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Building a transformative feminist movement for women empowerment in Tanzania: the role of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP-Mtandao) 在坦桑尼亚为妇女赋权建立变革的女权主义运动:坦桑尼亚性别网络计划的作用

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1936998

Alexander Makulilo, M. Bakari

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The politics of judicial review of elections in Ghana: Implications for judicial reforms and emerging electoral jurisprudence 加纳选举司法审查的政治:对司法改革和新出现的选举法学的影响

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1943149

Christopher Appiah-Thompson

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Militarizing marriage: West African soldiers’ conjugal traditions in modern French empire 军事化婚姻:现代法兰西帝国中西非士兵的婚姻传统

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1937466

M. Zoppi

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The perils of megaphone diplomacy on Malawi’s ambitious Shire- Zambezi Waterway project 扩音器外交对马拉维雄心勃勃的夏尔-赞比西河航道项目的危害

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1943265

H. Kayuni, Dan Banik, J. Chunga

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Developmental regionalism and the success prospects of Africa’s continental free trade area (CFTA): lessons from Africa’s early integration experience 发展区域主义与非洲大陆自由贸易区的成功前景:非洲早期一体化经验的教训

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1936999

G. Nubong

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China–Africa relations: do non-economic drivers matter? 中非关系:非经济驱动因素重要吗?

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1943144

I. Nyadera, Billy Agwanda, M. O. Kisaka

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Civil Society Organizations and electoral credibility in Nigeria 尼日利亚的民间社会组织和选举信誉

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2021.1941694

P. Onuh, C. C. Ike

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African immigrant families in another France 非洲移民家庭在另一个法国