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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 10h

🆕Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa examines subtle #decolonial practices in Enugu State, #Nigeria, highlighting a decline in foreign name use & the revival of indigenous socio-cultural and spiritual practices.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 2d

🆕Kevin Anthony Oduor, Martin Ouma & Edwin Abuya analyse how faith-based organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, #Kenya, ease the refugee burden on host states & communities by supplementing service delivery to refugees & fostering peaceful coexistence.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 7d

🆕Taofik Oyewo Hussain examines #USAID's aid suspension in #Nigeria & #China's growing role, showing how Chinese infrastructure fills gaps but can't replace USAID's social sector support & recommends a balanced donor strategy to ensure sustainability.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 12d

📕Book Review: Christopher Amos appraises Dineo Skosana's "No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa", highlighting its 'essential contribution' to studies on mining, land politics, environmental justice, & resistance in Africa.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 21d

🎉Congrats to Victor Agboga, who received an honourable mention from the African Politics Conference Group for his dissertation, "Where do your loyalties lie? Party Switching & Voters' Response in Nigeria".

Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · 22d

🆕Vlastimil Fiala & @lucietungul.bsky.social investigate presidential constitutional engineering in Sub-Saharan #Africa, classifying how leaders manipulate term limits, change electoral systems & candidacy rules to retain power through legal constitutional means.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Sep 2

📕Martial Fanga Agbor reviews "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa" by @msobelcohen.bsky.social & Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, describing it as a compelling examination of the media landscapes in Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya.
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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Aug 22

🆕 Eyo Mensah et al. explore how heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern #Nigeria use praise names to navigate gender boundaries - sometimes reinforcing, other times resisting patriarchy - while shaping self-worth, visibility, and social identity.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Aug 18

➡️Did you know? We have a Book Review Newsletter webpage, where you can easily browse past editions!🤓

💻Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/page/afr/boo...

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Maxine Rubin @maxinerubin.com · Aug 6

Check out Africa Spectrum's latest issue! Everything is open access, which means you can read it for free and (hopefully) share widely 😉📩

Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢🆕New issue of @africaspectrum.bsky.social is out! Issue 60(2) features a Special Section on Pluriversalism in Africa, alongside research articles on elections, borders, gender, agriculture & more.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Aug 5

🆕Augustine Gyan explores the land disputes that arise as community members in Ghana work to protect their interests against mining companies, revealing why land digitalisation is unlikely to fix land governance challenges.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

➡️We hope our new issue has already piqued your interest.

🔔To stay updated about our latest online-first articles and Issues, do also consider following us on LinkedIn.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

📕Buyisile Ntaka describes Abu Bakarr Bah & Nikolas Emmanuel's "International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire" as a valuable examination of post-conflict reconstruction.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

📚Book Review Section

📕Awoyemi Adeniyi reviews Catherine Boone's "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design", praising its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

9⃣ Promise Frank Ejiofor critiques Eurocentric views of cultural racism by analysing ethnic racialisation in #Nigeria. Arguing that it extends beyond the black-white dichotomy, he calls for a new framework to study ethnic discrimination in #Africa.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

8⃣ Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women activists in #Senegal draw on Islamic values to pursue secular reform through #genderparity activism while challenging patriarchal norms.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

7⃣ Edem Adotey reconciles two "contradictory" perspectives of the borderlands by historicising bordering practices based on people's lived experiences at the Ghana-Togo border.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

6⃣ Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou trace how shifting political regimes have prompted moderate versus extreme changes in agri-policy in #BurkinaFaso since 1983.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

5⃣ In the research articles section, James Boafo, Kristen Lyons, & Senyo Dotsey examine how donor-driven aid pushes #Ghana's agri-sector toward market-oriented reforms that do not meet the needs of smallholder farmers.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

4⃣ For our Analyse and Reports section, Humphrey Agyekum, George Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach & Alena Thiel explore voter concerns ahead of # Ghana's 2024 elections, revealing a disconnect between promises & voters' everyday realities.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

3⃣ Matthew Sabbi draws on cases in #Rwanda & #Ghana to show how Global South states use strategic ambiguity to navigate international encounters, offering a framework rooted in homegrown concepts.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

2⃣ Mingqing Yuan unpacks Deng Changwu's literary narrative “Feipiao” ("Drifting in Africa"), revealing how it reimagines China–Africa relations through personal & transnational networks in #Kenya.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

1⃣ Raoul Bunskoek & Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino introduce the special section on pluriversalism, exploring how African & non-African actors co-produce knowledge in #Rwanda, #Ghana & #Kenya, challenging Eurocentric norms.

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Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢🆕New issue of @africaspectrum.bsky.social is out! Issue 60(2) features a Special Section on Pluriversalism in Africa, alongside research articles on elections, borders, gender, agriculture & more.

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