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Volume 62, Number 2, Winter 2015Table of Contents

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View Digging for Survival and/or Justice?: The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana
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View “Exiled Life, or Home Away from Home?”: Exploring Ghanaian Orphan Narratives of Orphanage Placement
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View “Policing Is Not Work: It Is Stealing by Force”: Corrupt Policing and Related Abuses in Everyday Nigeria
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View Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change by Adam Branch, and Zachariah Mampilly (review)
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View Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’S Symbolic Nationalism by, Harcourt Fuller, and: The Road to Democracy in South Africa: African Solidarity ed. by Bridget Teron, and Gail Malcomson (review)
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View Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by, Emmanuel Gerard, and Bruce Kuklick (review)
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View Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future: Pursuing Nkrumah’s Vision of Pan-Africanism in an Era of Globalization ed. by, Charles Quist-Adade, and Vincent Dodoo (review)
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ISSN | 1527-1978 |
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Print ISSN | 0001-9887 |
Launched on MUSE | 2015-12-16 |
Open Access | No |