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Awards............................... 19
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APCG News..............................14
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Membership Form....................39
Chair’s Report........................1,14
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Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan
As I announced at the APCG business meeting in
Chicago, we are now officially an organized section of
the American Political Science Association! For those
of you who may not be familiar with the significance
of that designation, for the last ten years, APCG has
been a related group of the APSA and also a coordinate organization of the African Studies Association.
Last spring, we approached the APSA to discuss a
change of status and with the association’s enthusiastic support, we petitioned APSA members to endorse
such a change. The steering committee learned last
June that the petition was successful.
Symposium:
Teaching African
Politics
Features contributions
from
Warigia Bowman,
Kevin S. Fridy,
Timothy Longman,
Michael Byron Nelson,
Robin L. Turner, and
Beth Elise Whitaker.
Starts on Page 2.
Our advancement to “organized section” status within
the APSA is an acknowledgment of the collective and individual contributions to APCG
made by many of its members. For more than a decade, our members have organized
and participated on APCG panels at the APSA, the ASA, MPSA, and ISA. They have
edited and contributed to the newsletter or managed our website. Since 2008, many
members have hosted the APSA’s Africa Workshops. They have served on committees,
attended our business meetings and social hours and participated in many of the other
tasks that are part of creating a strong and highly visible scholarly organization. Our status as a section recognizes our hard work and our dedication and we should all celebrate!
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Articles
Symposium: Teaching African Politics
The following contributions were solicited from APCG members who had participated in recent panels on teaching at the African
Studies Association. The first set of contributions provide refreshing takes on relatively traditional approaches to teaching African
politics, using novels, debates, and research paper assignments. The second set of contributions focuses on the use of technology in
teaching, including videos, wikis, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that can connect American students with Africans.
From the beginning, APCG members have used each other as resources for teaching African politics. Besides the contributions
included here I encourage you to consider making contributions to the list of syllabi and “innovative assignments” we have on our
website. Contact our website manager (Zach Warner) or myself if you are interested in doing so.
- Editor
Teaching African Politics with Novels, by Timothy Longman......................................................................................Page 2
Debating African Politics, by Beth Elise Whitaker.......................................................................................................Page 4
The African Politics Research Paper, by Michael Byron Nelson....................................................................................Page 5
Media Presentations as a Strategy for Teaching African Politics, by Robin L. Turner......................................................Page 7
Teaching African Politics with Wikis, by Warigia Bowman.......................................................................................... Page 8
Using VoIP to Connect Students in the US to people in Africa, by Kevin S. Fridy.......................................................Page 10
Teaching African Politics with Novels
Timothy Longman, Boston University
During my first year of graduate school at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, I took African Politics with Crawford
Young. Along with a variety of serious political science
texts, Professor Young assigned two novels: The Emperor
by Ryszard Kapuchinski, a somewhat fictionalized account
of the last days of Haile Selasie’s regime, and The Beautyful
Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s story of the pervasiveness of corruption in the life of Ghanaians. In many
ways, I found that these texts offered important insights
on the reality of African politics that the straight-forward
prose in traditional social science texts simply could not
express. Having up to that point never traveled to Africa,
for me the descriptions and imagery in these books made
life in Africa more real and understandable and gave depth
and texture to the practice of African politics.
After encountering novels, short stories, and other alternative sources in a few other graduate courses (most notably
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Ed Friedman’s Chinese Politics, which included writings
by political prisoners as well as several works of fiction), I
adopted the practice of including novels in my own courses and have since used them in almost every class that I
teach. I find that fictional works can complement social
science texts in a variety of important ways that help to
enrich student learning:
Accessibility
In exploring political issues through stories, novels provide
an approach to Africa that is more accessible to many
students, particularly those who are not political science
majors. For example, I have commonly assigned Chinua
Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah in my African Politics
course. The novel tells the story of a military regime from
the perspective of several friends of the president who have
become increasingly disillusioned with his rule. While we
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Teaching African Politics with Novels (Longman), continued from page 2
study authoritarian regimes and military coups, this book
provides insight in a way that students can easily grasp into
why people support coups and why coups usually fail to
make conditions better.
Context and Texture
My own academic interests have focused less on the
mechanics of government than on how governments interact with their societies. I find that novels often provide
wonderful insight into the societies within which African
governments function and how those governments affect
their populations. V.Y. Mudimbe’s Before the Birth of the
Moon (published in French as Le Bel Immonde), sheds
penetrating light onto corruption and decay in Mobutu’s
Zaire, following the story of a young woman who becomes
the mistress of a government minister who ultimately
sacrifices her to advance his career. Tsitsi Dangaremba’s
Nervous Conditions, provides fantastic insight into issues
of race and gender in Zimbabwe. Novels can provide
important context and texture even when they are set in
imaginary locations, like the Republic of Aburiria, where
Ngugi wa Thiong’o sets The Wizard of the Crow. The corruption of politicians and suffering of the people in the
book fit much of Africa, but Ngugi’s Kenyan homeland
seems particularly illuminated by the text.
Views from Below
One of the great advantages of fictional works is that
they often show how average people experience government and political events. One of my favorite novels to
assign is Niq Mhlongo’s After Tears. It is a bawdy comedy
about a young man in post-apartheid South Africa who
fails out of law school but pretends to be a lawyer anyway. Without ever directly discussing politics, the book
provides a great window into the alienating experience of
trying to succeed in today’s South Africa, and it offers the
best critique of corruption in the country that I’ve read.
South Africa has a particularly rich literary culture, with
a number of novels published each year. They range from
comedies, like Nape ‘a Montana’s Fanie Fourie’s Lobola,
about a traditional Afrikaner who falls in love with a Zulu
girl, to dark tragedies like Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our
Hillbrow, about the hardships of life in Johannesburg in
the era of HIV/AIDS, or Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying, that
focuses on the violence and tragedy of the transition period.
Providing a Human Face to Politics
In teaching about topics like ethnic violence and
human rights violations, it is easy for students to lose sight
of the human faces behind the various tragedies that we
study. I find that fiction can help to move beyond the
bleak statistics to show the real people who are affected
by political events. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half
of a Yellow Sun, for example, which tells the story of one
family’s experience during the Biafra war, effectively brings
home the tragedy of war. Dave Eggers’ What is the What,
a fictionalized account of the experience of one of Sudan’s
“Lost Boys,” provides a great window into how Sudan’s
long tragedy affected individuals.
African Voices
In selecting novels for courses, I have generally favored
African writers. The majority of us who write about
African politics do so as outside observers. Even African
social scientists generally adopt the tone and methods of
Western social science that encourages detachment and
objectivity. Fictional works, I find, provide greater understanding of how Africans themselves view their own lives
and the politics in their countries. African voices are particularly important on topics such as the impact of colonialism. Books such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous
Adventure or Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart do a much
better job than any social science text of demonstrating
the devastating impact of colonialism on African societies.
Similarly, it is important when discussing gender relations
in Africa that women’s voices be heard. Mariama Ba’s So
Long a Letter, for example, is a great depiction of women’s
experiences, particularly with polygamy.
Novels are, of course, only one possible alternative source
that can complement more traditional social scientific
texts. I often use movies in classes, because they expose
students to images of African life. (Quartier Mozart and
La Vie Est Belle are my favorites to use in class). I also find
that journalistic accounts, such as Michela Wrong’s In
the Footsteps of Mister Kurtz, can also provide texture and
human faces that social science prose usually lacks. But
novels provide a sort of intimate contact with African societies that I find in no other type source. Not surprisingly,
they are usually my students’ favorite assignments.
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Debating African Politics
Beth Elise Whitaker, UNC Charlotte
In my undergraduate courses on African politics and
international relations, I use formal debates to engage
students with course material. By researching controversial
topics and developing arguments to convince their peers,
students learn the complexities of issues they previously
might have perceived as simple. The sense of competition
raises the intensity of discussion and gives students valuable public speaking experience. Over the years, I have
held debates about many policy-relevant topics, including
Chinese investment in Africa, the legalization of genetically modified crops, western efforts to eradicate female circumcision, and foreign interventions in Rwanda, Darfur,
and Mali.
In a class of approximately 40 students, I hold four debates
in a semester with each student participating in one. I
divide the class into eight teams (two for each debate) and
assign each student to a specific side (for or against the
resolution) of a specific debate. Students often complain
that they disagree with the position they are being forced
to defend, which is exactly the point. (I tell them they
are at an advantage because they can better anticipate the
other side’s arguments.) In most classes at UNC Charlotte,
I am fortunate to have African students whom I divide
amongst the teams. I also admit to engineering the teams
to ensure some balance in terms of gender, race, class year,
and public speaking comfort level.
Before the designated period for each debate, all students
in the class read an assigned article that is relevant to the
resolution. Students participating in the debate also are
expected to do background research to prepare their case.
Often, teams put together flashy slide shows, bring props,
or wear costumes (like the students who wore gaudy
fake diamonds in their effort to critique the Kimberley
Process). As with any research project, I encourage students to start early, consult reliable sources, and organize
their arguments in a coherent way.
The debates follow a pretty standard format, with each
side alternating time for an opening statement (2 minutes), case presentation (10 minutes), and rebuttal (5 minutes). I then allow 20 minutes for questions from the class,
which is when discussions can get heated. I try to enforce
a policy of one voice at a time, but sometimes just have to
enjoy the fact that students are speaking so passionately
about an Africa-related topic! Eventually, I cut off discussion for short closing statements before moving to a vote
among the class observers as to which side they found most
convincing. I also ask the debate students to step out of
their roles and explain how they would vote. Interestingly,
the most boisterous debaters often are the ones who are
least committed to their own side. Finally, we wrap up the
activity with a short debriefing, during which I highlight
key points and share any additional arguments that were
not sufficiently covered (always a risk when relying on
students to deliver course material).
One last logistical point: I do NOT assign team grades for
the debate. Instead, to avoid the free rider problem, I assign
individual grades based on students’ performance during
the debate and on peer evaluations that I distribute after it
ends. These assessment forms provide useful information
that helps some students (“Mary did a lot of research and
put together the slideshow, but doesn’t like speaking in
class”) and raises questions about others (“George spoke a
lot during the debate but didn’t come to any of our planning meetings”). Based on this feedback, I assign grades for
the debate, which is a low-stakes assignment.
The most important aspect of any academic debate (unlike
most political debates!) is the substance. Even when the
topic is fascinating, a poorly-drafted resolution can lead
to a debate that is more about semantics than issues. Over
time, I have learned that it is best to draft a short and simple resolution. If additional guidance is necessary, I contact
the team members in advance and suggest useful lines of
argument. For example, several years ago, I used the following resolution for an African politics debate:
African governments should issue compulsory licenses
for the domestic production of the newest and most
effective antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, which are otherwise too expensive for most Africans because of existing
patents.
Instead of focusing on compulsory licenses as I had hoped,
participants in that debate spent the time arguing about
drug prices and patents. When I used the resolution again
later, I shortened it:
African governments should issue compulsory licenses
for the domestic production of cheaper antiretroviral
(ARV) drugs.
This concise resolution forced students to research the
technicalities of compulsory licenses and focus on the
(often political) advantages and disadvantages of issuing
them. Although not perfect, other resolutions I have used
recently include:
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The African Politics Research Paper
Michael Byron Nelson, Wesleyan University
Research papers are a common assignment. But what
purposes do they serve? Why is it important that students
write research papers on African politics? What are some of
the challenges that students face when writing an African
politics research paper (as opposed to a research paper on,
say, Europe or the US?) And what are some of the strategies that are available for overcoming those challenges?
this can encourage the development of a new generation
of Africa scholars. Finally, research papers act as an escape
valve for students who have burning questions or passions
regarding Africa. I find that I cannot cover all of the subjects that interest some of my students at the level of depth
that would satisfy them. So, letting them explore on their
own is a fantastic opportunity for them.
Why is it important?
Challenges
I find that teaching research papers is important for at
least four reasons. One is that, learning skills may be more
important to an individual student than content. We want
our students to learn how to think critically, to search
for and find information to test their own ideas, and to
communicate the outcomes of this process for them. Few
of our students go on to careers in political science or have
an Africa-related career, but they all need these skills and
college is the place for them to acquire them. A second is
that teaching content is still important and it is important
that bad research does not get in the way. One of my key
concerns in advising students on their research projects is
that they do not end up with a bag of bad ideas about how
politics works in their particular case study countries or
across the continent. If the connection between argument
and evidence is generally important, I would suggest it is
even more important in a region that is so little understood
by the average American. A third reason is that I think
The African Politics Research Paper does have its own
challenges, however. Here I want to discuss two1 which
are core to the experience of writing a research paper on
Africa.
Challenge #1: The “Africa is a country” problem.
The first set of challenges are related to students’ lack of
familiarity with the African continent. I have seen this
problem arise in the research questions students ask, such
as:
“How does foreign aid impact Africa?”
“Why is there conflict in Africa?”
In my ASA presentation I mentioned four challenges. The
third was the challenge of helping students understand and
identify the many informal institutions that are relevant in
the African context. The fourth involved theory-building.
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Debating African Politics (Whitaker), continued from page 4
The Product (Red)™ campaign is little more than an
advertising strategy that benefits the partner companies
more than the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria it claims to support.
The United States should compensate African countries
for the revenues their farmers have lost due to American
agricultural subsidies.
The conflict mineral provisions of the Dodd-Frank law
should be repealed because they are hurting people in
target countries such as DR Congo.
Finally, as may be obvious from these resolutions, the
main drawback of the debate format is that it forces stu-
dents to take polarized positions on complex issues about
which there is actually much middle ground. (One could
argue that this is a good lesson for political science more
broadly!) Students can get frustrated with this dynamic,
and often seek to promote more nuanced positions which
we discuss further in the debriefing portion. In the end,
though, I find this problem a small price to pay for the
energy and enthusiasm generated by the debates. When I
hear students leave my classroom arguing about whether
the U.S. should suspend aid to Uganda if it passes the
Anti-Homosexuality Bill instead of sharing the latest frat
party gossip, I know that I have achieved my pedagogical
goals.
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“What is US policy towards Africa”
There does not have to be anything wrong about asking
such questions. Many of us do that in our own work. But
there are at least two real problems that can arise when students ask such questions. First, I find this often masks their
ignorance of the diversity that exists within the continent.
Second, there is not really much of a chance that they can
address such broad questions in a substantive way as part
of a course research paper. We cannot expect our students
to grasp the entire continent within a single term, and in
most cases it just is not a good idea to lump all of these
countries together.
Solution: Teach Case Selection
For me, an important solution lies in teaching case selection. Now, I do not necessarily expect all of my students
to grasp all of the intricacies of how to select appropriate
cases to test the arguments that interest them. But I do try
to get them to understand, at a minimum, that there are
consequences to selecting some countries and not others
for exploring their research questions.2
There are also clear pedagogical reasons for teaching case
selection. First, consider the lessons that students take
home with them after conducting their research projects.
Students on their own, I find, tend to gravitate towards
case study designs that focus on “extreme cases” (Sudan or
Zimbabwe) rather than “most typical” or “diverse” case-selection choices. Students also tend to over-generalize larger
patterns based on weak case selections. So we can end-up
with a student having a very one-dimensional image of,
say, the role of China in Africa after their paper on “China
and Sudan”.
Second, consider the lessons we fail to teach students if
we ignore case selection. Research papers can be a fantastic opportunity to teach students the basic elements of
research design. What is a natural experiment? (Have them
read Posner’s work.)3 How can we apply Mill’s Methods
to comparisons between Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana? Can
we do experimentation in the social sciences (look at the
work that is being done with randomized evaluation in
I have some resources (including a slide presentation)
available on a website I created for students: http://
govthesis.site.wesleyan.edu/research/collecting-data/sampling-and-case-selection/.
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Posner, Daniel N. 2004. The Political Salience of Cultural
Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia
and Adversaries in Malawi. The American Political Science
Review, 98 (4), 529-545.
development economics such as that described in Cohen
and Easterly’s recent edited volume)?4
Challenge #2: Data
Students face a number of challenges with data, as do all of
us. Both the quality and the quantity of data available are
often limited. Most of the time, for the purposes of undergraduate research, we can work around those limitations.
However, my students and I have occasionally come up
with other ideas for solutions to the data challenge.
Solution 2A: Design a study
Not finding data does not have to be a dead-end for an
undergraduate research paper. For instance, this can be
turned into a teaching opportunity for helping the students understand research methods. Students can be told
to use part of their research paper to design a study that
would find the data they currently lack. This could include
proposing specific survey questions (Is China helping
your country?) and target populations (market women
in Makola Market) that speak to their specific research
interests.
Solution 2B: Use study abroad students
A second solution my students have used is contacting
their peers who are currently studying abroad in the countries they are researching. So far, this has been very ad hoc.
However, every so often students that are studying abroad
have been able to help students in my classroom find data
(telecom statistics that are not yet online, for instance)
they were looking for.
Final Thoughts
Research papers are a fantastic way for students to discover
and engage the aspects of African politics that fascinate
them (rather than us!). They also provide a number of
teaching opportunities. They help students appreciate the
diversity of political life across the continent, improve
their research skills and their capacities for deductive and
inferential reasoning. If we can accomplish any of that, it
is clearly worth it.
2
Cohen, Jessica & William Easterly. 2010. What works in
development? Thinking big and thinking small. Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
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Media Presentations as a Strategy for Teaching African Politics
Robin L. Turner, Butler University
Student media presentations can deepen students’ knowledge of African politics, build their critical thinking and
communication skills, and highlight the relevance of
course material. This article presents the media assignment
I have used in two upper-level courses, African Politics
and Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Africa, and three
examples of student work.
The context
Butler University is a teaching-focused university in
Indianapolis, IN whose students are drawn principally
from the American Midwest. Upper-level political science
courses attract International Studies, Peace and Conflict
Studies, and Gender Studies students as well as Political
Science majors and minors. Butler undergraduates who
take African studies courses often enter with interest but
little substantive or experiential knowledge. Therefore, I
design my courses to highlight the continent’s diversity
and to critically engage with popular media representations of Africa. I start each course with an open discussion
of students’ preconceptions and then present accessible
texts such as Binyavanga Wainaina’s (2005) “How to Write
about Africa,” or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s (2009)
“The Danger of a Single Story” that challenge Western
representations of Africa before moving onto other topics.
The media presentation assignment builds on this common foundation. In employing a common student
strength, their facility with social and web-based media,
these presentations also create a relatively safe space for
student-driven discussion.
Preparation
I identified several course sessions that are well-suited
to presentations as I crafted each syllabus. Each student
signed up for a media presentation slot at the start of the
semester, and I set aside ten to fifteen minutes of class time
for each presentation.
Assignment Instructions
I provide the students with the following instructions:
This assignment has three components.
1. You will locate, present, and facilitate a short discussion of one session-relevant 2-4 minute media clipping
(such as a video, a song, a multimedia blog, or newscast).
This means that you need to complete the assigned read-
ing well in advance of presentation.
2. You will write a 500-750 word essay discussing your
clipping in light of the session reading and turn it in the
day you present.
3. After presenting, you will write a second 400-750
word essay that assesses and reflects upon your presentation experience.
Media Presentations and Student Learning
Most students present interesting, current, and relevant
material, usually a short video or an excerpt from a longer
video, and do a good job facilitating the ensuing discussion.
Students have shown clippings discussing the struggles of
West African female politicians for a session on clientelistic
barriers to women’s political empowerment(http://youtu.
be/7l7jPEr32IY), describing Ben Affleck’s advocacy of US
involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a
session on the DRC (http://youtu.be/g7-SJ8PnMT4) ,
and a speech in which Yoweri Museveni called term limits
“nonsense” for a session on hybrid regimes (http://youtu.
be/x9eeef51ME8). Even problematic presentations can be
pedagogically useful. When a student presented a speech
excerpt that attributed Africa’s problems to ethnic tribalism, for example, other students challenged the speaker’s
assertions in the subsequent discussion and used material
from assigned texts to support their critique.
The students’ essays also provide strong evidence of learning. The excerpts below present particularly well-written
but otherwise representative examples of student work.
Monty Python’s The Annoying Peasant (http://youtu.be/
rAaWvVFERVA).
“The relationship between King Arthur (representing
the state) and the peasants (representing community)
symbolizes the tension between community and state
in Africa… according to Peter Ekeh’s perspective. The
peasants had no loyalty to the King, just as Africans had
“no loyalty to the civil institutions of the state” (Hydén
2006, 52). The clip also illustrates the lack of identification with the state…King Arthur comes parading in
claiming that he is “King of the Britains” and that the
peasants are all Britains. The problem is the peasants
do not even know what “Britain” is. Similarly, state
titles were arbitrarily created in Africa and not and not
embedded in the local identity…”
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Media Presentations... (Turner), continued from page 7
The Naked Option
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trailer
(http://youtu.be/
“This clip about The Naked Option pertains to the
reading about African women’s movements because
Tripp and colleagues discuss the use of shaming and
cursing tactics in many women’s movements. Tripp
and colleagues discuss how naked tactics have been
used throughout Africa and how they are usually used
as “powerful statement of condemnation also aimed at
government authorities and their repression” (Tripp et al.
2009, 31). I think that the Naked Option was definitely
a way for the women of these communities to attract
attention from the government and make them realize
that the issues caused by the oil reserves are important to
them and they need to be addressed. …”
“‘What It Means to Be Men and Women in South Africa
Today’ (http://youtu.be/X0u2Kv7bDn0) offers the perspective of numerous South African residents of differing
races, genders, careers, and to an extent economic class
in the form of recorded interviews. ‘Violence Against
Women in South Africa’ (http://www.5min.com/Video/
Violence-Against-Women-in-South-Africa-516895089)
illustrates the story of an unfortunate South African
woman who was attacked and maimed at the hands of
her ex-boyfriend and his friends. … . Both videos frame
South Africa in a static state denying both the negative
and positive aspects that encompass the country. ¶
… The Gqola (2007) text provides several key points
that these videos promote: silence around violence, the
empowerment of only a select group of women by the
1996 constitution, the acknowledgment of feminine tradition, and the ideology of militarism. Both videos display these concepts in a range of contradictory ways….”
I encourage other faculty to use media assignments into
undergraduate African politics courses. Well-structured
media assignments can motivate students to look closely
at course texts, help them to recognize the connection
between course material and current events, and allow
them to make a creative and compelling contribution to
the course.
References
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The danger of a single story. Ted.com
2009 [cited. Available from http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo. 2007. “How the ‘cult of femininity’ and violent masculinities support endemic gender based violence in contemporary South Africa.” African identities 5 (1):111-24.
Hydén, Göran. 2006. “The problematic state.” In African politics in
comparative perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Tripp, Aili Mari, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa.
2009. “Historical influences on contemporary women’s movements.”
In African women’s movements : transforming political landscapes. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Wainaina, Binyavanga. 2005. “How to Write about Africa. Some
Tips: Sunsets and Starvation are Good.” In Granta.
Teaching African Politics with Wikis
Warigia Bowman, Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas
One of the things that interests me is finding ways to
use technology to become a more effective teacher. This
past spring, I taught a master’s level course at the Clinton
School of Public Service (University of Arkansas) entitled
“The Politics of African Development.” The course was
taught in a seminar style. Approximately eight students
enrolled. I combined some very traditional pedagogical
techniques, with some new, technological teaching techniques.
The traditional techniques that worked well for me were
assigning students around sixty pages of reading per class.
We had a roundtable discussion of the readings, which I
conducted using the Socratic method. In addition to this
daily assignment, I incorporated one presentation by each
student using powerpoint on a development issue of interest to them in Africa. I also incorporated a final assignment requiring students to create a “wiki” on a country of
interest to them. This was actually an idea I got from my
colleagues last year from participating in a teaching panel
at the ASA.
The wiki assignment went well. To set up a wiki, simply
go to www.wiskispaces.com. I personally like to have two
wiki accounts, one using my personal email, and one using
my work email so I can keep wiki projects separate. There
is no cost to set up a wiki, and there are online tutorials
for teachers about how to use the technology to one’s best
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advantage.
and others.
Clinton School students all spend their first summer
after coursework abroad, usually in a developing country.
Our students have gone to countries such as Nicaragua,
Nepal, Tibet, and Belize. Many Clinton School students
go to Africa, and have conducted research or worked for
development organizations and non-governmental organizations in over twenty African countries in North, East,
Central, West and Southern Africa. As a result, many
of my students developed a wiki on a country that they
themselves were actually going to work in the summer
following my class.
The students began working on the wikis early in the
semester. Throughout the class, fellow students and I
reviewed the work each student was doing on their wiki,
and gave constructive and positive suggestions. Here is an
example of what the students say to help each other stay
on task.
This spring, my students developed wikis on Zanzibar,
Liberia, Morocco, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.
I asked them to all have pages covering the topics of
colonial history, government and politics, arts and letters,
language, culture, music, economics, development challenges and opportunities, geography, and nature. I also
required student to include an annotated bibliography. I
encouraged the students to add in photography and maps
(properly attributed of course).
I also asked the students to make sure that each section
had at least 250 words of text. As long as they met those
requirements, the students could add sections as they saw
fit. For example, some students wrote significant sections
on public health, or the nature of the elections in their
chosen countries. Others focused on music, or gender
issues. This was an opportunity for students to immerse
themselves in a country they were likely to do work in, and
to practice creating a product that was useful to themselves
John’s wiki is definitely behind but he has built the basic
framework and has basic information for each category
including some new ones including a new sub-category
on the issue of semi-autonomy, which sounds very interesting.... [H]is citations are great and include live links to
the actual source so the person can directly be connected
to the article for more information- this is a very cool
feature. Overall, John’s wiki has a lot of promise and
what he has so far makes me very interested to see the
final product- he just needs more meat on the skeleton
right now. But- the skeleton is beautiful thus far!!!
As you can see, the students take the assignment very
seriously and actively encourage each other in completing
the projects. I was very pleased with the results of the
wiki assignment, and I recommend it to other faculty
in the field of African politics. All of the wikis that were
produced were shareable with other faculty and students.
It was my hope that this exercise would be a little more
creative than the traditional graduate school term paper,
while nonetheless requiring significant research and writing. It was also my hope that this exercise would help students to have a more holistic and less reductionist view of
the countries they would be conducting work in.
Example of a Wiki for Morocco from Warigia Bowman’s Students
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Using VoIP to Connect Students in the US to People in Africa
Kevin S. Fridy, University of Tampa
One of the courses I teach each spring is on the topic of
community-based development projects. The course culminates in a class trip to the villages of Nabdam district
in Northern Ghana where, with a budget of US$200 per
student and a week’s worth of time, students attempt to
bring the projects they designed in the classroom to life. A
major objective of this course is to encourage empathy for
people my mostly affluent American students are culturally trained to think of as exotic in a number of unflattering
ways. Because of this objective I think it is important to
bring residents of the affected villages in on the ground
floor of development project planning.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is the tool I use to
facilitate regular conversations between students and counterparts I select for them in Ghana.1 I group these conversations into two general categories, each presenting a set
of unique problems for someone trying to get students
to think critically and empathetically simultaneously.
The first group I will call elite interviews and the second
mass interviews. These labels convey that the first type of
telephone conversation is with someone selected for their
particular expertise on the development issue because of
some specialized training. The second is with someone
who has an expertise on the issue from the vantage point
of having lived with a developmental problem but there is
no reason to believe their voice is more authoritative than
their neighbors living in similar conditions.
With elite interviews there are two important factors
contributing to a good VoIP session. The first is careful
selection of the interviewee. The second is preparation of
the students, especially with regard to the positions interviewees may have taken in debates. Once students seem
to be settling on a particular topic for their development
project, I call on friends and colleagues who are up-to-date
on research in that given topic area and not too wedded
to a particular approach. I do not think this type of
VoIP session is significantly different from the traditional
in-class guest speaker save for the matter of convenience.
Undergraduates looking to “have an impact” are not as
I use Skype-to-phone because we (US) have internet in the
classroom but in Nabdam the Internet is too slow for the
chats. They, unfortunately, have to use their phones.
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critical as their jaded professors might want them to be.
They can be swayed dramatically with very little reflection,
especially when the interviewee is a charismatic and passionate speaker with an agenda.. On a number of occasions
I have had students work on a project for months who then
want to change it because of an off-handed comment by a
guest who they deemed authoritative. It is the professor’s
job at this point to play the role of wet blanket and push
the students to look for evidence of the presenter’s claims.
More innovative, and I think quite a bit more difficult to
pull off well, are the mass VoIP sessions we do in class.
I arrange my class so that we read about a dozen or so
community-based development projects that cut across
disciplinary and geographical boundaries. While we are
going over these in class I bring young people into the
conversation from the villages we visit. Since Nabdam
was a research site I have been going back to since my
dissertation, I know quite a few people who are willing to
help out my class. There is unfortunately an abundance
of young high school leavers and university graduates
with the communication skills necessary to contribute
to the conversation but also the time to participate due
to un- and underemployment. These conversations work
relatively well because they are sustained and happen on
a weekly or bi-weekly basis. The students on both sides
of the Atlantic get to know each other, and each other’s
accents, and this made both groups comfortable to begin
questioning assumptions of the other.
This problem of treating uncritically every person they
spoke with as an expert exerted itself in a very pronounced
way when the students had figured out what they wanted
to do and I put them in contact with people from the villages who have lived experiences in the project topic area.
When students were interested in introducing Vitamin
A-rich orange-fleshed sweet potatoes they spoke to a farmer, when they were interested in infant nutrition we called
a nurse, and when they thought a basketball court would
help encourage youth social activity we talked to the local
youth parliament. Though my language abilities limited
conversations to English-speakers, accents were a major
issue at this point. Rarely could my American students
understand my friends from Nabdam, and vice versa, and
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I was often left to translate American student English into
Nabdam English and back again. Perhaps it was the difficulty of communication that made students latch onto
very small fragments of conversations and head off on wild
tangents. The primary reason for these calls was to make
sure that students did not engage in neo-imperialism and
take seriously into account the concerns and ambitions of
people in the communities in which they planned a developmental intervention so I did not want to discourage
taking what Nabdams said earnestly. After seeing students
flutter from one idea to another based on very tiny kernels
of information from one nonrandom resident of Nabdam
I realized that the students’ strong desire to actually see the
“other” was easily side-tracked by their even stronger desire
to please the “other” and receive whatever psychological
gratification that entailed. This made it my job as the
professor to continually follow-up our VoIP conversations
with Nabdams with a serious conversation about thinking
critically when it came to development. This is a conversation I am still struggling to perfect.
Megan J. Hershey (Whitworth) shares this photo from
her field research on the political economy of youth
groups in Nairobi’s informal settlements. “The photo is
of me and several members of the Ghetto Youth Focus
Foundation youth group. It was taken outside of their
office in Line Saba, Kibera in Nairobi.”
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Dataset Review:
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data
David Dow (ddow@berkeley.edu)
PhD Student, Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
In recent years scholars of civil conflict have
placed increased emphasis on the development of theories and empirical tests that
address subnational variation in the dynamics of conflicts. An important factor in this
regard has been the collection of disaggregated, fine-grained and geo-located data of
conflict events. One such data source with
particularly good coverage of Sub-Saharan
Africa is the Armed Conflict Location
and Event Data (ACLED) developed by
Clionadh Raleigh, Andrew Linke, Havard
Hegre, and Joakim Karlsen (2010). As the
authors point out, disaggregated datasets
such as ACLED help researchers to get
around some of the biases introduced by
data where the nation state is the primary
unit of analysis. For example, data coded at
the country-level often overlook important Figure 1: Comparing data from ACLED and Voix des Kivus
conflict actors as well as the location of those
reports are often produced by individuals who themselves
actors within the country. ACLED uses a variety of media
are not located in the conflict zones. One potential strategy
sources to code geo-located data on battles between groups,
for examining the magnitude of this problem would be to
including information on the status of territorial control,
compare the data one gets from a media reporting collection
violence against civilians, protests, rioting, and non-violent
mechanism to datasets collected by other means.
actions by conflict actors. The dataset has done researchers
in the area a great service by providing a large amount of rich
One such approach for collecting conflict data by other
information. However, questions remain about the reliabilimeans is a crowdseeding approach. A recent example of this
ty of such collection efforts for drawing statistical inferences.
is Peter van der Windt and Macartan Humphrey’s (2012)
project Voix des Kivus, which uses an SMS messaging sysWhile there is certainly measurement error in cross-national
tem to collect data on conflict events in four territories of
civil war datasets, this potential for error might be exacSouth Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The
erbated when trying to collect data on small, sometimes
authors use stratified random sampling to select villages in
obscure events in dangerous and hard to reach places for
which selected individuals receive cell phones in order to
journalists and researchers alike. ACLED uses a plethora of
report events over a period of time. This pilot system has
sources (newspaper accounts, local accounts and discussions
the potential to address some of the selection bias, memory
with regional experts) in an attempt to verify the data and
recall, and sensitivity issues that hinder other types of data
improve its coverage and reliability of events. While this
collection efforts.
strategy is sensible and likely very helpful in weeding out
“false positives”—reports of events that are miscoded as a
In comparing the data from ACLED and Voix des Kivus,
particular type of conflict by one source but not others—it
Figure 1 suggests that the researcher who relied excluremains difficult to ascertain how many conflict events are
sively on a data source like ACLED would lose insight
overlooked altogether by data collection efforts that rely
into important local conflict dynamics. For example, the
primarily on traditional media reports, especially when those
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Dataset Review... (Dow), continued from page 12
ACLED data suggest that the areas of Kalehe, Walungu,
and Uvira were nearly completely peaceful during the
time under review. But the Voix des Kivus data show that
several violent attacks on villages did occur in those areas,
and these are events that do not correspond to the timing
of events in other areas. A few things should be noted in
this comparison of data sources. First, South Kivu provides a difficult (though important) test for the ACLED
dataset because the area’s geographic isolation and continued violent conflicts make the lack of media coverage
potentially more severe than other areas. Secondly, the
Voix des Kivus data used in Figure 1 is aggregated to the
territory level but only includes data collected from 15
randomly selected villages and therefore as a count of
the total conflict evdents in these territories, it is certainly an underestimation. Third, the overlap in the two
datasets used here only covers a period of time amounting to a little over 3 months.1 Finally, the comparison
is only between one variable of commonality between
the datasets: a measurement of violence against civilians
committed by any group. Furthermore, the definition for
reporting these measures of violence may differ slightly
since the Voix des Kivus variable refers to an “attack on
village” while the ACLED data refers to “violence against
civilians”. Figure 1, therefore, provides an imperfect and
incomplete comparison of the two data collection efforts
but is nonetheless telling. Despite its focus on only certain villages in South Kivu, the Voix des Kivus project
generally is much more sensitive in registering violent
events against civilians than is the ACLED database.
crowdsourcing approach piloted by van der Windt and
Humphreys is a promising path for future efforts, though
these systems have their own logistical, ethical, and
design issues that scholars will continue to grapple with.2
No firm conclusions can be drawn from the simple
comparison presented in Figure 1, but it does suggest
that there are certain limitations that should be explicitly
recognized when using event datasets such as ACLED
to address the known biases inherent in cross-national
research. The collectors of the ACLED data should be
applauded for their efforts to bring more fine- grained
conflict data into the fold in studying civil war dynamics, while at the same time, researchers should remain
cognizant of the pitfalls inherent in a traditional media
based reporting system and strive to triangulate data as
best they can across sources. Furthermore, the collection
of micro level data using creative systems such as the
To contribute a data source, send an email to Zach
Warner, zwarner@wisc.edu
1 The period examined here begins November 6, 2010 and
ends February 5, 2011. This starting date corresponds to
the point at which Voix des Kivus had recruited 15 villages
to participate (having previously had only 7), while the end
date corresponds to the final week in which the USAID
grant supported the project.
References
Raleigh, Clionadh, Andrew Linke, Håvard Hegre and Joakim
Karlsen (2010) “Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location
and Event Dataset: Special Data Feature,” Journal of Peace Research
47(5): 651-660.
Van der Windt, Peter and Macartan Humphreys (2012) “Crowdseeding Conflict Data: An Application of an SMS-based Data System to Estimate the Conflict Effects of Development Aid,” Working
Paper.
African Data Sources and Reviews
Sought
We are in the process of compiling a list of data
sources for our group.
For the current list, go to:
http://africanpoliticsgroup.org/index.php/scholars/
africa-data-sources/
To contribute a review: If you are a graduate student
and would like to write such a review, send an email
to Leonardo Arriola, larriola@berkeley.edu.
See van der Windt and Humphreys’ own discussion of
important issues of implementation and ethical considerations in “Reflections on a Crowdseeding Approach to
Conflict Event Data Gathering”. Accessible at http://
cu-csds.org/projects/event-mapping-in-congo/
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APCG News
Chair’s Report.......................................................Page 1,14
From the Editor............................................................... 15
Calls for Papers................................................................15
Candidates for Vice-Chair of APCG............................... 16
Candidates for Secretary of APCG.................................. 18
APCG-Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation..........19
APCG-African Affairs Award for
Best Graduate Student Paper..................................... 20
Now Hiring..................................................................... 21
General Announcements................................................. 23
Member News................................................................. 25
2014 APSA Africa Workshop Call for Proposals.............. 28
APCG Committees......................................................... 29
Chair’s Report ... (continued from page 1)
Being the 44th organized section of the APSA will
strengthen and institutionalize APCG. While we
will continue to sustain our strong linkages with
the African Studies Association, being an organized
APSA section will create opportunities to work more
closely with other sections, and it will allow us to
have a greater voice in APSA. Most importantly, it
will enable us to pursue more effectively our core
mission, which is to promote recognition within all
professional associations with which we are affiliated
of the theoretical and methodological contributions
to the discipline by political scientists whose research
and professional interests center largely or in part
upon Africa.
I want to thank members of the steering committee
for their support on this initiative and express my
appreciation to APCG members who voted in the
online petition. I also want to convey my gratitude
to the former executive director of APSA, Michael
Brintnall, for shepherding our petition through the
various committees of the APSA. Finally, I want to
thank the association for generously sponsoring the
membership of those scholars from Africa who have
participated in the workshops over the last 5 years and
for its enthusiastic endorsement of our application.
Over the next few months, there will be a period of
transition while we align some of our practices and
procedures with those of the APSA. There will be a
new webpage on the APSA site that will also link to
our existing site. This is a good time of the year to
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make this transition as it is also the time when we
reinvigorate the APCG with new volunteers for our
conference, awards, and nominations committees.
We also vote for the positions of secretary and vicechair in the next few weeks.
As I announced at the meeting, our candidates for
Vice Chair are Lauren McLean, Associate Professor
of Political Science at Indiana University and Ruth
Iyob, Professor of Political Science at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis.
Candidates for Secretary
are Jennifer Brass, Assistant Professor in the School
of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana
University and Alice Kang, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Political Science and the Institute for
Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Their bios and statements are included in the newsletter and voting will be conducted via online electronic
voting. I want to thank the outgoing nominations
committee of John Harbeson, Linda Beck and Tim
Shaw for their hard work.
I would like to express my appreciation to Leo Arriola,
our outgoing Vice-Chair, and Danielle Resnick, our
outgoing secretary, for their dedication to APCG
during their terms. They have been wonderful to
work with over the past year. Many thanks also to
those of you who have served on the APCG panel
selection and awards committees. Finally, I want to
extend a hearty welcome to our new members from
the African continent. I hope to see all of you at the
ASA meetings in November.
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From the Editor
Dear Colleagues,
I am very happy that so many were interested in applying to take over as Newsletter Editor. It is either a sign
that what we are doing on these pages is valued by many
of you... or it is a sign that everyone agrees that it is time
for me to go! We will soon announce who will replace
me. They will work with me on the next issue (February
2014) and take over completely shortly after that.
This is the third issue to feature a symposium, this
time focused on Teaching African Politics. We have also
continued with our dataset reviews. Under the editorial
guidance of Leo Arriola (UC Berkeley), David Dow
(UC Berkeley) provides a useful take on ACLED Data.
Your Editor, Mike, taking a break from fieldwork to visit old
If any of you have ideas for a future symposium please
friends in Gbani, N/R, Ghana. August, 2013.
let me know.
Mike Nelson
Wesleyan University
MPSA 2014 Proposal Submission Deadlines Quickly
Approaching
Panel Submissions Due: September 30
Paper Proposals Due: October 4
The 72nd Annual MPSA Political Science conference will take
place from April 3-6, 2014 in Chicago at the Historic Palmer
House Hotel. This is one of the largest conferences in the discipline, with almost 6,000 presenters from 55 countries. We have
added several new sections and presentation formats for the 2014
conference , including the Empire Lecture Series, Sessions on
Professional Development, and a section for review and “state of
the subfield” articles. You do not need to be an MPSA member to
submit a proposal.
Pre-IPSA Workshop on Citizens, Parties and Electoral
Contexts
Proposals Due October 7
Call for papers for the one day pre-IPSA Workshop on “Citizens,
Parties, and Electoral Contexts” When: One-day pre-IPSA Workshop: 10.00am to 7.00pm
Friday 18th July 2014 Where: International Political Science Association, Montréal,
Canada. Organizers: Prof. Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill University) and
Dr. Ferran Martínez i Coma (University of Sydney) Co-sponsors: Making Electoral Democracy Work (http://electoraldemocracy.com); the Electoral Integrity Project (www.electoralintegrityproject.com); IPSA Research Section on Elections,
Calls for Papers
Citizens and Parties (www.ipsa-ecp.com). The event will be held the day before the 23rd International
Political Science Association World Congress 19-24th July 2014,
Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (www.ipsa.
org). Paper proposal title and abstracts should be submitted
via www.electoralintegrityproject.com. Submission deadline: 7th
October 2013.
Third Call for Papers Announcement of the
Conference of Africanists “Society and Politics in
Africa: Traditional, Transitional, and New.
Paper Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2013
On May 27-30, 2014 in Moscow the Research Council for the
Problems of African Countries and the Institute for African
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hold the 13th
African Studies Conference titled “Society and Politics in Africa:
Traditional, Transitional, and New.” The Conference will take
place at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute for
Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The working
languages are Russian and English.
The Organizing Committee can be reached by e-mail, at the
addresses: conf2014@gmail.com (for general inquiries on the
Conference-related academic matters and proposals for the Free
Communication Panel) and inter.inafr@mail.ru (for the inquiries
regarding technical matters – accommodation, visas, etc.).
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Candidates for Vice-Chair of APCG
Ruth Iyob
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Biographical Statement
Ruth Iyob is a Professor of Political Science and Fellow
in the International Studies Program at the University
of Missouri – St. Louis. She is currently working
on diaspora politics and citizenship in 21st century
Africa. Her publications include: The Eritrean Struggle
for Independence: Domination, Resistance and Nationalism,
1941-1993 (1995); Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace
(co-authored with Gilbert Khadiagala (2006); Religious
Ideas and Institutions: Transitions to Democracy in Africa
(co-edited with Edmond J. Keller (2012). She is also
the author of a number of seminal articles such as “The
Ethiopian-Eritrean Conflict: Diasporic vs. Hegemonic
States in the Horn of Africa: 1991-1999” (2000) and
“International Relations in the Horn: Non-Conformity
and Defiance,” in Quaderni Internazionali (2009). Her
research on foreign policy and identity politics and political discourse include “The Foreign Policies of the Horn:
The Clash Between the New and the Old,” in Khadiagala
and Lyons (eds.), African Foreign Policy: Power and Process,
(2001) and “From Mal d’Africa to Mal d’Europa: The Ties
That Bind” in Andall and Duncan, Italian Colonialism:
Legacy and Memory (2005).
Statement of Candidacy
I have been a member of the African Studies Association
for twenty-five years when I joined as a graduate student
in 1988. I feel honored to have been nominated for this
position. My vision can be summed up as a quest for relevance of research on African Politics. For the political
Volunteers Needed!
Please contact Anne Pitcher
(pitchera@umich.edu)
to volunteer for the following APCG
Committees for 2013 - 2014.
scientist this would involve a re-dedication to policy-relevant research. It would also involve a reassertion of our
insistence that Academic freedom be respected in such
research.
As a member of the African Association of Political Science
(1995-1998) I actively engaged in debates on the need
to reassess the role of Pan-African organizations in harnessing the desire of a new generation of Africanists for
educational opportunities and equitable citizenship rights
for women and minorities. As a member of CODESRIA
(2009 – present) I continue to advocate for systematic and
institutional exchanges of research in the service of human
development. I believe that there should be stronger ties
between ASA and CODESRIA and more collaborative
research between the two organizations.
Our annual
conferences would be enriched if we could include a series
of panels and workshops that highlight shared goals of
obtaining fellowships that would bring together graduate
students from U.S. and African institutions
The APCG has successfully expanded the scope of comparative research and has created forums for dialogue with
colleagues at the APSA and ISA. These forums can be
expanded to bring together Africanist political scientists
from MESA and LASA engaged in research strengthening
institutional relations. I firmly believe that Africanists
need to reconsider the significance of intensive field-based
research on enduring challenges of food security, ensuring
literacy of women and girls and assessing the prospects of
democratization.
Best Book in 2013 Award
Best Article in 2013 Award
APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in 2013 Award
APCG-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Paper 2013/2014 Award
APSA 2014 Committee
ASA 2014 Committee
ISA 2015 Committee
APCG Nominations Committee
APCG Newsletter, September 2013
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Candidates for Vice-Chair of APCG
Lauren M. MacLean
Indiana University
Biographical Statement
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Indiana University and have a Ph.D. (2002)
from UC-Berkeley. My research focuses on the politics of
state formation, social welfare, and citizenship in Africa.
My first book, Informal Institutions and Citizenship in
Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote
d’Ivoire (Cambridge, 2010) was winner of the APSA 2011
Sartori Book Award and finalist for the ASA Herskovitz
award. More recently, I am co-editing with Melani
Cammett (Brown University) a volume entitled The
Politics of Non-State Welfare Provision (Cornell). Building
on our experiences teaching field research methodology at
the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research,
Diana Kapiszewski (Georgetown University), Ben Read
(UC-Santa Cruz) and I are co-authoring a book, Field
Research in Political Science (forthcoming, Cambridge). I
am also developing a new project with Jennifer Brass and
Sanya Carley (IU) on the politics of collaborative governance in renewable energy projects in Africa. My work
has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, Journal of Modern African
Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development,
and the International Journal of Public Administration, and
World Development.
Statement of Candidacy
I am honored to have been asked to run for the position
of Vice Chair for the APCG. I have enjoyed being a member of the APCG for many years. I have participated with
enthusiasm at our business meetings and social events, and
served on the Nominations Committee in 2012.
If elected, I would work with the other APCG leaders and
members to enhance the recognition of our scholarship
within the professional associations of political science
and African Studies. APCG has increased the visibility of
our scholarship by advocating for recognition of the group
itself; organizing and promoting coherent and interesting
conference panels; and, recognizing the best dissertations,
conference papers, articles and books each year.
In my view, the second focus of our work at APCG is
to strengthen our intellectual community of scholars.
Through the newsletter, we learn about each other’s work.
We not only scan the list of titles but can see the photos
of our colleagues conducting field research in various
contexts across the continent. As Vice Chair, I would help
identify new themes and find contributors to the newsletter. As a former co-leader for the APSA Africa Workshop
2012 held in Botswana, I see tremendous value in developing APCG Symposium on themes emerging from these
annual workshops. In this way, a broader array of APCG
members can be enriched by the engaged dialogue that
takes place among US and Africa-based Africanists in these
small, intensive workshops.
Finally, I would like to contribute my energy toward continuing to expand our individual memberships and institutional linkages beyond our current core strengths in the
US. We can build on our networks initiated through the
APSA Africa Workshops to reach a new group of junior
and senior scholars based in African institutions.
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Candidates for Secretary of APCG
Jennifer N. Brass
Indiana University
School of Public & Environmental Affairs
Biographical Statement:
Jennifer N. Brass is Assistant Professor at Indiana
University’s School of Public & Environmental Affairs,
where she teaching courses on state building, international development, international policy, and NGO
management. Her research examines service provision,
governance and state development in sub-Saharan
Africa. Professor Brass is currently working on a book
manuscript (under review), provisionally titled, Allies
or Adversaries? NGOs and the State in Development,
which examines the role that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play in service provision, state-society
relations, and state development in Kenya. The dissertation on which the book is based won the inaugural
APCG-Lynne Reinner award for the best dissertation
on African politics in 2010. With colleagues, Brass
also studies policy and governance in the provision of
small-scale, distributed energy services in developing
countries, and democratization in Kenya. Her articles
appear in Governance, World Development, Development
and Change, the Journal of Modern African Studies,
and the Annual Review of Environment & Resources.
She has conducted extensive in‐country field research
in Senegal, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda. Professor
Brass holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from
the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School
of Foreign Service.
Alice Kang
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Statement of Candidacy and Biographical Statement:
Out of an abiding commitment to promoting the study of
African politics, I am running for the position of secretary on
the African Politics Conference Group’s steering committee.
I received my Ph.D. in political science in 2010 from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 2010, I have been
an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
where I hold a joint position in the Department of Political
Science and Institute for Ethnic Studies (African and AfricanAmerican Studies). Before entering into academia, I worked
as a consultant at the International Foundation for Electoral
Systems (IFES) where I helped administer USAID projects in
Benin, Guinea, and Mali from Washington, DC. I also served
as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sourgoubila, Burkina Faso,
focusing on community health.
Statement of Candidacy:
My work is concerned with who gets into positions of power
and the conditions under which ordinary people influence
them. Specifically, I have examined women’s entry into
parliament and the executive cabinet (Comparative Political
Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum). With funding
from a NSF grant, I am starting a study of where, when,
and how women become judges on high courts, in collaboration with Maria Escobar-Lemmon (Texas A&M), Valerie
Hoekstra (ASU), and Miki Kittilson (ASU). I also spend my
days thinking about the political consequences of women’s
collective action in Africa. My book manuscript, based on 14
months of fieldwork in the Republic of Niger, seeks to explain
variation in the impact of women’s and Islamist movements
on state policy (under contract with University of Minnesota
Press).
The 2013-2014 academic year marks my fifth year of
membership in APCG. I joined the organization when
I was finishing my graduate studies and have become
active in the organization as a faculty member. As such,
I have served on the Best Graduate Student Paper committee, helped to organize the APCG social event at ISA
in 2013, and participated in APCG-sponsered panels at
conferences. I always look forward to APCG conference
events at APSA, ASA and ISA -- it is an excellent community of scholars for both professional and social reasons. I would be honored to serve the group as Secretary.
I enjoy meeting and learning from people who have a deep
interest in African politics. If elected secretary, I would seek
to continue the great work that APCG has done in bringing
scholars together and promoting the study of African politics.
In addition to attending business meetings at APSA and ASA,
coordinating APCG elections, and helping organize social
events, I would support endeavors that promote inclusiveness
within our community and engagement with non-Africa
specialists. For instance, APCG could organize a discussion of
the overlap between and distinctiveness of Francophone and
Anglophone scholarship on African politics.
APCG Newsletter, September 2013
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APCG-Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation
Janet Lewis, Harvard University, PhD Dissertation 2012
“How Rebellion Begins: Insurgent Group Formation and Viability in Uganda
Committee
Martha Johnson, Mills College
Amy Poteete, Concordia University (chair)
Laura Seay, Colby College
Janet Lewis tackles an understudied and methodologically challenging question: Why do some incipient rebel
groups become viable, giving rise to rebellions that are
strong enough to pose a significant challenge to state
authority in at least part of its territory, while others fail?
Drawing upon data from Uganda’s amnesty commission,
newspapers, and key informants, Lewis identifies all rebel
groups that formed in Uganda between 1986 and 2006,
including many that lasted only a couple of months and
are overlooked in major databases on internal conflicts.
She combines spatial and statistical analysis to demonstrate that rebel groups are formed much more often than
is generally realized by policy makers or acknowledged in
scholarly conflict studies and that the site of their first violent act is not well predicted by the variables commonly
proposed in the existing literature.
Lewis argues that the main determinant of rebel viability
is whether information about the incipient group reaches
the government. Government knowledge of rebel group
formation depends on the nature of civilian information
networks and the capacity of state intelligence services.
Lewis contends that information leaks from civilians represent the most serious threat to incipient rebel groups.
Such tip-offs are more likely when citizens expect a rebel
group to fail. In ethnically homogenous areas where
citizens receive reinforcing information from multiple
sources, it is easier to convince civilians of a rebel group’s
viability, thereby decreasing the risk of civilian tip-offs.
With regards to state surveillance, Lewis argues that in
weak states with a limited presence beyond the capital,
decreased state capacity for monitoring means that barriers to entry are lower, allowing more groups to survive in
a wider variety of localities.
Lewis’ arguments are supported by deductive models and
the analysis of more than 170 interviews with former rebels, members of parliament and local government officials,
military and intelligence, and conflict experts. The wealth
of primary data that Lewis has assembled is unique in the
field of conflict studies; there’s simply nothing out there
like this. Given the dangers often inherent in tracking
down ex-combatants in other states, it may be one of the
few times any scholar is able to directly compare evidence
from viable and failed rebel movements that happened
simultaneously. Substantively and theoretically, she brings
the study of African intelligence services to readers’ attention, highlighting a clear gap in present-day studies of the
African state.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Brass
Lynne Rienner, Award Winner
Janet Lewis, and Committee Chair
Amy Poteete.
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APCG-African Affairs Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Amanda Robinson, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
“Nationalism and Inter-Ethnic Trust: Evidence from an African Border Region”
Committee
Claire Adida, University of California, San Diego (chair)
Robin Turner, Butler University
Daniel Young, Georgia State University
Amanda Robinson applies insights from the literature
on nation-building in Europe to challenge the prevalent
pessimistic view that ethnic diversity and the salience of
ethnic divisions in African countries pose an insurmountable challenge to trust-building. Drawing from the broad
comparative politics and social psychology literatures,
Robinson develops a carefully thought-out research design
and carries out a successful lab-in-the-field experiment.
This empirical strategy enables her to measure and show
the extent to which contextual priming, such as a national
flag cue, increases cross-ethnic trust among participants
who started out as weak national identifiers. In other
words, a simple visual cue can erase the co-ethnic trust
premium that characterizes people who tend to identify in
ethnic rather than national terms. These effects are behavioral, and captured via experimental games that carefully
replicate many real-world situations, such as market interactions. This paper’s contributions are theoretical as much
as they are empirical, and its results bring much needed
nuance to the academic discussion on the implications of
ethnic diversity in Africa.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Brass
Award Winner Amanda Robinson with Committee
Chair Claire Adida.
Best Graduate Student Paper Honorable Mention: Manuela Travaglianti,
PhD Candidate, New York University, “Violent Out-Bidding: Violence against Co-Ethnics in Burundi’s 2010 Elections”
Photo Credit: Jennifer Brass
Manuela Travaglianti receives her Honorable Mention
Award from Committee Chair Claire Adida.
Manuela Travaglianti pushes our understanding of ethnic
and electoral violence with an impressive analysis of electoral
violence in Burundi’s 2010 elections. Travaglianti’s work
highlights the logic of electoral violence by investigating the
conditions under which intra-ethnic, rather than inter-ethnic, violence may prevail. Travalianti argues that intra-ethnic
violence is, under certain conditions, one way to mobilize
the base, and thus contributes to the growing literature on
electoral violence as one tool among many in the candidate’s
toolkit. The original dataset she has put together to test her
argument’s observable implications is an impressive collection
of events that help us better understand the logic of electoral
violence.
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Now Hiring
School of International
Service, American University
The School of International Service at
American University in Washington,
DC has announced five tenure-line
searches relating to international development, quantitative analysis, transnational security, and other areas. SIS is
the largest international affairs school
in the United States, with an explicit inter-disciplinary structure. The
job descriptions are available on the
school’s website: http://www.american.
edu/sis/faculty/search-tenure.cfm
Research Fellow,
University of Birmingham,
UK
Applications Due: September 20
The new Research Fellow will work
alongside DLP’s Director of Research,
Dr Heather Marquette, at the
University of Birmingham, UK. The
post holder will join DLP’s research
team in exploring the role of political
processes and human agency (particularly leadership) in shaping institutions and determining developmental
trajectories. The Research Fellow will
also be involved in communicating
research findings, for example through
publications, blog posts, workshops
and conferences.
Research themes will include the following:
• Corruption and collective action
• How development actors can think
and work politically
• Politics at the interfaces of the state
(between government, state, business
and civil society)
• Coalitions
• The emergence of future
leadership, particularly by women and
young people
• The role of attitudes, values and
ideas in developmental leadership.
The successful candidate will hold a
PhD in a relevant area and will have
excellent analytical skills. They will also
be a skilled communicator, able to convey complex information clearly and
concisely to different audiences.
This role involves joining DLP at an
exciting time, as an expanded research
programme is developed. The position will be based in the University
of
Birmingham’s
International
Development Department, a friendly
and vibrant department with a 50-year
history of conducting influential
research, teaching and consultancy.
This is a fixed-term contract until
30th June 2014 (although additional
funding is likely to be secured for a further three years). Application deadline:
20 September 2013.
For more information: http://www.
download.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/
jd/50080.pdf
Assistant Professor,
Boston University
Applications Due: “No later than”
October 1
The Department of International
Relations at Boston University invites
applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level
(subject to final budgetary approval).
Area of specialization: International
Relations of the Greater Middle East.
The Department is open to specialization in a variety of approaches and
sub-regions (including the Arab-Israeli
zone, the Maghrib and the TurkoPersian region), but has a particular
preference for issues related to governance, political reform and regime
transformation, and/or political economy.
We welcome applications from all relevant disciplines, including sociology,
history, anthropology, political science, international political economy,
and international affairs. The position
requires commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching, as well
as research. Publications and exemplary teaching experience required.
Ph.D. must be completed by the time
of appointment. The expected start
date for employment is July 1, 2014.
Please submit curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, samples of written
work, and three current letters of recommendation electronically at https://
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2746.
Applications must be received no
later than October 1, 2013. The
Department of International Relations
is committed to multidisciplinary,
policy-relevant research and teaching.
Boston University is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity institution.
Assistant Professor (History),
Davidson College
Applications Due: November 1
Davidson College invites applications
for a tenure-track assistant professor
of African history. Applicants must
demonstrate a strong commitment to
undergraduate teaching as well as a
record of promising research. Prior
teaching experience and a Ph. D.
in-hand preferred. Davidson’s teaching
load is five courses per year.
Davidson College is a highly selective,
independent liberal arts college located
in Davidson, North Carolina, close
to the city of Charlotte. The College
that has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars
and is consistently ranked among the
top liberal arts colleges in the country. Davidson faculty College enjoy a low
faculty-student ratio, emphasis on and
appreciation of excellence in teaching,
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and a collegial, respectful atmosphere
that honors academic achievement
and integrity. Davidson is strongly committed to achieving excellence
and cultural diversity, and welcomes
applications from women, members
of minority groups, and others who
would bring additional dimensions to
the college’s mission.
Applicants should submit the following materials online at https://jobs.
davidson.edu-- a Curriculum Vitae, a
statement of teaching interests, a statement of research interests, copies of
significant research papers or publications and the names and email addresses of three references. Our system will
automatically contact those references
to request a letter for your application.
Candidates may also upload evidence
of excellence in teaching, such as syllabi, assignments, and evaluations. The
department will conduct interviews at
the American Historical Association’s
annual convention in Washington
D.C. in January 2014. Applications
are due by November 1. Please direct
inquiries to the chair of the search
Committee, Daniel W. Aldridge, III
(daaldridge@davidson.edu).
Africa Research Initiative,
National Intelligence
University’s Center for
Strategic Intelligence
Research
From Kris Inman: I have a new job
announcement. For the past six
months, I have been running the Africa
Research Initiative (ARI) at the National
Intelligence University’s Center for
Strategic Intelligence Research. The
purpose of ARI is to respond to the
Intelligence Community (IC) agencies’
strategic research needs on sub-Saharan Africa. ARI’s primary intent is to
address those strategic research needs
pertaining to second and third tier priorities that the IC is unable to address
given its own resource constraints, but
that are nonetheless mission critical.
We network with analytic cadres and
analytic leadership to develop collaborative and/or independent scholarly
research projects utilizing existing areas
of knowledge and expertise. We do not
conduct bench research, which may be
misconstrued as collection operations.
We do not conduct finished intelligence analysis. If APCG members
are interested in learning more, or
participating in this exciting initiative,
please contact me at kristie.inman@
dodiis.mil or 202.231.6630. This is a
great way for academics to engage in
policy-relevant research that will be
delivered directly to the senior policy makers in the U.S. Government.
We are especially interested in hearing from academics with recent and
innovative field research experience in
Africa. Many members of the APCG
community have already been involved
with the ARI and we would love to
expand this opportunity.
Submit Online!
APCG Member Elliott Green, lecturing at the University
of Cape Town. He was teaching there in July as part
of the inaugural LSE-UCT July School. His course
was entitled ‘Poverty’ and drew students from Africa,
Europe, North America and Asia, including two incumbent mayors in South Africa. More information for
those interested in the 2014 session can be found
here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/summerSchools/
LSEUCTJulySchool/Home.aspx.
Submissions to the newsletter can be made via our
website:
http://africanpoliticsgroup.
org/index.php/submit-news/
APCG Newsletter, September 2013
General Announcements
African Studies Scholars
Urge Secretary of State John
Kerry to Uphold and Enforce
the Leahy Law
Eighty African studies scholars recently wrote to Secretary of State John
Kerry, urging him to uphold and
enforce the Leahy Law. “The ‘Leahy
Amendment’”, they note, “now prohibits State Department aid, or military training from the Department of
Defense (DOD), to units known to
have engaged in human rights abuses.” The text of the letter and a list
of signatories is here: http://carllevan.
com/2013/06/letter-to-kerry-leahyhuman-rights-law/
Many of the signatories are APCG
members.
New Working Group
for Survey Methods in
Developing Countries
Together with Yael Zeira (Ole Miss),
Kristin Michelitch has formed a
working group for survey methods in
developing countries, which has met
at MPSA and APSA 2013. We are
working on the provision of a website,
allowing group members to centralize
diffuse information on newly developed techniques. Please email kristin.
michelitch@vanderbilt.edu to receive
updates.
Energy Africa Conference
November, 2013
From Kathleen Hancock: My university, the Colorado School of Mines, is
a co-sponsor of the November 2013
Energy Africa Conference http://energyafricaconference.com. This conference focuses on renewable energy and
natural gas as clean, sustainable ways
for Africa to develop. There are sub-
stantial opportunities for networking
with businesses and practitioners from
the US, Europe, and Africa, as well
as academics in science, engineering,
business, and the social sciences.
Seminar on African State
Legislatures
January 7-8, 2014
APSA Africa Workshop Alumni
Carl LeVan and Joseph Fashagba are
co-hosting a seminar on “African
State Legislatures: Subnational Politics
and National Power” at Landmark
University in Kwara State, Nigeria on
January 7 - 8, 2014. Paper presentations will discuss Kenya, Ethiopia,
South Africa, Nigeria, and lessons
from comparative fiscal federalism
for Africa’s new oil discoveries. The
seminar is being funded by a grant
from the National Endowment for
Democracy. Registration information
and the seminar concept paper can be
found at http://carllevan.com/research/
state-legislatures-fashagba/
APSA Africa Scholars
Participating at IQMR
Several alumnae of the APSA Africa
2012 Workshop, held in Botswana,
were accepted through the competitive, open-pool process as participants
in the 2013 Institute for Qualitative
and Multi-Method Research. Five participants from Africa, and two participants from the US were reunited at the two-week, intensive workshop held at Syracuse University from
June 17-28, 2013. The participants
included: Dr. Fatai Aremu (University
of Ilorin, Nigeria); Dr. George Bob
Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology, Ghana);
Joyce Ejukonemu (Federal College
of Education, and University of
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Abuja, Nigeria); Kirk Harris (Indiana
University, US); Dr. Parakh Hoon
(Virginia Tech University, US); Dr.
Mesharch Katusiimeh (Makerere
University and Uganda Christian
University, Uganda); and, Majuta
Mamogale (University of Cape Town,
South Africa).
Joining 185 other IQMR participants from more than 70 institutions,
the scholars chose course modules facilitated by 30 faculty on research design;
multi-method research; case selection;
conceptualization; process tracing;
comparative historical analysis; natural experiments; ethnography; archival
research; interpretive discourse analysis; fuzzy set methods; and, philosophy
of science issues relevant to qualitative
and multi-method research. The Africa
Workshop scholars also participated in
small sessions focused on giving feedback on participant research designs
and networked with other Africanists
from universities all over the US and
world.
Lauren M. MacLean, one of the
APSA Africa 2012 Workshop co-leaders, serves regularly as a IQMR faculty member, teaching a module with
Diana Kapiszewski on field research
methods. MacLean worked with Colin
Elman, Director of IQMR, to organize
and obtain funding for the initiative. MacLean, Elman and the IQMR
participants gratefully acknowledge
the support of the National Science
Foundation’s Political Science Program,
which funded the participation of this
group under Award No. 1124074,
Support for Institutes and Research
Groups on Qualitative and MultiMethod Research 2012-2015.
Afrobarometer completing
Round 5 surveys; Round 6 to
begin in February 2014
Afrobarometer is pleased to announce
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that by mid-September we will have
completed our Round 5 surveys, having expanded from coverage of 20
countries in Round 4, to 35 in this
round (2011-2013). New countries
covered in Round 5 include: Algeria,
Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire,
Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mauritius,
Morocco, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan,
Swaziland, Togo, and Tunisia.
sets one year after the completion of
fieldwork. Round 5 data has already
been released for about a dozen countries, and additional data sets will be
posted regularly over the coming year. You can also check out our “online
data analysis” facility which provides
some access to the data prior to the full
release: http://www.afrobarometer-online-analysis.com/aj/AJBrowserAB.jsp
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and
Tunisia were implemented in conjunction with the Arab Barometer. We
also hope to do a 36th survey in South
Sudan by the end of this year.
Round 6 surveys are scheduled to
begin in February of 2014.
We are constantly posting new press
releases, media briefings and bulletins from individual countries on our
website, www.afrobarometer.org. Our
“Global Release of Round 5 Results”,
which will present and analyze results in
a multi-country format, will begin on
1st October and continue to mid-December, with policy briefs forthcoming
on taxation, globalization and communications, poverty and the economy,
gender, governance, democracy, and
a number of other issues. Watch the
website for the latest releases, and/or
follow us on Facebook and Twitter @
Afrobarometer.
In addition, we continue to release data
“International Conference on
Leadership and Governance
in Africa”
Hosted by Awolowo Institute, Lagos,
Nigeria
The Obafemi Awolowo Institute
of Government and Public Policy
(OAIGPP), Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
hosted an International Conference
on Leadership and Governance in
Africa, coordinated by Wale Adebanwi
(UC-Davis) and Ebenezer Obadare
(KU, Lawrence) between July 12 and
13, 2013. Papers were presented by
scholars from North America, Europe
and Africa. The keynote address,
“Awolowo: Leadership, Governance,
Knowledge” was delivered by Professor
Olufemi Taiwo (Cornel University,
Ithaca, NY).
(Below) Picture
shows the presenters and the
Director General
of the Institute,
Prof.
Adigun
Agbaje
(fifth
from right) in
front of the main
building of the
Awo Institute in
Lagos.
UNISA’s Africa Day
Colloquium
Clive Napier and Kgaugelo Pule
(Unisa) report that Unisa’s Department
of Political Sciences in the College of
Human Sciences honored Africa Day
on May 25 by hosting a colloquium
to create the opportunity for senior
political scientists from South Africa
and neighbouring countries to reflect
on the discipline at their respective
institutions, and on contemporary
political developments in the Southern
African Development Community
(SADC) region. The colloquium was
attended by university lecturers from
various countries, including Zambia,
the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and
Malawi. The purpose of the colloquium was to strengthen ties between
Unisa and neighbouring institutions,
to share and expand on existing knowledge and to see if what is being taught
at other southern African political sciences departments is relevant here. The
ultimate goal is to create a structure
where knowledge can be shared to benefit all African academic institutions.
Unisa’s Department of Political Sciences
is the only academic unit in Africa that
offers African Studies up to doctoral
level. The department is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in Southern
Africa, and is dedicated to the community which it serves. It offers three-year
majors and postgraduate degrees in the
subjects Politics, African Politics, and
International Politics. A number of
offerings in Strategic Studies also form
part of the postgraduate programme.
The department has grown by 28%
and currently has over 1 000 postgraduate students and a moderate number
of M&D students.
The colloquium questioned how
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southern African political scientists
could make the discipline relevant
without losing the essence of theory.
“The matter is one of shifting the
geography of knowledge from a western perspective aspect to an African
one. African universities are unfortunately modelled after other universities
and a reflection needs to happen to the
geopolitics of knowledge. We need to
ask who is setting the research agenda,
and how are scholars going to seriously
intellectualise content stemming from
Africa?”
Member News
For a change of pace the Member
news is presented in REVERSE
alphabetical order for this issue.
- The editor.
Susanna Wing (Haverford) presented
a paper, “Hands off my Constitution:
Constitutional reform and crisis in Mali” at the workshop “The
Gap from Parchment to Practice”
Ambivalent Effects of Constitutions in
Democratizing Countries” at American
University, May 28 - 29, 2013.
Beth Whitaker and her UNC
Charlotte colleagues James Walsh
and Justin Conrad have received a
$825,537 grant from the Department
of Defense and its Minerva Initiative for
their project titled “Natural Resources
and Armed Conflict.” Other researchers on the project are James Piazza
of Pennsylvania State University,
Michael Findley of the University of
Texas at Austin, and Victor Asal of
the University at Albany. Researchers
will develop a global, geocoded dataset
Because of the high unemployment
rate in South Africa and the continent
at large, the other challenge is that
students question whether this degree
will make them employable. Political
Sciences as a discipline is thus in crisis
as students don’t think it is relevant.
Currently universities are considering
how best to change the curriculum
in order to maximise students’ career
prospects. Additionally, a Political
Sciences degree should equip students
with the practical skills necessary to
positively impact society.
Going forward, political scientists in
the SADC region want to advance
teaching in this field. They believe that
a unified stand will be the best way to
achieve this. The image below is from
the event.
of natural resource locations relevant
to armed conflict and measure if and
how rebel groups exploit the resources.
The team will analyze how control of
resources contributes to state failure,
internal conflict, and third-party interventions.
Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell
University) and Danielle Resnick
(UNU-Wider) have a co-edited volume entitled “Democratic Trajectories
in Africa: Unraveling the Impact
of Foreign Aid,” which will be published by Oxford University Press in
October and launched at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
on November 6th. Other contributing authors include Simone Dietrich,
Mamoudou Gazibo, E. GyimahBoadi, Carrie Manning, Monica
Malbrough, Lise Rakner, Aili Tripp,
Joseph Wright, and Theo Yakah.
Nicholas Rush Smith, after defending
his dissertation on South African vigilantism at the University of Chicago
in Fall 2013, will begin a tenure-track
assistant professor position in the
Department of Political Science at the
City College of New York in January
2014. Entitled “The Rights of Others:
Vigilantism and the Contradictions of
Democratic State Formation in PostApartheid South Africa,” the dissertation asks why vigilantism has been so
prominent in South Africa despite a
celebrated transition to democracy, a
widely lauded constitution, and massive transformations of the state’s legal
apparatus.
On July 1, Dan Posner moved from
MIT (where he had spent three years)
back to UCLA, where he had previously taught from 1998-2010. He
will be the James S. Coleman Professor
of International Development.
Jessica Piombo (Naval Postgraduate
School) reports that she and two colleagues recently won a grant from
the Minerva initiative. The three-year
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project is entitled, “Public Service
Provision as Peace-building: How
do Autonomous Efforts Compare to
Internationally Aided Interventions.”
She is working with Dr Naazneen
Barma of NPS, and Dr Naomi Levy of
Santa Clara University on the project.
The project analyzes state building, particularly creating public institutions, and its contribution to promote
peace processes in post-conflict states.
Research will take place in Cambodia,
Laos and Uganda. We are particularly
focusing on how governments deliver
public services, and the ways in which
that public services delivery actually
contributes to peace building. A second major question in the research is
whether international interventions in
peace building, such as efforts routinely undertaken by the United States and
the United Nations, actually help build
peace through public service delivery.
We plan to compare internationally-aided against domestically-led state
and peacebuilding processes to get at
this aspect of the question. Therefore,
the research design takes countries that
have had interventions, and countries
that haven’t, and compares the two different experiences. By public services,
we mean things such as health care,
public safety, education, electricity as a
service provision.
And a more scholarly description
of the research problem:“Scholars and
practitioners alike have largely concluded that international efforts to
build sustainable peace in post-conflict
states must include a focus on building
state capacity. It is not necessarily the
case, however, that the twin goals of
peace- and state-building are mutually reinforcing. The proposed project
seeks to improve both the theory and
practice of how peace is achieved in
post-conflict countries by disentangling the related goals of peace- and
state-building. It does so by focusing
on the ability of three post-conflict
states to provide public services and
resolve societal grievances at the local
level. It also seeks to understand how
externally led peace-building interventions compare with more autonomous
and domestically motivated peace processes in achieving sustainable peace
and improvements in state capacity. To
these ends, our study varies the “degree
of aidedness” of peace- and state-building initiatives, selecting country cases
that enable both a cross-national comparison (Cambodia and Laos) and an
intertemporal comparison (Uganda in
two distinct time periods). We further enhance our analytical leverage by
focusing on outcomes at the subnational and sectoral levels, where the tangible results of peace- and state-building
can be best observed.”
Scott Pegg (IUPUI) tramped “through
the post-oil spill mangrove swamp in
Bodo, Nigeria... It’s a mix of old oil spill
residue, bran new oil spill, mud, dead
APCG Member Scott Pegg tramping mangrove tree branches and about the
through a swamp.. Read what he was most disgusting thing I’ve ever done in
doing on the this page.
my life. In case you’re wondering, the
way they clean the gunk off your legs
is by shooting gasoline from the boat’s
motor on them.”
Michael Byron Nelson (Wesleyan
University) spent part of the summer in Ghana working on his new
project, “Africa’s New Partners”. The
research trip was funded by a grant
from Wesleyan University. He also
is resuming his role as Chair of the
African Studies Cluster at Wesleyan
University starting this fall.
Devra C. Moehler (UPenn) is spending the 2013-2014 academic year as a
visiting scholar at University of Zurich.
Kristin Michelitch is now an Assistant
Professor at Vanderbilt University.
Chiseche Salome Mibenge’s (Lehman
College (CUNY)) book ‘Sex and
International Tribunals: The Erasure
of Gender from the War Narrative’
(University of Pennsylvania Press) has
been published, and is available for
sale at http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15147.html . A summary of the book can be found on
the E-International Relations website : http://www.e-ir.info/author/
chiseche-mibenge/
Peace A. Medie joined the Legon
Centre for International Affairs
and Diplomacy at the University
of Ghana as a Research Fellow in
August 2013. She was awarded a Small
Research Grant from the American
Political Science Association in May
2013.
Rasel Madaha (University of Dar
Es Salaam) was selected to participate in the Sixth South-South
Summer Institute with a theme focuscontinued on page 27
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27
Member News, continued from page 26
ing on Democratic Renewal Versus
Neoliberalism: Towards Empowerment
and Inclusion. The institute has been
organized by the Latin American
Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO),
the Council for the Development
of Social Science Research in Africa
(CODESRIA) and the International
Development Economic Associates
(IDEAs). The institute is being held as
part of the third three-year phase of the
Africa/Asia/Latin America Scholarly
Collaborative Program. The Institute
will be held in Santiago de Chile, from
September 25 to October 3, 2013.
Staffan I. Lindberg (University
of Gothenburg and University of
Florida) received a grant of SEK 6 million (US$ 935,000) from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Sweden for his role
as Principal Investigator on “Varieties
of Democracy”. The research project
involves data collection in 47 countries.
Adrienne
LeBas
(American
University) published “Violence and
Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya, and
Lagos, Nigeria” in the September
2013 issue of Studies in Comparative
International Development. The article examines the informal governance
institutions (e.g., ethnic militia), that
are common in the two cities, and it
emphasizes the role played by electoral
politics in shaping the relationship
between these organizations and local
communities.
Alice Kang (University of NebraskaLincoln) has received a National
Science Foundation award (2013-16)
to study the ascent of women to high
courts around the world. Kang will
focus on high courts in Africa. Her
co-principal investigators are Maria
Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra,
and Miki Kittilson.
Sandra Joireman will be transitioning
to a new position at the University of
Richmond as the Weinstein Chair of
International Studies and Professor of
Political Science.
Robin Harding is joining the
University of Rochester as an
Assistant Professor in the Department
of Political Science. He moves there
from the University of Oxford,
where he has spent the past year as a
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at
Nuffield College.
Elliott Green (London School of
Economics) has been promoted from
Lecturer in Development Studies to
Associate Professor in Development
Studies.
Jessica Gottlieb is now an Assistant
Professor at the Bush School of
Government and Public Service at
Texas A&M University.
An article by Daniel E. Esser, Assistant
Professor of International Development
at American University in DC, was
recently published in the Journal of
Social Policy (FirstView). Written
jointly with his former graduate student
and current Presidential Management
Fellow Benjamin Williams, “Tracing
Poverty and Inequality in International
Development
Discourses:
An
Algorithmic and Visual Analysis
of Agencies’ Annual Reports and
Occasional White Papers, 1978-2010”
highlights discursive frames and their
implications for forging more effective
socioeconomic policies in the context
of governance and development in
Africa and beyond.
Kim Dionne has moved to Smith
College, where she is Five College
Assistant Professor of Government,
focusing on African Politics. Her
appointment allows her to teach at
Smith, Mount Holyoke College,
Amherst College, and the University
of Massachusetts.
John Clark reports that he was the
co-editor of a special issue of the
Review of African Political Economy,
volume 40, no.135 (March 2013),
entitled “Neither War nor Peace in
the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC): Profiting and Coping Amid
Violence and Disorder.” More information available at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/crea20/40/135#.
UidCdj-UN8M
Warigia Bowman (Clinton School
of Public Service, University of
Arkansas) had an Op Ed come out in
Al Jazeera about the Kenyan Election.
It came out the day before the Supreme
Court decision, on March 29th.
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APCG Newsletter, September 2013
2014 APSA Africa Workshop Call for Proposals
Workshop Leaders for the 2014 APSA Africa Workshop
Deadline: 5:00 PM ET, November 1, 2013
Full Application Instructions Available at
https://www.apsanet.org/~africaworkshops/content_86040.cfm?navID=1059
The American Political Science
Association (APSA) is pleased to
announce a call for proposals from
political scientists interested in serving
as co-leaders for the 7th annual APSA
Africa Workshop. This two-week political science workshop will take place
in the summer of 2014. Feel free to
download the Call for Proposals.pdf.
Background
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the 2014 workshop is
part of an ongoing multi-year effort
to support political science research
and teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa
through a series of residential political science workshops. Along with
APSA's MENA Workshops program,
the Africa Workshops are a major
component of APSA's efforts to engage
with political science communities
outside the United States and support
research networks linking U.S.-based
scholars with their colleagues overseas.
Previous workshops have been held in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2013);
Gaborone, Botswana (2012); Nairobi,
Kenya (2011); Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(2010); Accra, Ghana (2009); and
Dakar, Senegal (2008). More information about the workshops can be found
at the project web site: www.apsanet.
org/africaworkshops.
Each workshop is led by a team of
two US-based and two Africa-based
scholars. The two week program is
hosted by a university or research institute in Africa and brings together up
to 22 Africa-based scholars, as well
as four advanced PhD students from
US-based universities.
The goals of the workshops are to: (1)
enhance the capacities and resources
for theoretical or empirical scholarship by political scientists in Africa;
(2) explore a compelling intellectual
theme underpinning basic research in
political science; (3) provide a forum
for connecting participants with recent
developments in the field; and (4) support participants' ongoing research and
publication.
The proposal must explain the scope of
the professional ties between prospective US and Africa-based workshop
leaders; preference will be given to
teams demonstrating substantial previous research collaboration. Workshop
leaders will serve as academic directors
of the project who will be responsible
for all substantive content.
A modest honorarium will be provided
and related expenses (meals, airfare,
lodging, incidentals) will be covered.
Workshop administration and logistics
will be led by APSA staff in conjunction with the local partners in Africa.
Applicants should explain and justify
where they would like to implement
the workshop and with which host
organization and local partners. Local
partner organizations will be expected
to work closely with APSA on all related administrative and logistical tasks.
Partners must have the institutional
capacity and ability to support a successful residential workshop, including
close linkages to local institutions of
higher education and research communities. Applicants are strongly encouraged to recommend local partner organizations only if they have existing
relationships or know them well.
Applications
Full Application Instructions Available
at:
h t t p s : / / w w w. a p s a n e t . o r g / ~ a f ricaworkshops/content_86040.
cfm?navID=1059
Application Timeline and Information
Applications should be submitted
electronically to APSA in Word format, 12-point font, double-spaced
(except for Section III -Supplementary
Information- which can be single
spaced) and with 1-inch margins.
Send applications to africaworkshops@
apsanet.org by 5:00 PM Eastern Time
on November 1, 2013. Selections will
be announced in December 2013.
Prospective leadership teams interested
in receiving feedback on their proposal ideas are encouraged to reach out
to APSA well before the submission
deadline.
Contact Us: Send an email at africaworkshops@apsanet.org, or call
Andrew Stinson at (202) 349-9364, if
you have questions or would like more
information about the workshops or
application process.
APCG Newsletter, September 2013
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Recent and Continuing Committee Members and Chairs
Best Book in 2012 Award
Michelle Kuenzi
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
michele.kuenzi@unlv.edu
Rachel Riedl
Northwestern University
r-riedl@northwestern.edu
* Scott Straus
University of Wisconsin
sstraus@wisc.edu
Best Article in 2012 Award
* John Heilbrunn
Colorado School of Mines
jheilbru@mines.edu
Alice Kang
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
akang2@unl.edu
Andrew Lawrence
University of Edinburg
andrew.lawrence@ed.ac.uk
APCG-Lynne Rienner Best
Dissertation in 2012 Award
APCG-African Affairs Best
Graduate Student Paper
2012/2013 Award
* Claire Adida
University of California, San Diego
claire@adida.net
Robin Turner
Butler University
rlturne1@butler.edu
Daniel Young
Georgia State University
djyoung@gsu.edu
APSA 2013 Committee
* Kim Yi Dionne
Smith College
kdionne@smith.edu
Jim Hentz
Virginia Military Institute
HentzJJ@vmi.edu
Ngoni Munemo
Williams College
Ngonidzashe.Munemo@williams.
edu
Martha Johnson
Mills College ASA 2012 Committee
majohnson@mills.edu
Warigia Bowman
*Amy Poteete
University of Arkansas
Concordia Univerity
warigia@gmail.com
apoteete@alcor.concordia.ca
Kevin Fridy
Laura Seay
University of Tampa
Morehouse College
kevin@fridy.com
lseay@morehouse.edu
*Lahra Smith
Georgetown University
ls356@georgetown.edu
ISA 2014 Committee
*Cara Jones
University of Florida/Grinnell
Collegecara.e.jones@gmail.com
Mesharch Katusiimeh
Uganda Christian University
mkatusiimeh@gmail.com
Fredline M’Cormack-Hale
Seton Hall University
amaybel@yahoo.com
Nominations Committee
Linda Beck
University of Maine at Farmington
linda.beck@maine.edu
* John Harbeson
CUNY/Johns Hopkins
jwharbeson@aol.com
Tim Shaw
UMass Boston
Timothy.Shaw@umb.edu Ad Hoc Mentoring
Committee Chair
Sandra Joireman
Wheaton College
sandra.joireman@wheaton.edu * Committee chair
Publications
* denotes items submitted directly by members. All other references were discovered by the editor. I only include items here that
have already been published.
Books
Achcar, Gilbert. 2013. The People Want:
A Radical Exploration of the Arab
Uprising. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Betts, Alexander. 2013. Survival
Migration: Failed Governance and the
Crisis of Displacement. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
Bøås, Morten. 2013. The political economy
of the conflict trade: contextualising
illicit miners and informal traders.
London: Routledge.
Campbell, John R. 2013. Nationalism,
law and statelessness: Grand Illusions
in the Horn of Africa. London:
Routledge.
Coyne, Christopher J. 2013. Doing bad by
doing good : why humanitarian action
fails. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
Ellett, Rachel. 2013. Pathways to
Judicial Power in Transitional States:
Perspectives from African Courts.
London: Routledge.
Hazen, Jennifer M. 2013. What Rebels
Want: Resources and Supply Networks
in Wartime. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press.
Kefale, Asnake. 2013. Federalism and
Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia: A comparative regional study. New York:
Routledge.
Massoud, Mark Fathi. 2013. Law’s
Fragile State: Colonial, authoritarian,
and humanitarian legacies in Sudan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
*Mibenge, Chiseche Salome. 2013.
Sex and International Tribunals:
The Erasure of Gender from the War
Narrative. University of Pennsylvania
Press. http://www.e-ir.info/author/
chiseche-mibenge/
Namikas, Lise A. 2013. Battleground
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Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 19601965. Stanford, California: Stanford
University Press.
Oriola, Temitope B. 2013. Criminal
resistance? : the politics of kidnapping of
oil workers. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Publishing Company.
Raposo, Pedro Amakasu. 2013. Japan’s
Foreign Aid to Africa: Angola and
Mozambique within the TICAD process. London: Routledge.
Roux, Theunis. 2013. The politics of
principle: The first South African
Constitutional Court, 1995-2005
(i ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Simm, Gabrielle. 2013. Sex in Peace
Operations. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
* Smith, Lahra. 2013. Making Citizens in
Africa: Ethnicity, gender, and national identity in Ethiopia. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Tangri, Roger, & Andrew M. Mwenda.
2013. Politics of Elite Corruption in
Africa Uganda in Comparative African
Perspective. London: Routledge.
Trommer, Silke. 2013. Transformations
in Trade Politics: Participatory trade
politics in West Africa. London:
Routledge.
Zwier, Paul J. 2013. Principled
Negotiation and Mediation in the
International Arena: Talking with Evil.
Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Edited Books
Abbink, Jon & Tobias Hagmann. Ed.
2013. Reconfiguring Ethiopia: The politics of authoritarian reform. London:
Routledge.
* Adebanwi, Wale & Ebenezer
Obadare. Ed. 2013. Democracy and
Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical
Interpretations. With a Foreword by
Larry Diamond. Palgrave-Macmilan.
Brown, William & Sophie Harman. Ed.
2013. African Agency in International
Politics. London: Routledge.
Cheeseman, Nic; David M. Anderson; &
Andrea Scheibler. Ed. 2013. Routledge
Handbook of African Politics. London:
Routledge.
Doorenspleet, Renske & Lia Nijzink. Ed.
2013. One-party dominance in African
democracies. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne
Rienner Publishers.
Engel, Ulf & Joāo Gomes Porto. Ed.
2013. Towards an African Peace and
Security Regime: Continental embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic
relevance. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Publishing Company.
Fanta, Emmanuel; Timothy M.
Shaw; & Vanessa T. Tang. Ed.
2013. Comparative Regionalisms for
Development in the 21st Century:
Insights from the Global South.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.
Gow, James; ‘Funmi Olonisakin; &
Dijxhoorn Ernst. Ed. 2013. Militancy
and violence in West Africa: Religion,
politics and radicalisation. London:
Routledge.
Kieh, Jr., George Klay & Pita Ogoba
Agbese. Ed. 2013. Reconstructing the
authoritarian state in Africa. London:
Routledge.
Larémont, Ricardo René. Ed. 2013.
Revolution, Revolt and Reform in
North Africa: The Arab Spring and
Beyond. Lonodn: Routledge.
Li Xing, Abdulkadir Osman Farah. Ed.
2013. China-Africa Relations in an Era
of Great Transformations. Burlington,
VT: Ashgate Publishing.
Lorenz-Carl, Ulrike & Martin Rembe.
Ed. 2013. Mapping agency : comparing
regionalisms in Africa. Burlington, VT:
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Ashgate Publishing.
Mazurana, Dyan; Karen Jacobsen; &
Lacey Andrews Gale. Ed. 2013.
Research methods in conflict settings:
A view from below. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Omeje, Kenneth & Tricia Redeker
Hepner. Ed. 2013. Conflict and
Peacebuilding in the African Great
Lakes Region. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Zyberi, Gentian. Ed. 2013. An
Institutional Approach to the
Responsibility to Protect. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Meier, Barbara. 2013. “Death Does Not
Rot”: Transitional Justice and Local
“Truths” in the Aftermath of the
War in Northern Uganda. Africa
Spectrum, (48), 2.
Miambo, Alois S. 2013. Becoming
Zimbabwe or Becoming
Zimbabwean: Identity, Nationalism
and State-building. Africa Spectrum,
48 (1).
Ribli, Sandra. 2013. (Re)making
the Social World: The Politics of
Transitional Justice in Burundi.
Africa Spectrum, 48 (1).
African Affairs
Journals
Africa Spectrum
Agbiboa, Daniel E. 2013. Oil
Multinational Corporations,
Environmental Irresponsibility and
Turbulent Peace in the Niger Delta.
Africa Spectrum, 48 (2).
Akpome, Aghogho. 2013. Ominous
Inevitabilities: Reflecting on South
Africa’s Post-Transition Aporia in
Achmat Dangor’s “Bitter Fruit”.
Africa Spectrum, 48 (2).
Amin, Julius A. 2013. Serving in Africa:
US Peace Corps in Cameroon. Africa
Spectrum, 48 (1).
Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel. 2013. Local
Communities’ and Indigenous
Peoples’ Rights to Forests in Central
Africa: From Hope to Challenges.
Africa Spectrum, 48 (1).
Chanika, Emmie, John L. Lwanda, &
Adamson S. Muula. 2013. Gender,
Gays and Gain: The Sexualised
Politics of Donor Aid in Malawi.
Africa Spectrum, 48 (1).
Enweremadu, David U. 2013. Nigeria’s
Quest to Recover Looted Assets: The
Abacha Affair. Africa Spectrum, 48
(2).
Mawere, Munyaradzi. 2013. A
Critical Review of Environmental
Conservation in Zimbabwe |
Mawere. Africa Spectrum, 48 (2).
Becker, Felicitas. 2013. Remembering
Nyerere: Political rhetoric and dissent
in contemporary Tanzania. African
Affairs, 112 (447), 238-261.
Bratton, Michael. 2013. Briefing:
Citizens and cell phones in Africa.
African Affairs, 112 (447), 304-319.
Brown, William. 2013. Sovereignty matters: Africa, donors, and the aid relationship. African Affairs, 112 (447),
262-282.
de Waal, Alex. 2013. The theory and
practice of Meles Zenawi: A reply to
to René Lefort. African Affairs, 112
(448), 471-475.
de Waal, Alex, & Rachel Ibreck. 2013.
Alem Bekagn: The African Union’s
accidental human rights memorial.
African Affairs, 112 (447), 191-215.
Dowd, Caitriona, & Clionadh Raleigh.
2013. The myth of global Islamic terrorism and local conflict in Mali and
the Sahel. African Affairs, 112 (448),
498-509.
Greiner, Clemens. 2013. Guns, land,
and votes: Cattle rustling and the
politics of boundary (re)making in
Northern Kenya. African Affairs, 112
(447), 216-237.
Lefort, René. 2013. The theory and
practice of Meles Zenawi: A response
to Alex de Waal. African Affairs, 112
(448), 460-470.
Logan, Carolyn. 2013. The roots of
resilience: Exploring popular support
for African traditional authorities.
African Affairs, 112 (448), 353-376.
Marchal, Roland. 2013. Military (mis)
adventures in Mali. African Affairs,
112 (448), 486-497.
Mathis, Sarah M. 2013. From warlords
to freedom fighters: Political violence
and state formation in Umbumbulu,
South Africa. African Affairs, 112
(448), 421-439.
* Medie, Peace A. 2013. Fighting gender-based violence: The women’s
movement and the enforcement of
rape law in Liberia. African Affairs,
112 (448), 377-397.
Mueller, Lisa. 2013. Democratic revolutionaries or pocketbook protesters?
The roots of the 2009–2010 uprisings in Niger. African Affairs, 112
(448), 398-420.
Schumann, Anne. 2013. Songs of a
new era: Popular music and political expression in the Ivorian crisis.
African Affairs, 112 (448), 440-459.
* Wing, Susanna D. 2013. Mali: Politics
of a crisis. African Affairs, 112 (448),
476-485.
African Conflict & Peacebuilding
Review
Beydoun, Lina. 2013. The Complexities
of Citizenship among Lebanese
Immigrants in Sierra Leone. African
Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 3
(1), 112-143.
Klosterboer, Brian, & Lori HartmannMahmud. 2013. “Difficult to
Repair”: Applying African Models
for Transitional Justice to Peace
and Restoration Prospects in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
African Conflict & Peacebuilding
Review, 3 (1), 56-80.
Wyss, Marco. 2013. The Gendarme
Stays in Africa: France’s Military
Role in Côte d’Ivoire. African
Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 3
(1), 81-111.
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African Journal of Political Science
and International Relations
Agyeman, Opoku. 2013. Power, powerlessness, and globalization. African
Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 7 (6).
Cheikh, Nguirane. 2013. Stories behind
the western-led humanitarian intervention in Libya: A critical analysis.
African Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 7 (3).
Dariescu, Nadia Cerasela. 2013. The
regulation of the institution of matrimonial engagement in the new
Romanian Civil Code. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (6).
Dennis, Jaravani. 2013. Global
Hegemonism and the rise of
Comprador Intellectualism. African
Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 7 (6).
Etekpe, Ambily. 2013. ICJ Judgment
On Bakassi Peninsula And Lake
Chad: Litmus Test For Peace And
Integration In Africa. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (6).
Folarin, Sheriff. 2013. Africa’s leadership
challenges in the 21st century: A
Nigerian perspective. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (1).
Fonchingong, Tangie. 2013. The
quest for autonomy: The case of
Anglophone Cameroon. African
Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 7 (5).
Lwanda, George. 2013. Southern African
Customs Union (SACU): A viable
building block for the African economic community. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (4).
Moyo, Simbarashe. 2013. Regime survival strategies in Zimbabwe in the 21st
century. African Journal of Political
Science and International Relations, 7
(2).
Muhumuza, William. 2013. Revisiting
state intervention: State-sponsored
micro-credit and poverty reduction in
Uganda. African Journal of Political
Science and International Relations, 7
(3).
Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise. 2013. Party
affiliation in new democracies: Local
reactions to the split of the ruling
party in Malawi. African Journal of
Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (4).
Petithomme, Mathieu. 2013. Much ado
about nothing? The limited effects
of structural adjustment programmes
and the highly indebted poor countries initiative on the reduction of
external debts in sub-Saharan Africa:
An empirical analysis. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (2).
Shopeju, J.O., & Chris C. Ojukwu.
2013. Patrimonial rule in Olusegun
Obasanjo’s Nigeria. African Journal
of Political Science and International
Relations, 7 (6).
Christian, Patrick James. 2013. Darfur—
Ground Zero for Africa’s Crises of
Identity: A Psychohistoriography of
Tribes in Conflict. African Security, 6
(1), 1–37.
Glawion, Tim. 2013. Conflict,
Mediation, and the African State:
How Foreign Support and Democracy
Lead to Strong Political Order.
African Security, 6 (1), 38–66.
Oriola, Temitope, Kevin D Haggerty,
& Andy W Knight. 2013. Car
Bombing “With Due Respect”: The
Niger Delta Insurgency and the Idea
Called MEND. African Security, 6 (1),
67–96.
Scholvin, Sören. 2013. From Rejection
to Acceptance: The Conditions
of Regional Contestation and
Followership to Post-Apartheid
South Africa. African Security, 6 (2),
133–152.
African Security Review
Twum, Eric. 2013. Legislative regulation
and financial institutions in environmental assurance in developing countries: Case study of mining in Ghana.
African Journal of Political Science and
International Relations, 7 (4).
Dersso, Solomon A. 2013. A retrospective
look at peace and security in Africa in
2012. African Security Review, 22 (1),
74–83.
Yagboyaju, Dhikru Adewale. 2013.
Democratic consolidation, fiscal
responsibility and national development: An appraisal of the fourth
republic. African Journal of Political
Science and International Relations, 7
(2).
Heinecken, Lindy, & Henrietta Bwalya.
2013. Compensating military veterans in South Africa. African Security
Review, 22 (1), 30–46.
African Security
Agbiboa, Daniel Egiegba. 2013. Living
in Fear: Religious Identity, Relative
Deprivation and the Boko Haram
Terrorism. African Security, 6 (2),
153–170.
Barron, Thomas. 2013. The Soldier and
the State in the Congo Crisis: The
Unprofessional Legacy of the National
Congolese Army. African Security, 6
(2), 97–132.
Hassan, Rania. 2013. CEWARN’s new
strategy framework. African Security
Review, 22 (2), 26–38.
Kasaija, Phillip Apuuli. 2013. The
Intergovernmental Authority on
Development’s Conflict Early
Warning and Response Mechanism.
African Security Review, 22 (2), 11–25.
Kluth, Michael. 2013. The European
Union and sub-Saharan Africa – from
intervention towards deterrence?
African Security Review, 22 (1), 19–29.
Koko, Sadiki. 2013. Warning whom,
for which response? African Security
Review, 22 (2), 54–67.
Mamiya, Ralph, & Haidi Willmot. 2013.
Early warning, the protection of
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civilians and United Nations peacekeeping operations. African Security
Review, 22 (2), 68–77.
Nti, Nana Bemma. 2013. Lessons from
the death of a Tunisian salesman.
African Security Review, 22 (2),
78–84.
Souaré, Issaka K, & Paul-Simon Handy.
2013. The state of conflict early
warning in Africa. African Security
Review, 22 (2), 1–10.
Wagner, Cara Marie. 2013.
Reconsidering peace in the Horn of
Africa. African Security Review, 22
(2), 39–53.
Walker, Timothy. 2013. Maritime security in West Africa. African Security
Review, 22 (2), 85–91.
African Studies Review
Abebe, Adem Kassie. 2013. Umpiring
Federalism in Africa: Institutional
Mosaic and Innovations. African
Studies Quarterly, 13 (4).
Asiimwe, Godfrey B. 2013. Of Extensive
and Elusive Corruption in Uganda:
Neo-Patronage, Power, and Narrow
Interests. African Studies Review, 56
(2), 129-144.
Bereketeab, Redie. 2013. The
Morality of the U.N. Security
Council Sanctions against Eritrea:
Defensibility, Political Objectives,
and Consequences. African Studies
Review, 56 (2), 145-161.
Coly, Ayo A. 2013. Introduction. ASR
Forum: Homophobic Africa? African
Studies Review, 56 (2), 21-30.
Gunkel, Henriette. 2013. Some
Reflections on Postcolonial
Homophobia, Local Interventions,
and LGBTI Solidarity Online: The
Politics of Global Petitions. African
Studies Review, 56 (2), 67-81.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø. 2013. African
Pentecostal Migrants in China:
Marginalization and the Alternative
Geography of a Mission Theology.
African Studies Review, 56 (1),
81-102.
Ireland, Patrick R. 2013. A Macro-Level
Analysis of the Scope, Causes, and
Consequences of Homophobia in
Africa. African Studies Review, 56 (2),
47-66.
M’Baye, Babacar. 2013. The Origins of
Senegalese Homophobia: Discourses
on Homosexuals and Transgender
People in Colonial and Postcolonial
Senegal. African Studies Review, 56
(2), 109-128.
Monson, Jamie. 2013. Remembering
Work on the Tazara Railway in
Africa and China, 1965–2011: When
“New Men” Grow Old. African
Studies Review, 56 (1), 45-64.
Monson, Jamie, & Stephanie Rupp.
2013. Introduction: Africa and
China: New Engagements, New
Research. African Studies Review, 56
(1), 21-44.
Mushita, Andrew, & Carol Thompson.
2013. AT ISSUE: More Ominous
than Climate Change? Global Policy
Threats to African Food Production.
African Studies Quarterly, 13 (4).
Noyes, Alexander. 2013. Securing
Reform? Power Sharing and CivilSecurity Relations in Kenya and
Zimbabwe. African Studies Quarterly,
13 (4).
Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. 2013.
Implications of the 2012 U.S.
Election for U.S. Policy in Africa’s
Great Lakes Region. African Studies
Review, 56 (2), 185-191.
Park, Yoon Jung. 2013. Perceptions
of Chinese in Southern Africa:
Constructions of the “Other” and
the Role of Memory. African Studies
Review, 56 (1), 131-153.
Rupp, Stephanie. 2013. Ghana, China,
and the Politics of Energy. African
Studies Review, 56 (1), 103-130.
Samatar, Abdi Ismail. 2013. Africa:
Beware of Obama’s Second Term.
African Studies Review, 56 (2), 179183.
Schmidt, Elizabeth. 2013. Introduction.
African Studies Review, 56 (2), 163-
164.
Sigamoney, Veronica, & Marc Epprecht.
2013. Meanings of Homosexuality,
Same-Sex Sexuality, and Africanness
in Two South African Townships:
An Evidence-Based Approach for
Rethinking Same-Sex Prejudice.
African Studies Review, 56 (2),
83-107.
Strauss, Julia C. 2013. Conclusion:
China and Africa Rebooted:
Globalization(s), Simplification(s),
and Cross-cutting Dynamics in
“South–South” Relations. African
Studies Review, 56 (1), 155-170.
Sylvanus, Nina. 2013. Chinese Devils,
the Global Market, and the
Declining Power of Togo’s NanaBenzes. African Studies Review, 56
(1), 65-80.
Tamale, Sylvia. 2013. Confronting
the Politics of Nonconforming
Sexualities in Africa. African Studies
Review, 56 (2), 31-45.
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. 2013. Obama’s
Africa Policy: The Limits of
Symbolic Power. African Studies
Review, 56 (2), 165-178.
American Political Science Review
Cohen, Dara Kay. 2013. Explaining
Rape during Civil War: CrossNational Evidence (1980–2009).
American Political Science Review, 107
(03), 461-477.
Pierskalla, Jan H., & Florian M.
Hollenbach. 2013. Technology and
Collective Action: The Effect of Cell
Phone Coverage on Political Violence
in Africa. American Political Science
Review, 107 (2).
Sambanis, Nicholas, & Moses Shayo.
2013. Social Identification and
Ethnic Conflict. American Political
Science Review, 107 (02), 294-325.
Samii, Cyrus. 2013. Perils or Promise of
Ethnic Integration? Evidence from
a Hard Case in Burundi. American
Political Science Review, 107 (03),
558-573.
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Comparative Political Studies
the South African parliament: performing opposition 1994–2010.
Democratization, 20 (3), 478–500.
Barnes, Tiffany D, & Stephanie M
Burchard. 2013. “Engendering”
Politics: The Impact of Descriptive
Representation on Women’s Political
Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Comparative Political Studies, 46 (7),
767-790.
Kjær, Anne Mette, & Ole Therkildsen.
2013. Elections and landmark
policies in Tanzania and Uganda.
Democratization, 20 (4), 592–614.
Lieberman, Evan S, & Gwyneth H
McClendon. 2013. The Ethnicity–
Policy Preference Link in SubSaharan Africa. Comparative Political
Studies, 46 (5), 574-602.
Abdelrahman, Maha. 2013. In Praise
of Organization: Egypt between
Activism and Revolution. Development
and Change, 44 (3), 569-685.
Comparative Politics
Gibson, Clark C, & Barak D Hoffman.
2013. Coalitions not Conflicts:
Ethnicity, Political Institutions, and
Expenditure in Africa. Comparative
Politics, 45 (3), 273-290.
Hern, Erin. 2013. Perspectives on the
Power and Persistence of States in
Africa and Beyond. Comparative
Politics, 45 (4), 476-496.
* Kendhammer, Brandon. 2013. The
Sharia Controversy in Northern
Nigeria and the Politics of Islamic
Law in New and Uncertain
Democracies. Comparative Politics, 45
(3), 291-311.
Milligan, Maren. 2013. Fighting for
the Right to Exist: Institutions,
Identity, and Conflict in Jos, Nigeria.
Comparative Politics, 45 (3), 313-334.
Democratization
Cavatorta, Francesco, & Fabio Merone.
2013. Moderation through exclusion?
The journey of the Tunisian Ennahda
from fundamentalist to conservative party. Democratization, 20 (5),
857–875.
Cornell, Agnes. 2013. Does regime type
matter for the impact of democracy
aid on democracy? Democratization,
20 (4), 642–667.
Johnson, Rachel E. 2013. Disrupting
Development and Change
Beyers, Christiaan. 2013. Urban Land
Restitution and the Struggle for
Social Citizenship in South Africa.
Development and Change, 44 (4), 965989.
Buckley, Lila. 2013. Chinese Land-Based
Interventions in Senegal. Development
and Change, 44 (2), 429-450.
Burnod, Perrine, Mathilde Gingembre,
& Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana.
2013. Competition over Authority
and Access: International Land Deals
in Madagascar. Development and
Change, 44 (2), 357-379.
Fairbairn, Madeleine. 2013. Indirect
Dispossession: Domestic Power
Imbalances and Foreign Access to
Land in Mozambique. Development
and Change, 44 (2), 335-356.
Jennings, Michael. 2013. Common
Counsel, Common Policy:
Healthcare, Missions and the Rise
of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial
Tanzania. Development and Change,
44 (4), 939-963.
Mottiar, Shauna. 2013. From ‘Popcorn’
to ‘Occupy’: Protest in Durban, South
Africa. Development and Change, 44
(3), 603-619.
Wolford, Wendy, Saturnino M Borras,
Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, & Ben
White. 2013. Governing Global Land
Deals: The Role of the State in the
Rush for Land. Development and
Change, 44 (2), 189-210.
International Security
Busby, Joshua W, Todd G Smith, Kaiba
L White, & Shawn M Strange. 2013.
Climate Change and Insecurity:
Mapping Vulnerability in Africa.
International Security, 37 (4), 132-172.
Hehir, Aidan. 2013. The Permanence
of Inconsistency: Libya, the Security
Council, and the Responsibility to
Protect. International Security, 38 (1),
137-159.
Kuperman, Alan J. 2013. A Model
Humanitarian Intervention?
Reassessing NATO’s Libya Campaign.
International Security, 38 (1), 105-136.
Journal of African Law
Dinokopila, Bonolo Ramadi. 2013. The
Justiciability of Socio-Economic
Rights in Botswana. Journal of African
Law, 57 (1).
Okogbule, Nierum S. 2013. Combating
the “New Slavery” in Nigeria:
An Appraisal of Legal and Policy
Responses to Human Trafficking.
Journal of African Law, 57 (1).
Sang YK, Brian. 2013. Tending Towards
Greater Eco-Protection in Kenya:
Public Interest Environmental
Litigation and Its Prospects Within
the New Constitutional Order.
Journal of African Law, 57 (1).
Vandeginste, Stef. 2013. The African
Union, Constitutionalism and PowerSharing. Journal of African Law, 57
(1).
Zhu, Weidong. 2013. Arbitration as the
Best Option for the Settlement of
China-African Trade and Investment
Disputes. Journal of African Law, 57
(1).
Journal of Contemporary African
Studies
Badimon, Montserrat Emperador. 2013.
Does unemployment spark collective
contentious action? Evidence from a
Moroccan social movement. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2),
194–212.
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Barrett, George, Shirley Brooks, Jenny
Josefsson, & Nqobile Zulu. 2013.
Starting the conversation: land issues
and critical conservation studies
in post-colonial Africa. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 32 (3).
Bond, Patrick, & Shauna Mottiar.
2013. Movements, protests and a
massacre in South Africa. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2),
283–302.
de Waal, Alex. 2013. Sudan’s elusive
democratisation: civic mobilisation, provincial rebellion and chameleon dictatorships. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2),
213–234.
de Waal, Alex, & Rachel Ibreck. 2013.
Hybrid social movements in Africa.
Journal of Contemporary African
Studies, 31 (2), 303–324.
Dean, Erin. 2013. ‘The backbone of
the village’: gender, development,
and traditional authority in rural
Zanzibar. Journal of Contemporary
African Studies, 31 (1), 18–36.
Durac, Vincent. 2013. Protest movements and political change: an analysis of the ‘Arab uprisings’ of 2011.
Journal of Contemporary African
Studies, 31 (2), 175–193.
Kasaija, Phillip Apuuli. 2013. The
African Union (AU), the Libya Crisis
and the notion of ‘African solutions
to African problems’. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (1),
117–138.
Lodge, Tom. 2013. Introduction: social
movements and political change
in Africa. Journal of Contemporary
African Studies, 31 (2), 147–155.
Mati, Jacob Mwathi. 2013. Antinomies
in the struggle for the transformation of the Kenyan constitution
(1990–2010). Journal of Contemporary
African Studies, 31 (2), 235–254.
McCorley, Ciara. 2013. Structure, agency and regime change: a comparative
analysis of social actors and regime
change in South Africa, Zambia and
Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary
African Studies, 31 (2), 265–282.
Ramutsindela, Maano, & Medupi
Shabangu. 2013. Conditioned
by neoliberalism: a reassessment
of land claim resolutions in the
Kruger National Park. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (3),
441–456.
Rennick, Sarah Anne. 2013. Personal
grievance sharing, frame alignment,
and hybrid organisational structures:
the role of social media in North
Africa’s 2011 uprisings. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2),
156–174.
Salverda, Tijo. 2013. Balancing (re)
distribution: Franco-Mauritians
landownership in the maintenance
of an elite position. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (3),
503–521.
Thigo, Philip. 2013. People, technology
and spaces: towards a new generation of social movements. Journal of
Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2),
255–264.
Williams, Michelle. 2013. Alternative
production and consumption relations?: fair trade, the state, and cooperatives in the global South. Journal
of Contemporary African Studies, 31
(1), 1–17.
Journal of Democracy
Barkan, Joel D. 2013. Technology Is Not
Democracy. Journal of Democracy, 24
(3), 156-165.
Long, James D, Karuti Kanyinga, Karen
E Ferree, & Clark Gibson. 2013.
Choosing Peace over Democracy.
Journal of Democracy, 24 (3), 140155.
Volpi, Frédéric. 2013. Algeria versus the
Arab Spring. Journal of Democracy,
24 (3), 104-115.
Review of African Political
Economy
Agbiboa, Daniel Egiegba. 2013. Have
we heard the last? Oil, environmental insecurity, and the impact of the
amnesty programme on the Niger
Delta resistance movement. Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (137),
447–465.
Claar, Simone, & Andreas Nölke.
2013. Deep Integration in north–
south relations: compatibility issues
between the EU and South Africa.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (136), 274–289.
Cross, Hannah. 2013. Labour and
underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West
Africa and Europe. Review of African
Political Economy, 40 (136), 202–218.
D’Errico, Nicole C, Tshibangu Kalala,
Louise Bashige Nzigire, Felicien
Maisha, & Luc Malemo Kalisya.
2013. ‘You say rape, I say hospitals.
But whose voice is louder?’ Health,
aid and decision-making in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (135), 51–66.
Daley, Patricia. 2013. Rescuing African
bodies: celebrities, consumerism and
neoliberal humanitarianism. Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (137),
375–393.
Gray, Hazel. 2013. Industrial policy and
the political settlement in Tanzania:
aspects of continuity and change
since independence. Review of African
Political Economy, 40 (136), 185–201.
Harsch, Ernest. 2013. The legacies of
Thomas Sankara: a revolutionary
experience in retrospect. Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (137),
358–374.
Huening, Lars-Christopher. 2013.
Making use of the past: the
Rwandophone question and the
‘Balkanisation of the Congo’. Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (135),
13–31.
Jansson, Johanna. 2013. The Sicomines
agreement revisited: prudent Chinese
banks and risk-taking Chinese companies. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (135), 152–162.
Kelly, Bob, & R B Bening. 2013. The
Ghanaian elections of 2012. Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (137),
475–484.
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Larmer, Miles, Ann Laudati, & John F
Clark. 2013. Neither war nor peace
in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC): profiting and coping amid
violence and disorder. Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (135),
1–12.
Laudati, Ann. 2013. Beyond minerals:
broadening ‘economies of violence’
in eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (135), 32–50.
Lecocq, Baz, Gregory Mann, Bruce
Whitehouse, Dida Badi, Lotte
Pelckmans, Nadia Belalimat, Bruce
Hall & Wolfram Lacher. 2013. One
hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012
political crisis in the divided Republic
of Mali. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (137), 343–357.
Leinweber, Ashley E. 2013. From devastation to mobilisation: the Muslim
community’s involvement in social
welfare in post-conflict DRC. Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (135),
98–115.
Loxley, John. 2013. Are public–private
partnerships (PPPs) the answer to
Africa’s infrastructure needs? Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (137),
485–495.
Martiniello, Giuliano. 2013. Land
dispossession and rural social movements: the 2011 conference in Mali.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (136), 309–320.
Moshonas, Stylianos. 2013. Looking
beyond reform failure in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (135), 132–140.
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin. 2013. Do
African cities have markets for plastics or plastics for markets? Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (137),
466–474.
Onuoha, Godwin. 2013. Cultural interfaces of self-determination and the
rise of the neo-Biafran movement in
Nigeria. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (137), 428–446.
Ovadia, Jesse Salah. 2013. Accumulation
with or without dispossession? A
‘both/and’ approach to China in
Africa with reference to Angola.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (136), 233–250.
Oya, Carlos. 2013. Rural wage employment in Africa: methodological issues
and emerging evidence. Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (136),
251–273.
Plaut, Martin. 2013. How unstable is
the Horn of Africa? Review of African
Political Economy, 40 (136), 321–330.
Rizzo, Matteo. 2013. Informalisation
and the end of trade unionism as we
knew it? Dissenting remarks from
a Tanzanian case study. Review of
African Political Economy, 40 (136),
290–308.
Seay, Laura E. 2013. Effective responses:
Protestants, Catholics and the provision of health care in the post-war
Kivus. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (135), 83–97.
Titeca, Kristof, Tom De Herdt, & Inge
Wagemakers. 2013. God and Caesar
in the Democratic Republic of Congo:
negotiating church–state relations
through the management of school
fees in Kinshasa’s Catholic schools.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (135), 116–131.
Trefon, Theodore. 2013. Uncertainty and
powerlessness in Congo 2012. Review
of African Political Economy, 40 (135),
141–151.
Verweijen, Judith. 2013. Military business and the business of the military in the Kivus. Review of African
Political Economy, 40 (135), 67–82.
Yaro, Joseph A. 2013. Neoliberal globalisation and evolving local traditional
institutions: implications for access
to resources in rural northern Ghana.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (137), 410–427.
Yeros, Paris. 2013a. The rise and fall of
trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part I:
1990–1995. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (136), 219–232.
Yeros, Paris. 2013b. The rise and fall of
trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part II:
1995–2000. Review of African Political
Economy, 40 (137), 394–409.
Zack-Williams, Alfred. 2013. Neoimperialism and African development.
Review of African Political Economy,
40 (136), 179–184.
South African Journal of
International Affairs
Alves, Ana Cristina. 2013. China’s
‘win-win’ cooperation: Unpacking
the impact of infrastructure-for-resources deals in Africa. South African
Journal of International Affairs, 20 (2),
207–226.
Anseeuw, Ward. 2013. The rush for land
in Africa: Resource grabbing or green
revolution? South African Journal of
International Affairs, 20 (1), 159–177.
Bach, Daniel C. 2013. Africa in international relations: The frontier as
concept and metaphor. South African
Journal of International Affairs, 20 (1),
1–22.
Bezuidenhout, Henri, & Carike
Claassen. 2013. South African trade
hegemony: Is the South Africa–EU
Trade, Development and Cooperation
Agreement heading for a BRICS wall?
South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (2), 227–246.
Bhatt, Kinnari. 2013. The 2011 Guinean
Mining Code: Reducing risks and
promoting social benefit in Africa.
South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (2), 247–270.
Curtis, Devon. 2013. The limits to
statebuilding for peace in Africa.
South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (1), 79–97.
Doyaili, Sarah Al, Andreas Freytag, &
Peter Draper. 2013. IBSA: Fading out
or forging a common vision? South
African Journal of International Affairs,
20 (2), 297–310.
Enweremadu, David U. 2013. Nigeria as
an emerging economy? Making sense
of expectations. South African Journal
of International Affairs, 20 (1), 57–77.
Helly, Damien. 2013. The EU and Africa
since the Lisbon summit of 2007:
Continental drift or widening cracks?
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South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (1), 137–157.
Sindzingre, Alice N. 2013. The ambivalent impact of commodities:
Structural change or status quo in
Sub-Saharan Africa? South African
Journal of International Affairs, 20
(1), 23–55.
Suzuki, Shogo. 2013. The exceptional
state in Africa: Image management in
Sino-African relations. South African
Journal of International Affairs, 20
(1), 99–115.
Warmerdam, Ward, & Meine Pieter
van Dijk. 2013. China–Uganda and
the question of mutual benefits.
South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (2), 271–295.
White, Lyal. 2013. Emerging powers
in Africa: Is Brazil any different?
South African Journal of International
Affairs, 20 (1), 117–136.
Zähringer, Natalie. 2013. Norm evolution within and across the African
Union and the United Nations: The
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as
a contested norm. South African
Journal of International Affairs, 20
(2), 187–205.
The Journal of Modern African
Studies
Arnall, Alex, David S.G. Thomas,
Chasca Twyman, & Diana
Liverman. 2013. NGOs, elite capture
and community-driven development:
perspectives in rural Mozambique.
The Journal of Modern African
Studies, 51 (2).
Bleck, Jaimie. 2013. Do Francophone
and Islamic schooling communities participate differently?
Disaggregating parents’ political
behaviour in Mali. The Journal of
Modern African Studies, 51 (03), 377408.
reliable than others’: Image management, donor perceptions and the
Global War on Terror in East African
diplomacy. The Journal of Modern
African Studies, 51 (1).
Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen, & David
Lanz. 2013. Globalised rebellion: the
Darfur insurgents and the world. The
Journal of Modern African Studies, 51
(2).
Söderström, Johanna. 2013. Second time
around: Ex-combatants at the polls
in Liberia. The Journal of Modern
African Studies, 51 (03), 409-433.
* Turner, Robin L. 2013. Land restitution, traditional leadership and
belonging: defining Barokologadi
identity. The Journal of Modern
African Studies, 51 (03), 507-531.
Third World Quarterly
Bond, Patrick. 2013a. Sub-imperialism
as Lubricant of Neoliberalism: South
African ‘deputy sheriff’ duty within
BRICS. Third World Quarterly, 34
(2).
Bond, Patrick. 2013b. Debt, Uneven
Development and Capitalist Crisis in
South Africa: from Moody’s macroeconomic monitoring to Marikana
microfinance mashonisas . Third
World Quarterly, 34 (4).
Burnell, Peter. 2013. Democratisation in
the Middle East and North Africa:
perspectives from democracy support.
Third World Quarterly, 34 (5).
Bøås, Morten, & Liv Elin Torheim.
2013. The Trouble in Mali—corruption, collusion, resistance. Third
World Quarterly, 34 (7).
Carpes, Mariana. 2013. When Words
are not Enough: assessing the relationship between international commitments and the nuclear choices of
Brazil, India and South Africa. Third
World Quarterly, 34 (6).
D’arcy, Michelle. 2013. Non-state actors
and universal services in Tanzania
and Lesotho: state-building by
Alliance. The Journal of Modern
African Studies, 51 (2).
Conradi, Carl. 2013. Child Trafficking,
Child Soldiering: exploring the
relationship between two ‘worst
forms’ of child labour. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (7).
Fisher, Jonathan. 2013. ‘Some more
Daley, Patricia. 2013. Refugees, IDPs
and Citizenship Rights: the perils
of humanitarianism in the African
Great Lakes region. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (5).
Flint, Adrian, & Jill Payne. 2013.
Intellectual Property Rights and
the Potential for Universal Access
to Treatment: TRIPS, ACTA and
HIV/AIDS medicine. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (3).
Forsyth, Miranda, & Sue Farran.
2013. Intellectual Property and
Food Security in Least Developed
Countries. Third World Quarterly,
34 (3).
Gegout, Catherine. 2013. The
International Criminal Court: limits,
potential and conditions for the promotion of justice and peace. Third
World Quarterly, 34 (5).
Lebaron, Genevieve, & Alison J Ayers.
2013. The Rise of a ‘New Slavery’?
Understanding African unfree labour
through neoliberalism. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (5).
Mostafanezhad, Mary. 2013. ‘Getting
in Touch with your Inner Angelina’:
celebrity humanitarianism and the
cultural politics of gendered generosity in volunteer tourism. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (3).
Müller, Tanja R. 2013. The
Long Shadow of Band Aid
Humanitarianism: revisiting the
dynamics between famine and celebrity. Third World Quarterly, 34 (3).
Nel, Philip, & Ian Taylor. 2013. Bugger
thy Neighbour? IBSA and South–
South Solidarity. Third World
Quarterly, 34 (6).
Quadir, Fahimul. 2013. Rising Donors
and the New Narrative of ‘South–
South’ Cooperation: what prospects
for changing the landscape of development assistance programmes?
Third World Quarterly, 34 (2).
Roccu, Roberto. 2013. David Harvey in
Tahrir Square: the dispossessed, the
discontented and the Egyptian revolution. Third World Quarterly, 34 (3).
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World Development
Delpeuch, Claire, & Anneleen
Vandeplas. 2013. Revisiting the
“Cotton Problem”—A Comparative
Analysis of Cotton Reforms in SubSaharan Africa. World Development,
42 (0), 209 - 221.
German, Laura, George Schoneveld, &
Esther Mwangi. 2013. Contemporary
Processes of Large-Scale Land
Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Legal Deficiency or Elite Capture of
the Rule of Law? World Development,
48 (0), 1 - 18.
World Politics
Arriola, Leonaro R. 2013. Capital and
Opposition in Africa: Coalition
Building in Multiethnic Societies.
World Politics, 66 (2), 233-272.
Cohen, Dara Kay. 2013. Female
Combatants and the Perpetration of
Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra
Leone Civil War. World Politics, 65
(3), 383-415.
* Koter, Dominika. 2013. King Makers:
Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in
Africa. World Politics, 65 (2), 187-232.
Other Journal Articles, Book
Chapters, and Papers
* Akanji, Olajide O. 2013.
Reconstruction, Peacebuilding and
Elections in Post-war Sierra Leone: a
critical note. Africa Insight, 42 (4).
*Burgess, Stephen. 2013. A Lost Cause
Recouped: Peace Enforcement
and State Building in Somalia.
Contemporary Security Policy, 34 (2),
302-323.
* Burgess, Stephen. 2013. This Means
War? China’s Scramble for Resources
and African Resource Nationalism
in Southern Africa. Contemporary
Security Policy, 34 (1), 120-143.
* Burgess, Stephen. 2013. The Southern
African Development Community
and African Security. In The African
Security Handbook, James Hentz,
Editor. Routledge.
* Grant, J. Andrew. 2013.
Commonwealth Cousins Combating
Conflict Diamonds: An Examination
of South African and Canadian
Contributions to the Kimberley
Process. Commonwealth &
Comparative Politics, 51 (2), 210-233.
Hegre, Håvard, Joakim Karlsen, Håvard
Mokleiv Nygård, Håvard Strand,
& Henrik Urdal. 2013. Predicting
Armed Conflict, 2010-2050.
International Studies Quarterly, 57 (2),
250-270.
Kramon, Eric & Daniel N Posner. 2013.
Who Benefits from Distributive
Politics? How the Outcome One
Studies Affects the Answer One Gets.
Perspectives on Politics, 11 (02), 461474.
* LeBas, Adrienne. 2013. Violence and
Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya, and
Lagos, Nigeria. Studies in Comparative
International Development.
* Lindberg, Staffan I. 2013. Mapping
Accountability: Core Concept and
Subtypes. International Review f
Administrative Sciences, 79 (2), 202226.
* Lindberg, Staffan I. 2013. What Drives
the Swing Voter in Africa? American
Journal of Political Science, 57 (3),
717-734.
* Lindberg, Staffan I. 2013. Have the
Cake and Eat It: The Rational Voter
in Africa. Party Politics, 19.
* Madaha, Rasel. 2012. The Corruption
Noose: Will Tanzania Ever Develop?
Africa Review, 4 (1), 48 - 64.
* Madaha, Rasel. 2012. Disparate coping strategies for gendered effects of
drought: A call for re-examination of
gender roles and harmful traditions
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