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Book Review: When the Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by Ledio Cakaj

November 18th, 2016

The Trial of Thomas Kwoyelo: Opportunity or Spectre

November 17th, 2016

From Democracy Promotion to ‘Politically Smart’ Governance Reform in Africa

November 16th, 2016

International Affairs

From Democracy Promotion to ‘Politically Smart’ Governance Reform in Africa

November 16th, 2016

Gambling with Demography: Investor Confidence and Islamic Values in Nigeria

November 14th, 2016

As India-Africa ties are boosted, a shift in this South-South relationship is taking place

November 9th, 2016
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Education

Sampling, snowballs and non-strategies: How to accidentally stumble upon data

September 7th, 2016

Book Review: #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa by Francis B Nyamnjoh

August 26th, 2016

We need to know more about Africa

July 11th, 2016
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African Perspectives on Migration

Leaders Must Recognise Migrants as Human Not Hapless

September 19th, 2016

Courting commotion? Changing migration dynamics on the southern route to South Africa

September 19th, 2016
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Parents in Somaliland are going to great lengths to stop their children from migrating to Europe

June 8th, 2016
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Conflict

Book Review: When the Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by Ledio Cakaj

November 18th, 2016

Book Review: Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid by Baruch Hirson

November 4th, 2016

Book Review: Al-Shabaab in Somalia: the history and ideology of a militant Islamist Group by Stig Jarle Hansen

October 28th, 2016

Development

The Needs of Informal Workers Matter in Digital Innovation

November 3rd, 2016

Book Review: Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy Edited by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens

September 29th, 2016

Book Review: Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011 – 12 by Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid

September 23rd, 2016

African Elections

Beyond Free Basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’s social media internet

September 1st, 2016
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Facebook live-streaming, drones and swag selfies: youth culture and visual social media in #ZambiaDecides

August 31st, 2016
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Social media, platform power and (mis)information in Zambia’s recent elections

August 30th, 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review: When the Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by Ledio Cakaj

November 18th, 2016

Book Review – Facets of Power: Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds edited by Richard Saunders and Tinashe Nyamunda

November 11th, 2016

Book Review: Al-Shabaab in Somalia: the history and ideology of a militant Islamist Group by Stig Jarle Hansen

October 28th, 2016

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