Journal of Modern African Studies

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Africa's liberation generation	17
Ghana's petroleum industry: expectations, frustrations and anger in coastal communities	17
Military parade in Mali: understanding Malian politics through spectacle	11
People who run African affairs: staffing and recruitment in the African Union Commission	10
Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: the experience of A2 resettlement farms	10
Intimate crimes: heroin and the rise of amaphara in South Africa	10
‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’	9
The Pentecostal prosperity gospel in Nigeria: paradoxes of corruption and inequality	9
Unravelling the adoption of youth quotas in African hybrid regimes: evidence from Morocco	8
Recite the last bylaw: chiefs and child marriage reform in Malawi	8
South African Afrophobia in local and continental contexts	8
Researching Africa and the offshore world	8
Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies	7
How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa	6
Big Man or Boogey Man? The concept of the Big Man in political science	6
Corruption and the impact of law enforcement: insights from a mixed-methods study in Malawi	5
Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration	5
Commissions of inquiry and pathways to accountability in Plateau State, Nigeria	5
Financing political parties in Africa: the case of Zimbabwe	5
Push, pull and push-back to land certification: regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire	5
Populist parties shifting the political discourse? A case study of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa	5
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition	4
Migration aspirations from a youth perspective: focus groups with returnees and youth in Mali	4
Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya	3
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania	3

Russia's return to Africa: a comparative study of Egypt, Algeria and Morocco	3
Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone	3
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign	3
Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana	3
Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali	3
Why Africans tolerate income inequality	3
Recycled rhetoric: examining continuities in political rhetoric as a resilience strategy in pre-independence and post-genocide Rwanda	2
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	2
‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017–2018)	2
Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence	2
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy	2
‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown	2
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University	2
Lagos in life: placing cities in lived experience	2
Economic signals of ethnicity and voting in Africa: analysis of the correlation between agricultural subsectors and ethnicity in Kenya	2
Presence through absence? Understanding the role of capital in the African Human Rights Action Plan	1
Practices of development assistance and climate change mitigation in reshaping the Mozambican REDD+ strategy	1
The figure of the abducted Acholi girl: nation-building, gender, and children born into the LRA in Uganda	1
When decentralisation undermines representation: ethnic exclusion and state ownership in DR Congo's new provinces	1
Corporate land acquisitions at the intersection of lineage and patronage networks in Cameroon	1
Mediating bureaucrats: embedded economic action in the Mozambican sugar industry	1
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).	1
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana	1
The politics of the Hajj organisation in Senegal: security, legitimation and clientelism	1
‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks	1
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)	1
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies	1
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge	1
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity	1
Post-conflict initiatives and the exclusion of conflict-affected young people in northern Uganda	1
Media influence on public policy in Kenya	1
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya	1
Ethnic favouritism in Kenyan education reconsidered: when a picture is worth more than a thousand regressions	1
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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
Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa	0
Liberation in theory and in practice: Ethiopia and its political modernities - Laying the Past to Rest by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe London: Hurst, 2019. Pp. 355. - East Africa after Liberation by Jon	0
The Political Life of an Epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe by Simukai Chigudu Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 230. $99 (hbk).	0
The Cape Radicals: intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s by Crain Soudien Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. Pp. 213. $30 (pbk)	0
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The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya by Ambreena Manji. London: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 224.	0
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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
‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone	0
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Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline	0
Political Violence in Kenya: land, elections, and claim-making by Kathleen Klaus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 372. $120 (hbk).	0
The legislature as political control: change and continuity in Cameroon's National Assembly (1973–2019)	0
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Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics	0

For Money and Elders: ritual, sovereignty and the sacred in Kenya by Robert W. Blunt Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2019. Pp. 216. $82.50 (hbk).	0
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Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania–ADDENDUM	0
Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia	0
Revolutionary legality and the Burkinabè insurrection	0
‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone	0
When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal	0
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).	0
Age of Concrete: housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of Mozambique by David Morton Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $90 (hbk) $34.95 (pbk).	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
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South Korea's Engagement with Africa: a history of the relationship through multiple aspects edited by Yongkyu Chang Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 216. £69.99 (hbk).	0
Constraining Dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes by Anne Meng Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 278. $105 (hbk).	0
Fires of Gold: law, spirit, and sacrificial labor in Ghana by Lauren Coyle Rosen Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 224. US$29.95 (pbk).	0
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).	0
Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice	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
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).	0
Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi	0
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).	0
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Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 418. US$43.99.	0
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Nigeria and World War II, by Chima J. Korieh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 310 pp, £29.66.	0
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.	0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow Oxford: OUP, 2022. Ppviii + 352. £75.00 (hbk).	0
Historical Dictionary of Niger (Fifth Edition) by Rahmane Idrissa. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 642. $140 (hbk), $133 (eBook).	0
Professor Ian Taylor, 1969–2021: An Appreciation	0
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Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa	0
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.	0
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta	0
Authoritarian Africa: repression, resistance, and the power of ideas by Nic Cheeseman and Jonathan Fisher New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxxii + 144.	0
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Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo	0
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	0
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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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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).	0
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).	0
Inside African Politics (second edition) by Kevin C. Dunn and Pierre Englebert Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2019. Pp. 477. $35 (pbk).	0
A History of West Central Africa to 1850 by John K. Thornton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 365. $29.99 (pbk), $99.99 (hbk).	0
Political trust and informal traders in African cities	0
‘Assuming our place in the concert of nations’: Burundi as imagined in Pierre Nkurunziza's political speeches	0
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Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 322. $89.99 (hbk) $29.99 (pbk).	0
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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
A History of the Present: a biography of Indian South Africans, 1994–2019 by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 404. £56 (hbk).	0
Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin	0
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	0
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement	0
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Water, Life, and Profit: fluid economies and cultures of Niamey, Niger by Sara Beth Keough and Scott M. Youngstedt New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. 188. $135 (hbk).	0
Undoing Coups: the African Union and post-coup intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt London: Zed Books, 2020. Pp. 296. $95 (hbk).	0
Kwame Nkrumah: visions of liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $16.95 (pbk).	0
Ambivalent: photography and visibility in African history edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 367. $36.95 (pbk).	0
The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia	0
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Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age by Ndubueze L. Mbah. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 296.	0
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).	0
Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime	0
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South Sudan's Injustice System: law and activism on the frontline by Rachel Ibreck London: Zed Books, 2019. Pp. 301. $25 (pbk).	0
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The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel by Leonardo A. Villalón Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 832. $165.00 (hbk).	0
Legislative Development in Africa: politics and postcolonial legacies by Ken Ochieng’ Opalo Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 294. $99.99 (hbk).	0
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. Martin Plaut & Sarah Vaughan: Hurst, 2023. 392 pages. $34.95 (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
Mohammed VI's Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development by Eva Sandberg and Seth Binder. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 146. $155 (hbk).	0
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.	0
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Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections	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). – ERRATUM	0
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’	0
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The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi	0
Seeing Like a Citizen: decolonization, development, and the making of Kenya, 1945–1980 by Kara Moskowitz. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $80 (hbk) $34.95 (pbk).	0

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	0
Food Security and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: agrarian questions in Egypt and Tunisia by Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush London: Anthem Press, 2019. Pp. 216. $125 (hbk).	0
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Every Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth Cambridge University Press, 2022.	0
Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: the centrality of the margins by Paul Nugent Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 636. £29.99 (pbk).	0
Tensions in Sino-African labour relations: the view from the Karuma hydroelectric dam in Uganda	0
Understanding Modern Nigeria: ethnicity, democracy, and development by Toyin Falola Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 672. £74.99 (hbk).	0
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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
Development studies meet Pierre Bourdieu: the case of Chinese Private FDI in Zambia	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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Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Woodbridge: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 270	0
Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $100 (hbk).	0
Multiethnic Democracy: the logic of elections and policymaking in Kenya by Jeremy Horowitz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. $85 (hbk)	0
A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research	0
Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections	0
Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform	0
The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya	0
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution by Toby Green Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 640. $40 (hbk).	0
Inclusive Trade in Africa: the African Continental Free Trade Area in comparative perspective edited by David Luke and Jamie MacLeod. London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 208. £120.00 (hbk).	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
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
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Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya	0
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
Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands	0
Powerful Frequencies: radio, state power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002 by Marissa J. Moorman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $80.00 (hbk); $32.95 (pbk).	0
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From dependence to conviviality: unaccompanied youth and host communities at the Zimbabwean–South African borderland	0
Horn, Sahel and Rift: fault-lines of the African jihad by Stig Jarle Hansen London: Hurst Publishers, 2019. Pp. 330. £25.00 (hbk).	0
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana	0
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Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).	0
Against Decolonization: taking African agency seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò London: Hurst & Company, 2022. Pp368; ISBN: 9781787386921; £14.99 (Pb) - Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Afri	0
Abolition in Sierra Leone: re-building lives and identities in nineteenth-century West Africa by Richard Peter Anderson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 306. $99 (hbk).	0
Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World edited by Valeria Fargion & Mamoudou Gazibo Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. Pp. 304. $155 (hbk).	0
China in Ethiopia: the long-term perspective by Aaron Tesfaye Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020. Pp. 191, $95 (hbk).	0