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Reflections on racism levelled against Black learners at Historically White South African schools
Anthony Mpisi & Gregory Alexander
Published online: 16 May 2024
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A digito-linguistic analysis of the 2019 Democracy Day speech of former Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari
Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi
Published online: 03 May 2024
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What’s in the African name? “Shaka Zulu:” a European invention to destroy African identity
France Nkokomane Ntloedibe & Butholezwe Mtombeni
Published online: 03 May 2024
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Towards the systematisation of African ways of knowing: neocolonial hegemony, theory development and cognitive imperialism in African studies
Emmanuel Adeniyi
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Beyond academic discourse: practs of humour in departmental chatrooms of selected Federal University students in Southwest Nigeria
Ayo Osisanwo & Modupe Agunbiade
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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‘From divided past to cohesive future’: a reflection on the reconciliatory mechanisms of (Yoruba) traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Nigeria
Fasuan Emmanuel Olawale, Khoo Ying Hooi & K. S Balakrishnan
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Oil smuggling, borderland and border management in Nigeria
Sunday Omotuyi
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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Cultural hegemony and ethnic minority struggles in Nigeria
Onyekachi E. Nnabuihe, Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo & Martin Ayankaa Ihembe
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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Alternative Books in black and white: race and homoeroticism in South African male nude photography from the apartheid period
Theo Sonnekus
Published online: 22 Mar 2024
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Millennial style: the politics of experiment in contemporary African diasporic culture
by Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Durham, Duke University Press Books, 2024, 185 pp., $25.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-47803-020-1 (paperback)
Toni Hidayat, I Made Suarsana, Muhammad Agus Salim, Anggara Pratama Putra & Khoirul Anwar
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Ghana’s demand for restitution of material artifacts: a decolonial reflection
Charles Amo-Agyemang
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Exporting security to Africa at its most volatile: the GAR-SI Sahel project and the role of Spain’s Guardia Civil in rebuilding Sahelian security
Andrés de Castro, Adam Mayer, Rodrigo Gaona-Prieto & Clara Bañares-Martin
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Amabhinca subculture: re-branded expression of black masculinity in South African townships
Zama M. Mthombeni
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Street theatre in Zimbabwe: a history of connection, disconnection, and reconnection
Peace Mukwara
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Identity, experience, and non-partisan: the institution of traditional chiefs and development in a rural local municipality in North West Province, South Africa
Otshepeng Mazibuko & Vusilizwe Thebe
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers
edited by Adekeye Adebajo, Sunnyside, Jacana, December 2020, 655 pp., $145.06 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4314-3022-2
Mancha Johannes Sekgololo
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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Identity politics, conflict, and national integration in Nigeria: the youths’ perspective
Tope Shola Akinyetun
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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Youth and popular culture in Africa: media, music, and politics
edited by Paul Ugor, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2021, 416 pp., $97.98 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-64825-024-8
Febi Junaidi, Muhammad Royhan, Ahmad Pariansyah, Aditya Rachman & Edison
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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A losing battle? Interrogating the importance of ‘minority’ languages in expressing symbols of national identity in Zimbabwe
Sindile Dlodlo
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Apartheid politics and ‘coloured’ identity in Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story (1990)
Morve Roshan K.
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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Tiv entrepreneurs in road transport business: engaging the patterns and trends, 1960’s-2015
Asor Gbamwuan & Thaddeus T. Ityonzughul
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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The making and re-making of administrative regions in Ethiopia, 1907-2018: policy changes and continuities
Adane Kassie, Wagaw Bogale, Tamirat Cheru & Tegegne Sishaw
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Traditional African festival performances as a panacea for peace and security: the Obubra urban Ababum (cassava) festival as paradigm
Charles U. Adora
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Remembering Mbuya Nehanda: civil religion in ‘second republic’ Zimbabwe
Theophilus Tinashe Nenjerama
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Conflict and warfare metaphors in the Nigerian media conceptualization of corruption
Ikenna Kamalu & Okwudiri Anasiudu
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Political economy of sub-national fragility and armed conflict in Northwest Nigeria
Folahanmi Aina
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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The decline of Aboh’s economic influence in the Western Niger Delta of Nigeria in the era of legitimate commerce, 1830–1960
Paul Oshagwu Opone & Moses Oromena Uzeghe
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Policing and politics of law enforcement in Nigeria’s fourth republic
Usman A. Ojedokun & Adeyinka A. Aderinto
Published online: 24 Jan 2024
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Nigerian identity crisis: what’s behind the growing insecurity and separatism?
Paul Agu Igwe
Published online: 23 Jan 2024
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University students’ accounts of police use of force: implications for trust in the police
Paul Oluwatosin Bello
Published online: 23 Jan 2024
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Unpacking the current internal displacement crisis in Ethiopia: root cause, governance and response
Alemu Asfaw Nigusie
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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The Kingdom of Limmu Enarya: the hegemony of King Abba Bagibo
Dagm Alemayehu Tegegn
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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A rural teacher’s transformational journey implementing digital technology
Maxwell Tsoka
Published online: 06 Oct 2023
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Finding Afro-Mexico: race and nation after the revolution
by Theodore W. Cohen, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 335 pp., $120.00 (hardcover), $29.99 (paperback), $29.99 (eBook), ISBN 9781108493017
Juan-Danniel Hernandez
Published online: 05 Oct 2023
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The national question and Nigeria’s ethnic and identity crises
Utibe Monday Titus & Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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COVID-19 and socio-economic effects of social distancing and lockdown in Nigeria
Harrison Adewale Idowu & Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Surviving the turbulence: a retrospective account of designed policies for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana
Ginn Bonsu Assibey & Alettia Chisin
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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‘I have lost more than I have won’: sports betting and bettors experiences in Nigeria
Oludayo Tade, Chinedu Ernest Dinne & Oludare Ibikunle George
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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Aliens within homeland: Ethiopian Muslims and their request for “Ethiopianness”
Ahmed Mohammed Jemal
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Reading emotion, reading joy: South Africa’s literary non-scenes
Tom Penfold
Published online: 24 Sep 2023
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The ultimate other versus the inferior other: an Afrocentric analysis of ethnic-stereotyping and Afrophobia
Oluwakemi Damola Adejumo-Ayibiowu
Published online: 07 Sep 2023
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Jirra: Oromo protest songs as weapons of resistance against domination in Ethiopia
Asebe Regassa
Published online: 04 Sep 2023
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Precarious discourses: herstory and the politics of re-articulation in Panashe Chigumadzi’s These Bones Will Rise Again
Aaron Chando
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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Land warriors for hire: the changing nature of land conflicts in Lagos, Nigeria
Taiwo Owoeye
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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Character and social organisation of community protests in South Africa
Kenny Chiwarawara
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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African multilingual public sphere: a critical analysis of minority indigenous language(s) representation on Breeze FM talk radio in Zimbabwe
Limukani Mathe & Gilbert Motsaathebe
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Online learning: experiences of Namibian students relying on smartphones
Reginald Gerald Govender & Simon Albin
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Identity overlap and context-dependent instrumentation of territorial belonging: an interrogation of multiple levels of indigeneship mobilisation in Nigeria
Ayodeji Ladipo Alabi
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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‘In exile but not at peace’1: Rwandan army deserters in South Africa
Florence Ncube
Published online: 16 Aug 2023
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Ethnic federalism, conflict, and displacement in Ethiopia’s Metekel Zone
Tirsit Sahledengil & Desalegn Amsalu
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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