Africa Spectrum
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#OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de publishing original research on politics, societies, and economics in Africa.
Publisher: SAGE Journals.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com and @marthacj.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
Publisher: SAGE Journals.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com and @marthacj.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
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1⃣ Identifying key debates relevant to your research
2⃣ Choosing a clear theoretical home
3⃣ Explaining why it is appropriate for your study.
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🗝️Avoid this by:
1⃣ Identifying key debates relevant to your research
2⃣ Choosing a clear theoretical home
3⃣ Explaining why it is appropriate for your study.
1⃣ Identifying key debates relevant to your research
2⃣ Choosing a clear theoretical home
3⃣ Explaining why it is appropriate for your study.
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📕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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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📕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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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📚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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📕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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📚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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
📕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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...