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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Modern African Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller & John C. Yoder London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 316. $160.00 (hbk).	18
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Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World edited by Valeria Fargion & Mamoudou Gazibo Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. Pp. 304. $155 (hbk).	13
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana	12
Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone	12
Citizenship as Political Lens: Laws, Loss, and Lived Experiences of Belonging in Africa - Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging by Bronwen Manby Oxford: Hart, 2018. Pp. 416. $130 (hbk) $79.45 (p	11
The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvii + 260.	11
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition	9
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)	9
Memories of Africa: home and abroad in the United States by Toyin Falola Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. 256. $99.00 (hbk), $30.00 (pbk); https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/97814	9
Good Governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by Portia Roelofs Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix+335. US$99.99 (hbk).	8
The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi	8
Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections	7
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica and Afroasia by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 301. $35.00 (hbk).	7
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Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $100 (hbk).	6
Researching Africa and the offshore world	6
Divided by the Word: colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities by Jochen S. Arndt Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45 (hbk).	6
Compounding the peasant struggles: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers’ adaptation to climate change	5
Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa by Peer Schouten Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.	4
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Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk). – ERRATUM	4
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity	4
The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $95 (hbk).	4
African Military Politics in the Sahel. Regional Organizations and International Politics by Katharina P. W. Döring Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 265 pp., 85£ (hb), ISBN: 9781009	4

Conflict at the Edge of the African State. The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland by Lindsay Scorgie Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.	3
Mugabe's Legacy: coups, conspiracies, and the conceits of power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore London: Hurst, 2023. Pp. 304. £22 (pb). ISBN: 9781787387713.	3
Women and Power in Africa: aspiring, campaigning, and governing by Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 248 + xiiipp. Hardback, $98. 9	3
Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime	3
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.	3
Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).	3
Yearning and Refusal: an ethnography of female fertility management in Niamey, Niger by Hadiza Moussa Edited by Alice J. Kang and Barbara Cooper. Trans Natalie Kammerer. Oxford: Oxford University Pres	3
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge	2
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State Fragility, Business, and Economic Performance An Ethiopian perspective by Belay Seyoum Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xiv + 465. €152.59 (hbk), €117.69 (e-book). doi: https://doi.org/10.100	2
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies	2
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Embodied Engineering: gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth century Mali by Laura Ann Twagira Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 344. $64.00 (hbk).	2
The legislature as political control: change and continuity in Cameroon's National Assembly (1973–2019)	2
Sacrificing environmental degradation and conflict risks for economic development: public attitudes to LAPSSET in Turkana County, Kenya	2
Congo's Dancers: women and work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. xiii+201. US$79.95 (hbk).	2
Africa's Urban Youth: challenging marginalisation, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus & Megan Hershey Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 202. UK£25.99 (paper	2
Political trust and informal traders in African cities	2
Insurgent Nations: Rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan by Paula Cristina Roque. London: Hurst & Company, 2024. Pp. xv+372. £22 (sbk). ISBN: 9781787389434.	1
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‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone	1
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta	1
Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow Oxford: OUP, 2022. Ppviii + 352. £75.00 (hbk).	1
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar Es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974 by George Roberts Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. XVI+336. 32.99$ (Pb). doi: https:/	1
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: how the state shapes private governance by Shelby Grossman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 200. $77 (hbk).	1
Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 284. $28.95 (Pb), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059820	1
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide by Marie-Eve Desrosiers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii-386. US$ (hbk).	1
Legitimising regimes and legalising self-defence groups: the case of Burkina Faso's VDPs	1
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2024. $34.95 (pb).	1
Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana	1
The Scare State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland by Noah L. Nathan Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xv + 313 pp. $145.00 (hardback) $34.95 (ebook). 978 1 009 261	1
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel Marie Niehuus. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. Pp. 201. $ 26.95 (pb)	1
Theorizing in Comparative Politics: democratization in Africa by Goran Hyden Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii+186. £25.99 (pbk).	1
Africa's liberation generation	1
A Court struggling for impact: complementarity at work in Guinea	1
Africa on the cusp of natality – from Afropessimism to African becoming A Review of Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr's edited volumes: To Write the Africa World (Polity Press, 2023a) and The	0
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania–ADDENDUM	0
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Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania	0
Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999–2023 edited by Wale Adebanwi. USA: James Currey, 2023, 464 pp. £90.76 (hardback). ISBN: 9781847013514.	0
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding by Shelley Liu New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. vi + 321. US$30.99 (pbk), $105 (hbk).	0
Unruly Ideas. A History of Kitawala in Congo by Nicole Eggers Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. xii+291. US$80,00 (hbk); US$34,95 (pbk); Open Access (https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/cgi/v	0
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Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	0
The religion of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel and the power of positive thinking	0
Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics	0
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: literature, philosophy, and Nigerian world by Nimi Wariboko New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. Ix + 193. ISBN 978-1-5013-9807-0	0
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Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections	0
Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918: a genealogy of colonial religion by Jörg Haustein Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. Pp. xvi + 435. $99 (e-book), $129 (hb	0

The Work of Repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa by Thomas Cousins Fordham University Press, 2023.	0
Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin	0
‘Assuming our place in the concert of nations’: Burundi as imagined in Pierre Nkurunziza's political speeches	0
Trade Makes States. Governing the Greater Somali Economy by Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat London: Hurst, 2023. ISBN 978-1-78738-705-8. Price: £22.	0
A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research	0
China's Relations with Africa: a new era of strategic engagement by D. H. Shinn and J. Eisenman New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 251. £23.39; https://doi.org/10.7312/shin2	0
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Commissions of inquiry and pathways to accountability in Plateau State, Nigeria	0
Shari‘a, Inshallah: finding God in Somali legal politics by Mark Fathi Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 391. £26.99 (pbk).	0
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’	0
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania by Hansjörg Dilger Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 226. $99.99 (hbk).	0
Land Politics: How customary institutions shape state building in Zambia and Senegal by Lauren Honig Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 365. $29.99 (Pb). DOI: https://doi.org/10.101	0
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Crashed Realities? Gender Dynamics in Nigerian Pentecostalism by Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 241. EUR 121.90 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-54570-0.	0
Constraining Dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes by Anne Meng Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 278. $105 (hbk).	0
Apartheid's Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence by Faeeza Ballim, Athens, Ohio 45701: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. 159.	0
Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk).	0
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Undoing Coups: the African Union and post-coup intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt London: Zed Books, 2020. Pp. 296. $95 (hbk).	0
Social media and parliamentary candidates in Uganda	0
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: the pressure of being a man in an African city by Mario Schmidt London: James Currey, 2024. Pp. x + 174. US$36.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9781847013521.	0
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy	0
Residual Governance: how South Africa foretells planetary futures by Gabrielle Hecht Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp.288. $27.95 (pb). doi: 10.1215/9781478027263	0
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria by Wale Adebanwi DOI:10.2307/jj.15369554 Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024. Pp. lvii+	0
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: spatial entanglements by Joseph Godlewski London and New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 312. 144$ (Hb), ISBN 9781032704043.	0
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Belonging, Identity and Conflict in the Central African Republic by Gino Vlavonou Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 256, $88.95 (hb), ISBN 9780299345709.	0
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War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi. Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp. ix + 274. US$29.00 (pb).	0
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria by Olufemi Vaughan Madison-Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 289. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780299344542	0
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties by Miranda Ruwart Melcher London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. pp. 246. US$103.50 (hbk). ISBN 9781350407930	0
‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’	0
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana	0
Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi	0
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya	0
Against Decolonization: taking African agency seriously	0
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement	0
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: family, religion and the state by Ludovic Lado. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2023, Pp. xii+161.	0
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The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia	0
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Business elites and the political economy of philanthropy in West and Central Africa	0
Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence	0
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Kwame Nkrumah: visions of liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $16.95 (pbk).	0
Senghor's Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology by David Tonghou Ngong Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023. Pp. 176. $59.99 (pb), ISBN 9781481317795.	0
Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies	0
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa by Daren E. Ray Athens: Ohio University Press, 2024, Pp. 329, $36.95 (Pb), ISBN: 9780821426135	0
The Infrastructural South: techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization by Jonathan Silver Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 330. 6 × 9 in, 54 b&w illus; https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpres	0
Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya	0
Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform	0
Populist parties shifting the political discourse? A case study of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa	0
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. Pp. 362. $35 (paperback).	0
The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya	0
How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa	0
The Security Arena in Africa: local order-making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan by Tim Glawion Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $99.99 (hbk).	0
The costs and values of life in South Sudan's militarised charcoal economy	0
Powerful Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare Devices by Abimbola A. Adelakun London: Rutgers University Press, 2023. Pp. 194. $125 (hbk) $34.95 (pbk).	0
France's Wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa by Nathaniel K. Powell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $99.99 (hbk).	0
Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 322. $89.99 (hbk) $29.99 (pbk).	0
Understanding Modern Nigeria: ethnicity, democracy, and development by Toyin Falola Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 672. £74.99 (hbk).	0
Historical Dictionary of Niger (Fifth Edition) by Rahmane Idrissa. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 642. $140 (hbk), $133 (eBook).	0
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A Tapestry of African Histories: with longer times and wider geopolitics edited by Nicholas K. Githuku Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 408. $125 (hbk).	0
Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration	0
‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone	0
Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa by Laura German Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 331, ISBN: 9780472075331. doi: 10.3998/mpub.12	0
Street Sounds: listening to everyday life in modern Egypt by Ziad Fahmy Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $90 (hbk), $28 (pbk).	0
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries	0
The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia	0
The Ideological Scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945–1966 by Frank Gerits Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp xi + 304. US$64.95	0
Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya	0
The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: ecumenism, feminism, and communal practice by Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. x+232. US$65 (hbk).	0
From dependence to conviviality: unaccompanied youth and host communities at the Zimbabwean–South African borderland	0
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Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign	0
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. Martin Plaut & Sarah Vaughan: Hurst, 2023. 392 pages. $34.95 (pbk).	0
Subnational ethnic conflict: the case of the African Great Lakes Region	0
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya by Emma Park Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2024. xv + 282 pp. US$28.95 (pbk).	0

Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa	0
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Every Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth Cambridge University Press, 2022.	0
Dress Cultures in Zambia: interwoven histories, global exchanges, and everyday life by Karen T. Hansen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 210; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009350310.	0
Development studies meet Pierre Bourdieu: the case of Chinese Private FDI in Zambia	0
Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline	0
‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks	0
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Truth Commissions and State Building edited by Bonny Ibhawoh, Jasper A. Ayelazuno and Sylvia Bawa Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago: McGill Queen's University Press, 2023. ISBN 9780228018995. C	0
Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony by Shadrack W. Nasong'o London, UK: Anthem Press, 2024. Pp. 234 (hbk). ISBN-13: 978-1-83998-027-5.	0
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Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali	0
Tensions in Sino-African labour relations: the view from the Karuma hydroelectric dam in Uganda	0
Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 418. US$43.99.	0
Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta edited by Joanne B. Eicher Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 330. $30 (pbk)	0
Historical Dictionary of Togo edited by Jennifer C. Seely and Samuel Decalo Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th edition, 2021. Pp. 467. $180 (hbk).	0
The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929 By Adam Mohr Baylor University Press, 2023	0
Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa by Stephanie Diepeveen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $110 (hbk).	0
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Children of the Soil: the power of built form in urban Madagascar by Tasha Rijke-Epstein Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. xi + 347. $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 978-1-4780-2529-0	0
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence 1964–1979 by Charles G. Thomas Ohio University Press, Athens, 2024. Pp. vii–xv, 282. ISBN 978-0-8214-2458-6, Price: $34.95	0
Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice	0
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Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia	0
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‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown	0
Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa	0
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University	0
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We are not Starving: the struggle for food sovereignty in Ghana by Joeva Sean Rock	0
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Long shadow of the ‘maquis’: discursive practices surrounding Cameroon’s hidden war	0
Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands	0
Party ideology in Nigeria's Four Republics: a case of right-wing convergence	0
Africanfuturism: African imaginings of other times, spaces, and worlds by Kimberly Cleveland Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024. Pp. v+200. US$29.95.	0
Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo	0
A party with China: political party affiliation and perceptions of China in African countries	0
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Woodbridge: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 270	0
Exploring the impact of Chinese firms in the Ethiopian infrastructure sector: implications for local development	0
Review of Ifi Amadiume, African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice (London; Zed, 2024, 27.00$ (Hb), ISBN: 9781350333802	0
Multiethnic Democracy: the logic of elections and policymaking in Kenya by Jeremy Horowitz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. $85 (hbk)	0
Africa's Railway Renaissance: the role and impact of China edited by Tim Zajontz, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bagwandeen and Anthony Leysens London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xxiii + 258 + Index.	0
Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal by Bernard Moitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. XVIII + 232, 99.20 EUR. ISBN: 9781009296441. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/97810092	0
When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal	0
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel by Leonardo A. Villalón Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 832. $165.00 (hbk).	0
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Lessons not learned: Ten years of French military intervention in the Sahel	0
Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic State of Gajaaga by Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-009-28234-5. Price: 35€	0
Voting for war, to secure peace: weaponising the Tigray 2020 election in Ethiopia	0
Architecture of Migration: the Dadaab refugee camps and humanitarian settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 432. US$31.95 (pbk). doi: https://doi.org/10.1215	0