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The politics of whiteness

  1. Introduction: The politics of whiteness in Africa
  2. Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Jacob Boersema
  3. pp. 651-661
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  1. Land, belonging and structural oblivion among contemporary white Kenyans
  2. Janet McIntosh
  3. pp. 662-681
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  1. A darker shade of white: Expat self-making in a Congolese rainforest enclave
  2. Thomas Hendriks
  3. pp. 683-700
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  1. Not all whites are farmers: Privilege, the politics of representation, and the urban–rural divide in Zimbabwe
  2. Rory Pilossof, Jacob Boersema
  3. pp. 702-719
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Security and conflict

  1. Simple soldiers?: Blurring the distinction between compulsion and commitment among Rwandan rebels in Eastern Congo
  2. Anna Hedlund
  3. pp. 720-737
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  1. Small arms and conflict among East African pastoralists: The Karamoja (in)security complex
  2. Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta
  3. pp. 739-757
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Mining gold and copper

  1. Governing access to gold in Ghana: In-depth geopolitics on mining concessions
  2. Sabine Luning, Robert J. Pijpers
  3. pp. 758-778
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  1. Mobilizing the past: Creuseurs, precarity and the colonizing structure in the Congo Copperbelt
  2. Timothy Makori
  3. pp. 780-804
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Missions and miracles

  1. Miraculous healing in rural Malawi: Between 'grace' and 'work'
  2. Daniel Wroe
  3. pp. 806-831
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  1. Charismatic discipleship: A Sufi woman and the divine mission of development in Senegal
  2. Joseph Hill
  3. pp. 832-851
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Reviews of books

  1. Gesture and Power: religion, nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo by Yolanda Covington-Ward (review)
  2. Ramon Sarró
  3. pp. 853-854
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  1. In Step with the Times: mapiko masquerades of Mozambique by Paolo Israel (review)
  2. Sidney Kasfir
  3. pp. 854-856
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  1. Authentically African: arts and the transnational politics of Congolese culture by Sarah Van Beurden (review)
  2. Enid Schildkrout
  3. pp. 856-857
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  1. Tropical Cowboys: westerns, violence, and masculinity in Kinshasa by Ch. Didier Gondola (review)
  2. Thomas Hendriks
  3. pp. 858-859
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  1. Nation as Grand Narrative: the Nigerian press and the politics of meaning by Wale Adebanwi (review)
  2. Stephanie Newell
  3. pp. 859-860
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  1. The Politics of Distinction: African elites from colonialism to liberation in a Namibian frontier town by Mattia Fumanti (review)
  2. Steven Van Wolputte
  3. pp. 860-862
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  1. The Unseen Things: women, secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria by Kathryn A. Rhine (review)
  2. Barbara M. Cooper
  3. pp. 862-863
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  1. Unsettled: denial and belonging among white Kenyans by Janet McIntosh (review)
  2. Seth Ouma
  3. pp. 863-865
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  1. The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300–1700 by Mohammed Hassen (review)
  2. Thomas Osmond
  3. pp. 865-866
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  1. Property and Political Order in Africa: land rights and the structure of politics by Catherine Boone (review)
  2. Luke Melchiorre
  3. pp. 867-868
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  1. National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: a historical ethnography of SWAPO's exile camps by Christian A. Williams (review)
  2. Heike Becker
  3. pp. 868-870
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  1. Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: transnational histories of race and urban space in Tanzania by Ned Bertz (review)
  2. Iqbal Akhtar
  3. pp. 870-871
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Obituary

  1. Elizabeth Dunstan: A tribute1
  2. Ayọ Bamgbosẹ
  3. pp. 872-873
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