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Pentecostalism in Britain today: Making up for failures of the past

November 25th, 2016

Book Review – Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’ by Patrick Chabal and Toby Green (eds)

November 24th, 2016

African-initiated Pentecostal churches are on the rise in the UK – what role do they seek to play in wider society?

November 23rd, 2016

International Affairs

Book Review – Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’ by Patrick Chabal and Toby Green (eds)

November 24th, 2016

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

November 16th, 2016
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Gambling with Demography: Investor Confidence and Islamic Values in Nigeria

November 14th, 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
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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 – Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’ by Patrick Chabal and Toby Green (eds)

November 24th, 2016

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

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