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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