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Xinsong Wang broaches the question of African states’ agency in international relations. #Zimbabwe’s agency was shaped by Mugabe’s response to security threats. Yet due to the regime’s weak legitimacy, agency created more challenges for the regime itself. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Razafindrakoto, Roubaud & Wachsberger seek to explain #Madagascar's long recession by examining the unequal distribution of the benefits of growth: resulting from institutions that are shaped by elites. They ask who are the elites? How do they gain power? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Zolani Ngwane contrasts Nelson #Mandela’s qualified embrace of Xhosa tradition with the scepticism of his fellow nationalists. Mandela saw in tradition the seeds of democracy, traces of ‘accumulated suffering’, and the pleasure of celebrating difference. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mattes, Krönke & Mozaffar examine how African MPs from 17 countries reflect & differ from their societies. They find MPs representative in terms of ethnicity & religion but more likely to be educated, older, male & from professional or business backgrounds tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Annchen Bronkowski considers the first major exhibition of South African art overseas, in London in 1948: despite limitations it was a watershed moment for the politics of national art & representation & for getting SA artists onto an international stage. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Delius, Chewins & Forssman urge us to 'turn South African history upside down': rather than a tale starting at the Cape in 1652, they use archeological & multiarchival evidence to place SA in a 1000-year history reaching beyond the Limpopo & Indian Ocean. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

JSAS 50.3 includes a Part-Special Issue 'Circulations in Southern Africa & Beyond through Artistic Practice', bringing historical, artistic & curatorial voices to debates on immigration & xenophobia in South Africa & to the historiography on circulations. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

After many re-readings and re-writings it is still a great pleasure to read a physical copy of the Journal of Southern African Studies , which I contributed with “A Sonic biography of an After-Life. The expelled liberation leader Uria Simango in Mozambican rap” Open Access

Mhandara examines elite formation in Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), under Nelson Chamisa. He carefully uncovers processes that produced a parliamentary elite that is not representative of broader Zimbabwean society tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ana Balona de Oliveira offers an insightful account of the ways that the work of African visual artists contribute to debates on the historical and contemporary transnational circulations that have shaped the region tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Using 3 South African films, 'Land is in the Air', 'A Button Without a Hole', and 'Working the Land', Simon Gush explores the relationships and tensions between work, identity, and land dispossession tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, S Mtolo and M. Mtolo examine how foreign migrants experience (un)safety in a Johannesburg township. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Why do MPs cross the floor in African democracies? How do they justify their decisions to themselves and their supporters? What helps them to win re-election? In this article Sishuwa Sishuwa uses the case study of Zambia to shed light on these questions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new article, João Conduto, Boniface Dulani and Calum Fisher examine the People's Party in Malawi during Joyce Banda's term as the party's leader. They cast a light on the connected processes of party formation and fragmentation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this new paper, Nkhoma examines the complex interactions, practices and relationships that shaped the efforts of colonial officials to promote conservation and sustainably increase levels of peasants’ food production in Malawi from 1883 to 1961 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

JSAS co-editor Dennis Walder, a scholar of Athol Fugard's work, pays tribute to the South African playwright and opponent of apartheid who died recently.theconversation.com/athol-fugard-t…

Congratulations to JSAS Editorial Board member Siphokazi Magadla on being honoured for her book, Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle.

In this new paper, Sara E Fischer examines how bureaucrats in the Malawi Health Ministry use bureaucratic tools – policies, documents and processes – to resist the will of donors and maintain control over health projects and their implementation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article alert!!! In this new article, Gift Wasambo Kayira uses the protests against the 21-day COVID-19 lockdown to cast a light on democratic culture in Malawi tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Simon Gush in the Journal of Southern African Studies Journal of Southern African Studies A Visible Problem Read it online: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…