Jignesh
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MA Global Communication @unierfurt | Disinformation, media systems, MIL, comparative research | Editiorial Assistant @AfricaSpectrum| Formerly @Altnews
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📢Our last issue of 2023 is out!
It's a special issue titled 'Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa'. Guest edited by Bridges from Bamako.
Read the stimulating issue introduction here: doi.org/10.1177/000203….
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🆕Karol Czuba argues that #Uganda ’s regime extended to #Karamoja in order to subdue and exploit the region. Uneven state capacity is thereby used as a coherent strategy for control rather than a sign of an incongruent political system.
#OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…
🆕Uroš Kovač & Dorothea Schulz (@uni_muenster) examine how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to growing insecurity by drawing on long-standing #morality and the #Kenyan state. A wonderful read!
➡ #OpenAccess , here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…
🆕Ndubueze on how forgery during slave abolition in #Nigeria shaped gender relations. #AfricanHistory
As always, 🆓 #OpenAccess
🖱️doi.org/10.1177/000203…
Joe Schmidt
With an #anthropological lens, Jesper Bjarnesen explores the journey of #Africanyouth in #BurkinaFaso !
He delves into lives and dreams of this society's demographically dominant, socially & politically marginalised group with an extended case study.
🖱️doi.org/10.1177/000203…
'But mom, everyone ELSE has a smartphone!'
How to solve the collective action problem of middle school students begging for smartphones. Four simple norms, from my talk at The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.
Norm #1: only flip phones before high school
Thank you Team Alt News!
Pratik Sinha Pooja 🌈 (Ex) Priyanka Kinjal Smit Bhatt SamSays Nirjhari Sinha kalim (Ex) Mahaprajna. ମହାପ୍ରଜ୍ଞା Aqib Pathan Oishani Bhattacharya Jignesh (Ex), Arjun, Abhishek Shinjinee Majumder Indradeep Bhattacharyya Ronak and all the readers…
After almost ten years (w/ short intermezzos), today is my last day German Institute for Global and Area Studies .
As I leave, let me tell you if it is the right place for you, a 🧵:
giga-hamburg.de
Incredible news for Africa Spectrum !
Btw- academics writing about African studies should consider publishing in this fabulous journal, which is totally open access at no additional cost to authors! 😍 #AcademicTwitter #Africa #Africa nStudies
Humbled to serve as EIC as Africa Spectrum climbs to new heights. Beyond the impressive IF, I am so proud of:
- always #OpenAccess
- huge part of authors & readers in #Africa
- high quality review process
- amazing Team
journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
Thx German Institute for Global and Area Studies Sage Journals
😮Thank you!😮
Our journal Impact Factor is out for 2022! We are thrilled to announce that Africa Spectrum is now the #2 African Studies Journal!
This🥈is for you: authors, reviewers, readers, and friends of the journal.
journals.sagepub.com/home/afr 🧵
Congrats to Africa Spectrum and the editorial team! And all the excellent scholars who publish there 🎉
What a great first issue of the year Africa Spectrum !
💪All articles' first authors are African #AfricaExpertise !💡
Here are my favorite parts of these fascinating studies: a short 🧵
Thanks for reading. Follow Africa Spectrum for updates on research articles about sub-Saharan #Africa 's politics, societies, & development economics. We are a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal German Institute for Global and Area Studies published by @SAGEJournals.
5⃣ Maurice Beseng, Nancy Annan & Gordon Crawford analyze the root causes and historical origins of the conflict between the separatist forces and the #Cameroonian military in the country's Anglophone region.
🎯doi.org/10.1177/000203…
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