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Liberalising governance in Nigeria (Re-)viewed from below: good governance and CSR in the extractive industry from the perspective of local Africans Conflict, identity crisis and the withering away of the African Union: a quest for a new AU The imperatives of good governance and sustainable democracy in Nigeria Nation and state-building during wartime in South Sudan: lessons on embryonic governance and practices Traditional leaders and local government councils in Benin: who needs who? Understanding current Rwandans' perceptions of obedience to authority In relation to the 1994 genocide In Rwanda "Out-of-Africa": rethinking theoretical perspectives In African democracy Constitutionality: lessons from local institution building and resource governance in Mali and Zambia The African peer review mechanism (APRM) in promoting alternative methodologies for understanding African governance environments South Korea's soft power strategy toward Africa Japan's soft power in Africa China's soft power in Africa: application through the state media Japan's aid policy to Angola and Mozambique before and after the TICAD The judicialisation of politics and judicial threat in southern Africa Judicial politics and the negotiation of court reforms in Ghana Reassessing judicial review in a post-parliamentary sovereignty era: judicial-parliamentary relations in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda Diffusion versus strategy: the creation of West African constitutional courts revisited Courting elections in hybrid regimes The reform of local justice: a comparison between 'customary' courts and justice of the peace courts in Lubumbashi (R.D. Congo) Reimagining justice in contexts of transition Looking forward and facing the past: South African courts and the legacy of Apartheid Debating DDT in Tanzania Neoliberal conservation and displacement at the margins Can global environmental governance fight the market (and should it)? Natural resources management in Rwanda Green grabbing and the trade-offs between conservation and poverty alleviation: fact or fiction? Mapping nature - securing spaces: transnational nature conservation in the Kavango-Zambezi Region South Africa as an ordinary country: towards the Afro neo-liberal state? The Canadian advantage: gold mining in West Africa and debates on sovereignty, development and public-private partnerships Connecting spaces of investment and dispossession in the southern African political economy of energy Powerplay in Guinea's mining sector Death and taxes? Mineral tax regimes in resource-rich countries with special reference to Zambia Extractivism during crises of chain governance: The regulation of the global aluminum chain in Guinea from the 1960s until today Governance of foreign investment in developing countries: the case of Mozambique Investimentos da Vale do Rio Doce em Moçambique: entre expectativas e protestos A contribuição possível do pensamento social brasileiro às análises acerca da cooperação/competição entre economias nacionais: desafios teóricos In the eyes of the beholder: investigating research bias in 'land grab' literature Mapping out the conflicts involved in large-scale land investments in Africa Adapting to private acquisition of communal land in Ethiopia Biofuels, commercialisation and contract farming in Ethiopia: the case of Wolaita Socio-economic effects of large-scale agricultural land investments in Ethiopia Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance in Zambia Grabbing land for upscale safari tourism in South Africa: the social dimension of conflicts over changed land use Forestry companies as partners for rural development? Conflicts and power relations in the case of two European investors in Tanzania 'Land grabbing' by mining companies, local contentions and state reconfiguration in South-Kivu (DRC) Between ethnic and national: the clash of nationalisms during the revolution and decolonisation in Rwanda Seeds in the grass: the emergence and early development of a Southern Sudanese 'nationalist' movement (1947-1965 ca) Colonial perspective and nationalism(s) in Ethiopia in the context of African decolonization Competing identities and the emergence of Eritrean nationalism between 1941 and 1952 The reciprocal assimilation of exiled elites: Oscar Kambona and the networking of nationalism and opposition outside Tanzania, 1956-1992 The construction of nationalism and imagination of Zimbabwe Cross-border nationalism and its regional discontents in the Zambian/Katangese Copperbelt, 1955-1964 Support to nationalist movements from Nkrumah's Ghana Suffering for the nation? Comparing Guinea-Bissau and Guinea's cornerstones of national identity Sawaba, Niger and the nationalist revolution of a social movement (1954-1974) Competing nationalisms and national independence: an example from the Sahara Activism in limbo: an existentialist inquest into declining revolutionary volunteerism in Nigeria Civil society and the problem of ethnic premordialism in a plural African state Democracy and the ideal role of civil society in contemporary Nigeria Complementing CRO and HRO methods: appropriating Yoruba cultural response to Nigeria's challenges Education, civic virtues and the consolidation of democracy in Africa Checking democratic regimes in Africa: revisiting the basic assumptions about man The decline of democracy advocacy and dangers of ethnic politics in Africa The struggles of human rights activism to achieve rights to health in Nigeria: an exploration of the challenges Civil society, civic spirit and representative governance in Nigeria: issues and perspectives Nigerian writers as activists: curing collective amnesia with the civil war novel The European Union, regional conflicts and the promotion of regional integration Complex insecurities: Ethiopia's balancing act between state security and human security The Democratic Republic of the Congo: a laboratory for EU crisis management Universalising security: a gender critique of human security in the EU training mission in Somalia A critical evaluation of the motives behind the EU's conflict prevention and management missions in Africa from 2002 to 2012 Um ordálio de composição social As narrativas biográficas e as metodologias de investigação-ação sobre a memória e o esquecimento Memória e esquecimento do Projeto Kalunga: narrativas identitárias e cartografias musicais Dos espectros e dos fantasmas: reinventando a memória poética de Batepá em Alda Espírito Santo e Conceição Lima O discurso alegórico como forma de recontar a história Portugal híbrido, Portugal europeu? Contributos das narrativas ficcionais para uma sociologia pós-colonial das ausências Bug-Jargal de Victor Hugo: as representações culturais e somáticas dos escravos de São Domingos como legitimação da negrofilia e do abolicionismo Acknowledging the Orishas in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American cultural formation: a womanist spiritual approach in Painting Away Regrets by Opal Palmer Adisa Brazil and China's energy quest in Africa: a comparative analysis Chinese NOCs evolving investment strategy in Subsaharan Africa: 1995-2011 American and British strategies in the twenty-first century scramble for Africa's energy resources Threats and opportunities in the new scramble for Africa's oil and gas resources between the West and the East: a case study of Nigeria Perspectives from South African corporations on BRIC's engagements in Africa Energy and regional integration? The Democratic Republic of Congo's position in the southern African power pool Energy from across the border?: Explaining South Africa's regional energy policy Back to the debate on the resource curse: the rapid and controversial emergence of Mozambique as an exporter of energy resources The scramble for oil revenue and challenges to socio-economic development in the Gulf of Guinea: the case of Nigeria Fracking and the democratic deficit in South Africa A shale gas revolution in the Karoo? Renewable energy in Kenya: the emergence of a global assemblage Imagining the global, conceiving the state in Zimbabwe Leveraging global linkages for local rights advocacy: WACAM and transnational mining corporations in Ghana Between contention and contradiction: the international context of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Nationalism Whose justice is it anyway? Kenyan activism in times of International Criminal Court investigations Mobilized sex workers? Transnational advocacy, stigma and extraversion in Bamako The gender parity law in Senegal: revolutionary turning point or "passive revolution"? Opposition movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: do sanctions influence their political opportunity structures? Contentious politics about UN humanitarian military interventions Donor and recipient AIDS NGO interaction in Mozambique: the termination of a contract as a case study "We want to report about everything!" Reporting templates and the production of agency in international development cooperation Decentralised AIDS care in Mozambique: stigma as a detriment to patient retention in care Three faces of global power: the case of AIDS aid intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa Negotiating ownership: effects of external resources and reporting requirements on donor and civil society relations The making of responsible risk-takers: the case of HIV/AIDS cooperatives in Rwanda HIV, choice and policy: de-politicising policy on HIV transmission The fiction of sustainability: funding AIDS impact mitigation through civil society in Malawi Aids, power and local governance in the northern Côte d'Ivoire AIDS sells: competition and power articulation in the field of HIV/AIDS in Mali The self-help associations' participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS under the sponsorship of Family Health International in Gondar (Amhara region, Ethiopia) (Non-)implementation of regional governance norms: the role of overlapping membership and (international) hegemons An evaluation of the proposal for a single currency in West Africa Comparative analysis of regional renewable energy policies in Africa: strategies, challenges, prospects and lessons learnt. The cases of SADC and ECOWAS/UMEOA Cuban deportations in Fernando Poo in the nineteenth century: rethinking the encounter of African-American criolities from Hispanic and British colonies in Africa Personas con albinismo en Guinea Ecuatorial en el Punto de Mira A gestão do Fá d´ambô no contexto plurilíngue da Guiné Equatorial: indicadores sociolinguísticos e políticos VIYIL: un concepto para la organizacíon socio-político y (su)pervivencia de la sociedad de Ambồ Language ideologies regarding native and colonial languages in La Guinea Española The re-location of local languages in the Moroccan sociolinguistic regime: toward a new glottopolitical model La política lingüística colonial espanola y francesa en el protectorado: el caso del Bereber Estrategias glotopolíticas coloniales de Espana y Francia en la región del Sáhara Ghomara and Senhaja de Sraïr under Spanish Protectorate: a reflection on colonialism and minority language management in Morocco El porvenir del español y el Sahara occidental Linguistic policy in Saharan refugee camps From religion to secularism: challenges of moral development in Africa and beyond The language of sacred art in cultural philosophy, medicine and art: talking about two baskets of sacred artefacts from northern Ghana Advancing an African theory of modernity and applying the same to interrogate contemporary African philosophy of religion 'Aren't We Your People Too': Pentecostal Charismatic discourse in Kampala, Uganda, public health and sexuality. introduction to sociomony and African untonomics The role of religion among Somalis in Sweden when experiencing illness and suffering The invisibility of death among African migrants in Portugal African states and development: a historical perspective on state legitimacy and development capacity, 1890-2010 Poliscapes and political imaginaries: Ghana and Uganda since the 1970s Space and discourses of modernisation: electricity and state legitimacy in Ghana and Tanzania Politics of history in the Ghana-Côte d'Ivoire borderland Re-imagining colonial grazing boundaries in northern Kenya Seeking secession from the Kingdom of Buganda: contesting colonial ethnic boundaries in twentieth century Uganda Nomadic frontiers and state boundaries: Malual and Rizeigat on the Sudan-South Sudan border Of past and present: Mwami Rwabugiri and the conflict in Kivu Imagined sovereignties and claims of citizenship during struggles for Western Sahara The politics of history in Borno, Nigeria The Bakassi Peninsula zone of Nigeria and Cameroon: the politics of history in contemporary African border disputes Between myths and methods: doing fieldwork in times of emergency Trapped in our minds: dilemmas between apprehension of comprehension doing fieldwork in the context of violent conflict Revolutionary ethnography? The role of the anthropologist-expert during political upheaval Pornography of violence, ethnography of emotions: ethical challenges of reporting research findings from a post-conflict society Fieldwork in conflict zones and the international criminalization of violence Ethnographic research with mid-ranking rebel officers Veils of disguise in rural Rwanda: public obedience, hidden dissent 'History will prove us right': reflections from fieldwork on a small but long war ECOWAS and conflict resolution in west Africa: sharing eight months of field research in Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone Fluidity and complexity at the Juba peace talks: the challenge of researching complex peace processes Becoming 'a rogue anthropologist': caught between the university and the village in war-torn DRCongo Ethical challenges of fieldwork-based research in conflict zones 'You shouldn't be seen talking to them!' Reflections on building rapport, expressing neutrality and ensuring trust - ethnographic field research amidst pre-election tensions in KwaZulu-Natal, South Af "Don't worry, I am a spy too!" Trust and scepticism in fieldwork under fire Reforming the Congolese mineral sector: Ffrom official norms to every-day practices Where everything seems to fail... Regulating the gold sector in eastern DRCongo Resource politics: what really is contentious about resources? Oil resource finds and the space of indigeneity in the Albertine Grabben in western Uganda An evaluation of governmental policies used in the management of natural resources: a focus on Botswana and Nigeria and Lessons for Ghana Mine-induced urbanization: the development of gold mining settlements in Ghana Environmental justices and injustices of large-scale gold mining in Ghana: a study of three mining communities near Obuasi Forced resettlements: from impacts to opportunities - the case of Moatize mine (Mozambique) How different sorts of actors built Lunda towns in Angola Mining activities and urbanization in a fragile conflict setting: the case of Nyabibwe, eastern D.R. Congo Eritrean gold fields: from past hopes to present and future "benefits" Mapping Tanzania's Artisanal Mining and Urbanization Poverty or Prosperity in Tanzanian Artisanal Mining Settlements? Indirect urbanization: locational ties and preferences, housing, and multi-locational strategies of artisanal miners in Tanzania Adding value through the ethical mineral trade: livelihood building for urban mining economies? Listening to Koukan Kourcia: cinema and migration in Niger Nollywood and deceptive Eldorados Southern modernity: the Agudás' architecture on the Bight of Benin Narratives and silences: new forms of mobility among pastoral Fulbe of north-/western Cameroon War narratives in DRC Poetry without frontiers and migratory issues in Western Sahara: denigration, dissuasion, mobilization " Singing absence, praising return": the discourse on migrants in Zarma country (Niger) Kar Kar and migration in Mali About a "choreography" composed in tribute to the "52", little maids from Mali Migration and theatre practices in Mali Essinga: the linguistic crossing of central African refugees in Bamako Allies in the south: networks that supported and contributed to southern African independences Colonial war memories: secret alliances and imagined maps Defining fronts in southern Africa: a sub-regional agenda India's engagement in UN peace-keeping missions in the Congo: ethics, business and power politics A escrita da história na história das escritas: trânsitos literários Interrogando a 'Terceira África': colonialismo, capitalismo e nacionalismo branco em África Austral A memória imperial: o posto dos silêncios na guerra colonial portuguesa The Libyan role in the Sahel and a new regional order? Towards an effective UN-AU partnership for peace? A critical outlook based on the implementation of the R2P in Libya South African solutions for Africa's problems? Pretoria's response to UNSC Resolution 1973 Aid and authoritarianism in Africa: introduction Dicey donors: how donor commitment problems can explain changing foreign aid practices Transformation and continuity in the relationship between the Ethiopian government and international donors through different political regimes Funding repression in Ethiopia Authoritarianism and the securitization of development: the case of Uganda Aiding authoritarians: when democracy goes against donor interests Consenting partners: donors, protracted electoral reforms and limited political participation in Cameroon Conservation on contested lands: the communal conservancies in Namibia Community formation and political contestation in Kaduna State, Nigeria Conflict precipitated by human security: the interplay of group identities, territorial demarcation and the role of the state in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria Making borders and identities in South Sudan Twilight territories: political authority and land formalisation in urban Jigjiga, Ethiopia Spatiality, power and peace in Africa: revisiting territorial power-sharing Recasting "the local" in peacebuilding and post-war governance: illustrations from DRC, Burundi and South Sudan Rescaling power in Uganda: Buganda-central government relations since 2000 A critical analysis of trajectories in trans-border ethnic mobilisation: the case of Lozi and Chewa of southern Africa Ambiguous development; how South Sudan's elites respond to the interventions by multiple international actors Interpreting the legitimacy of aid The End of Nollywood's Guilded Age? The State, marketers' guilds and the struggle for distribution. Interrelated patterns of cooperation, conflict and accumulation in an unruly pastoralist border region (where South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia meet) Land reforms, platinum wars and rise of the 'indigene': the reshaping of rural authority during and after land reform in Zimbabwe Mai Mai militias and processes of state (un)making in eastern DR Congo Plural authority and shared sovereignties in post-conflict statebuilding The performing body: kinesic codes in Wole Soyinka's drama Marked bodies: inscribing deviance and difference in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning (1998) Muscles, dresses and conflicting ideas of progress: Ethiopia in the 1960s and 1970s Being "una busca" for a while: consumption and commodification of young bodies in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) To be born as a social being: giving identity to the newborn Bubi baby (Ecuatorial Guinea) Colonised, "civilised" and "modernised" bodies: the Claretian missions in Equatorial Guinea and the Bubi of Fernando Pó The practice of skin bleaching in Equatorial Guinea Managing ethnicity through the body: ethnographic approach to tattoos and scarifications among the Mbororo from Cameroon Bodily memory of harm and the possibility of new forms of sociality: apartheid-era victims in today's South Africa Perceptions of cholera in a border-area in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Youth appropriation of the body: youth appropriation of ICTs - Senegalese youth at the crossroads between Coosan (tradition) and Dund Toubab (the life of the whites) The body and the performance of masculinities among a group of young men in Maputo, Mozambique If you want stay cool don't take a bus: the everyday life of university students from sub-Saharan Africa in Italy Aging masculine bodies and contemporary gender performances in Cape Verde Transnational literatures in African languages, network and globalization: the case of Pulaar literature De-provincialising Swahili literature Translation and transformation: the national traveller in the Yoruba novel Socio-cultural dimensions of Raditladi's poetry: reflections from images and allusions from selected poems The production, contemporary issues, and form of Beyene Haile's "Weg'i Libi" ("Heart-to-Heart Talk") Social history in the classroom: a post-apartheid Zulu-language novel as a teller of history from within African culture as a weapon to restore nationhood in Mafata's novel Mehaladitwe ha e eketheha The Evolving Social Role Of Amharic Oral Poetry In Contemporary Ethiopia: Azmari, Fukkära And Qärärto In The 21st Century The philosopher also laughs: subversive traditions in Senegalese writing Oral tradition and narration of self and nation in the memoir: Wangari Maathai's Unbowed and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a Time of War Modern nation-states as barriers to regional integration in Africa Regime change and regional integration in north Africa: opportunities and challenges Southern African Customs Union's view of its place within the southern African regional integration agenda: challenges and opportunities Children's decision-making mechanism to migrate for work: theoretical analysis applied to west Africa Effective migration management as a mechanism to African regional integration Intra-regional trade, conflict and regional integration in Africa Grafted or crafted regional integration in east Africa The concept of the "border area" and the challenge of border integration and security with particular reference to Nigeria-Cameroon borderlands Regional integration In Africa: concepts, opportunities, challenges and lesson experience (EAC & COMESA) The African Union and the challenges of regional integration in Africa Love and gender relations for women on their own in urban South Africa From disempowerment to empowerment? A study of the trajectory of the cross-border sex trade among Benin women of southern Nigerian 'Menstrual synchrony' claims among Suri girls: biology vs. culture in the sexual politics of an agro-pastoral society in southwest Ethiopia Understanding the health and rights needs of lesbians and bisexual women in Abuja, Nigeria Finding, keeping and losing fathers: reproductive networking in rural Namibia High fertility in Niger: the role of intra-national differences Factors influencing childbearing in coastal areas of Ghana Socio-economic studies with social accounting and socio-demographic matrices Preventing HIV-transmission from mother to child: emergency or chance? Non-traditional sexual desires and gender traditions "O Destino das Mulheres e de sua Carne": gender regulation and the inscription of the native in Mozambique Relational subjectivity in feminist theory and "African" epistemologies Homophobia and homosexual desire in Kenya Desires and dating of young people in Kibera: the deconstruction of a de-sexualized risk discourse Pleasure as paradigm in the study of sexualities in Africa "Because I enjoy in it": knowing women and the power of the erotic Female initiation rituals and sexualities in northern Mozambique Eroticism and sexual pleasure in Diane Case's Toasted Penis and Cheese Sexual relationships and the sense of self in urban Mozambique Gendering consumption: advertisements in Kenyan popular magazines from the 1970s to 2000 Politics of desire: the night adventuress in Dakar On becoming senseis of the gay: young African women's use of social media tools to co-create knowledge on the diversity and heterogeneity of queer African experiences The pains and pleasures of love: transformations of romance and sexual practice in Zanzibar Relationships between trauma and religion in a post war situation: a case study of Huila Violência política e saúde mental: um estudo de caso da província da Huíla O papel das religiões na conservação e mudança de valores morais na província da Huíla Social resilience in a context of war: the case study of Humpata municipality in the Huila Province, Angola Beyond resources: accounting for UNITA cohesion in the Angolan civil war The emergency of new-indigenous? Questioning social transformation in Angola post conflict Paths of war and peace: perception of women who fought in the civil war in Angola National reconciliation and collective memory in Angola Long-term violence and nation-building processes in Angola: social resilience in rural areas As autoridades tradicionais, resolução de conflitos e o estado local Rethinking social categories in post-conflict Angola: social mobility in Luanda in the aftermath of civil war Ovimbundu ethnic and regional identity and association in post-war Angola Identidades sociais na Angola urbana: o caso dos bairros Ingombota e Luanda Sul em Luanda Institutional intervention in the appreciation and promotion of African indigenous languages for African development: the CBAAC initiative Competence in foreign languages for effective global communication and national development: a case study of the teaching of Portuguese in Nigeria The challenge of French and German as languages of instruction in colonial Africa: the Nigerian experience, 1859-1960 Status of indigenous languages within Gambian education policy: English vs vernacular languages as the vehicular language in formal education contexts Ideologies of development and mother tongue languages: what really "interferes" with English language acquisition? Renegotiating social identity in 21st century Senegal Attitudes towards mother-tongue education in Uganda: "you try make sure that our children remain backward" Africa-Europe Platform: the network for development of the African diaspora in Europe Diasporas and development through the lens of Somaliland returnees: between competition and recognition Africa and her diasporas: building global partnership for development (a case study of Nigeria) Migration and development in Sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of funding, actors and strategies mobilised The nation under the skin: a study of Ghanaian entrepreneurial diaspora to Italy The African academic diaspora and the development of higher education in Africa: empirical evidence Transit and migratory project: the migrants and their urban practices in Djibouti Migrants and the experimentation of a sustainable development in west Africa: the case study of Malian diaspora African Union, NEPAD and regional integration The African Union and mediation efforts in the conflict in Darfur Region of Sudan (2003-2011) Regional integration in Africa: assessing the challenges and prospects for the African Union A critical appraisal of the African Union's response to the recent Libyan uprising Mass media and the challenges of regional integration in Africa Africa's African Union: new pan African initiatives in global governance The NEPAD initiative of socio-economic development in Africa: challenges and prospects Strengthening NEPAD as a strategy for sustainable development in Africa: the role of the diasporas United States of Africa: a reality or a mirage in the post Gaddaffi and Abdoulaye Wade eras The AU and conflict management in Africa Virtual ethnographies: when text becomes space Africa's voices: reflections on a pilot project using mobile phones and interactive radio to survey public opinions Understanding politics and participation in the Somali media: research challenges from radio ethnography Kenyan eParticipation ecologies and techno-discourses Does information technology flatten interest articulation? Evidence from Uganda The narrative state: imaginations about and claims to the state in the discourse of the intellectuals in Cameroon "Poor people are never right": legal consciousness and families' accounts of Beninese justice Effective corruption control: implementing review mechanisms in public procurement in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda In the name of the state: contradictions between law and practices in Botswana policies involving resource rights, and development of rural populations De-judicialisation, outsourced review and all too flexible bureaucracies in South African land restitution Legal pluralism or double standards? Unacceptable law and accountability in Burkina Faso decentralised forest governance Legal fragmentation for institutional fragmentation? Effects of legal fragmentation on the decentralization of forest management, Senegal Soft law enforcement in the Nigérien gendarmerie Juggling with the norms: everyday practice in an emergency service in Niger War, literature and nationalism in Angola from the 1960s until nowadays Considering nationalist narratives in Angola: nation and ethnicity in Mayombe and Yaka Postcolonial engagement and redefinition of Amílcar Cabral's politics of national The genealogy of proto-nationalism in Mozambique (1877-1918) Sonhos de igualdade, pesadelos de diferença: os intelectuais do Centro de Estudos Angolanos O Instituto Moçambicano construtor da identidade do Moçambique independente e das suas elites políticas São Tomé and Principe: socialist ideology against 'homeland values' Reporting the story of a movement: actors from 5 in the history of MPLA - recent speeches Alcances do projeto partido/estado em Cabo Verde Sport and banal nationalisms in Mozambique Different political disputes in Angolan independence Brazil-Africa relations from the 1960s to the present: (dis)continuities under changing domestic and global political contexts Russia - Africa: horizons of cooperation and development Morphology and anatomy of Indo-African relations in the 21st century: issues and challenges "China's march into Africa": strategic partnership or neo-colonialism? South Africa, the BRICS and the currency wars: shaping Africa's future China and Brazil in Africa BRICS and bilateral South-South cooperation in Mozambique: tensions and possibilities India's development cooperation with Africa: a South-South perspective The IBSA within: HIV, health diplomacy and the possibilities of South-South cooperation Brazil as a sponsor of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa Brazil's agricultural cooperation in Africa: new paradigms? South-South cooperation in agriculture and the role of BRICS countries There must be peace Money, morals and law: police patrols in Ghana Historicising vigilante policing in semi-urban Plateau State, Nigeria Twilight policing: the performance of sovereign power in Durban, South Africa The politics of community policing in Mwanza, Tanzania 'We are not unity': comparing everyday policing in an Indian and a black township Rival forms of policing and politics in urban Swaziland Police reform in Sierra Leone and the reproduction of hybridity Histories of policing and punishment in South Sudan Ordering politics: political detention and the law in 1980s Zimbabwe Plural policing in African business spaces: mining companies and the reconfiguration of 'public' and 'private' in South Africa Language endangerment and its implication for knowledge of biodiversity in Cameroon: the case of Manyu Division 'Western science', anthropological knowledge and African fractals: trajectories in space and time Dynamiques sociolinguistiques entre les langues nationales et officielles en Afrique francophone Berber (Amazigh) in contemporary Morocco: official empowerment and self-perception The various destinies of African languages in a multipolar world The African protoproverbial in a multipolar world The role and influence of civil society organisations as independent monitors and/or evaluators of government programs and policies: a case study of Ghana Les dynamiques de la lutte contre la corruption au Bénin : l'engagement des médias et de la société civile face à l'Etat Women's movements and political change in west Africa Relations between CSOs and MMD governments in Zambia Enough is Enough! Re-awakening civil society in the face of state hegemony in Uganda On the form of religious movements Unity through diversity: a case study of Chrislam in Lagos "Orpaillage, that's total anarchy!": normative vacuums and autonomous rule-making in artisanal gold sites in Burkina Faso Two incompatible conceptions on gold mining in Sahel: divination and geology Thief at the stake: social and cultural analysis of illegal practices among residents of Slum Kibera (Kenya) Social violence and popular justice in Central African Republic Clean plots and dirty plots: the contentious coexistence of the different land tenure systems in Mali "Mpanera Tany" or major stake holders in plot transactions: semi-informal land market and speculation in Antananarivo (Madagascar) Landtenure arenas in Burundi: conflicting power and social construction of "practical norms" The pluralism of norms regarding the family sphere: constraint or opportunity for the state of Senegal? The moral economy of "untruth": norms of eligibility, biographical inventions and cheating among asylum seekers (Nigeria, Congo, Mali) Big men, dokimen and feymen: migration brokers in the margins of the law From normative rule to effective rule: disputes and conflict settlement in the urban informal trade Official norm and practical norm in the struggle against maraudage: the administrative practice on the roadside The inefficiency of professional norms in public health medicine Resistance through law: current tendencies of a return to African law The view from below: perceptions and subjective poverty in Greater Cairo Young women after the Egyptian revolution: embodying political agency Water in the 'Arab Spring': the human right to water and sanitation in Egypt's transition to democracy Private standards, trade and poverty: GlobalGAP and horticultural employment in Senegal Fair enough? Who benefits and how from fair trade in Ethiopia and Uganda? The unfulfilled promise of certification: women's empowerment and experiences of work in certified tea plantations in Kenya Social media and the 2011 elections in Nigeria: improving African elections through ICT ICT in Kenya: has technology affected electoral outcomes? The ICT culture and transformation of electoral governance and politics in Africa: the challenges and prospects Tuning the old radio: of new media and participatory programming in south-west Nigeria African creative cities: developing a new vision of the African city A place for creative exchange? The role of culture, arts and creativity in urban planning in east Africa The university city duality: redesigning East London, South Africa Does culture enable national reconciliation? Post-Algerian civil war creative economy On the role of new performance cultures in reviving Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) as an African creative city Tailoring cloth, tailoring alternative modernities on the 21th century: a co-education program designed with the African tailors in Lisbon Language contact and change in Portuguese-speaking African countries Mozambique, 2012: reevaluating the language situation Change and variation in the expression of the indirect object in European Portuguese, African varieties and Portuguese-based creoles Policies, attitudes, and technical choices for emerging national varieties in Africa: the normalization of Mozambican Portuguese Multimodal deixis: a case study of pointing gestures in the Portuguese spoken by the tonga in São Tomé in Principe Object pronominalization in Santomean Portuguese Ewe-Fon in contact with Portuguese: new insights from Peixoto's "Obra nova da Língua Geral de Mina" Betting on the strongest: the external post-conflict intervention in southern Sudan during the comprehensive peace agreement implementation, 2005-2011 Natural resource management in the post-conflict context External politico-military engagements 'for peacebuilding' in the Horn of Africa: a critical evaluation Local ownership in Sierra Leone and Liberia: between maximalism and manipulation 'Internal-external' ownership of security sector reforms in Guinea-Conakry: looking behind the scenes of a contested concept Nigeria's security sector reform: prospects from below Does a more participatory approach to reintegrating ex-combatants lead to better outcomes? Evidence from Sierra Leone and Liberia "Ordering Africa?" Perceptions of the US military's development practices in eastern Africa South Sudan's decentralization process between international pressure and local agendas Between global and local justice: internal perceptions and external dimensions of Sierra Leonean local transitional justice Combative Labor in African and new world slave systems during the early modern period From mercenaries to traders: the case of Nigerian elite forces in the Gold Coast (Ghana) 1874-1969 The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Workers Union (PTT) in West Cameroon, 1960-1967: a neglected aspect of trade unionism Transnational perspectives on mission workers across eastern central Africa, 1873-1900 Nigerian contract labour on the plantation island of Fernando Po: Atlantic constellations during late imperialism Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study An African perspective on the ILO conventions on minimum age: the case of Ethiopia 'Now we are all workers…' The remaking of marginality in Addis Ababa's inner city Northern theory, South African engagement: three historical examples from labour studies A study of the flower industry in Kenya: the dual model of the post-colonial economy revisited Eritrean female breadwinners: the Dolcevita case study In Asmara Flux in the border: inward and outward labour migration in the Mozambique-Malawi border since 1964 Turning the poor rich: how the naming of middle class in Africa reshapes global perceptions of poverty and international development assistance processes The consumers of Kenya: middle class or middle income? One or many middle class(es) in Kenya? Towards an analytical frame for distinguishing subgroups Elites or middle classes? The predicaments of studying social differentiation and inequality in Africa Linking middle class and political stability in Ghana Bulwark of democracy? The Ethiopian 'middle class' in modern political history The elusive Ethiopian "middle class": constructed from outside, inexistent from inside? Abstract for middle classes in Africa: the making of a social category and its social meaning and uses Becoming in between: the transnational formation of Angola's new middle class Middle class construction: domestic architecture and material culture in post-socialist Tanzania Small prosperity and development in Malagasy rural area: the case of the region of Itasy The middle class and political stability: the Benin experience Drivers of long-term growth? Assessing the impacts of emerging countries on Sub-Saharan African economies Brazilian policy to Africa: historical, diplomatic, economic and geopolitical dimensions Chinese companies on African raw materials markets Making sense of the rise of India in Africa: trajectories versus policy making African agency versus dependency: prospects for developmental states given natural resources governance Africa in Turkey's global strategy New dynamics or old patterns? 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