🆕 Eria Serwajja & Muhamed Lunyago examine how "informal" land demarcation systems in post-war northern #Uganda's Acholi subregion help de-escalate land conflicts, showing how community-led initiatives foster peaceful coexistence & conflict resolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Daniel Kwame Blija et al. analyse migrant housing pathways in #Ghana, showing how translocal migrants in Kumasi rely on ethnic networks, arguing for housing policies that recognise migrants’ dual lives shaped by home ties & urban housing markets. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Laura Guntrum, Emile Sunjo & Lynn Cockburn explore how women peacebuilders used ICTs during Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, showing how low-tech tools like WhatsApp enabled participation, protection & peacebuilding amid digital & structural constraints. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 Suzanne Francis, Michael Francis & Andrew Okem examine how the ≠Khomani San Living Museum in South Africa resists development logics, reclaims and reconnects with the past & centers reparative justice beyond imposed “traditional/modern” binaries. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

📢Calling past authors! Want to publish with The Conversation (@africa.theconversation.com) & reach broader, non-academic audiences? ➡️ Explore @sagepub.com's tips on writing high-impact submissions that link research to public debate through clarity, evidence, & relevance. Link in the comments👇

🆕Yusra Abdullahi examines how Somali-Ugandans in #Uganda navigated the COVID-19 crisis through mutual aid grounded in Soomaaliniimo, highlighting the prominent role played by religious leaders & women-led initiatives when state infrastructure fell short. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

Did you see our latest tip (below) for submitting to Africa Spectrum?

📕Funda Baydar Yazan appraises @janahoenke.bsky.social @eric-cezne.bsky.social & Yifan Yang's Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice, recommending it to scholars interested in the politics of infrastructure beyond its technical dimension. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

Call for Applications for MIASA Publishing Workshop on 9-10 March 2026 at the University of Ghana, in cooperation with CJAS (Institute of African Studies) and @africaspectrum.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de. Application deadline: 19 December 2026 More info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/cfa-pu...

🎯Preparing your manuscript for an interdisciplinary journal like Africa Spectrum? 👉 One common reason for desk rejection is a lack of engagement with broader debates in African studies. A Thread 🧵

Are you an African scholar looking to publish your #research? Apply for @miasa-ug.bsky.social Publishing Workshop and get in-depth feedback from editors @africaspectrum.bsky.social & Contemporary Journal of #AfricanStudies. ➡️ Apply now by 19 Dec: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/cal...

📢Our new Issue is out! Issue 60(3) tackles a diverse range of topics, featuring new scholarship on #protest memory, #gendered #identities, #labour dynamics, #refugee support, political power, #constitutional engineering, & more. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/afra/60/3 🧵Thread 👇 CC:@maxinerubin.com

▶️Do you have a draft article that you're intending to submit to an African studies journal? ▶️Does your manuscript explore a theme within sustainability - broadly defined? ▶️Are you a scholar from Africa? ✅If yes, consider applying for the MIASA publishing workshop 👇

🔈Call for applications: @miasa-ug.bsky.social's 2026 publishing workshop for early-career #Africanstudies scholars. Our co-editors-in-chief @maxinerubin.com & @marthacj.bsky.social will also be there, providing their insights and feedback. Apply: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/presse/ca... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Julien Durand de Sanctis & Jean-Noël Ferrié analyse shifting Morocco–France relations. They juxtapose France's decreasing presence in Africa with Morocco’s renewed African engagement to explore both countries’ foreign policies in Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Highly relevant 🆕 article by Erick Sourna Loumtouang looking at Cameroon's President Biya just published by @africaspectrum.bsky.social Details below ⬇️ access is free, as always

➡️Recently, #Cameroon's President Biya secured his 8th term in office, making him the world's oldest president. Erick Sourna Loumtouang analyses Cameroon's failed 1984 coup to show how President Biya consolidated power, silenced opposition, & more. #OpenAccess 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

Keep an eye on our socials - we're posting tips for prospective authors based on common desk rejection reasons. We hope this will help authors finetune their submissions and assist with demystifying the publication process 🔮

🎯Need help getting your manuscript ready for peer review? One of the most common reasons for desk rejection is a lack of a strong theoretical framework and insufficient engagement with existing debates in the field. A thread 🧵

🆕Oliver Bakewell explores how Ethiopians & Eritreans in #Nairobi, #Khartoum & #AddisAbaba form diasporic ties shaped by local political & economic conditions, focusing on improving their lives rather than driving socio-political change. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Tanja R. Müller(@globaldevinst.bsky.social) explores how #Eritrean migrants in Addis Ababa experience, create & contest belonging using the lens of lived citizenship, revealing how its affective dimension underpins spatial, intersubjective & performed dimensions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

🆕Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa examines subtle #decolonial practices in Enugu State, #Nigeria, highlighting a decline in foreign name use & the revival of indigenous socio-cultural and spiritual practices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com @maxinerubin.com @marthacj.bsky.social

🆕Kevin Anthony Oduor, Martin Ouma & Edwin Abuya analyse how faith-based organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, #Kenya, ease the refugee burden on host states & communities by supplementing service delivery to refugees & fostering peaceful coexistence. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Taofik Oyewo Hussain examines #USAID's aid suspension in #Nigeria & #China's growing role, showing how Chinese infrastructure fills gaps but can't replace USAID's social sector support & recommends a balanced donor strategy to ensure sustainability. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

📕Book Review: Christopher Amos appraises Dineo Skosana's "No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa", highlighting its 'essential contribution' to studies on mining, land politics, environmental justice, & resistance in Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🎉Congrats to Victor Agboga, who received an honourable mention from the African Politics Conference Group for his dissertation, "Where do your loyalties lie? Party Switching & Voters' Response in Nigeria". Read his insightful article published here👉https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231211930

🆕Vlastimil Fiala & @lucietungul.bsky.social investigate presidential constitutional engineering in Sub-Saharan #Africa, classifying how leaders manipulate term limits, change electoral systems & candidacy rules to retain power through legal constitutional means. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

📕Martial Fanga Agbor reviews "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa" by @msobelcohen.bsky.social & Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, describing it as a compelling examination of the media landscapes in Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

🆕 Eyo Mensah et al. explore how heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern #Nigeria use praise names to navigate gender boundaries - sometimes reinforcing, other times resisting patriarchy - while shaping self-worth, visibility, and social identity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

➡️Did you know? We have a Book Review Newsletter webpage, where you can easily browse past editions!🤓 💻Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/page/afr/boo... CC: @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com @maxinerubin.com @marthacj.bsky.social

Check out Africa Spectrum's latest issue! Everything is open access, which means you can read it for free and (hopefully) share widely 😉📩

🆕Augustine Gyan explores the land disputes that arise as community members in Ghana work to protect their interests against mining companies, revealing why land digitalisation is unlikely to fix land governance challenges. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de @unibayreuth.bsky.social

📢🆕New issue of @africaspectrum.bsky.social is out! Issue 60(2) features a Special Section on Pluriversalism in Africa, alongside research articles on elections, borders, gender, agriculture & more. A thread 🧵

🆕Silas Udenze reflects on #Nigeria's #EndSARS protest on its anniversaries across 2021–2023, demonstrating how these carry distinct meanings that blend collective memory, unresolved challenges, and future aspirations for change and social justice. 📘 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

On #MandelaDay, we're highlighting THE DECOLONIAL MANDELA: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, which has a FREE TO READ introduction! Read more here: bit.ly/40gt0bG Review by @africaspectrum.bsky.social #History

🆕 Romanus Aboh & Isaac Ishamali explore how young #Nigeria’s hip-hop artists use music as a tool of resistance to critique power, injustice, & systemic failure while voicing youth demands for social justice and change in the post-1999 democratic era. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 Kwame Adovor Tsikudo explores labour agency by examining how Ghanaian workers engage with their Chinese employers at #BuiDam as well as how history, socio-politics, and institutional dynamics influence a more balanced partnership. 📘 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

💭Have you been thinking of submitting a book review to Africa Spectrum, but are not sure where to start? 📚 Our brilliant in-house librarian, Christine, @giga-hamburg.de has done the legwork—check out the July edition of suggested titles for review. More details below 👇

📈 GIGA Journals @jplaeditor.bsky.social, @africaspectrum.bsky.social, and @current-sea-aff.bsky.social continue to gain international recognition with rising Impact Factors. A big thank-you to our editorial teams! 👏 ➡️ All journals are Open Access, read here: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/gig...

📚Saefudin et al. review Giuseppe T. Cirella's "Uncertainty Shocks in Africa: Impact and Equilibrium Strategies for Sound Economic and Social Development," praising its contributions to debates on sustainable development and community resilience. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC: @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Raoul Bunskoek & Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino explore pluriversalism in Africa, highlighting knowledge co-production by African & non-African actors. Focusing on #Rwanda #Ghana & #Kenya, they challenge Eurocentric universalism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... ‪@clingendael.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Humphrey A. Agyekum, George M. Bob-Milliar, Karen Lauterbach, and Alena Thiel assess voters' concerns ahead of Ghana’s 2024 elections, highlighting a disconnect between campaign promises and voters’ existential worries about the future. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... CC:@giga-hamburg.de

🆕Focusing on political regimes, Ragnangnéwendé H. Naré & Abdoul K. Saidou explain radical, pro-peasant, pro-business, & moderate agricultural policy change in #BurkinaFaso since 1983, highlighting the importance of societal influence & state adaptive capacity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

📰We are excited to share that our Co-Editor-in-Chief, @maxinerubin.com represented the journal at the European Conference on African Studies #ECAS2025! Alongside other #AfricanStudies journals, she gave tips for how to get published🌍📚

🆕Seulgie Lim shows how Muslim women in Senegal utilise Islam as a framework to navigate patriarchal norms and advance secular change through #genderparity activism. #OpenAccess 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...

Africa Spectrum's impact factor is at its highest yet - 2.2! We're still tied as no. 1 African studies journal, and now we're in the top 10 area studies journals 🤩 Thank you to our authors, associate editors, reviewers, editorial board, and YOU - our readers! @giga-hamburg.de

🥳 📢Big news for Africa Spectrum! The 2024 Impact Factor for Africa Spectrum is out—and it’s our highest yet: 2.2! We’ve jumped to #9 of 182 in Area Studies—up from #15! Still tied with African Affairs as the top journal in #AfricanStudies. #OpenAccess CC: @marthacj.bsky.social @maxinerubin.com

🎯 Want to increase the chances of your manuscript going into peer review at Africa Spectrum? Ensure that it fits our journal’s aims and scope. Poor fit is a common reason for rejection.   A thread🧵

We are pleased to publish this review of our associate editor, Elias Phaahla's book! Africa Spectrum accepts unsolicited book reviews and the selection of Elias' book demonstrates the relevance of his research. We hope you enjoy the review... and book!

Given the tense debates in host states about migration, this review of Riggan and Poole's book is timely.