Decolonizing African studies

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The team at Democracy in Africa has done a major public service by putting together a very long reading list of articles on African issues by African scholars. I’m reproducing it here. If you need access to a gated article, just let me know and I’ll see if I can get it through Berkeley. Other useful resources include the Oxford Bibliographies list for African studies and African Journals Online.

African Political Thought

Achebe, C., 1984. The trouble with Nigeria. Heinemann.
Adi, H. and M. Sherwood. 2003. Pan-African History. New York: Routledge.
Ani, M. Y. 1994. An African Centred Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. Trenton NJ: Africa World.
Appiah, K.A., 2010. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time). WW Norton & Company.
Appiah, K.A., 2010. The ethics of identity. Princeton University Press.
Biko, S. 1978. I write what I like.” London: Bowerdean.
Cabral, A., 1979. Unity and struggle: speeches and writings. Monthly Review Press.
Coetzee, P. H. and A.P.J. Roux. 2004. The African Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge.
Fanon, F., 1965. The wretched of the earth(Vol. 390). Grove Press.
Fanon, F., 1967. A dying colonialism. Grove Press.
Fanon, F. and Maspero, F., 1970. Toward the African revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Fanon, F., 2008. Black skin, white masks. Grove press.
Gordon, L. 1997. Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
Mandela, R. N. 1990. The Struggle is my Life. New York: Pathfinder.
Mangcu, X. 2013. Biko: A Biography. New York: IB Tauris.
Mboya, T., 1970. The challenge of nationhood: a collection of speeches and writings(Vol. 81). Heinemann International Inc..
Mkandawire, T. 2001. “African Intellectuals and Nationalism in the Changing Global Context”. Australasian Review of African Studies 23(1):11-37.
Mbembe, A. 1992. “The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony”. Public Culture. 4(2): 1-30.
Mbembé, A. 2001. On the Postcolony. Univ of California Press.
Mbembe, A. and L. Meintjes. 2003. Necropolitics. Public Culture. 15(1): 11-40.
Mbembe, A. 2005. “Sovereignty as a Form of Expenditure” in Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, 148-166.
Mbembe, A. 2006. “On Politics as a Form of Expenditure” in Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, 299-335.
Mbembe, A. 2006. “On the Postcolony: A Brief Response To Critics”. African identities 4(2): 143-178.
Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa: Prognosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowlegde.Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Nkrumah, K. 1970. Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation. First Modem.
Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana: the autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. Intl Pub, 1971.
Nyerere, J. 1986. Freedom and Unity: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1952-65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Odinga, O., and K. Nkrumah. 1967. Not Yet Uhuru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga.
Sankara, T. 2010. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987. New York: Pathfinder Press.
Senghor, L.S. 1974. ‘Negritude’ Indian Literature. 269-273.
Shivji, I.G., 1989. The concept of human rights in Africa. African Books Collective.

Pre-colonial Politics, Slavery and the Role of Traditional Leaders

Bob-Milliar, G. M. 2009. Chieftaincy, diaspora, and development: The institution of Nksuohene in Ghana. African Affairs. 108 (433): 541-558
Chigudu, D. 2015. Assessing Policy Initiatives on Traditional Leadership to Promote Electoral Democracy in Southern Africa. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 6(1):120.
Diop, C.H. 1989. The African Origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality.Chicago Review Press.
Kenyatta, J. 1961. Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu. London: Mercury Books.
Mbodj, M. 1993. “The Abolition of Slavery in Senegal, 1820-1890: Crisis or the Rise of a New Entrepreneurial Class?” Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. 197-211.
Ntsebeza, L. 2004. “Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa.” The European Journal of Development Research. 16(1): 71-89.
Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africa. Leiden: Brill.
Plaatje, S. T. 2008. Native Life in South Africa.Blackmask Online.
Rodney, W. 1966. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-trade. The Journal of African History. 7(03): 431-443.
Samatar, A. I. 1992. Destruction of state and society in Somalia: Beyond the tribal convention. Journal of Modern African Studie.30(04):625-641.

Nationalism, Pan Africanism, and Anti-colonial Struggles

Barnett, D.L. and K. Njama. 1968. Mau Mau From Within.
Cabral, A., 1970. National liberation and culture(No. 57). Syracuse University.
Cabral, A., 1974. Revolution in Guinea: an African people’s struggle: selected texts. Stage 1.
Chinodya, S. 1990. Harvest of Thorns.
Fanon, F., 1965. The wretched of the earth(Vol. 390). Grove Press.
Fanon, F., 1967. A dying colonialism. Grove Press.
Fanon, F. and Maspero, F., 1970. Toward the African revolution(p. 107). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Langa, M. 2014. The Texture of Shadows.
Mkandawire, T. 2002. “The Terrible Toll of Post-Colonial “Rebel Movements” in Africa: Toward an Explanation of the Violence Against the Peasantry.” Journal of Modern African Studies. 40(2): 181-215.
Nkrumah, K. 1971. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. International Publishers.
Nyerere, J. 1986. Freedom and Unity: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1952-65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Odinga, O., and K. Nkrumah. 1967. Not Yet Uhuru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga.
Rutanga, M. 1991. Nyabingi Movement: People’s Anti-Colonial Struggles in Kigezi, 1910-1930. CBR Working Paper Series. Centre for Basic Research.
Sankara, Thomas. 2010. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987. New York: Pathfinders.
Sembène, O. 1960. Gods Bits of Wood. Le Livre Contemporain.
Senghor, L.S. 2004. “Negritude and African Socialism” in The African Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge, edited by P. Coetzee et al, 438-447.
Soyinka, W. 2002. Death and the King’s Horseman. WW Norton & Company.
Vera, Y. 2002. The Stone Virgins.

Citizenship and Statehood

Adebanwi, W. 2009. Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in Northern Nigeria. Citizenship studies. 13(4): 349-363.
Bezabeh, S. A. 2011. Citizenship and the Logic of Sovereignty in Djibouti. African Affairs, 110(441). 587-606.
Diouf, M. 1998. “The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. Development and Change. 29(4): 671-696.
Diouf, M., and S. Rendall. 2000. “The Senegalese Murid trade diaspora and the making of a vernacular cosmopolitanism.” Public Culture.12(3): 679-702.
Ekeh, P.P. 1975. “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement.” Comparative Studies in Society and History.17(01): 91-112.
Ekeh, P.P. 1990. “Social Anthropology and Two Contrasting Uses of Tribalism in Africa.” Comparative Studies in Society and History32(04): 660-700.
Emecheta, B. 1994. Second-class citizen. Heinemann.
Golooba‐Mutebi, F. 2004. Reassessing Popular Participation in Uganda. Public Administration and Development. 24(4): 289-304.
Karekwaivanane, G. H. 2011. ‘It Shall be the Duty of Every African to Obey and Comply Promptly’: Negotiating State Authority in the Legal Arena, Rhodesia 1965–1980. Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(02): 333-349.
Mahmood, M. 2001. “Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism.” Comparative Studies in Society and History43(4): 651–64.
Mamdani, M. 1996. “From Conquest to Consent as the Basis of State Formation: Reflections on Rwanda”. New Left Review, 216: 3–36.
Mamdani, M. 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Pinceton: Princeton University Press.
Mustapha, A. R.. 1986. “The National Question and Radical Politics in Nigeria.” Review of African Political Economy.13(37): 81-96.
Ndegwa, S. N. 1997. “Citizenship and Ethnicity: An Examination of Two Transition Moments in Kenyan Politics.” American Political Science Review. 91(03): 599-616.
Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2005. Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging. London: Zed Books.
Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2006. Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa. Zed Books.
Nzongola-Ntalaja, G. 2007. “The Politics of Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo” in Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa, edited by Sarah Rich Dorman et al, 69-80.
Samatar, A. and A.I. Samatar. 2002. The African State: Reconsiderations. London: Heinemann.
Samatar, A. I. 2004. Ethiopian Federalism: Autonomy Versus Control in the Somali Region. Third World Quarterly. 25(6):1131-1154.

Social Movements and Civil Society

Ekeh, P. “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement”,Comparative Studies in Society and History.17:91-112.
Gyimah-Boadi. E. 1996. ‘Civil Society in Africa’. Journal of Democracy. 7(2): 118-32.
Gyimah-Boadi, E. 2004. “Civil society and Democratic Development.” Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress, edited by E. Gyimah-Boadi, 99.
Habib, A. 2005. State-civil Society Relations in Post-apartheid South Africa. Social Research. 72(3):671-692.
Maundeni, Z. 2004. Civil Society, Politics and the State in Botswana. Medi Publishing.
Mbali, M. 2004. “AIDS Discourses and the South African State: Government Denialism and Post-apartheid AIDS Policy-making. Transformation”: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 54(1):104-122.
Mbali, M. 2013. South African AIDS activism and global health politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Murunga, G.R. 2000. “Civil Society and the Democratic Experience in Kenya.” African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie.4(1): 97-118.
Nzongola-Ntalaja, G. 2002. The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Lonson: Zed Books.
Oloka‐Onyango, J., and J.J. Barya. 1997. Civil Society and the Political Economy of Foreign Aid in Uganda. Democratization. 4(2):113-138.
Oloka-Onyango, J. 2002. Reinforcing Marginalized Rights in an Age of Globalization: International Mechanisms, Non-State Actors, and the Struggle for People’s Rights in Africa. American University International Law Review.18:851.

Parties, Elections and Democracy

Ake, Claude. Democratization of Disempowerment in Africa. Lagos: Malthouse Press.
Ake, C. 2001. Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Ake, C. 2000. The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa. African Books Collective.
Alieno, A. 2007. “Mungiki: “Neo-Mau Mau” and the Prospects for Democracy in Kenya’”. Review of African Political Economy. 34(113):526-531.
Chigudu, D. 2015. Foreign Election Observers in Africa: Towards an Obligations-Based Approach. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 6(1):272.
Kiwuwa, D. 2012. Ethnic Politics and Democratic Transition in Rwanda. London: Routledge.
Makara, S., L. Rakner and L. Svåsand. 2009. Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda. International Political Science Review. 30(2):185-204.
Mandela, R.N. 1994. A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. London: Bayback Books.
Mangcu, X. 2005. The Meaning of Mandela (essays by Wole Soyinka, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.) Johannesburg: HSRC Press.
Mangcu, X. 2008. To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa. Durban: UKZN Press.
Murunga, G. R., and Shadrack W. Nasong’o. 2007. Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy. London: Zed Books.
Murunga, G. 2002. “A Critical Look at Kenya’s Non-transition to Democracy.” Journal of Third World Studies.19(2): 89.
Murunga, G. et al (eds). 2014. Kenya the Struggle for a New Constitutional Order. London: Zed books and NAI.
Muzondidya, J. 2013. “The Opposition Dilemma in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review of the Politics of the Move.” In The Hard Road to Reform: The Politics of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement, edited by Brian Raftopoulos, 39–70.
Mwenda, A. M. 2007. Personalizing Power in Uganda. Journal of Democracy.18(3): 23-37.
N’Diaye, B. 2006. “Mauritania, August 2005: Justice and Democracy, or Just Another Coup?.” African Affairs.105(420): 421-441.
Ndegwa, Stephen N. 2003. “Kenya: Third Time Lucky?.” Journal of Democracy. 14(3): 145-158.
Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. 1984. “Bureaucracy, Elite, New Class: Who Serves Whom and Why in Mobutu’s Zaire?”Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines.18(1): 99–102.
Olukoshi, A. O. 1998. The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa. Nordic Africa Institute.
Omotola, J. S. 2010. Elections and democratic transition in Nigeria under the Fourth Republic. African Affairs. 109 (437):535-553.
Osoba, S. 1977. “The Nigerian Political Elite: 1952-1965.” in African Social Studies, edited by P. Gutkind and P. Waterman. London: Heinemann.
Owusu, M. 1992. ‘Democracy and Africa: A View from the Village’, Journal of Modern African Studies. 30(3).369-396.
Prempeh, H. K. 2008. “Presidents Untamed.” Journal of Democracy.19(2):109-123.
Tendi, B.M. 2014. “The Origins and Functions of Demonisation Discourses in Britain–Zimbabwe Relations (2000–).” Journal of Southern African Studies. 1–19.
Ugochukwu Nwosu B. 2012. ‘Tracks of the Third Wave: Democracy Theory, Democratisation and the Dilemma of Political Succession in Africa’. Review of African Political Economy. 39(131): 11-25.
Wamba-dia-Wamba, E. 1992. “Beyond Elite Politics of Democracy in Africa.” Quest: An International African Journal of Philosophy. 6.1:29-42.
Zamchiya, P. 2013. The MDC-T’s (Un) Seeing Eye in Zimbabwe’s 2013 Harmonised Elections: A Technical Knockout. Journal of Southern African Studies. 39(4): 955-962.

The Politics of Ethnicity

Ake, C. 1993. “What is the Problem of Ethnicity in Africa.” Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa.22: 1-14.
Ake, C. “A World of Political Ethnicity.” inThe Historical Dimension of Development, Change and Conflict in the South, edited by R. Berg (et al).
Habyarimana, J., M. Humphreys, D.N. Posner, and J.M. Weinstein. 2004. Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach. Los Angeles: University of California.
Langer, A., A.R. Mustapha, A. R., and F. Stewart. 2009. Diversity and Discord: Ethnicity, Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict in Ghana and Nigeria. Journal of International Development. 21(4):477-482.
Mafeje, A. 1971. “The Ideology of ‘Tribalism.’” The Journal of Modern African Studies.9(2):253–61.
Mamdani, M. 2012. Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
Murunga, G.R. and S. W. Nasong’o. 2006. “Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies.24(1). 1-28.
Mustapha, A. R. 2009. Institutionalising ethnic representation: How effective is affirmative action in Nigeria? Journal of International Development. 21(4): 561-576.
Mustapha, A. R. “Ethnicity and the Politics of Democratization in Nigeria.” in Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, edited by Bruce Berman (et al).
Mwangi Kagwanja. P, 2003. “Facing Mount Kenya or Facing Mecca? The Mungiki, Ethnic Violence and the Politics of the Moi Succession in Kenya, 1987-2002”. African Affairs. 102(406): 25-49.
Osaghae, E. E. 1998. “Managing Multiple Minority Problems in a Divided Society: The Nigerian Experience.” The Journal of Modern African Studies.36(1): 1–24.
Osaghae, E. E. 1995. Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria. 98. Nordic Africa Institute.
Samatar, A. I. 1997. Leadership and Ethnicity in the Making of African State Models: Botswana versus Somalia. Third World Quarterly, 18(4): 687-708.
Ukiwo, U. 2005. The Study of Ethnicity in Nigeria. Oxford Development Studies. 33(1): 7-23.

The Politics of Religion

Addo, E. O. 1997. Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana. University Press of America.
Ahmed, A.C., 1999. Islam et politique aux Comores: évolution de l’autorité spirituelle depuis le protectorat français (1886) jusqu’à nos jours.
Babou, C.A., 2007. Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913. Ohio University Press.
Mbiti, J. S. 1990. African Religions and Philosophy. New York: Heinemann.
Mustapha, A. R. (ed). 2014. Sects and Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria. Rochester: Boydell and Brewer Ltd.
Mustapha, A. R. 2014. Understanding Boko Haram. Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria, edited by Raufu Mustapha, 147 – 198.
Mwaura, P. N., and D.S. Parsitau. 2012. Perceptions of Women’s Health and Rights in Christian New Religious Movements in Kenya. African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with Other World Religionsedited by A. Adogame (et al), 175 – 185.
Kane, O., 2003. Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: A study of the society for the removal of innovation and reinstatement of tradition.
Parsitau, D. S. 2008. “Sounds of Change and Reform: The Appropriation of Gospel Music and Dance in Political Discourses in Kenya”. Studies in World Christianity. 14(1): 55-72.
Sherrif, A. 2010. Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam. Columbia University Press and Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute.
Tayob, A., 1999. Islam in South Africa: mosques, imams, and sermons. University Press of Florida.
Tarusarira, J., and G. Ganiel. 2012. Religion, Secular Democracy and Conflict Resolution in Zimbabwe. The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution, 99-117.
Tayob, A. 2008. Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia. South African Historical Journal. 60(4): 583-599.
Ukah, A. F. 2007. African Christianities: Features, Promises and Problems. Working Paper 79. Johannes Gutenbertg-Universität.
Umar, M.S., 2006. Islam and Colonialism: intellectual responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British colonial rule(Vol. 5). Brill.

The Politics of Gender and Youth

Adichie, C. N. 2014. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage.
Alidou, O.D., 2005. Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger. Univ of Wisconsin Press.
Amadiume, I. 1987. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Amadiume, I. 1997. Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, religion and culture. London: Zed Books.
Amadiume, I. 2000. “Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy.” London: Zed Books.
Bennett, J., and H. Chigudu. 2012. Researching Sexuality with Young Women: Southern Africa. Feminist Africa. 17:1-7.
Diouf, M. (2003) “Engaging Postcolonial Cultures: African Youth and Public Space.” African Studies Review. 46(02): 1-12.
Hassim, S., 2006. Women’s organizations and democracy in South Africa: contesting authority. Univ of Wisconsin Press.
Imam, A., A. Mama, and F. Sow (eds). 1997. Engendering African Social Sciences. Dakar: CODESRIA.
Mama, A. 1997. “Feminism or Femocracy? State Feminism and Democratisation in Nigeria.” Africa Development.20(1): 37–58.
Mama, A. 2001. “Challenging Subjects: Gender and Power in African Contexts.” African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie5(2): 63–73.
Medie, P. A. 2013. Fighting Gender-based Violence: The Women’s Movement and the Enforcement of Rape Law in Liberia. African Affairs. 112 (448): 377-397.
Oloka-Onyango, J. and Tamale, S. 1995. ” The Personal is Political,” or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism. Human Rights Quarterly. 17(4): 691-731.
Oyěwùmí, O. 1997. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press.
Tamale, S. 2011. African Sexualities: A Reader. London: Pambazuka.
Tamale, S. 1999. When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda. Westview Press.
Tamale, S. 2007. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda. Africa After Genderedited by C.M. Cole (et al), 17-29.

Agricultural Politics and Land Reform

Kimuli, K. 2007. ‘Tax me if you can: Ethnic geography, democracy, and the taxation of agriculture in Africa’. American Political Science Review. 101(1): 159-172.
Mkandawire, T., 2009. Institutional Monocropping and Monotasking in Africa. UNRSID.
Moyo, S. 2005. “Land and Natural Resource Redistribution in Zimbabwe: Access, Equity and Conflict.” African and Asian Studies.4(1): 187-224.
Ntsebeza, L. 2004. “Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa.” The European Journal of Development Research. 16(1):71-89.
Zamchiya, P. 2011. A Synopsis of Land and Agrarian Change in Chipinge district, Zimbabwe. Journal of Peasant Studies. 38(5): 1093-1122.
Zamchiya, P. 2013. The Role of Politics and State Practices in Shaping Rural Differentiation: A Study of Resettled Small-Scale Farmers in South-Eastern Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies. 39(4):937-953.

Urban Politics

Bagaeen, S., and O. Uduku (eds). 2010. Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments. London: Routledge.
Chipungu, L. and Adebayo, A.A. 2013. Policy and Planning Divide: An Evaluation of Housing Production in the Aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.28 (2): 381-396.
Hamalengwa, Munyonzwe. 1992. Class Struggles in Zambia, 1889-1989 and the Fall of Kenneth Kaunda, 1990-1991. University Press of America
Ismail, S. 2015. The Victoria Mxenge Housing project- women building activism through social activism and informal learning. UCT Press, Cape Town
Kombe, W. J., and Kreibich, V. 2000. Reconciling Informal and Formal Land Management: An Agenda for Improving Tenure Security and Urban Governance in Poor Countries. Habitat International. 24(2): 231-240.
LeVan, C. and J. Olubowale. 2014. ‘I am Here Until Development Comes’: Displacement, Demolitions, and Property Rights in Urbanizing Nigeria’. African Affairs.113 (452): 387-408.
Musoni, Francis. 2010. “Operation Murambatsvina and the Politics of Street Vendors in Zimbabwe.” Journal of Southern African Studies.36(2): 301–17.
Ngalamulume, K. 2004. Keeping the City Totally Clean: Yellow Fever and the Politics of Prevention in Colonial Saint-Louis-du-Sènègal, 1850–1914. The Journal of African History. 45(02):183-202.
Nuwagaba, A. 1996. Urbanisation and Environmental Crisis in a Ugandan City: Implications for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review. 12(1): 15-33.
Obeng-Odoom, F. 2011. Ill Health Unleashed? Cities and Municipal Services in Ghana. Review of African Political Economy. 38(127): 43-60.
Yeboah, I. 2006. Subaltern Strategies and Development Practice: Urban Water Privatization in Ghana. The Geographical Journal. 172(1): 50-65.
Zikode, S. 2008. The Greatest Threat to Future Stability in Our Country is the Greatest Strength of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (SA). Journal of Asian and African studies. 43(1):113-117.

Foreign Policy, International Relations, and African Union

Adejumobi, S. and A. Olukoshi (eds.). 2008. The African Union and New Strategies for Development in Africa. New York: Cambria Press.
Akokparti, J., A. Ndinga-Muvumba and T. Murithi (eds.). 2009. The African Union and its Institutions. Cape Town: Jacana.
Asante, Samuel KB. The political economy of regionalism in Africa: a decade of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Praeger Publishers, 1986.
Baimu, E., and K. Sturman. 2003. “Amendment to the African Union’s Right to Intervene: A Shift from Human Security to Regime Security?.” African Security Studies.12(2): 37-45.
Carmody, P. R., and F.Y. Owusu. 2007. “Competing Hegemons? Chinese versus American Geo-economic Strategies in Africa.” Political Geography.26(5): 504-524.
Legler, T., and T. Kwasi Tieku. 2010. “What Difference Can a Path Make? Regional Democracy Promotion Regimes in the Americas and Africa.” Democratization. 17(3): 465-491.
Makinda, S. M., and F. Wafula Okumu. 2007. The African Union: Challenges of Globalization, Security, and Governance. London: Routledge.
Mugomba, A. T. 1978. “Regional Organisations and African Underdevelopment: The Collapse of the East African Community.” The Journal of Modern African Studies.16(02): 261-272.
Murithi, T. 2008. “The African Union’s Evolving Role in Peace Operations: The African Union Mission in Burundi, the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Mission in Somalia.” African Security Studies.17(1): 69-82.
Murithi, T. 2005. The African Union. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Omar A. Touray. 2005. “The Common African Defence and Security Policy”. African Affairs. 104 (417): 635-656.
Tieku, T. K. 2004. “Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union.” African Affairs.103(411): 249-267.

The Military and Security Sector Reform

Aboagye, F. 1999. The Ghana Army. Accra: Sedco.
Agbese, P.O. 1988. “Defence Expenditures and Private Capital Accumulation in Nigeria” Journal of Asian and African Studies. 13: 3-4.
Assenoh, A.B. and Yvette M.A. 2001. African Military History and Politics: Coups and Ideological Incursions 1900-present. New York: Palgrave.
Egbo, O., I. Nwakoby, J. Onwumere, and C. Uche. 2012. Security Votes in Nigeria: Disguising Stealing from the Public Purse. African Affairs111(445):597-614.
Hutchful, E. and Abdoulaye B. (eds.) 1998. The Military and Militarism in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA.
Ihonvbere, J.O. 1996. “Are Things Falling Apart? The Military and the Crisis of Democratisation in Nigeria” Journal of Modern African Studies. 34(2):193-225.
Kandeh, J. 1996. “What Does the ‘Militariat’ Do when it Rules? Military Regimes, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia”. Review of African Political Economy. 23(69): 387-404.
Mashike, L. 2008. Age of despair: The Un-integrated Forces of South Africa. African Affairs. 107(428):433-453.
Mazrui, A.A 1975. Soldiers and Kingsmen in Uganda: The Making of a Military Ethnocracy. London: Sage Publications.
Mazrui, A.A. (ed). 1977. The Warrior Tradition in Africa. Leiden: Brill.
Mazrui, A.A. 1977. “Soldiers as Traditionalizers: Military Rule and the Re-Africanization of Africa.” Journal of Asian and African Studies. 12(4): 236-58.
Mazrui, A.A. 1980. The African Condition: The Reith Lectures. London: Heinemann.
Murithi, T. 2008. “The African Union’s Evolving Role in Peace Operations: The African Union Mission in Burundi, the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Mission in Somalia” The African Security Review. 17(1): 69-82.
Museveni, Y. 1997. Sowing the Mustard Seed:The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda. London:
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Conflict and Civil War

Elbadawi, E., and N. Sambanis. 2000. “Why Are There So Many Civil Wars in Africa? Understanding and Preventing Violent Conflict.” Journal of African Economies.9(3): 244-269.
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The Politics of Refugees and Migration

Adepoju, A. 1982. “The Dimensions of the Refugee Problem in Africa.” African Affairs.81(322): 21–35.
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Peace-making, Peace-building, and Reconciliation

Adebajo, A. 2002. Building Peace in West Africa; Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. Lynne Reiner.
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The Politics of International Development

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The Politics of Language, Knowledge and Education

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