African Review (Tanzania)

Abstract This article reviews the teaching of international relations in relation to the deployment of racist tropes to understand the current war on terror. It elaborates on how the justification for the U.S. Africa Command changed over time from fighting terror to confronting Russia and China in the big power game. The paper argues that the rift in the U.S. military since the January 6, 2021 insurrection is only one manifestation of the coalescing of forces of conservatism who are opposed to the restructuring of the international political economy. The emergence of military forces in West Africa opposed to the U.S. has brought about a discussion about the U.S.A. being pushed to the margins in Africa. This racial project has created global chaos, and the task of scholars dedicated to peace is to push for the dismantling of the U.S. Africa Command as one component of the global anti racist project.

Horace G. Campbell

The African Review

Fighting Racism in the U.S. Military: Dismantling the United States Africa Command

美国军队中的反种族主义斗争：解散美国非洲司令部

Abstract The Ukraine crisis has morphed into a political minefield for countries far removed from the war zone. While some states have been vociferous in supporting sanctions against Moscow or denouncing Kyiv’s ambition to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), others have ‘played it safe’ by maintaining a neutral position. Tanzania abstained in most of the voting rounds at the United General Assembly ( UNGA ) on the crisis. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has had significant economic effects on the country, but its diplomatic relations with these belligerent parties have remained unscathed. But what has been Tanzania’s position on the Ukraine crisis since 2014? What has been the voting trend at the UNGA by the country and other East African Community ( EAC ) partner states on the Ukraine crisis? These are some of the questions that the current article seeks to answer.

Rasul A. Minja

Tanzania’s Position on the Ukraine Crisis: Neutrality with a Stance or Just Sitting on the Fence?

坦桑尼亚在乌克兰危机中的立场：中立且有立场，还是仅仅骑墙观望？

Abstract Debates on citizenship are never conclusive as this is an evolving idea and practice. Formal citizenship in Kenya has its genesis prior to independence when the country was drafting its 1963 Independence Constitution. Before then, most Kenyans were considered subjects by the colonial administration, governed by a racialised hierarchical colonial order. This phenomenon changed in postcolonial Kenya as the nation’s primary focus was on eliminating these racial hierarchies to include those previously excluded as citizens. However, some of the statutory provisions on citizenship were contentious as they promoted discrimination and inequalities. The endorsement of Kenya’s new constitution in 2010 is termed transformative as it addresses the controversial provisions on citizenship. Through secondary source research, this paper aims to trace the development of formal citizenship in Kenya from colonial times to date and maps out the milestones made over time and space in citizenship on its acquisition, duality and statelessness.

Gloria N. Kenyatta

Evolution of Kenyan Citizenship Regime: Pre- and Post-2010 Eras

肯尼亚公民身份制度的演变：2010年前后

Abstract This paper analyzes emerging issues on the use of electronic resources (e-resources) by academic staff in public universities in Tanzania. Notable issues include factors influencing adoption of e-resources by academic staff. A quantitative research design based on a cross-sectional survey of academic staff in four public universities was used. The study was informed by the Technology Acceptance Model ( TAM ) with demographic and institutional factors like awareness on ICT policy and regulations added. A sample of 292 academic staff obtained through a combination of stratified and random sampling was used. Cross-tabulations and Chi-Square statistics were used for analysis of association to establish the influence of the factors on adoption. Through TAM , perceived benefits were measured by eagerness for promotion and increase in income. Perceived ease of use was measured by capacity built on ICT use and perception on ICT infrastructure. Awareness was measured by members’ recognition of ICT policy and regulations. The findings show that experience, age, and awareness have a significant correlation with e-resources adoption. Also, the mostly accessed and used e-resources by academic staff are scholarly search engines such as Google Scholar.

Matilda S. Kuzilwa

Albogast Musabila

Electronic Resources Adoption by Academic Staff in Public Universities in Tanzania Using the Technology Acceptance Model

坦桑尼亚公立大学学术人员采用电子资源的现状：基于技术接受模型的研究

Abstract How are desirable futures conceived in the African urban margins? What trajectories do individuals use to get there? And who decides what constitutes a desirable future? This special issue proposes the “ethos of change” as an analytical concept to better understand how urban margins in Africa shape specific lives and, in particular, aspirations for change. “Ethos of change” is a broad set of embodied norms, (self) narratives, and routine practices driving the trajectory of personal change to escape an initial self and environment that are both internalised as unsatisfactory and dishonourable. Based on case studies from Kenya, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso, analyses in this special issue focus on how individuals construct their experiences of violence, (de)radicalisation, displacement, and the intervention of large-scale state programmes. This introductory article offers an institutional framework for comprehending the other articles that constitute the special issue and summarises their contents. Additionally, it assesses how the special issue’s contribution advances our understanding of how to reconsider Africa’s urban margins as spaces for the production of difference, where individuals appropriate the idea of change with its modalities amidst multiple facets of stigma and symbolic violence in African urban margins.

Fathima A. Badurdeen

Jean-Baptiste Lanne

Wilson O. Ndenyele

Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle

Unravelling the “Ethos of Change” in African Urban Margins: Institutions, Stigmas, Experiences

揭开非洲城市边缘的“变革精神”：制度、污名与经历

Abstract This article explores the impact of climate-related security risks on community values and how that impact influences responses to the risks. Research and practice have paid little attention to how non-material and subjective conditions, especially values, mediate the climate-security nexus. We focused on the impact of land conflicts and food insecurity (as examples of climate-related security risks) on community values through a study of two rural communities in Zambia’s southern province using impact rating, focus-group discussions ( FGD s), and interviews. Innovatively, we began by identifying community values and asking about the impact of climate security risks on community values instead of what ‘experts’ perceive or consider to be risks. We found that, firstly, participants from both communities perceived both land conflicts and food insecurity as having a strong to very strong influence on their values. Secondly, women perceive the impact of land conflicts and food insecurity on values to be greater than men do. Thirdly, the perception of the impact of climate-related security risks on values is prevalent among communities in Zambia’s southern province. The article concludes that values are crucial and central determinants in how communities interpret and respond to climate-related security risks, as well as how they engage with food, land, and water systems. It recommends that policymakers and practitioners integrate community values for effective and sustainable climate-related security risk policies and interventions.

Joram Tarusarira

Anja Visser-Nieraeth

Lweendo Kambela

Giulia Caroli

Gracsious Maviza

The Impact of Climate-Related Security Risks on Community Values: Insights from Zambia’s Southern Province

气候相关安全风险对社区价值观的影响：来自赞比亚南方省的见解

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Fighting Racism in the U.S. Military: Dismantling the United States Africa Command

Tanzania’s Position on the Ukraine Crisis: Neutrality with a Stance or Just Sitting on the Fence?

Evolution of Kenyan Citizenship Regime: Pre- and Post-2010 Eras

Electronic Resources Adoption by Academic Staff in Public Universities in Tanzania Using the Technology Acceptance Model

Unravelling the “Ethos of Change” in African Urban Margins: Institutions, Stigmas, Experiences

Fighting Racism in the U.S. Military: Dismantling the United States Africa Command

Tanzania’s Position on the Ukraine Crisis: Neutrality with a Stance or Just Sitting on the Fence?

Evolution of Kenyan Citizenship Regime: Pre- and Post-2010 Eras

Electronic Resources Adoption by Academic Staff in Public Universities in Tanzania Using the Technology Acceptance Model

The Impact of Climate-Related Security Risks on Community Values: Insights from Zambia’s Southern Province