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Renewable Energy Deployment in Ghana: The Hype, Hope and Reality 加纳可再生能源部署：炒作、希望与现实

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819898581

Catherine Kuamoah

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引用次数: 34

India and Mozambique: Evolving Relations 印度和莫桑比克:不断发展的关系

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819851319

Sushmita Rajwar

引用次数: 0

Beyond the Card Reader: Anti-election Rigging Technology and National Security in Nigeria 读卡器之外：尼日利亚的反选举操纵技术与国家安全

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845194

U. O. Uzodike, Hakeem Onapajo

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引用次数: 2

Neo-colonialism in Africa and the Cases of Turkey and Iran 非洲新殖民主义与土耳其和伊朗的个案

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845197

Glen Segell

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引用次数: 4

Transport Infrastructure Development in Kenya: How Connectivity Impacts Eastern Africa Regional Integration 肯尼亚交通基础设施发展:互联互通如何影响东非区域一体化

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845205

O. Isaac

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引用次数: 5

Book review: Stephen R. Davis, The ANC’s War Against Apartheid: Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa 书评:斯蒂芬·r·戴维斯，《非国大反对种族隔离的战争:民族之矛与南非的解放》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845213

P. Limb

引用次数: 0

Economic Community of West African States, Regional security and the Implementation of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Rhetoric or Reality? 西非国家经济共同体：区域安全与人道主义干预的实施和保护责任：修辞还是现实？

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845195

P. Arthur

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引用次数: 0

Book review: John Aerni-Flessner, Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development 书评：John Aerni Flessner，《莱索托的梦想：独立、对外援助和发展》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/0975087819845208

Matteo Grilli

引用次数: 1

Sub-regional Security Challenge: ECOWAS and the War on Terrorism in West Africa 次区域安全挑战:西非经共体和西非反恐战争

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-14 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818805842

O. Akanji

引用次数: 17

Book Review: Arndt Graf and Azirah Hashim, African–Asian Encounters: New Co-operations and New Dependencies 书评：阿恩特·格拉夫和阿齐拉·哈希姆，《非洲与亚洲的相遇：新的合作与新的依赖》

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Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-14 DOI: 10.1177/0975087818814911

Sushmita Rajwar

引用次数: 0