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Table of Contents

Special Issue

Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads: Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905847
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Articles

Fragments of Legitimacy: Symbolic Constructions of Political Leadership in Twenty-First-Century Mali

Souleymane Diallo, Dorothea E. Schulz
pp. 12-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905848
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From Militia to Army: Ganda Koy's Struggle for Political Legitimacy in Mali

Andrew Hernández
pp. 38-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905849
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"When a Father Speaks, the Child Cannot Answer Back": Patriarchal Anxiety, Gender Equality, and Malian State Authority

Bruce Whitehouse
pp. 54-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905850
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Coups d'État, Political Legitimacy, and Instability in Mali

Susanna D. Wing
pp. 74-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905851
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Book Reviews

Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies by Toyin Falola (review)

Bernard Nwosu
pp. 101-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905852
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Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria by Saheed Aderinto (review)

Odinaka Kingsley Eze
pp. 103-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905853
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Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith (review)

Chikezirim Nwoke
pp. 105-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905854
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Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fracturing of the Rainbow Nation by April Sizemore-Barber (review)

Susanna Sacks
pp. 108-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/at.2023.a905855
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