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Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary AfroFrench narratives 性别与当代非洲法语叙事中的黑人空间性

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2146265

N. Dube

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On Race and Religion in African Political Communities: An Interview with David Theo Goldberg 非洲政治共同体中的种族与宗教:大卫·西奥·戈德堡访谈

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2146268

Nyanchama Okemwa, A. Topolski

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Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria 我们的神和亚伯拉罕的神一样强大:分析尼日利亚东南部Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò网站ézéńwànyì崛起的动力

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2152544

P. O. Agbo, J. K. Ugwuanyi, Malachy Ike Okwueze

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Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa 揭露西方基督教与非洲种族化的纠缠

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2152546

Josias Tembo

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‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections “所有国家的母亲”:加纳2020年选举中的性别话语

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2105568

G. Diabah, D. Agyepong

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Laughter in the face of police brutality: an analysis of satirical memes on police brutality in Zimbabwe on August 16, 2019 面对警察暴行的笑声:2019年8月16日津巴布韦警察暴行讽刺表情包分析

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-07 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2085859

D. R. Tivenga

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A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation” 重读本·凯斯的《非欧洲民族对世界文明的贡献》

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2099174

C. Soudien

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Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa 种族隔离后的忧郁症：南非的谈判损失和渴望

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2099175

S. Adebayo

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South African photography and the lives of workers 南非摄影和工人的生活

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2085857

Sally Gaule

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The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling 为黑人经济自由而战的美学政治:在激进的社会主义、法西斯主义和珠光宝色之间

IF 0.5 3区社会学

Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2088088

Matthias Pauwels

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