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Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle 反对种族隔离的年轻女性：性别、青年与南非的解放斗争

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad028

Neha Saini

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A Companion to African Rhetoric. Segun Ige 非洲修辞学指南塞贡-伊格

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad027

N. Tembo

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From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali 从公共到私人:描绘马里妇女正式和非正式参与建设和平的情况

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad025

Hilary Matfess, Mariam Santara, Jakana Thomas

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The War in UKraine, the African Union, and African Agency 乌克兰战争，非洲联盟和非洲机构

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad026

Ueli Staeger

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Erbium emitters in commercially fabricated nanophotonic silicon waveguides. 工业制造纳米光子硅波导中的铒发射体

IF 6.5 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-27 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0287

Stephan Rinner, Florian Burger, Andreas Gritsch, Jonas Schmitt, Andreas Reiserer

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Patterns of electoral violence during Côte d’Ivoire’s third-Term crisis 科特迪瓦第三任期危机期间的选举暴力模式

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-12 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad020

S. van Baalen, Abel Gbala

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The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations 解读中非关系中的代理问题

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad024

Niall Duggan

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Chinese technology and the transformation of the rural economy in Ghana: Evidence from galamsey in the ashanti and Savannah regions 中国技术与加纳农村经济转型:来自阿散蒂和萨凡纳地区galamsey的证据

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad023

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Liang Xu

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Urbanization and political change in Africa 非洲的城市化和政治变革

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad021

Kristian Hoelscher, Nick Dorward, Sean Fox, Taibat Lawanson, Jeffrey W Paller, Melanie L Phillips

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Memory mobilization and Postconflict Stability in Côte D’ivoire: Analysing the transmission of conflict narratives among Ivoirian Youth Côte科特迪瓦的记忆动员和冲突后稳定:分析冲突叙事在科特迪瓦青年中的传播

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad022

Line Kuppens, Arnim Langer

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