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Determinants of housing and environmental conditions in a medium-sized city in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Charles Olufisayo Olatubara, Olusiyi Ipingbemi, Olaitan Olutayo Odunola, Olayide Josiah Omirin, Saeed Kamaldeen Ojolowo, Abiodun Akeem Audu
The study examined the factors influencing housing and its environmental conditions as well as the relationships between residential building types and their environmental conditions in Inisa, Sout...
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Determinants of loan repayment among agricultural beneficiaries of public funded credit scheme in Ekiti State, Nigeria Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Folasade Rotimi, Solomon Olubiyo, Mure Agbonlahor, Stephen Adeogun
To cater for the credit needs of the farming population, the Ekiti State Government established Ekiti State Multipurpose Credit Agency (ESMA). This study examined the factors influencing repayment ...
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Navigating conflicting moral temporalities: gradual growth, state sovereignty and small-scale trade in urban Ghana Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ulrik Jennische
This article delves into the moral economy that informs small-scale trade in urban Ghana's growing markets, and that intersects with development, the state, and the global economy. Small-small, emp...
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How gender and political ideology impact women-focused aid to sub-Saharan Africa Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Eugene Emeka Dim
Foreign aid plays a critical role in actualising pro-women outcomes in the Global South. However, there is a paucity of research on how gender and political ideology inform gender-oriented foreign ...
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Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa: policy synergies Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Samba Diop, Simplice A. Asongu, Vanessa S. Tchamyou
This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalised synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would hav...
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute: implications, negotiations, and mediations Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Amit Ranjan
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has created disputes between the Nile River's lower and upper riparian zones in North Africa. Ethiopia sees the GERD as a project to prosper, while Egypt ...
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Talking back: linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Paul Ayodele Onanuga, Ayobami Olajumoke Onanuga
Patriarchal tendencies are normative in hip-hop culture, necessitating contemporary calls for gender equality and wholesome gender representations. These have encouraged a ‘talking back’ where the ...
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Redistributive matronage: a moral economy of female traders and the ruling elite in Equatorial Guinea Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Alba Valenciano-Mañé
This paper explores the historicity of the marketplace in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, focusing on testimonies from senior petty traders. It investigates the role of the marketplace as a site for red...
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The AfCFTA: promise for a globally competitive continent and Africa’s development Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2023)
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A philosophical appraisal of Nyamnjoh’s social theory and Whitehead’s process ontology in the context of epistemic decoloniality Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Husein Inusah
This essay examines the philosophical underpinnings of Nyamnjoh's social theory of incompleteness and conviviality and Whitehead's process ontology in the context of intellectual decoloniality. The...
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Geographies of terror, harvest of fear: chiefs, local administration and politics in Zimbabwe in the 2000s Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Lotti Nkomo
The emergence of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, in 1999 radically reconfigured Zimbabwe's political landscape. MDC greatly challenged the electoral dominance the Zimbabwe...
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Holding space at the margins: a decolonial approach to academic publishing in Africa Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Dina Ligaga
Publishing in Africa has long been debated among academics in the global south who recognise the marginal status of African academics' ideas and knowledge. Many of the solutions proffered in global...
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Combating Money Laundering in Africa: Dealing with the Problems of PEPs Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Jae Sundaram
Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2024)
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The African Continental Free Trade Area and informal cross border trade: implications on socio-economic development in Africa Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Inocent Moyo
The setting up by the African Union of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which should govern matters relating to, inter alia, trade in goods and services, investment, trade facilita...
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Introduction to Special Issue: Celebrating Ari Sitas Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Amrita Pande, Edward Webster
Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2023)
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Customary nationalism in crisis: protest, identity and politics in eSwatini Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Vito Laterza, Casey Golomski
ABSTRACT The Kingdom of eSwatini is undergoing its worst political and humanitarian crisis in postcolonial times. In June-July 2021, the indiscriminate killing and torturing of pro-democracy protesters by the military and the police force marked the terminal decline of the Swati postcolonial dispensation, centred around the rule of the monarchy in the name of 'custom'. This special issue explores multiple
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Are street children juvenile migrants? Discoveries from their earning, spending and saving practices (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Muriel Champy
ABSTRACT In Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, the so-called street children and youth I worked with usually preferred to describe themselves as juvenile migrants, ‘searching money’ in order to support themselves and their family and, some day, build their own future. Could they indeed be considered as participating to a form of juvenile migration? I addressed this hypothesis as an anthropologist
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Are we human, or are we Ari’s cogs? Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Azad Essa
Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The economic rationality in the culture of Gamo wealth redistribution, Southern Ethiopia Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Desalegn Amsalu
ABSTRACT Many of the studies on the moral economy of pre-capitalist African societies have singularly asserted that wealth redistribution in these societies was made only for the moral satisfaction of the redistributors. However, since the late 1960s this notion has been increasingly criticised with the claim that pre-capitalist societies were also economically rational. This paper presents the political
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Sitas, the poet-sociologist of spaces for struggles and reconciliation: reconnecting postcolonial Cyprus to South Africa and the world Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Nicos Trimikliniotis
ABSTRACT This paper examines the intellectual and sociological contribution of Sitas as a diasporic public intellectual who bridges and navigates between continents. Sitas's creative, scientific, and critical engagement in postcolonial thinking connects Cyprus to Africa, drawing from both his country of origin, Cyprus, and South Africa, where he excelled as a dramatist, poet, sociologist and public
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The political economy of the African Continental Free Trade Area and structural transformation in Africa Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
The post-colonial economy of African countries has continued to manifest all the characteristics of its colonial origins in terms of its structure, direction, and composition. Export of primary com...
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Unleashing the development potential of Africa’s women through African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Primrose Thandeka Sabela, Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Victor H. Mlambo
This paper aims to analyse the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and its potential to unleash the development of women in Africa. The envisaged benefits of the AfCFTA include increa...
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The second-hand clothing trade and moral economic contestations over (re)distribution in Tanzania Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Gerda Kuiper
ABSTRACT Most clothing consumed in Tanzania is second-hand. The long-established trade in such clothes – locally known as mitumba – has proliferated since the 1980s and has sparked much debate. Critics consider the country's dependency on the import of discarded clothes an expression of the country's disadvantaged position in the global distribution of wealth. But mitumba also give consumers the opportunity
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The causes and consequences of the 2018 failed peace agreement between the Oromo Liberation Front and the Ethiopian government Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Marew Abebe Salemot, Namhla Thando Matshanda
Following the 2018 political reforms in Ethiopia, many rebel groups that were fighting against the government and labelled as ‘terrorists’ were allowed to return to the country. The most prominent ...
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African middle classness, politics and protest: on the context of this issue Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Antje Daniel, Henning Melber, Florian Stoll
ABSTRACT Middle classes in the Global South have become topical. They were considered mainly by economists in development-oriented institutions and praised as a factor contributing to economic development and democratic forces. We recapitulate some of the trends and remind the reader of earlier debates. We take stock of the variety of contributions and point to the efforts to have a more nuanced look
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Conspicuous redistribution: money, morality, and masculinity in Nigeria Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Daniel Jordan Smith
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of conspicuous redistribution to elucidate the complex geometry of masculinity, money, and morality in southeastern Nigeria. For Nigerian men – especially elites, and those who aspire to join the middle class – having money is zealously pursued and spending it is widely rewarded. But money is also linked to collectively disparaged social ills such as greed
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Challenges in managing immovable cultural heritage for tourism in Zambia Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Munukayumbwa Munyima
In an effort to diversify its tourism industry from wildlife and natural sites such as the Victoria Falls, the Zambian government has recognised the potential of more than 3000 immovable cultural h...
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Keeping culture clean: ‘nested redistribution’ as a path to moral redemption in Kampala (Uganda) Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Anna Baral
ABSTRACT The restoration of precolonial authorities in contemporary Uganda has inspired the revival of practices constitutive of local identities. The article focuses on the role of (re)distribution in the formation of Ganda identity in the Buganda kingdom, by exploring the moral conundrums lived by workers in Kisekka Market (Kampala). The article describes two principles underpinning economic relations
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Watu kama sisi: they are not ghosts, but just like us – awareness raising about albinism in Tanzanian villages Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 István Tarrósy
ABSTRACT People with albinism in sub-Saharan African countries have long struggled for equal rights and the understanding of society at large, fighting stigmatisation and, in numerous cases, for their lives against wrongdoings in the form of killings and other physical atrocities. This article examines the Tanzanian context and adds to the ongoing academic discourse by presenting tangible manifestations
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Fight or flight? Understanding female students’ response to sexist humour at an institution of higher learning in Zimbabwe Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Roselyn Kanyemba, Maheshvari Naidu
ABSTRACT Student protests of 2015–2016 in South African higher education institutions calling for the decolonisation of higher education spaces and equal access to these spaces have necessitated and led to increased scrutiny around the lived experiences, particularly of female students in university spaces. Critical attention has been paid to how hegemonic structures of power embedded in higher education
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Digital activism and social change in Africa: motivations, outcomes and constraints Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Dare Leke Idowu
ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, African states have witnessed a surge in digital activism aimed at demanding political accountability and social change. Although there is a budding literature on digital activism in Africa, it is unclear whether it translates into tangible social change on the continent. Similarly, the surge of digital repression by African leaders is yet to be accounted
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Opposition failures in forming pre-electoral coalitions in Zimbabwe Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Gift Mwonzora
ABSTRACT There is an enduring discussion in the literature on why African opposition parties often fail to unite to fight the incumbent from a position of strength. Much of the extant studies have examined success stories of pre-electoral coalition-building in established democracies. There is less focus on why African opposition parties fail to form coalitions. In seeking to contribute to this debate
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Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-02 O. A. K’Akumu
ABSTRACT Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society
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Neoliberal consensus and Nigerian party politics Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Ambrose Ihekwoaba Egwim
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role and significance of ideology for party politics in twenty-first century neoliberal Nigeria. The question it sets out to answer is: Has the market economy’s dominance led to the convergence of conservative and progressive/liberal ideologies in twenty-first century Nigerian political party contests? The importance of ideology for party politics in Nigeria seems to
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Understanding the 2021 eSwatini school protests: theoretical reflections of an educator Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ncamsile Daphne Motsa
ABSTRACT During September and October 2021, eSwatini experienced school demonstrations unprecedented in the country's history. Drawing on a socio-emotional development framework and frustration-aggression theory, the article presents an educator's theoretically informed reflections on these events. It explores the possibility that the demonstrations are not simply a reflection of the prevalent political
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Election campaign financing in Botswana: a case for comprehensive regulation for fairness and to avert illicit financial flows Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Lawrence Ookeditse, Onneetse Kym Makhumalo
ABSTRACT Election campaign and political activity financing are scantily regulated in Botswana. This may provide an opportunity for threats to national security as business interests may exert overt influence on politicians and illicit financial flows may bloom. Currently, there is no credible way of knowing who provides what financing to whom since no one is really compelled to disclose such information
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Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Frederick Klaits
Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Unregulated religious spaces in public universities in Ghana: evidence of the radicalisation of young Muslim students Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Yunus Dumbe, George M. Bob-Milliar
ABSTRACT Why do young Muslim students who live in a relatively peaceful and pluralistic society like Ghana embrace extremist ideologies? This paper examines the radicalisation of young Muslims in Ghanaian universities. It analyses the different structural and managerial models adopted by three of the oldest public universities to govern students’ religious activities on campus. We draw on data from
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Dualism’s dilemmas: citizenship and migration in contemporary eSwatini Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Gabby Sipho Dlamini
ABSTRACT One of the main characteristics of ‘Swatiness’ has been embracing lived dualisms in all aspects of life, including the much-debated cultural dualism of traditionalism and modernity which, although not unique to eSwatini, is more emphasised in this small southern African kingdom. This article discusses examples from research on eSwatini citizens living in South Africa and foreign-born residents
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The middle class and suburbia: desegregation towards non-racialism in South Africa? Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Roger Southall
ABSTRACT ‘Non-racial democracy’ is an aspirational goal of South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy. Deracialisation of public spheres, notably education and work, has led to high rates of upward social mobility among black South Africans and the increasing racial diversification of the middle class, which under apartheid, had remained overwhelmingly white. Despite the increased racial integration of
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Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Henning Melber
ABSTRACT Namibia’s National Assembly and Presidential Elections in November 2019 documented for the first time a decline in the hegemonic status of the former liberation movement, SWAPO. This culminated since then in an unforeseen loss of support in the Regional and Local Authorities Elections of November 2020. Most municipalities and towns are now under the control of new political alliances. These
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Customary land disputes and the commoditisation of rural land in Africa: a case study from eastern Uganda Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Matt Kandel
ABSTRACT This paper considers a customary land dispute within the context of rising land commoditisation in the Teso region of eastern Uganda. I analyse a statutory court-led mediation hearing of the land dispute, which I observed in October of 2015 in Teso. My analysis of the hearing focuses on how key aspects of the dispute should be understood within the broader context of customary land commoditisation
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When being obese is a good thing: voices of Ghanaian participants in a dance reality TV show Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Akosua K. Darkwah, Rashida Resario
ABSTRACT The discussion on (mis)representations of black women's bodies often focuses on their hyper-corporeality and hyper-sexualisation, with little attention paid to the women thus represented and their views. Reality shows are roundly criticised for objectifying women, being unAfrican and offering little to Africans. This paper contests this perspective by drawing on interviews with 19 contestants
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Is it yet uhuru? How religious institutions disconnect with the governments in the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-20 George C. Nche
ABSTRACT The rise of the deadly corona virus disease (COVID-19) has made governance a daunting task, worsened by the complacency and lack of cooperation from groups as important as religious institutions. This study, unlike previous studies that have focused only on religious groups' resistance to lockdown rules, examined the complacency of religious institutions towards the campaign against COVID-19
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Education and politics: student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Anna Deutschmann
ABSTRACT African states have undergone dynamic political processes ever since their struggle for independence. Students have played an important role in political developments and triggered processes of democratisation. In the course of recent waves of protests and political activism, however, students took a more ambivalent stance against both the state and the political elite. This report is based
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The rise of an ‘indocile middle class’ in Cameroon Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Gérard Amougou, Geoffrey Pleyers
ABSTRACT This article sheds light on subterranean and subjective dimensions that shape specific sectors of African middle-classes: processes of personal subjectivation, understood as the construction of oneself as an actor of one’s own life, against the hold of political, cultural or economic domination. Cameroon offers an insightful case study. Most of the country’s middle-class owns its status and
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South Africa’s black middle classes between 2009 and 2018 Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Jason Musyoka
ABSTRACT This article considers the social and political action of South Africa's black middle classes during the Jacob Zuma administration (2009 and 2018) during which the governing party fragmented in a disorderly way, partly dissolving traditional class lines. Swathes of black middle classes left the governing party to join the militant Economic Freedom Fighters, new smaller parties and the main
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Under pressure: South Africa’s middle classes and the ‘rebellion of the poor’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Marian Burchardt
ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the relationship of South Africa’s middle classes to popular protests. Dubbed ‘the rebellion of the poor’ in scholarly debates, these protests target access to public infrastructures such as electricity, water, education and housing. I argue that the relationship of South Africa’s middle classes to these ‘service delivery protests’ is highly ambivalent, charged with
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Leadership and gender in Eswatini: Swati politics through the prism of Gelane Simelane Zwane, 1990–2018 Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini
ABSTRACT This article examines the history of female leadership in contemporary Eswatini politics through the prism of Gelane Simelane Zwane as a neglected aspect of scholarship. Gelane Simelane Zwane doubled as the longest-serving female Chief of Kontshingila village and Senate President of Eswatini in recent history. This article is premised on the fact that Zwane’s leadership odyssey was shaped
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Issues and regulations in party financing and electoral expenses in Nigeria (1999–2020) Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Babayo Sule, Usman Sambo, Bakri Mat, Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Muhammad Aminu Yahaya
ABSTRACT Political parties require strong financial backing to operate. Campaign activities require massive spending to convince electorates to accept the candidature of political parties in their locations. Yet, there are financial regulations on how campaigns and related activities should be conducted in Nigeria. This is to ensure transparency and accountability and eschew corrupt practices in the
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Writing Zvimurenga in Zimbabwe Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Joshua Matanzima
(2022). Writing Zvimurenga in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 312-315.
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Ethiopia in Mengistu’s Final Year: Until the Last Bullet Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-09 Biruk Wondimu Chemere
(2022). Ethiopia in Mengistu’s Final Year: Until the Last Bullet. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 305-307.
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Raising the profile of siSwati as a national language* Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Gloria B. Malambe, Carolyn Harford
ABSTRACT The governing framework and national ethos of the Kingdom of Eswatini are grounded in the traditional culture of emaSwati (the people of Eswatini) and their language, siSwati. At the same time, economic success is tied to knowledge of English, the former colonial language of Eswatini, which is the language of government, the media, the judiciary and formal education. One outcome of this type
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EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Innocent Batsani-Ncube
(2022). EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 149-151.
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Desperate, deceived and disappointed: women’s lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Uganda Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-10 John Sender, Christopher Cramer
ABSTRACT Life history interviews from Ethiopia and Uganda, organised around experiences of wage labour, provide rich evidence on the working conditions of many poor, rural women and on what leads them to work for wages. The life histories confirm and illuminate arguments based on large-scale socio-economic surveys carried out in these two countries. Further, findings from the surveys and life histories
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Downstream to Kinshasa / film-documentary by Dieudonné Hamadi. Icarus Films: New York. 89 minutes / Colour. Swahili; Lingala / English subtitles. Release: 2021. Copyright: 2020 Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Arthur Mukenge
(2022). Downstream to Kinshasa / film-documentary by Dieudonné Hamadi. Icarus Films: New York. 89 minutes / Colour. Swahili; Lingala / English subtitles. Release: 2021. Copyright: 2020. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 307-310.
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Nigeria: a narrative of competing needs between shifting global trend, sustainable transportation, and economic growth Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Onah P. Thompson, Faisal B. Mallum, Gloria O. Chigbu
ABSTRACT Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa and a significant player in the geopolitics of the continent. The country's ability to command so much relevance is based partly on its status as an oil exporter. It is, therefore, imperative that the country's government protects its golden goose, oil. In this paper, we argue that the recent act of the Nigerian government to resist the promotion of
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Between collaboration and conflict: patterns of interaction between labour and pro-democracy politics in post-colonial Eswatini, 1973–2014 Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Sifiso Hlandze
ABSTRACT Nearly five decades after the end of multi-party democracy, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is experiencing growing support for re-democratisation. This article explores the patterns of interaction between the labour movement and pro-democracy political forces in post-colonial Eswatini. The relationship between labour and pro-democracy forces has gone through both collaboration and conflict
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Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-12
ABSTRACT This paper examines the legacy of Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) to African gender theorisation three decades after its publication. We argue that Amadiume's detailed ethnography of the Nnobi society provides an example of what can be achieved when African scholars centre local histories, languages, and kinship ties to provide contextualised
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Considering ‘gender fluidity’ in Zambia: femininities, marriage and social influence Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-19
ABSTRACT With reference to Ifi Amadiume’s book Male Daughters, Female Husbands, this article offers an analysis of ‘gender fluidity’ by reflecting on ‘female-husbands’ and their position of influence within extended families in Zambia. Based on my auto-ethnographical reflections, I argue that women who are ‘female-husbands’ have a sphere of influence that is intertwined with versions of ‘gender fluidity’