The Journal of Global South Studies is a probing scholarly journal that examines development problems and issues as well as pioneering efforts in the developing world. It is an interdisciplinary journal that explores current and historic issues facing the Global South region of the world, including economic, political, social, military, and international relationships.

Vol. 40 No. 2 (2023): Fall 2023

Published: 2023-12-11

States, Migrants, and the Challenge of International Human Smuggling and Trafficking in the Horn of Africa

Assefaw Bariagaber

249-273

Abstract

Countering the smuggling and trafficking of persons from the Horn of Africa to Western Europe and preventing the ensuing violations of the human...

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Categorization of Foreign Aid Donors

A Critical Review of the Criteria in Light of China's Reemergence as a Donor

Ansoumane Douty Diakite, João Alexandre Lobo Marques

274-311

Abstract

Over the past several decades, the dichotomy between traditional and emerging donors has been based upon the notion that emerging donors (such...

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Quasi-Democracy and Autocracy as Governance Systems in Nigeria

An Examination

Nuhu Yaqub

312-357

Abstract

Both democracy and autocracy are forms of governance systems that have been operated by humankind in the course of organizing society. They...

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Littoral Piracy in Colonial Nigeria

The Lagos Lagoon in the Interwar Years

Ayodeji Olukoju

358-382

Abstract

The antiquity of piracy in Nigeria’s coastal waters has been traced to the precolonial period, especially the nineteenth century. However, the...

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Rethinking African Regionalism

Assessing How Regimes Use the African Union

Cliff (Ubba) Kodero

383-417

Abstract

This paper critically analyzes the African Union’s (AU) efforts toward continental integration, highlighting the gap between its rhetoric and...

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South America's Transnational Solidarity with Southern Africa

Chilean and Argentine Exiles as Cooperators in Mozambique, 1976-1986

Mario Ayala, Ricardo Pérez Haristoy

418-440

Abstract

After declaring the country’s independence from Portugal in June 1975, the Mozambique Liberation Front focused its efforts on building a modern...

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Book Review: Hack with a Grenade: An Editor’s Back Stories of SA News by Gasant Abarder

Mueni Wa Muiu

441-444

Abstract

Review of Abarder, Gasant. Hack with a Grenade: An Editor’s Back Stories of SA News. Cape Town, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council,...

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Book Review: A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa

Kwaku Nti

444-447

Abstract

Review of d’Avignon, Robyn. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in
Savannah West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke...

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Book Review: First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar by N.P. Devir

Jason R. Tatlock

199-202

Abstract

Devir, N. P. First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa: Between Law and Grace in Gabon and Madagascar. Leiden: Brill,...

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Book Review: Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville

Jeremy Rich

202-204

Abstract

Review of: Monaville, Pedro. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the
Congo. Durham, NC: Duke...

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Book Review: Making Institutions Work in South Africa by Daniel Plaatjies

Mueni wa Muiu

452-456

Abstract

Review of Plaatjies, Daniel (ed.). Making Institutions Work in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Human Research Council, 2021).

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Book Review: Doctoral Training and Higher Education in Africa by Christine Scherer and R. Sooryamoorthy

Doyin Coker-Kolo

456-459

Abstract

Review of: Scherer, Christine, and R. Sooryamoorthy. Doctoral Training and Higher Education in Africa. Milton Park, UK:...

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Book Review: Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands by Paul Barba

Evan C. Rothera

459-461

Abstract

Review of: Barba, Paul. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,...

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Book Review: Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru

Gorica Majstorovic

461-464

Abstract

Review of: Majluf, Natalia. Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021.

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Book Review: The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico by Jorell Meléndez Badillo

Johnathan Robles

216-218

Abstract

Review of: Meléndez Badillo, Jorell. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico....

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Book Review: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vincente L. Rafael

Okori Uneke

466-469

Abstract

Review of: Rafael, Vicente L. The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...

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Book Review: Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market by Meng Zhang

Juanjuan Peng

221-223

Abstract

Review of: Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

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Book Review: Iranian Proxy Groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: A Principal-Agent Comparative Analysis

Robert Snyder

223-226

Abstract

Review of: Zorri, Dianne, Houman Sadri, and David Ellis, Iranian Proxy Groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: A Principal-Agent Comparative...

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Book Review: The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War

Mao Lin

226-229

Abstract

Review of: Parrott, R. Joseph, and Mark Atwood Lawrence, eds. The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War. Cambridge,...

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