Journal of Eastern African Studies

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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

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

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

Volume 8, issue 4, 2014

Violence as politics in eastern Africa, 1940–1990: legacy, agency, contingency pp. 539-557

David M. Anderson and Øystein H. Rolandsen

Calm between the storms? Patterns of political violence in Somalia, 1950–1980 pp. 558-572

Ken Menkhaus

Political violence and the emergence of the dispute over Abyei, Sudan, 1950–1983 pp. 573-589

Luka B. Deng Kuol

“Unsound” minds and broken bodies: the detention of “hardcore” Mau Mau women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954–1960 pp. 590-608

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Discourses of violence in the transition from colonialism to independence in southern Sudan, 1955–1960 pp. 609-625

Øystein H. Rolandsen and Cherry Leonardi

Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections pp. 626-641

Lovise Aalen

Violence, decolonisation and the Cold War in Kenya's north-eastern province, 1963–1978 pp. 642-657

Daniel Branch

Remembering Wagalla: state violence in northern Kenya, 1962–1991 pp. 658-676

David M. Anderson

Ethiopian foreign policy and the Ogaden War: the shift from “containment” to “destabilization,” 1977–1991 pp. 677-691

Belete Belachew Yihun

The Uganda–Tanzania War, the fall of Idi Amin, and the failure of African diplomacy, 1978–1979 pp. 692-709

George Roberts

The grassroots nature of counterinsurgent tribal militia formation: the case of the Fertit in Southern Sudan, 1985–1989 pp. 710-724

Daniel S. Blocq

Punishing the periphery: legacies of state repression in the Ethiopian Ogaden pp. 725-739

Tobias Hagmann

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 8, issue 3, 2014

Erratum pp. x-x

The Editors

‘Hat on – hat off’: trauma and trepanation in Kisii, western Kenya pp. 331-345

Sloan Mahone

Religious freedom and the political order: the Ethiopian ‘secular state’ and the containment of Muslim identity politics pp. 346-365

Jon Abbink

African workers and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900 pp. 366-381

Michelle Liebst

Trade networks and the practical norms of taxation at a border crossing between South Sudan and Northern Uganda pp. 382-399

Rens Twijnstra, Dorothea Hilhorst and Kristof Titeca

From millet to tomatoes: incremental intensification with high-value crops in contemporary Meru, Tanzania pp. 400-419

Ellen Hillbom

A view of a bureaucratic developmental state: local governance and agricultural extension in rural Ethiopia pp. 420-437

Sabine Planel

Choices and changes of recruitment methods in a Tanzanian city pp. 438-458

Gundula Fischer, Henrik Egbert and Sebastian Bredl

Julius Rex: Nyerere through the eyes of his critics, 1953–2013 pp. 459-477

James R. Brennan

Recasting Julius Nyerere in Zanzibar: the Revolution, the Union and the Enemy of the Nation pp. 478-496

Marie-Aude Fouéré

The poetry of an orphaned nation: newspaper poetry and the death of Nyerere pp. 497-514

Mary Ann Mhina

Tanzanian newspaper poetry: political commentary in verse pp. 515-537

Kelly Askew

Volume 8, issue 2, 2014

Bringing the peasants back in, again: state power and local agency in Rwanda's gacaca courts pp. 193-213

Phil Clark

What's on a peasant's mind? Experiencing RPF state reach and overreach in post-genocide Rwanda (2000–10) pp. 214-230

Bert Ingelaere

Re-examining resistance in post-genocide Rwanda pp. 231-245

Nicola Palmer

Explaining the design of the Rwandan decentralization: elite vulnerability and the territorial repartition of power pp. 246-262

Benjamin Chemouni

Governing ethnicity after genocide: ethnic amnesia in Rwanda versus ethnic power-sharing in Burundi pp. 263-277

Stef Vandeginste

Cohesion through socialization: liberation, tradition and modernity in the forging of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) pp. 278-293

Marco Jowell

Promising developments? Children, youth and post-genocide reconstruction under the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) pp. 294-310

Kirrily Pells, Kirsten Pontalti and Timothy P. Williams

Rwanda's political settlement and the urban transition: expropriation, construction and taxation in Kigali pp. 311-329

Tom Goodfellow

Volume 8, issue 1, 2014

Erratum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. iv-iv

The Editors

Erratum pp. v-v

The Editors

Dedication pp. 1-1

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis

Democracy and its discontents: understanding Kenya's 2013 elections pp. 2-24

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis

Kenya and the International Criminal Court (ICC): politics, the election and the law pp. 25-42

Susanne D. Mueller

Dire consequences or empty threats? Western pressure for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya pp. 43-62

Stephen Brown and Rosalind Raddatz

The long road to institutionalization: the Kenyan Parliament and the 2013 elections pp. 63-77

Kennedy Opalo

Staging democracy: Kenya's televised presidential debates pp. 78-92

Natalie Moss and Alasdair O'Hare

Electing the ‘alliance of the accused’: the success of the Jubilee Alliance in Kenya's Rift Valley pp. 93-114

Gabrielle Lynch

Marginalization and political participation on the Kenya coast: the 2013 elections pp. 115-134

Justin Willis and Ngala Chome

Navigating ethnicity and electoral politics in northern Kenya: the case of the 2013 election pp. 135-152

Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore

Voting behavior and electoral irregularities in Kenya's 2013 Election pp. 153-172

Karen E. Ferree, Clark C. Gibson and James D. Long

Plus ça change? County-level politics in Kenya after devolution pp. 173-191

Agnes Cornell and Michelle D'Arcy