2023 Index, Volume 50
Volume 50 Number 175 March 2023
Issue Editor: Elisa Greco
CONTENTS
Editorial
1 Keeping eyes on Sudan – keeping eyes on austerity
Elisa Greco
Articles
9 Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan
Stefan Bakumenko
26 Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency
Gennaro Gervasio and Andrea Teti
49 Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana
Surulola Eke
71 He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia
James Musonda
Appreciation
90 Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)
Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Debate
96 The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?
Fana Gebresenbet and Yonas Tariku
Briefings
107 The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections
Martin Bekker
116 Africa’s unequal balance
Osama Diab
125 Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria
Luke A. Amadi, Fidelis Allen and Zainab L. Mai-Bornu
Review
138 Africa Development journal, vol. XLVII, issue no. 1
Ray Bush
On Roape.net
143 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley
Volume 50 Number 176 June 2023
Issue Editor: Bettina Engels
Editorial
147 Coups and neo-colonialism
Bettina Engels
Editorial notice
154 Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt
Articles
156 Restitution of looted artefacts: a politico-economic issue
Elias Aguigah
173 North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming
Max Ajl, Habib Ayeb and Ray Bush
197 From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg
Luke Sinwell, Trevor Ngwane and Terri Maggott
212 Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda
Luke Melchiorre
Debates
234 Evaluating the Pretoria Agreement: the limitations of presentist analysis of conflicts in Ethiopia
Jon Abbink
243 Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia: countering attempts to silence alternative voices
Fana Gebresenbet and Yonas Tariku
Briefings
251 Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia
Dhouha Djerbi
261 Surviving the Covid-19 lockdown: Zimbabwe’s informal sector, 2020–2021
Vincent Chenzi and Admire Ndamba
Review article
272 Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: a review article
Colin Darch
On Roape.net
290 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley
Volume 50 Numbers 177–178 September–December 2023
Special Issue: The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, solutions and resistance
Issue Editors: Janet Bujra, Chanda Mfula and Lee Wengraf
Editorial
295 The climate emergency in Africa
Lee Wengraf, Janet Bujra, Chanda Mfula, Elisa Greco and Ray Bush
Articles
302 Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa's hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis
Tobias Kalt, Jenny Simon, Johanna Tunn and Jesko Hennig
322 Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo
Ben Radley
340 Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia
Jason C. Mueller
355 Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania
Japhace Poncian and Rasmus Hundsbaek Pedersen
374 The political economy of the climate crisis in Southern Africa
Grasian Mkodzongi
388 Autonomous projects in the face of the global fishing market: women fish processors in Senegal in a context of climate emergency
Susana Moreno-Maestro
402 (Un)Just transition in power generation: neoliberal reforms and climate crisis in Sudan
Mohamed Salah and Razaz Basheir
421 Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal
Rocío Hiraldo and Steffen Böhm
439 Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique
Emilinah Namaganda
460 Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique
Ruy Llera Blanes
475 Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa
Peter Gardner, Olalekan Adekola, Tiago Carvalho and Thomas O'Brien
Briefing
491 South Africa's unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership
Alex Lenferna
Interview
502 An interview with Nnimmo Bassey: Business as usual and false solutions – ‘we must claim climate justice spaces for ourselves’
Nnimmo Bassey and Lee Wengraf
Book reviews
505 Nnimmo Bassey (ed.), Politics of turbulent waters: reflections on ecological, environmental and climate crises in Africa
Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka
509 Kola Ibrahim, Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime
Zachary J. Patterson
513 Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell (eds), Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region
Elia Apostolopoulou
On Roape.net
516 Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Ben Radley
520 Volume index
Author index, Volume 50, 2023
Abbink, Jon 234
Abou-El-Fadl, Reem 90
Adekola, Olalekan 475
Aguigah, Elias 156
Ajl, Max 173
Allen, Fidelis 125
Amadi, Luke A. 125
Apostolopoulou, Elia 513
Ayeb, Habib 173
Böhm, Steffen 421
Bakumenko, Stefan 9
Basheir, Razaz 402
Bassey, Nnimmo 502
Bekker, Martin 107
Blanes, Ruy Llera 460
Bujra, Janet 295
Bush, Ray 138, 173, 295
Carvalho, Tiago 475
Chenzi, Vincent 261
Chukwudinma, Chinedu 143, 290, 516
Darch, Colin 272
Diab, Osama 116
Djerbi, Dhouha 251
Eke, Surulola 49
Engels, Bettina 147
Gardner, Peter 475
Gebresenbet, Fana 96, 243
Gervasio, Gennaro 26
Greco, Elisa 1, 295
Hennig, Jesko 302
Hiraldo, Rocío 421
Kalt, Tobias 302
Lenferna, Alex 491
Maggott, Terri 197
Mai-Bornu, Zainab L. 125
Melchiorre, Luke 212
Mfula, Chanda 295
Mkodzongi, Grasian 374
Moreno-Maestro, Susana 388
Mueller, Jason C. 340
Musonda, James 71
Namaganda, Emilinah 439
Ndamba, Admire 261
Ngwane, Trevor 197
O'Brien, Thomas 475
Osuoka, Isaac ‘Asume’ 505
Patterson, Zachary J. 509
Pedersen, Rasmus Hundsbaek 355
Poncian, Japhace 355
Radley, Ben 143, 290, 322, 516
Salah, Mohamed 402
Simon, Jenny 302
Sinwell, Luke 197
Tariku, Yonas 96, 243
Teti, Andrea 26
Tunn, Johanna 302
Wengraf, Lee 295, 502
Zeilig, Leo 143, 290, 516