🆕 What are the cultural costs of development? Rachel King, Amanda Esterhuysen, and Dineo Skosana examine how mining, infrastructure, and renewable energy projects have driven burial disturbance and reburial in South Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 Why do women's land rights remain limited despite legal reforms? Millicent Awialie Akaateba and Agumah Sebastian Mbabugri examine how customary practices continue to shape women's access to land in Ghana despite statutory protections. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 What can Somali giving practices teach us about humanitarianism? Thabani Mutambasere argues that humanitarian action is shaped by relationships, obligations, and transnational networks as much as by formal institutions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How do migrants claim belonging in a border town? Wonder Juniper explores how community radio shapes the citizenship practices of Zimbabwean traders in Musina, South Africa, introducing the concept of "bordered voices." 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕Obadia Okinda Miroro explores how belonging, migration experiences, and social media shape crisis giving among Somalis in Nairobi. The study highlights the growing role of digital technologies in connecting people to crises and mobilising support. doi.org/10.1177/00020397261467770 #SpecialIssue

🆕 How did African academic publishing become so dependent on external actors? Kitchen and Mills trace the rise of an "extraverted" publishing economy shaped by donors, multinational publishers, and enduring inequalities in knowledge production. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261468822 @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How do weaker states navigate great-power competition? Vigne and Van Hoeymissen examine how the DRC balanced relations with China, the US, and the EU, showing how hedging can help preserve autonomy amid insecurity and geopolitical rivalry. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261466687 @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 Book Review: How did Transsion become Africa's leading mobile phone company? Rochat reviews Miao Lu's The Transsion Approach, highlighting how adaptation to local markets helped shape the firm's success across Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How do youth movements reshape democratic space? Han examines how marginalised youth in post-2011 Tunisia reclaimed streets and public spaces to challenge political exclusion and demand socio-economic justice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261462573 #specialissue @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 Introduction to the Special Issue: Giving in Somali Diaspora Humanitarianism in Africa Nauja Kleist and Mark Bradbury introduce research on Somali diaspora humanitarianism and crisis relief across Africa. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261460467 @giga-hamburg.de @naujakleist.bsky.social

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 ➡️ As part of our 60th anniversary campaign, we asked former Editors-in-Chief of Africa Spectrum to reflect on what makes the journal distinctive and important within African Studies. #AFR60yrs Thread 🧵

🆕 How is Africa positioned in British academia? Beidollahkhani argues that Africa's visibility as a site of research and policy engagement often coexists with the marginalisation of African epistemic authority, raising questions of epistemic justice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261457156

🆕 How does Islamic ethical thought shape socio-political life in Northern Nigeria? Fahm and Ibrahim show how Islamic ethical frameworks shape ideas of leadership, community resilience, and social repair amid governance, insecurity, and inequality. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261452691

🆕 Can women’s land ownership strengthen climate adaptation and food security? Wegenast, Hänze, and Haer show that joint land ownership in Tanzania improves food security and diet diversity among households facing extreme weather events. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261450226 @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How did Ghana frame diaspora engagement during the Year of Return? Kutor, Oklikah, Saaka, and Arku examine how Ghanaian media framed the initiative through tourism, investment, branding, and emotional connection with diaspora communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261448904 @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How is legitimacy negotiated in contested land governance systems? Awoh examines land governance in Kom and Bali, Cameroon, showing how traditional authorities use hybrid strategies to maintain legitimacy and mediate land conflicts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261446002 @giga-hamburg.de

🆕 How does prolonged displacement shape identity and belonging? Rudolf and Tufa examine the Amiche in Ethiopia, showing how protracted exclusion and displacement produced a distinct identity shaped by stable liminality and permanent in-betweenness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261446238

🆕 How do telecom companies shape humanitarian response in Somalia? Chonka examines how Somali telecom firms use CSR narratives around connectivity, empowerment, nationalism, and piety amid conflict and humanitarian crises. 🔗doi.org/10.1177/00020397261443322 #specialissue @giga-hamburg.de

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 ➡️ Co Editor-in-Chief Kendra Dupuy highlights an article showing how community-based conservation initiatives can create openings for marginalised individuals to claim recognition in rural Tanzania. #AFR60yrs Thread🧵

🆕 How do corporations and communities negotiate access on resource frontiers? Yang examines Chinese bauxite mining in Guinea, showing how corporate strategies and community repertoires interact to renegotiate access, compensation, and rights claims. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261443317

🆕How has France’s image shifted in Malian media? Zhuang analyses 822 Maliweb articles (2017–2024), showing how anti-French narratives gained prominence after the 2020 political rupture, reshaping public discourse and highlighting African media agency. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🆕 How do communities organise aid during crisis? Mohamed, @naujakleist.bsky.social, and Kanyinga examine how Somali WhatsApp groups function as spaces for coordinating drought relief, extending kinship-based support into digital humanitarian action. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 ➡️Co Editor-in-Chief @maxinerubin.com highlights an article that explores how religious symbolism can be mobilised to legitimise authoritarian rule, using the Gambian case to reveal broader political dynamics. #AFR60yrs Thread🧵

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 ➡️ Editor-in-Chief @marthacj.bsky.social (since 2023) highlights an article that stood out for offering a fresh perspective on #Africa’s global significance and challenging #Eurocentric assumptions in the study of languages. #AFR60yrs Thread🧵

🆕Can social media defend constitutionalism? Zvaita and Muringa explore how Zimbabwean citizens use X to contest presidential term extensions, revealing “performative constitutionalism” and fractures within ruling power. #OpenAccess 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/00020397261430358 CC: @giga-hamburg.de

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 ➡️ Former Editor-in-Chief @timglawion.bsky.social (2019–2023) highlights an article from his tenure that stood out for the engagement it generated and its contribution to ongoing debates on knowledge production in #Africanstudies. Thread🧵 @sagepub.com

🆕Zoubere Dialla examines the digitisation of cadastral procedures in #BurkinaFaso. The author demonstrates how technological solutions alone cannot address underlying structural issues or resolve conflicts arising from stakeholder strategies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002... @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

📚Planning to submit a book review to Africa Spectrum but still looking for the right title? 🔷Our latest Book Review Newsletter features a new curated list of recommended books from our in-house librarian @giga-hamburg.de. Read further 👇 CC: @sagepub.com @marthacj.bsky.social

Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉 Former Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Arriola (2019–2023) highlights three articles from his tenure that stood out to him for their conceptual clarity, empirical strength, and timely contributions to key debates in #Africanstudies. Thread 🧵 CC: @giga-hamburg.de

Join us this Monday 9 March at 3:30pm (UTC) for a Roundtable on „Sustainable #Publication Practices: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North“ at the University of Ghana & online. Zoom link via: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/public... @giga-hamburg.de @africaspectrum.bsky.social