jatin Dua

The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean pp. 522-535

Stephanie Jones

Understanding al-Shabaab: clan, Islam and insurgency in Kenya pp. 536-557

David M. Anderson and Jacob McKnight

Volume 9, issue 2, 2015

Restoring Leviathan? The Kenyan Supreme Court, constitutional transformation, and the presidential election of 2013 pp. 175-192

John Harrington and Ambreena Manji

Historicising agrarian transformation. Agricultural commercialisation and social differentiation in Wolaita, southern Ethiopia pp. 193-211

Davide Chinigò

Regional and ethnic identities: the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1950–1968 pp. 212-230

Elizabeth Laruni

Integration and identity of Swahili speakers in Britain: case studies of Zanzibari women pp. 231-246

Ida Hadjivayanis

Street trade, neoliberalisation and the control of space: Nairobi's Central Business District in the era of entrepreneurial urbanism pp. 247-269

Marianne Morange

‘No sex until marriage!’: moralism, politics and the realities of HIV prevention in Uganda, 1986–1996 pp. 270-288

Jan Kuhanen

‘They are like crocodiles under water’: rumour in a slum upgrading project in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 289-306

Sophie De Feyter

Sending peacekeepers abroad, sharing power at home: Burundi in Somalia pp. 307-325

Nina Wilén, David Ambrosetti and Gérard Birantamije

‘Time for School’? School fees, savings clubs and social reciprocity in Uganda pp. 326-342

Richard Vokes and David Mills

Viewpoint: Turkey as a “political” actor in Africa – an assessment of Turkish involvement in Somalia pp. 343-352

Mehmet Ozkan and Serhat Orakci

Volume 9, issue 1, 2015

Re-membering Mwanga: same-sex intimacy, memory and belonging in postcolonial Uganda pp. 1-19

Rahul Rao

The machinations of the Majerteen Sultans: Somali pirates of the late nineteenth century? pp. 20-34

Nicholas W. S. Smith

The Samburu laibon's sorcery and the death of Theodore Powys in colonial Kenya pp. 35-54

Elliot Fratkin

The role of credit facilities and investment practices in rural Tanzania: a comparative study of Igowole and Ilula emerging urban centres pp. 55-73

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen and Torben Birch-Thomsen

Women's land rights in the context of the land tenure reform in Rwanda – the experiences of policy implementers pp. 74-90

Jeannette Bayisenge, Staffan Höjer and Margareta Espling

“We are all Zanzibari!” Identity formation and political reconciliation in Zanzibar pp. 91-109

Sigrun Marie Moss and Kjetil Tronvoll

A “religious revolution”? Print media, sexuality, and religious discourse in Uganda pp. 110-126

Barbara Bompani and S. Terreni Brown

The role of the Anglican and Catholic Churches in Uganda in public discourse on homosexuality and ethics pp. 127-144

Kevin Ward

Virtual access: the Ugandan ‘anti-gay’ movement, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender blogging and the public sphere pp. 145-162

Caroline Valois

Another civil war in South Sudan: the failure of Guerrilla Government? pp. 163-174

Øystein H. Rolandsen