🆕How has France’s image shifted in Malian media?
Zhuang analyses 822 Maliweb articles (2017–2024), showing how anti-French narratives gained prominence after the 2020 political rupture, reshaping public discourse and highlighting African media agency.
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🆕 How do communities organise aid during crisis?
Mohamed, @naujakleist.bsky.social, and Kanyinga examine how Somali WhatsApp groups function as spaces for coordinating drought relief, extending kinship-based support into digital humanitarian action.
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➡️Here's her pick: Divine Mandates and Political Realities: Exploring Power, Religion, and Transition in The Gambia by Danielle Agyemang, Vilashini Somiah, and Ying Hooi Khoo
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🔔 We’ll be sharing more reflections from our editors in the coming weeks.
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️Co Editor-in-Chief @maxinerubin.com highlights an article that explores how religious symbolism can be mobilised to legitimise authoritarian rule, using the Gambian case to reveal broader political dynamics.
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➡️ Here is her editorial pick: “West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain”, by Kofi Yakpo.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️ Editor-in-Chief @marthacj.bsky.social (since 2023) highlights an article that stood out for offering a fresh perspective on #Africa’s global significance and challenging #Eurocentric assumptions in the study of languages.
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🆕Can social media defend constitutionalism?
Zvaita and Muringa explore how Zimbabwean citizens use X to contest presidential term extensions, revealing “performative constitutionalism” and fractures within ruling power.
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🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261430358
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1️⃣ Yusuf Serunkuma's “Decolonial Dilemmas: The Deception of a ‘Global Knowledge Commonwealth’ and the Tragedian Entrapment of an African Scholar”.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️ Former Editor-in-Chief @timglawion.bsky.social (2019–2023) highlights an article from his tenure that stood out for the engagement it generated and its contribution to ongoing debates on knowledge production in #Africanstudies.
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🆕Zoubere Dialla examines the digitisation of cadastral procedures in #BurkinaFaso. The author demonstrates how technological solutions alone cannot address underlying structural issues or resolve conflicts arising from stakeholder strategies.
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Interested in reviewing one? Please email our Book Review Editor, Seulgie Lim.
➡️Access the full list & submission details in our new newsletter: bit.ly/4ur8rXt
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📚Planning to submit a book review to Africa Spectrum but still looking for the right title?
🔷Our latest Book Review Newsletter features a new curated list of recommended books from our in-house librarian @giga-hamburg.de.
Read further 👇
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3️⃣Francisco M.P. Mugizi & Parestico Pastory, “Do Hegemonic-Party Regimes Reward or Punish Voters? A Tale of Distributive Politics in Tanzania”.
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2️⃣@tavdhoog.bsky.social, “Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry”.
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1️⃣ Andrea Cassani, “Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
Former Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Arriola (2019–2023) highlights three articles from his tenure that stood out to him for their conceptual clarity, empirical strength, and timely contributions to key debates in #Africanstudies.
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Join us this Monday 9 March at 3:30pm (UTC) for a Roundtable on „Sustainable #Publication Practices: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North“ at the University of Ghana & online.
Zoom link via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/public...
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60🎉
@maxinerubin.com & @marthacj.bsky.social reflect on the journal's presence over six decades. They highlight efforts to decolonise knowledge production, expand African-based scholarship & map the road ahead.
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🆕Patience Chadambuka, Sandra Bhatasara & Talent Moyo examine how extreme heat impacts residents across Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge. Using a structural violence lens, they show how inequalities shape exposure & adaptation to extreme heat in a single town.
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🆕Lotfi Sour analyses Russia’s multi-layered strategy in the Sahel through the “Matryoshka” model. The author argues that Russia’s engagement in Sahelian states is not only opportunistic but a deliberate effort to reshape regional power dynamics.
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🆕 @edle100.bsky.social, @peteralalbrecht.bsky.social & Karuti Kanyinga examine Somali diaspora humanitarianism in Nairobi's Eastleigh & Mogadishu. They argue 'altruistic' acts of giving reinforce hierarchies, reciprocal obligations & claims to legitimacy.
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📕Ada Johnson-Kanu reviews Nicholas Kerr's "Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa", praising it for challenging single-dimensional approaches to studying electoral administration. It also shows how minor administrative failures can threaten democratic legitimacy.
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Another set of exciting picks from our past Editor-in-Chief, Julia Grauvogel!
I am fortunate to work with @grauvogelj.bsky.social at the @giga-hamburg.de. Drawing on her experience as Editor-in-Chief of Africa Spectrum, she’s always generous with advice and ideas.
2️⃣Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum, “Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks”.
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1️⃣ @deacurtis.bsky.social, “What Is Our Research For? Responsibility, Humility and the Production of Knowledge about Burundi”.
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️Former Editor-in-Chief @grauvogelj.bsky.social (2018–2022) highlights articles from her tenure that impressed her for their strong empirical grounding & for raising important ethical questions for Global North-based #Africanstudies scholars.
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Here's the first of our "Past Editors' Picks" posts 👏 🤓 ⬇️
We are also fortunate to still benefit from the support of @he-mel.bsky.social and @mehler.bsky.social who readily provide advice when we ask and generously act as peer reviewers when asked despite their busy schedules! 🌟
3️⃣Francis B. Nyamnjoh, “From Quibbles to Substance: A Response to Responses”.
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🔔 Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more reflections from other editors on their selections.
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2️⃣ Andrew Hartnack, “On Gaining Access: A Response to Francis Nyamnjoh’s ‘Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa”.
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1️⃣ Francis B. Nyamnjoh, “Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa”.
🔗 bit.ly/4aqCPYU