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China’s news media as public diplomacy in Africa: an assessment of CCTV/CGTN among Kenyan audience 中国新闻媒体在非洲的公共外交:肯尼亚观众对CCTV/CGTN的评价
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2064979
A. Guyo, Hong Yu
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引用次数: 0
Writing Zvimurenga in Zimbabwe 在津巴布韦写Zvimurenga
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2030467
Joshua Matanzima
{"title":"Writing Zvimurenga in Zimbabwe","authors":"Joshua Matanzima","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2030467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2030467","url":null,"abstract":"Fast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe is a detailed and well-thought-out comparative study of the fi rst, second and third Z vimurenga . In this book Helliker, Bhatasara and Chiweshe vividly discuss the decentralisation of the Zvimurenga , by moving away from the dogmatic and romanticised views of ‘ nationalist historiography ’ to the ‘ histography of nationalism ’ . This book is unique in that it is the fi rst ever study to compare the three land struggles in Zimbabwe. Throughout the book, the authors make logical connections to the Zvimurenga . Not only does the book focus on the land struggle, but it also examines land dynamics and processes of land alienation in the intervening periods between Zvimurenga","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"312 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46180192","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}
引用次数: 0
Nigeria: a narrative of competing needs between shifting global trend, sustainable transportation, and economic growth 尼日利亚：关于不断变化的全球趋势、可持续交通和经济增长之间相互竞争的需求的叙述
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1977261
O. P. Thompson, F. Mallum, Gloria O. Chigbu
{"title":"Nigeria: a narrative of competing needs between shifting global trend, sustainable transportation, and economic growth","authors":"O. P. Thompson, F. Mallum, Gloria O. Chigbu","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2021.1977261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1977261","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa and a significant player in the geopolitics of the continent. The country's ability to command so much relevance is based partly on its status as an oil exporter. It is, therefore, imperative that the country's government protects its golden goose, oil. In this paper, we argue that the recent act of the Nigerian government to resist the promotion of electric vehicles (EV) in the country as a way to protect its economic goose is ill advised. We contend that global transportation and energy phenomena suggest that for Nigeria to remain relevant in the future of the world economy, it is pertinent that it pursues a shift from its current economic model. To buttress our claim, we show how embracing sustainable transportation systems like adopting EV promoting policies, can give Nigeria a rare opportunity to be a big player in the future world economy.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"238 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45918803","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}
引用次数: 2
Issues and regulations in party financing and electoral expenses in Nigeria (1999–2020) 尼日利亚政党融资和选举费用的问题与法规(1999-2020年)
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2031917
Babayo Sule, U. Sambo, Bakri Mat, M. Sani, Muhammad Aminu Yahaya
{"title":"Issues and regulations in party financing and electoral expenses in Nigeria (1999–2020)","authors":"Babayo Sule, U. Sambo, Bakri Mat, M. Sani, Muhammad Aminu Yahaya","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2031917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2031917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Political parties require strong financial backing to operate. Campaign activities require massive spending to convince electorates to accept the candidature of political parties in their locations. Yet, there are financial regulations on how campaigns and related activities should be conducted in Nigeria. This is to ensure transparency and accountability and eschew corrupt practices in the electoral process. However, despite these constitutional regulations and the provision of the Nigerian Electoral Act 2010, there seem to be cases of violations of financial regulations and weak enforcement of penalties. Thus, this paper examines the regulations in political party financing in Nigeria and the measures needed to ensure compliance. The work adopted a particularistic qualitative method of data collection and analysis. It uses primary (obtained from agencies) and secondary (government’s document and laws) data. The paper concludes that, while there are well-articulated regulations on political party financing in Nigeria, their implementation, monitoring, and enforcement, as well as the sanction of offenders remain very weak. The paper, therefore, recommends that policy makers, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and civil societies need to ensure compliance.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"253 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45962876","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}
引用次数: 0
The politics of artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM) in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area of Ghana 加纳Akyem Abuakwa传统地区的手工小规模金矿(ASM)的政治
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1957791
C. Amoako, K. Adarkwa, Kofi Appiah Koranteng
{"title":"The politics of artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM) in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area of Ghana","authors":"C. Amoako, K. Adarkwa, Kofi Appiah Koranteng","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2021.1957791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1957791","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the power relations and institutional arrangements that shape Ghana's artisanal small-scale gold mining industry. Using the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area in the Eastern region as a case, the paper relies on in-depth interviews of key informants including officials of relevant local government institutions, members of the traditional authority and selected small-scale miners, to gather evidence of socio-political relationships and power dynamics. The study also adopted focus group discussions; transect walks and field observations to explore the perceived breaches by small-scale mine operators and how these are influenced by power relationships at national and local levels. The study finds complex power relationships that make artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) unsustainable. Innovative and participatory interventions have been proposed to ensure the effective enforcement of existing mining and environmental protection policies and laws.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"222 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41680733","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}
引用次数: 3
‘Data sovereignty’ or ‘Data colonialism’? Exploring the Chinese involvement in Africa’s ICTs: a document review on Kenya “数据主权”还是“数据殖民主义”？中国参与非洲信息通信技术的探索——肯尼亚文献综述
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2027351
S. Calzati
{"title":"‘Data sovereignty’ or ‘Data colonialism’? Exploring the Chinese involvement in Africa’s ICTs: a document review on Kenya","authors":"S. Calzati","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2027351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2027351","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a crucial sector of China–Africa relations. As scholars have noted, Africa’s 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) risks transforming into a new ‘scramble’ with foreign actors harnessing Africa’s data. The present article explores this issue at a discursive level, i.e. delving into policies, bilateral agreements, and laws. The focus is specifically on Kenya in that it is one of the most developed ICT markets in Africa and it is here that the Chinese tech giant Huawei began its investments in 1998. Via a document review, the article provides a preliminary discursive assessment of the extent to which Kenyan actors are effectively (dis)empowered with regard to their own 4IR. The analysis shows that both pan-African and bilateral agreements remain at a high level of abstraction: while this is the typical Chinese way of framing discourses on technological innovation, it also leaves room for political manoeuvring and potential forms of data colonialism.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"270 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47568980","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}
引用次数: 3
Desperate, deceived and disappointed: women’s lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Uganda 绝望、受骗和失望：埃塞俄比亚和乌干达农村妇女的生活和劳动
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1998393
J. Sender, C. Cramer
{"title":"Desperate, deceived and disappointed: women’s lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Uganda","authors":"J. Sender, C. Cramer","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2021.1998393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1998393","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Life history interviews from Ethiopia and Uganda, organised around experiences of wage labour, provide rich evidence on the working conditions of many poor, rural women and on what leads them to work for wages. The life histories confirm and illuminate arguments based on large-scale socio-economic surveys carried out in these two countries. Further, findings from the surveys and life histories challenge an influential literature that not only celebrates women’s agency in poor rural areas, but also remains committed to methodological individualism and ideas of choice. Drawing on primary and secondary evidence from Africa (and elsewhere), we insist that violent coercion and catastrophe trump maximising rational selection among alternatives; that the social is fundamental to individual behaviour; and the non-market is key to (labour) market participation. We also provide a brief discussion of the policy implications of this research.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"153 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47493041","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}
引用次数: 1
When being obese is a good thing: voices of Ghanaian participants in a dance reality TV show 当肥胖是一件好事时：加纳舞蹈真人秀参与者的声音
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2048808
Akosua K. Darkwah, Rashida Resario
{"title":"When being obese is a good thing: voices of Ghanaian participants in a dance reality TV show","authors":"Akosua K. Darkwah, Rashida Resario","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2048808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2048808","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The discussion on (mis)representations of black women's bodies often focuses on their hyper-corporeality and hyper-sexualisation, with little attention paid to the women thus represented and their views. Reality shows are roundly criticised for objectifying women, being unAfrican and offering little to Africans. This paper contests this perspective by drawing on interviews with 19 contestants in a dance reality show in Ghana. We demonstrate that African participants in this show have a much more affirming view of the show. For them, the show offers benefits including celebrity status, training and employment opportunities. These benefits were not lost on family and friends who supported the candidates in various ways. Given the economic conditions in Ghana, this reality show offers obese women an opportunity to turn their condition into an asset and to do so largely with the backing of friends and family.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"449 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45697290","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}
引用次数: 0
Is it yet uhuru? How religious institutions disconnect with the governments in the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria 是乌胡鲁吗？在尼日利亚抗击新冠肺炎的斗争中，宗教机构如何与政府脱节
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-20 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2047166
George C. Nche
{"title":"Is it yet uhuru? How religious institutions disconnect with the governments in the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria","authors":"George C. Nche","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2047166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2047166","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The rise of the deadly corona virus disease (COVID-19) has made governance a daunting task, worsened by the complacency and lack of cooperation from groups as important as religious institutions. This study, unlike previous studies that have focused only on religious groups' resistance to lockdown rules, examined the complacency of religious institutions towards the campaign against COVID-19 in a post-lockdown Nigeria. Data were collected through key informant interviews and personal observations at churches and mosques in Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kaduna, and Rivers States in Nigeria. Using a descriptive narrative method, it was found that many religious institutions have begun neglecting the government-sponsored COVID-19 safety guidelines in their local gatherings. Reasons for this include the belief that COVID-19 is no longer a threat, suspicion and distrust of the government's management of the virus, the relaxation of government monitoring strategies, and the belief in God's healing and protection. With these findings, I make a case for effective dialogues with religious leaders and the reframing of the campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria to sustain the involvement of religious institutions.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"286 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43563570","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}
引用次数: 4
Education and politics: student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya 教育与政治:肯尼亚招收精英的学生行动主义
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-13 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2034761
Anna Deutschmann
{"title":"Education and politics: student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya","authors":"Anna Deutschmann","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2022.2034761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2034761","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT African states have undergone dynamic political processes ever since their struggle for independence. Students have played an important role in political developments and triggered processes of democratisation. In the course of recent waves of protests and political activism, however, students took a more ambivalent stance against both the state and the political elite. This report is based in parts on field research. It discusses the relation between student activism and the political elite in Kenya. During the overall change in the meaning and function of higher education, universities and student activism have played an important role in political development. This report analyses the education system on the basis of (qualitative) research on education and student activism in Kenya. The paper focuses on the education system as an important factor in the recruitment of political elites.","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"106 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42922730","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}
引用次数: 1
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