Samba Diop, Simplice A. Asongu, Vanessa S. Tchamyou
{"title":"Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa: policy synergies","authors":"Samba Diop, Simplice A. Asongu, Vanessa S. Tchamyou","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2317366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2317366","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalised synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would hav...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute: implications, negotiations, and mediations","authors":"Amit Ranjan","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2287425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2287425","url":null,"abstract":"The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has created disputes between the Nile River's lower and upper riparian zones in North Africa. Ethiopia sees the GERD as a project to prosper, while Egypt ...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking back: linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop","authors":"Paul Ayodele Onanuga, Ayobami Olajumoke Onanuga","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2287427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2287427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"124 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conspicuous Redistribution: Money, Morality, and Masculinity in Nigeria.","authors":"Daniel Jordan Smith","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2193367","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2193367","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces the concept of conspicuous redistribution to elucidate the complex geometry of masculinity, money, and morality in southeastern Nigeria. For Nigerian men-especially elites, and also those who aspire to join the middle class-having money is zealously pursued and spending it is widely rewarded. But money is also linked to collectively disparaged social ills such as greed and corruption. As a result, ethical uncertainties constantly infuse men's performance of social class. Acts of conspicuous redistribution simultaneously show off money and signal that the man spending it is socially and morally motivated. These practices are especially pronounced at major rituals of the life course, including weddings and funerals. Such ceremonies incorporate the ostentation typically associated with conspicuous consumption while also sharing wealth in support of pro-social values and institutions. Although conspicuous redistribution constitutes a social mechanism to fasten money to morality and sociality, it ultimately benefits elite men by enhancing their social status, thereby reinforcing inequality rather than remedying it. Ironically, ordinary people expect these performances from elites and their support contributes to perpetuating the very disparities they often lament.</p>","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":" ","pages":"230-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11544628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46024170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redistributive matronage: a moral economy of female traders and the ruling elite in Equatorial Guinea","authors":"Alba Valenciano-Mañé","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2282936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2282936","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the historicity of the marketplace in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, focusing on testimonies from senior petty traders. It investigates the role of the marketplace as a site for red...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139053042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographies of terror, harvest of fear: chiefs, local administration and politics in Zimbabwe in the 2000s","authors":"Lotti Nkomo","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2279481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2279481","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, in 1999 radically reconfigured Zimbabwe's political landscape. MDC greatly challenged the electoral dominance the Zimbabwe...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding space at the margins: a decolonial approach to academic publishing in Africa","authors":"Dina Ligaga","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2279487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2279487","url":null,"abstract":"Publishing in Africa has long been debated among academics in the global south who recognise the marginal status of African academics' ideas and knowledge. Many of the solutions proffered in global...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combating Money Laundering in Africa: Dealing with the Problems of PEPs Combating Money Laundering in Africa: Dealing with the Problems of PEPs , by John Hatchard, Edward Elgar PublishingCheltenham, UK, 2020, 328 pp., £105.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1789905298","authors":"Jae Sundaram","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2228524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2228524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139236401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A philosophical appraisal of Nyamnjoh’s social theory and Whitehead’s process ontology in the context of epistemic decoloniality","authors":"Husein Inusah","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2274292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2274292","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the philosophical underpinnings of Nyamnjoh's social theory of incompleteness and conviviality and Whitehead's process ontology in the context of intellectual decoloniality. The...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
{"title":"The AfCFTA: promise for a globally competitive continent and Africa’s development","authors":"Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2023.2274814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2274814","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}