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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Africa Today.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 46 (1999) through current issueLatest Articles: Africa TodayTWOProject MUSE®Africa Today1527-19780001-9887Latest articles in Africa Today. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Colonialism, Modernity, and African Agency: Does Decoloniality Still Make Sense?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979419
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If we give up too soon on decoloniality for lack of concrete results, we contravene Taiwo’s own principle, which urges Africans to pursue knowledge-making and theorizing for its own sake, not minding short-term payoffs.The term decolonization2 has gained much importance in academic discourses, so much so that it has acquired a life of its own as an academic subfield, one that has perhaps become the mainstay of the scholarship of many from the Global South, where people talk about decolonizing various academic disciplines and spheres of life: politics, economics, science, philosophy, literature, religion, medicine, and so forth. The ubiquity of decolonization discourses comes with an abuse—a situation where the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallColonialism, Modernity, and African Agency: Does Decoloniality Still Make Sense?2026-01-10text/htmlen-USColonialism, Modernity, and African Agency: Does Decoloniality Still Make Sense?2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®761422026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Rethinking the Dynamics of Political Crises in Francophone West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Niger
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979420
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If politicians, policymakers, and the international community viewed Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Niger as countries experiencing prolonged crises since their independence, they would design more effective and lasting security solutions.In Francophone West Africa, some policymakers, politicians, and scholars (Ahouanan 2019; Akindès 2011; Babo 2013; Dozon 2011; Hofnung 2011; Lecocq 2010; Miran-Guyon 2015; Villalón 2021) apprehend crises as temporary moments of instability. Such a perception has led local governments and foreign actors, in their regional analysis and intervention, to have focused on the dynamics of instability and its potential consequences while overlooking its historical background (SFA Report 2023).2
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallRethinking the Dynamics of Political Crises in Francophone West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Niger2026-01-10text/htmlen-USRethinking the Dynamics of Political Crises in Francophone West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Niger2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1138012026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Poetic Kaleidoscope: Portrayal of Judicial Corruption in Niyi Osundare’s “My Lord, Tell Me Where to Keep Your Bribe”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979421
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No Nigerian poet has tackled the issue of judicial corruption in poetry with as much unapologetic gusto and brazenness as Niyi Osundare has done in “My Lord, Tell Me Where to Keep Your Bribe.”Corruption subverts efforts aimed at achieving sustainable growth and development in most African countries. The situation is bad in Nigeria, where the institutions and structures put in place to checkmate graft are weak and ineffective, making corruption seem like a virus that has eaten deep into the marrow of every social sector and structure (Ojo et al. 2023, 1). This has made corruption an issue of daily discourse and deliberations. Most sectors of the Nigerian state are not only embroiled in but also affected by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallPoetic Kaleidoscope: Portrayal of Judicial Corruption in Niyi Osundare’s “My Lord, Tell Me Where to Keep Your Bribe”2026-01-10text/htmlen-USPoetic Kaleidoscope: Portrayal of Judicial Corruption in Niyi Osundare’s “My Lord, Tell Me Where to Keep Your Bribe”2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®967652026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10The Non/Performativity of Solidarity in Transnational LGBTIQ+ Activism: Possibilities and Tensions within Kenyan–Dutch Advocacy Spaces
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979422
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Would it be responsible to organize a public Pride event now? My answer is no. When the time is right, you know it is right. Of course, seeing all these people come out to celebrate in peace gives me hope that one day, this might be possible in Kenya.Efforts to safeguard LGBTIQ+ Africans who face violence and marginalization attract substantial attention in global health and development aid. Institutional actors, primarily Northern governments, international LGBTIQ+ nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and associated funding streams, have played a crucial role in establishing transnational LGBTIQ+ activism by partnering with domestic activist organizations to advance LGBTIQ+ rights across Africa (Currier 2010;
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallThe Non/Performativity of Solidarity in Transnational LGBTIQ+ Activism: Possibilities and Tensions within Kenyan–Dutch Advocacy Spaces2026-01-10text/htmlen-USThe Non/Performativity of Solidarity in Transnational LGBTIQ+ Activism: Possibilities and Tensions within Kenyan–Dutch Advocacy Spaces2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1233472026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Checkpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979423
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Border policies are failing because, all too often, checkpoint politics receives inadequate consideration in their formulation. The neglect of checkpoint politics remains the bane of border policies in much of Africa.In August 2019, Nigeria began enforcing the closure of its land borders. Reasons advanced for this action were to combat smuggling, human trafficking, illegal movements, arms proliferation, and infiltration, as well as other organized crimes that complicate Nigeria’s insecurity and similar challenges posed by immigration (Nwozor and Oshewolo 2020; Ogbonna et al. 2023; Roedl and Partner 2019; Signe and van der Ven 2019). Some of the affected borders are the entry and exit ports—Seme and Idiroko—in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallCheckpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy2026-01-10text/htmlen-USCheckpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1139952026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda by Tony Roberts and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979424
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Digital Disinformation in Africa is a timely and well-researched volume that explores the growing influence of digital disinformation on politics, society, and governance across the African continent. Through case-based analysis and a multidisciplinary approach, it highlights how disinformation shapes democracy, digital rights, and political narratives. Its contributors draw from multidisciplinary perspectives—especially political science, media studies, sociology, and technology—to explore the weaponization of social media, the intersection of activism and manipulation, and the broader sociopolitical implications of online disinformation.The book is organized into eleven thematic chapters, each addressing specific
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallDigital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda by Tony Roberts and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (review)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USDigital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda by Tony Roberts and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (review)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®79442026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979425
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Since the 1980s, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have pressured African countries to adopt structural-adjustment programs (SAPs) as prescriptions for economic growth and national stability. African studies scholars have written extensively on how SAPs stipulate indiscriminate policies of privatization, liberalization, and deregulation, which have negatively affected the political economies of these nations. Michael Degani’s The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania explores the social, political, and economic consequences of such reforms, focusing on the effects of privatization and liberalization policies on Tanzania’s energy sector. However, rather than being an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/19/image/coversmallThe City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USThe City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®67002026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10