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The Power To Narrate: Negotiating Colonial Pasts in Libya–Italy and Namibia–Germany Relations 叙述的力量：利比亚-意大利和纳米比亚-德国关系中的殖民历史谈判

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag031

Daniela Verena Huber

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African Climate Futures by Carl Death 卡尔·死神的《非洲气候未来》

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African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag030

Deborah Mawusi Ameh

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Customary Institutions and Cattle Raiding Violence: The Dina and the Dahalo of Southern Madagascar 习俗制度和抢牛暴力：马达加斯加南部的迪纳和达哈洛人

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag027

Patrick Wennström

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Between the street and the state: legislative behaviour under protest and executive pressure in Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill 在街头和国家之间：肯尼亚2024年财政法案在抗议和行政压力下的立法行为

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag026

Eun Kyung Kim

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The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tarikh Ibn Al-Mukhtar of the Songhay Empire and the Tarikh Al-Fattash of the Caliphate of Hamdallahi by Mauro Nobili, Zachary Wright, and Ali Diakite. 两个西非王国的编年史：桑海帝国的Tarikh Ibn Al-Mukhtar和Hamdallahi哈里发国的Tarikh Al-Fattash，作者：Mauro Nobili， Zachary Wright和Ali Diakite。

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African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag025

Rahmane Idrissa

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Legacies of Violence from the Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC) Conflict: Grievance and Opposition in Cameroon 喀麦隆人民联盟（UPC）冲突的暴力遗产：喀麦隆的不满和反对

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag020

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Business Helping in Crisis: Tourism’s Response to Covid-19 in Tanzania as Everyday Humanitarianism 危机中的商业帮助：坦桑尼亚旅游业应对Covid-19的日常人道主义

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag019

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From Rhetoric to Reality: The Role of Political Framing in Shaping Understanding and Behaviour During the Tigray Conflict 从修辞到现实：提格雷冲突期间政治框架在形成理解和行为中的作用

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adag010

Selam Kidane

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Senegal: Between Political Instability and Democratic Consolidation 塞内加尔：在政治不稳定和民主巩固之间

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African Affairs Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adaf025

Alioune Wagane Ngom, Joan Ricart-Huguet

{"title":"Senegal: Between Political Instability and Democratic Consolidation","authors":"Alioune Wagane Ngom, Joan Ricart-Huguet","doi":"10.1093/afraf/adaf025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaf025","url":null,"abstract":"Senegal experienced much political turbulence under President Macky Sall. Journalists and observers regularly make two claims. The first is that Senegal has long been a haven of stability and democracy in Africa. The second is that the anti-democratic and repressive moves by President Sall led to an institutional crisis without precedent. We partially correct these two popular claims. With minor caveats, Senegal has indeed been a haven of political stability since independence. However, the political system only became democratic around 2000. Democratization is ongoing and has faced serious setbacks. Sall’s attempt in 2024 to postpone the presidential election is indeed without precedent. However, we examine his predecessors’ legacies to show that political repression, attempts to overstay in power, and even delays in parliamentary elections are not uncommon. Finally, we contend that democratic resilience in Senegal is the result of social norms such as dialogue and tolerance that are widely shared and of bottom-up pressure on incumbents, in addition to the autonomy of key institutions such as the judiciary. These same reasons suggest that Senegal could become a consolidated democracy even in a regional context of democratic backsliding and military coups.","PeriodicalId":7508,"journal":{"name":"African Affairs","volume":"379 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145553563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘IS THIS LIVER HUMAN?’: CHILD SACRIFICE AND MORAL PANICS IN UGANDA “这是人的肝脏吗？”：乌干达的儿童牺牲和道德恐慌

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adaf024

Tim Allen

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