Join the BZS research day for a lively debate on the writing of Zimbabwe's history at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, on June 21 & 22

JSAS Special Issue - Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State - is being launched in #Malawi now. Gift Wasambo Kayira speaks to his article 'Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy'.
Issue online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...

‘Looking forward to seeing you this afternoon, online or in person @unima_official at the launch of the @JSAS_Editors SI ‘#BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawian #state ! To join online don’t forget to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JSAS 50.3 includes a Part-Special Issue 'Circulations in Southern Africa & Beyond through Artistic Practice', bringing historical, artistic & curatorial voices to debates on immigration & xenophobia in South Africa & to the historiography on circulations.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delius, Chewins & Forssman urge us to 'turn South African history upside down': rather than a story starting at the Cape in 1652, they use archeological & multiarchival evidence to situate SA in a 1000-year history reaching beyond the Limpopo & Indian Ocean.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Annchen Bronkowski considers the first major exhibition of South African art overseas, in London in 1948: despite limitations of the time, a watershed moment for the politics of national art & representation & for getting SA artists onto an international stage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mattes, Krönke & Mozaffar examine how African MPs from 17 countries reflect & differ from their societies. They find MPs representative in terms of ethnicity & religion but more likely to be educated, older, male & from professional or business backgrounds.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zolani Ngwane contrasts Nelson Mandela’s qualified embrace of Xhosa tradition with his fellow nationalists' more negative attitudes. #Mandela saw in tradition the seeds of democracy, traces of ‘accumulated suffering’, and the pleasure of celebrating difference. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Razafindrakoto, Roubaud & Wachsberger seek to explain Madagascar's long recession by examining the unequal distribution of the benefits of growth: resulting from institutions that are shaped by elites. They ask who are the elites? How do they gain power? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Xinsong Wang broaches the question of African states’ agency in international relations. #Zimbabwe’s agency was shaped by Mugabe’s response to security threats. Yet due to the regime’s weak legitimacy, agency created more challenges for the regime itself. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since Teverayi Muguti @tevewekwamuguti.bsky.social & Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social have arrived, here's their recent article on Zambia / (Southern) Rhodesia relations 1963-73, arguing economic diplomacy helped Rhodesia to survive UK & UN sanctions amid war. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sanches, Kartalis & Siachiwena examine why MPs switch parties, using South Africa as a case study. They find MPs from smaller parties or who narrowly missed (re)election most likely to switch. MPs also tend to move from less to more successful parties.
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