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Peacemaking in authoritarian context in Africa: promoting peace from below in Cameroon 在非洲专制背景下建立和平：在喀麦隆从下往上促进和平

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae004

Claire Lefort-Rieu

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Ethnic Politics and Party realignment in African Constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’ 非洲宪法公投中的种族政治和政党调整：了解肯尼亚的 "侮辱工业

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae002

Kirk A Harris

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Citizen Participation during the 2014 Protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good State’ 布基纳法索 2014 年抗议活动中的公民参与：向往 "美好国家

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae001

Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Nicolas Hubert

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Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age 重振加纳西北部农村地区的社会支持系统：在新自由主义时代实现情感共鸣

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad033

Constance Awinpoka Akurugu

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Expert Advice for the Expert Witness. 为专家证人提供专家建议。

1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.aan.2023.06.001

Richard P Dutton

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Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt 为城市而生：中非铜带的社会变革与知识生产

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad031

Dominic Liche

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Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below 埃塞俄比亚 EPRDF 政权下的公民、公民社会和行动主义：自下而上的分析

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad030

Asebe Amenu Tufa

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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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