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🆕 How is Africa positioned in British academia?
Beidollahkhani argues that Africa's visibility as a site of research and policy engagement often coexists with the marginalisation of African epistemic authority, raising questions of epistemic justice.
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🆕 How does Islamic ethical thought shape socio-political life in Northern Nigeria?
Fahm and Ibrahim show how Islamic ethical frameworks shape ideas of leadership, community resilience, and social repair amid governance, insecurity, and inequality.
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🆕 Can women’s land ownership strengthen climate adaptation and food security?
Wegenast, Hänze, and Haer show that joint land ownership in Tanzania improves food security and diet diversity among households facing extreme weather events.
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🆕 How did Ghana frame diaspora engagement during the Year of Return?
Kutor, Oklikah, Saaka, and Arku examine how Ghanaian media framed the initiative through tourism, investment, branding, and emotional connection with diaspora communities.
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🆕 How is legitimacy negotiated in contested land governance systems?
Awoh examines land governance in Kom and Bali, Cameroon, showing how traditional authorities use hybrid strategies to maintain legitimacy and mediate land conflicts.
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🆕 How does prolonged displacement shape identity and belonging?
Rudolf and Tufa examine the Amiche in Ethiopia, showing how protracted exclusion and displacement produced a distinct identity shaped by stable liminality and permanent in-betweenness.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️ Co Editor-in-Chief Kendra Dupuy highlights an article showing how community-based conservation initiatives can create openings for marginalised individuals to claim recognition in rural Tanzania.
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🆕How has France’s image shifted in Malian media?
Zhuang analyses 822 Maliweb articles (2017–2024), showing how anti-French narratives gained prominence after the 2020 political rupture, reshaping public discourse and highlighting African media agency.
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🆕 How do corporations and communities negotiate access on resource frontiers?
Yang examines Chinese bauxite mining in Guinea, showing how corporate strategies and community repertoires interact to renegotiate access, compensation, and rights claims.
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🆕 How do telecom companies shape humanitarian response in Somalia?
Chonka examines how Somali telecom firms use CSR narratives around connectivity, empowerment, nationalism, and piety amid conflict and humanitarian crises.
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🆕 How do communities organise aid during crisis?
@Fatimaa_dm, @Nauja_Kleist and @karutikk examine how Somali WhatsApp groups function as spaces for coordinating drought relief, extending kinship-based support into digital humanitarian action.
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Apr 13
Here is one of the articles that I selected for the Editors' Picks series that we're doing as part of our celebration of Africa Spectrum's 60th anniversary!
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️Co Editor-in-Chief @MaxineRubin highlights an article that explores how religious symbolism can be mobilised to legitimise authoritarian rule, using the Gambian case to reveal broader political dynamics.
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Apr 1
I was so happy to see Martha picked this article! It stood out to me too - it was very interesting and, as Martha says, a bit outside of what we usually receive. We were happy to publish this excellent scholarly work.
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️ Editor-in-Chief @drmarthacj (since 2023) highlights an article that stood out for offering a fresh perspective on #Africa’s global significance and challenging #Eurocentric assumptions in the study of languages.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60🎉
@MaxineRubin & @drmarthacj reflect on the journal's presence over six decades. They highlight efforts to decolonise knowledge production, expand African-based scholarship & map the road ahead for the journal.
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🆕Patience Chadambuka, Sandra Bhatasara & Talent Moyo examine how extreme heat impacts residents across Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge. Using a structural violence lens, they show how inequalities shape exposure & adaptation to extreme heat in a single town.
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🆕Lotfi Sour analyses Russia’s multi-layered strategy in the Sahel through the “Matryoshka” model. The author argues that Russia’s engagement in Sahelian states is not only opportunistic but a deliberate effort to reshape regional power dynamics.
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📕Ada Johnson-Kanu reviews @nnkerr’s "Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa: Everyday Production of Democratic Legitimacy", praising it for challenging single-dimensional approaches to studying electoral administration.
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🆕@AbdirahmanEdle, Peter Albrecht & @karutikk examine Somali diaspora humanitarianism in Nairobi's Eastleigh & Mogadishu. They argue 'altruistic' acts of giving reinforce hierarchies, reciprocal obligations & claims to legitimacy.
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Feb 25
Another set of exciting picks from our past Editor-in-Chief, Julia Grauvogel!
I am fortunate to work with @grauvogelj at the GIGA. Drawing on her experience as Editor-in-Chief of Africa Spectrum, she’s always generous with advice and ideas.
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
Former Editor-in-Chief @grauvogelj (2018–2022) highlights articles from her tenure that impressed her for their strong empirical grounding & for raising important ethical questions for Global North-based #Africanstudies scholars.
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Feb 19
Here's the first of our "Past Editors' Picks" posts 👏 🤓 ⬇️
We are also fortunate to still benefit from the support of @HenningMelber and @mehler_a who readily provide advice when we ask and generously act as peer reviewers when asked despite their busy schedules! 🌟
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
@HenningMelber & @mehler_a (former Editors-in-Chief 2009–2018) highlighted these articles from their tenure that sparked a debate about anthropological research in African studies. #AFR60yrs
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