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Border Securitisation and Politics of State Policy in Nigeria, 2014–2017 尼日利亚边境证券化与国家政策政治，2014-2017

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-11-22 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818805887

O. Faleye

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Book review: Daniel Allen Butler, The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam 书评:丹尼尔·艾伦·巴特勒，《第一次圣战:喀土穆之战与好战伊斯兰的黎明》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818776180

H. Solomon

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Economic Community of West African States’ Protocol on Free Movement and the Challenges of Human Trafficking in West Africa 西非国家经济共同体关于西非自由流动和贩运人口挑战的议定书

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818776166

A. Sowale

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Book review: Pamila Gupta, The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India 书评:帕米拉·古普塔，《圣物之国:圣方济各·泽维尔与葡属印度的仪式政治》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818778209

Christopher J. Lee

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Key Reasons behind Nelson Mandela’s Call for a Negotiated Settlement of the Congolese Conflict and Its Critics 纳尔逊·曼德拉呼吁谈判解决刚果冲突背后的主要原因及其批评者

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818776164

Sehlare Makgetlaneng

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The Dynamics of Ethiopia-Sudan Relations Over the Hydro-politics of Nile 埃塞俄比亚与苏丹在尼罗河水文政治问题上的关系动态

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818772235

Embiale Beyene, Aslam Khan, M. S. Ali

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引用次数: 2

Book review: Henning Melber (ed.), The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class: Myths, Realities and Critical Engagements 书评：Henning Melber（编辑），《非洲中产阶级的崛起：神话、现实与批判》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818776179

Sandra Manuel

引用次数: 1

Leadership in Southern Africa: A Regional Afrocentric Hierarchical Taxonomy 南部非洲的领导力：一个以非洲为中心的区域层次分类法

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818772236

Anton Grobler, Mala Singh

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引用次数: 10

African Economic Renaissance: A Case Study of Rwanda and Angola 非洲经济复兴：以卢旺达和安哥拉为例

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818772233

A. Jauhari

引用次数: 2

The ‘David and Goliath’ and 2015 Election Outcomes in Nigeria: From the Opposition to the Ruling Party “大卫与歌利亚”与尼日利亚2015年选举结果:从反对党到执政党

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/0975087817735385

Ernest Toochi Aniche

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