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Decolonising the Real: Transformative Constitutionalism and the Unconscious 去殖民化现实:变革的宪政和无意识

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230107

J. Barnard-Naudé

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Premesh Lalu, Undoing Apartheid, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2023, ISBN 978-1-509-55284-9, 202pp. Premesh Lalu，废除种族隔离，政治出版社:剑桥，2023,ISBN 978-1-509-55284- 9,202页。

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230108

Garth Stevens

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Thinking Capital and Colonialism in South Africa : The Problem of Justice 思考资本与南非殖民主义:正义问题

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230106

Lindokuhle Mandyoli

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The Trans in Transformative Constitutionalism 转型立宪主义中的转型

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230104

Lwando Scott

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Providing the Context for the Debate on the “Human” Imagined in the Drafting of the ANC’S Constitutional Guidelines in Lusaka, 1985–89 为1985 - 1989年在卢萨卡起草非国大宪法指导方针时所设想的“人”问题的辩论提供背景

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230102

A. Odendaal

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Interrupting the Human: Shuffling 打断人类:洗牌

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230103

Maurits van Bever Donker

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Afrika Focus

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1163/2031-356x-20230100

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The Effect of Household Energy Use on Residential Indoor Air Pollution in South East Nigeria 尼日利亚东南部家庭能源使用对住宅室内空气污染的影响

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1163/2031356x-35020009

K. Agbo

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Prescribing Constitutional Interpretation for Postponing the 2020 National Election: The covid-19 Complicatedness in Federalist Ethiopia 为推迟2020年全国大选规定宪法解释:联邦主义埃塞俄比亚covid-19的复杂性

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1163/2031356x-35020004

S. Gutema

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(Un)certainty After Return 返回后的确定性

Afrika Focus Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1163/2031356x-35020012

Presca Wanki

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