Minding the local slot: municipalities as drivers of trust in public institutions

2024-8-30

In the shadow of institutionality: assessing Uganda’s accountability mechanisms at local government level

2024-8-30

Multi-layered encounters between Reclaim the City and the Cape Town municipality

2024-8-30

Innovating <i>Imihigo</i> : a decentralisation and indigenous governance mechanism in Rwanda

2024-8-29

Decentralisation, subsidiarity and capacity development for local governments in francophone West Africa

2024-8-29

“The unwavering bond”: examining the sense of place in Harare’s informal urban neighbourhoods

2024-8-27

Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

2024-8-20

Contestation en Afrique

2024-8-19

The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarization and Alternatives <b>The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarization and Alternatives</b> , edited by Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose and Tafadzwa Mushonga, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, v + 251 pp.

2024-8-8

Rethinking Civil–Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État <b>Rethinking Civil–Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État</b> , edited by Moses Khisa and Christopher Day, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022, xii + 249 pp.

2024-8-6

Turkish Airlines: facilitating Türkiye's soft power in Africa

2024-8-5

Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union <b>Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union</b> , edited by David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt, Cape Town, HSRC Press, 2023, xix + 286 pp.

2024-8-1

“La femme tchadienne c’est sa beauté” : pratiques esthétiques féminines et rapports de pouvoir en milieu musulman n’djamenois

2024-7-29

The postcolonial world as a cargo globe: ideas of inequality in early Ghanaian fiction, 1968–1977

2024-7-24

The co-constitution of city-time, materials and youth life in urban Lagos

2024-7-18

Syndicat et syndicalisme chez les orpailleurs du Sénégal : causes, finalités et perspectives d’avenir

2024-7-11

Continuities between the slave trade, “legitimate” commerce, and the <i>Serviçal</i> trade: a look at four families in Angola in the mid- to late nineteenth century

2024-7-1

Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l’Architecture de Paix et de Sécurité en Afrique <b>Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l’Architecture de Paix et de Sécurité en Afrique</b> , by Katharina Döring, Ulf Engel, Linnéa Gelot et Jens Herpolsheimer, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2023, x + 306 pp.

2024-6-26

Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019: From Social History to Politics from Below <b>Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019: From Social History to Politics from Below</b> , edited by Elena Vezzadini, Iris Seri-Hersch, Lucie Revilla, Anael Poussier and Mahassin Abdul Jalil, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023, 671 pp.

2024-6-19

Who Owns Africa? Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble <b>Who Owns Africa? Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble</b> , edited by Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2022, 280 pp.

2024-6-13

La Bible et l’Afrique : Rapprochement, lien et projection <b>La Bible et l’Afrique : Rapprochement, lien et projection</b> , by Hypolite Okamba, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2023, 127pp.

2024-5-27

Guardians or disrupters? Peace discourses and politics in Tanzania

2024-5-14

Résilience, inclusivité et enseignement-apprentissage dans les établissements scolaires en Afrique <b>Résilience, inclusivité et enseignement-apprentissage dans les établissements scolaires en Afrique</b> , by Pierre Fonkoua and Florentin Azia Dimbu, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2024, 380 pp.

2024-4-24

Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence <b>Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence</b> , by Faeeza Ballim, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2023, vii + 167 pp.

2024-4-9

Littérature comparée et enseignement du français. Pour une didactique des humanités en Afrique : le cas de la Côte d’Ivoire <b>Littérature comparée et enseignement du français. Pour une didactique des humanités en Afrique : le cas de la Côte d’Ivoire</b> , by Émile Amouzou, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2023, 141 pp.

2024-4-8

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions <b>The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions</b> , by Adam Kuper, London, Profile Books, 2023, 415 pp.

2024-3-18

Bilinguisme, plurilinguisme et francophonie : Mythes et réalités <b>Bilinguisme, plurilinguisme et francophonie : Mythes et réalités</b> , by Cheryl Toman, Karen Ferreira-Meyers, Anne-Laure Rigeade and Lilas al Dakr, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2022, 200 pp.

2024-3-18

Images sur l’Afrique, images d’Afrique <b>Images sur l’Afrique, images d’Afrique</b> , by Frédérique Louveau, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2023, 237pp.

2024-3-18

Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda <b>Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda</b> , by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2022, 280 pp.

2024-2-13

Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo <b>Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo</b> , by Brenda F. Berrian, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, vvi + 237 pp.

2024-2-13

Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas <b>Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas</b> , edited by Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili, Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2021, x + 336 pp.

2024-2-6

SDG dilemma in local policymaking in Ghana: when ambition and reality collide

2024-1-31

Traditional medicine and religious approaches in adapting to maternal and infant health threats among Zimbabwean migrant women in Giyani, South Africa

2024-1-31

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change <b>Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change</b> , by Erin Pettigrew, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xviii + 344 pp.

2024-1-2

Culture, politics and material landscaping as strategies of belonging: the case of ex-farm workers of foreign origin in Bushu communal areas, Zimbabwe

2024-1-2

Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga <b>Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga</b> , by David Maxwell, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2022, xx + 327 pp.

2024-1-2

Subjects without history? Sexual citizenship, queer temporality, and postcoloniality in Mozambique

2024-1-2

Governing street trading in post-apartheid Cape Town: neo-colonial or neo-liberal order?

2024-1-2

De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature? Pour une critique décoloniale <b>De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature? Pour une critique décoloniale</b> , by Eric Essono Tsimi, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2022, 306 pp.

2024-1-2

Framing spaces as (il)legitimate: “dirty” cobalt and the (mis)uses of artisanal and small-scale mining sites in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

2024-1-2

Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika

2024-1-2

Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State <b>Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State</b> , by Leslie Bank and Nelly Sharpley, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 275 pp.

2023-12-26

Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa <b>Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa</b> , by Jean Luc Enyegue, Suffolk, James Currey, 2022, xx + 299 pp.

2023-12-17

Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters <b>Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters</b> , edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp.

2023-12-14

A Village and Its NGOs: Co-Constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi <b>A Village and Its NGOs: Co-Constructing NGO Presence in Rural Malawi</b> , by Thomas McNamara, Leiden, Brill, 2022, x + 169 pp.

2023-12-14

Controlling consent, dealing with dissent, and planting misinformation: how the Museveni regime stifled Bobi Wine's youth movement in Uganda

2023-12-14

Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926 <b>Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926</b> , by Michelle Liebst, Suffolk, UK, James Currey, 2021, xiv + 224 pp.

2023-12-13

Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address <b>Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address</b> , by Matthew H. Brown, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2021, ix + 316 pp.

2023-11-29

Spreading the word of God and Benga: the Presbyterian Church in Corisco Bay

2023-11-20

China in Africa, environmental governance and civil society: the case of the Kua Forest in Burkina Faso

2023-10-17