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Africa
GILBERT, J. & SENA, K. 2018. Litigating indigenous peoples’ cultural rights: Comparative analysis of Kenya and Uganda. African Studies, 77, 204-222.
Keywords: cultural rights ; discrimination ; human rights ; indigenous peoples ; litigation
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452855

Africa
JEYIFO, B. 2018. English is an African language – Ka Dupe! [for and against Ngũgĩ]. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 133-147.
Keywords: Achebe ; language debate ; Ngũgĩ
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1264295

Africa
MARQUES, I. 2018. Suspending the ‘lack’ through art: African and western epistemological and artistic intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein). African Studies, 77, 127-144.
Keywords: African systems of knowledge ; art ; cosmic envelope ; Gaston Bachelard ; holism ; lack ; Léopold Senghor ; Mark Epstein ; Mia Couto ; relational ; Wole Soyinka
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1426310

Africa
MUGANE, J. 2018. Contemporary conversations: is English an African language? Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 121-123.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1357353

Africa
OCITA, J. 2018. Utopian envisioning: politics of belonging and the emergence of the first Indian South African and East African novels. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 20-35.
Keywords: Afrofuturism ; Ansuyah R. Singh ; Bahadur Tejani ; belonging ; citizenship ; marginality ; Utopianism
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1311781

Africa
OKEKE, D. C., CILLIERS, J. & SCHOEMAN, C. 2018. Neo-mercantilism as development ideology: A conceptual approach to rethink the space economy in Africa. African Studies, 77, 23-52.
Keywords: Africa ; ideology ; neo-mercantilism ; neoliberalism ; new regionalism ; space economy
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1390912

Africa
THIONG’O, N. W. 2018. The politics of translation: notes towards an African language policy. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 124-132.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1183476

Democratic Republic of Congo
MARINGIRA, G. 2018. When ex-combatants became peaceful: Azania People’s Liberation Army ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa. African Studies, 77, 53-66.
Keywords: DDR ; ex-combatants ; military identity ; peace ; political violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1416996

East Africa
SIUNDU, G. 2018. Vassanji’s disquiet with history in A Place Within. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 6-19.
Keywords: A Place Within: Rediscovering India ; East Africa ; history ; home ; India ; M G Vassanji ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1324769

Ethiopia
BAYE, T. G. 2018. Muslims in Ethiopia: History and identity. African Studies, 77, 412-427.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; land ; history ; Gojjam ; Muslims ; settlement
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1475634

Ghana
COLLINS, S. 2018. Who owns Ananse? The tangled web of folklore and copyright in Ghana. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 178-191.
Keywords: Ghana ; Ananse ; Anansesem ; Copyright ; Folklore ; Theatre
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1256121

Ghana
OLYMPIO, F. K. N. 2018. Contemporary road architectures and roadside institutions: Mapping agentive resilience in regimented urban spaces in Ghana. African Studies, 77, 313-335.
Keywords: Ghana ; governance ; democratisation ; digital surveillance ; informal economy ; road-making ; social networks ; social resilience ; socio-technical orders
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1431430

Kenya
AUGART, J. 2018. Kenya noir. Crime fiction’s critique. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 81-92.
Keywords: African crime fiction ; Crime fiction ; Kenya ; postcolonial Kenyan novel ; social and political critique
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1200964

Kenya
DEACON, H. J. 2018. Understanding the work that ‘culture’ does: A comparative perspective on cultural rights provisions in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. African Studies, 77, 171-188.
Keywords: constitutions ; culture ; ethnicity ; Kenya ; minorities
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452853

Kenya
GITHIORA, C. 2018. Sheng: the expanding domains of an urban youth vernacular. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 105-120.
Keywords: Kenya ; education ; multilingualism ; ‘Kenyanese’ ; ‘Kikenya’ ; lugha fogo ; lugha ya iiji ; lugha ya vijanaa ; mbuku ; Nairobi ; Sheng ; Swa ; Swahili ; urban vernaculars ; youth languages
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1117962

Kenya
HARRINGTON, J. 2018. Governing traditional medicine in Kenya: Problematization and the role of the constitution. African Studies, 77, 223-239.
Keywords: development ; governmentality theory ; sovereignty ; traditional medicine
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452856

Kenya
HUGHES, L. 2018. Alternative Rites of Passage: Faith, rights, and performance in FGM/C abandonment campaigns in Kenya. African Studies, 77, 274-292.
Keywords: Alternative Rites of Passage ; Christianity ; cultural rights ; female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/FGC) ; initiation ; NGOs
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452860

Kenya
JOSSE-DURAND, C. 2018. The political role of ‘cultural entrepreneurs’ in Kenya: Claiming recognition through the memorialisation of Koitalel Samoei and Nandi heritage. African Studies, 77, 257-273.
Keywords: community museums ; cultural entrepreneurs ; heroes and heroines ; Koitalel Samoei ; Nandi
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452859

Kenya
LAMONT, M. 2018. Forced male circumcision and the politics of foreskin in Kenya. African Studies, 77, 293-311.
Keywords: forced male circumcision ; human rights ; masculinity ; moral ethnicity ; politics of foreskin ; public violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452850

Kenya
MUGANE, J. 2018. The great English heist in African studies. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 148-162.
Keywords: dialect ; elimu na ujuzi wa Mwafrika ; heist ; horizontal axis ; Kiingereza cha watu wa kawaida ; Kiingereza teule ; Language ; lugha za Afrika ; wizi ; mchango wa Mwafrika ; register ; unyang’anyi ; vernacular ; vertical axis
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1356707

Kenya
NDĨGĨRĨGĨ, G. 2018. Mythical hero or tragic failure? An interrogation of the Jomo Kenyatta ‘black people’s Moses’ mystique in two Kenyan patriographies. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 192-207.
Keywords: bad faith ; defetishization ; father-of-the-nation ; Josiah Mwangi Kariuki ; Kenyatta myth ; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ; patriography ; prison narratives
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1312298

Kenya
NYAMWERU, C. & CHIDONGO, T.-M. 2018. Elders in modern Kenya: ‘Dying institutions’ or ‘reinventing themselves’? African Studies, 77, 240-256.
Keywords: alternative dispute resolution ; Councils of Elders ; elders ; governance ; politics
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1452857

Nigeria
LODGE, T. 2018. Conflict resolution in Nigeria after the 1967–1970 civil war. African Studies, 77, 1-22.
Keywords: Biafra ; genocide ; imagined communities ; memory ; Nigerian civil war ; reconciliation
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1432125

Nigeria
MOSOBALAJE, A. 2018. Textual migration in Ebenezer Obey’s juju music. African Studies, 77, 67-86.
Keywords: improvisation ; juju ; myth ; oral chanter ; oriki
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1430202

Rwanda
CIEPLAK, P. 2018. History, trauma and remembering in Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Grey Matter (2011). Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 163-177.
Keywords: memory ; genocide ; reconciliation ; film ; Ruhorahoza ; Rwanda ; trauma
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1244476

Sierra Leone
BECORPI, C. 2018. Enhancing participatory conflict transformation in Sierra Leone: are ‘traditional’ authorities the best game in town? African Studies, 77, 105-126.
Keywords: African chieftaincies ; conflict resolution ; conflict transformation ; extraversion ; hybridity ; Sierra Leone ; traditional authorities
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1420337

Sierra Leone
WILKIN, P. & CONTEH, A. A. 2018. Neoliberal health reforms and the failure of healthcare in Sierra Leone: The case of the Ebola crisis. African Studies, 77, 428-450.
Keywords: poverty ; healthcare ; Sierra Leone ; Ebola ; militarisation ; security/development
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1473237

South Africa
BROOKS, H. 2018. Differential interpretations in the discourse of ‘people’s power’: Unveiling intellectual heritage and normative democratic thought. African Studies, 77, 451-472.
Keywords: democracy ; African National Congress ; civics ; democratic thought ; ideology ; participation ; people’s power ; United Democratic Front
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1475653

South Africa
HURWITZ, B. 2018. From farmers to straw men: George Grey and the Mfengu crisis of 1854. African Studies, 77, 378-393.
Keywords: South Africa ; labour ; colonialism ; history ; Mfengu
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1408988

South Africa
MCCLENDON, T. 2018. Whipping boys: South Africa’s limited reform of judicial corporal punishment in the 1960s and 1970s. African Studies, 77, 354-377.
Keywords: apartheid ; corporal punishment ; generation ; masculinity ; reform
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1464268

South Africa
RICE, K. 2018. Understanding ukuthwala: Bride abduction in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Studies, 77, 394-411.
Keywords: South Africa ; social change ; generation ; masculinity ; bride abduction ; conjugality ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1464752

South Africa
WASSERMAN, H., CHUMA, W. & BOSCH, T. 2018. Print media coverage of service delivery protests in South Africa: A content analysis. African Studies, 77, 145-156.
Keywords: citizenship ; democracy ; mass media ; service delivery protests ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1426312

South Africa
WRIGHT, T. 2018. A new black pantheon: Kwezi as an epic of African postmodernity. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 208-226.
Keywords: South Africa ; identity ; ethnicity ; Afropolitan ; Blackness ; Johannesburg ; pan-Africanism ; race
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2017.1315295

Sudan
LIPENGA, K. J. 2018. Voicing marginality: disability in Leila Aboulela's Lyrics Alley. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 93-104.
Keywords: Disability ; Leila Aboulela ; Lyrics Alley ; marginality ; masculinity
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1113127

Tanzania
KERR, D. 2018. From the margins to the mainstream: making and remaking an alternative music economy in Dar es Salaam. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 65-80.
Keywords: Dar es Salaam ; hip hop ; informality ; Marginality
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1125776

Tanzania
RUSHOHORA, N. & KURMANN, E. 2018. Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania. African Studies, 77, 87-104.
Keywords: historical photographs ; Majimaji ; memory ; southern Tanzania ; visual history
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1395584

Tanzania
WAKOTA, J. 2018. Ujamaa’s villagization and gender dynamics in selected Tanzanian fiction. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30, 49-64.
Keywords: fiction ; gender relations ; maendeleo ; modernization ; Riwaya ; Tanzania ; uanzishwaji wa vijiji ; Uhusiano wa kijinsia ; Ujamaa ; Ujamaa ; villagization
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1207158

Zimbabwe
THEBE, V. 2018. Youth, agriculture and land reform in Zimbabwe: Experiences from a communal area and resettlement scheme in semi-arid Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. African Studies, 77, 336-353.
Keywords: Zimbabwe ; youth ; agriculture ; land ; land reforms
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2018.1466516