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Demanding recognition: a new Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism 要求承认:政治庇护主义研究的新框架

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad014

Kathleen Klaus, Jeffrey W. Paller, Martha Wilfahrt

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad004

Marianne S. Ulriksen

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad007

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

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Religious leaders as agents of LGBTIQ inclusion in East Africa 宗教领袖是东非LGBTIQ融合的推动者

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad012

Adriaan van Klinken, Barbara Bompani, Damaris Parsitau

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad008

R. Aidoo

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Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana 像所有者一样行动:20世纪加纳的土地索赔和司法实践

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad013

S. Berry

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Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities 南非大城市的投票决定和种族流动性

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad010

Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman

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Hustler populism, anti-Jubilee backlash and economic injustice in Kenya’s 2022 elections 在肯尼亚2022年的选举中，骗子民粹主义、反朱比利的反弹和经济不公

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad011

P. Lockwood

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Variations of customary tenure, chiefly power, and global norms for responsible land investments in Sierra Leone 塞拉利昂传统保有权（主要是权力）和负责任土地投资全球规范的变化

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad009

C. Dieterle

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Inequality regimes in Africa from pre-colonial times to the present 前殖民时期到现在非洲的不平等制度

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-02-13 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad001

E. Frankema, Michiel Bart de Haas, Marlous van Waijenburg

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