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AI is a tricky topic for scholars. It is worthwhile noting that Africa Spectrum's publisher, SAGE Publications, have a guide for how using AI to support your writing e.g. improving grammar, but warn against using generative AI (i.e. for content). See sagepub.com/about/policies…

The fight for justice for apartheid-era crimes continues in South Africa - for information about the court proceedings underway see unfinishedtrc.co.za/constitutional…

🆕edem adotey(Institute of African Studies, Univ. of Ghana) unravels two "contradictory" perspectives of the borderlands by historicizing bordering practices based on people's lived experiences at the Ghana-Togo border, arguing that these perspectives are complementary. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/000203…

📕Buyi Ntaka praises Abu Bakarr Bah and Nikolas Emmanuel's "International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire" as an insightful analysis of post-conflict reconstruction. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/000203…

Mingqing Yuan explores 'Feipiao'("Drifting in Africa"), Deng Changwu's autobiographical account of individual and transnational networks in Kenya, revealing how literary narrative can shape and challenge dominant discourse on China–Africa relations. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/000203…

I'm quite excited about this article! It's a little outside of the ordinary methods typically received at Africa Spectrum. Mingqing uses a literary studies approach to analyse the autobiography of Deng Changwu and what this reveals about narratives in China about Africa

If you work on higher ed and research collaboration with China, please consider contributing to this JCCA special issue and sharing your insights and reflections! Guest editors: Sigrun Abels, Tania Becker & Tingyu Song China Center Deadline: 02 May 2025

🆕Karen Lauterbach & Eugenia Ama Anderson explore Kumase's Jackson Park using archival data and interviews to trace its transformation from a colonial recreational space to a site of memory-making. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/000203…

🆕senyo.dotsey, James Boafo, & Kristen Lyons explore how international aid influences Ghana's agricultural policies & how technical and financial resources are deployed to drive market-based reforms- questioning their effectiveness for smallholder farmers 🔗doi.org/10.1177/000203…

At what point in one's career does "anecdotal evidence" constitute an credible source, as opposed to something a friend told you?

📕Awoyemi Adeniyi appraises Catherine Boone's Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design and commends its integration of spatial inequality into the broader discourse on political cleavages. ➡️Read the review here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…

📢🆕New issue of Africa Spectrum is out! Vol. 60(1) opens with articles tackling politics, decolonisation, climate justice, tech, land, migration, and memory-making across the continent. A thread 🧵

🆕Promise Frank Ejiofor critiques Eurocentric views of cultural racism by analysing ethnic racialisation in #Nigeria, highlighting how it extends beyond the black-white dichotomy, he calls for a new framework to study ethnic discrimination in #Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/000203…

🆕Drawing on two cases from Rwanda and Ghana, Matt Sabbi develops a framework to demonstrate the strategic ambiguity Global South states use to influence their international encounters, highlighting the power and limits of homegrown concepts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/000203…