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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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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3️⃣Francisco M.P. Mugizi & Parestico Pastory, “Do Hegemonic-Party Regimes Reward or Punish Voters? A Tale of Distributive Politics in Tanzania”.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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1️⃣ Andrea Cassani, “Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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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”.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
🔷 @he-mel.bsky.social & @mehler.bsky.social (former Editors-in-Chief 2009–2018) highlighted these articles from their tenure that sparked debate about anthropological research in African studies.
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1️⃣Francis B. Nyamnjoh, “Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa”.
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