Publications

Since 2012, conflicts accompanied by escalating violence have spread across the Sahel region, making it one of the most violent areas in the world. It is perhaps no coincidence that 2012 also marks the period when social media began to gain significant traction in the Sahel....

Prior to a new outbreak of violence in Burundi in 2015, more than 10000 Burundians had already crossed borders in search of refuge. The anticipatory displacement signalled the need to rethink displacement as contextualised in the country's long history of conflict and...

Artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confront exploitative working conditions, hazardous labor, and societal degradation. This paper employs Nancy Fraser's cannibal capitalism framework to both theorize and empirically ground an analysis...

Africa is increasingly being exposed to the negative impacts of climate and environmental change, while having less capacity to respond compared to other continents. The vulnerability partially results from unprecedented demographic growth, urbanization, and industrialization...

Research on hydrogen – embraced as a cornerstone of the so-called global ‘energy transition’ – has mushroomed in recent years and has expanded into new disciplinary, empirical and conceptual terrains. Geographers and geographical thought have been at...

Ce rapport analyse la crise de la recherche pour le développement en Afrique subsaharienne francophone depuis l’indépendance. Il définit cette crise comme un déséquilibre structurel persistant qui empêche la recherche de r...

African Studies grapple with numerous structural issues, including epistemic inequalities, power dynamics, and marginalisation in knowledge production. This study aims to examine the root causes and dimensions of these imbalances by analysing bibliometric data from the...

The Mali conflict that erupted in 2012 has developed simultaneously with the advancement of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this article, we research how digital communication (i.e. mobile phones and smartphones) and the conflict dynamics co-...

This article analyses key aspects of the armed conflict during the so-called “Tigray War” of 2020-2022 in northern Ethiopia, focusing on the “digital warfare” that accompanied it. I argue that the physical war was enhanced by its digital media...