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From the Chair .............................................1Committees .....................................................2Nominations sought ..................................2From the Editor ...........................................3Treasurer’s Report ........................................4APCG @ ISA ...............................................4Calls for Papers .............................................5

News & Announcements .......................7Jobs, Grants, Educational Opportunities ................................................82010 Awards ...................................................10Recent Publications ....................................12Membership Dues for 2011 .................18

From the ChairDear APCG colleagues:

It was great to see so many of you at the recent African Studies Association conference in San Francisco. We had four very successful panels, and a well-attended business meeting. We also had a record turnout for our social event, with more than 40 people enjoying a delicious Indonesian dinner (apparently the wine was good, too!). Coming out of our discussions in San Francisco, there are several items to share with the full APCG membership:

• Officer transitions: At our business meeting on November 20, Peter Von Doepp concluded his two-year term as APCG chair and Richard Marcus finished his term as treasurer. After more than two years, Mamoudou Gazibo also stepped down as newsletter editor. We are deeply grateful to Peter, Richard, and Mamoudou for their dedicated service and their successful efforts in advancing the work of the APCG over the past two years.

• APSA proposal deadline: Paper and panel proposals for the 2011 APSA Annual Meeting in Seattle are due on December 15th. If you would like your proposal to be considered for inclusion on an APCG panel, log into

MyAPSA (www.apsanet.org), submit your proposal, and select APCG as a “Division or related group” choice. Our APSA committee will review the proposals after the deadline and put together the APCG panel(s).

• Two more networking opportunities: In addition to the APCG listserv, which has nearly 400 subscribers, we also have a google-groups discussion forum that allows members to be in touch with one another directly about upcoming conferences, research questions, and other issues of common concern. If you would like to join the forum, go to the APCG web-site (www.africanpoliticsgroup.org) and follow the link on the main page. Thanks to Jeff Paller, APCG now is on Facebook too! Search for “African Politics Conference Group” and “like” the page in order to get group postings and participate in online discussions.

• Future business meetings: In San Francisco, there was significant discussion about whether the APCG should move its main business meeting (at which we install new officers and give out annual awards) to the APSA instead of the ASA each year. There are pros and cons of this proposal, of course, and there are middle-ground alternatives (moving the

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Newsletter of theAfrican Politics Conference Group

ChairBeth Elise WhitakerUniversity of North Carolina at Charlottebwhitaker@uncc.edu

Vice ChairStaffan I. LindbergUniversity of Gothenberg / University of Floridasil@ufl.edu

SecretaryBruce MagnussonWhitman Collegemagnusba@whitman.edu

TreasurerCarl LeVanAmerican Universitylevan@american.edu

Newsletter EditorMichael NelsonWesleyan Universitymbnelson@wesleyan.edu

Website ManagerJeff PallerUniversity of Wisconsin, Madisonpaller@wisc.edu

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CommitteesBest Book 2010 AwardPierre Englebert (Chair) Pomona College

Gina LambrightGeorge Washington University

Harvey GlickmanHaverford College Best Article 2010 AwardAdrienne LeBas (Chair)American University

Philip RoesslerOxford University

Susan ThomsonHampshire College Best Graduate Student Paper 2010/2011 AwardDaniel Posner (Chair)UCLA/MIT

Lahra SmithGeorgetown University Amy PoteeteConcordia University Best Dissertation in 2009-2010 AwardMacartan Humphreys (Chair)Columbia University

Nicolas van de WalleCornell University

Leonardo ArriolaUC Berkeley

Nominations CommitteeMamoudou Gazibo University of Montreal

Ken Menkhaus Davidson College

Kim Yi DionneTexas A&M University

installation of officers but not the annual awards, for example). To be clear, regard-less of this discussion, we will continue to hold business meetings at both con-ferences. Before conducting a survey on this issue, as proposed at the meeting, we will use the APCG discussion forum and Facebook to solicit additional opinions and work toward some consensus.

• Research collaboration: Now that the APCG has established an extensive net-work among Africanist political scien-tists, my hope is that we can start using that network to raise the profile of our scholarship within the field of political science more broadly. To that end, I sug-gest that we consider developing some common research agendas and facili-tating collaborative research projects. In so doing, we could bring together APCG members with a wide range of expertise: qualitative and quantitative analysts, junior and senior scholars, spe-cialists on different countries throughout the region. In the short term, research collaboration may involve a conference

panel with papers all addressing a similar research question in different countries, for example. Down the road, it may lead to topic-focused working groups and even joint publications or edited vol-umes. I do not have any specific topics in mind at present, but would like to hear your thoughts about how to move in this direction. I will start discussion threads on the APCG forum and on Facebook to start exchanging strategies and ideas with respect to this initiative.

• 2011 dues: APCG dues are just $10 per calendar year (what a bargain!). Any dues paid now will be applied to 2011. Please use the membership form in this newsletter to pay your dues now. Consider using PayPal, which is surpris-ingly simple and makes life a lot easier for Carl!

Best wishes to you and yours during this holiday season!

Beth

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Nominations soughtThe Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee is seeking nominations for the 2011 award. Papers presented at the 2010 APSA, 2010 ASA, and 2011 ISA meetings are eligible. Please submit the paper along with the nomination to amypoteete@gmail.com. Also, please note that students cannot nominate papers. We will contact paper authors individually.

The African Politics Conference Group  (APCG) is pleased to invite nomina-tions for the inaugural APCG-Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for the Best

Dissertation in African Politics (2009-10).  The award carries a prize of $500 and is intended to recognize outstanding scholarship in African politics. Only one dis-sertation may be nominated per department.  Departments are requested to submit a letter of nomination and a copy of the dissertation to apcg.prize@gmail.com  by January 22, 2011.  Dissertations that were completed and accepted in the 2009 and 2010 calendar years are eligible for this award.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As many of you already know, Mamoudou Gazibo has decided to step down from the editor position after two years of fantastic service. Both he and Staffan Lindberg before him have done a wonderful job in shaping this newsletter and turning it into a valuable resource for all of us. I would like to take this brief opportunity to talk about the newsletter’s past, present, and future content and appearance.

In many respects the newsletter has not changed much since its inception. I believe it started as an web document, but by the 5th issue it was distributed as a PDF and by the 7th issue it was largely in the format that has persisted (with minor modification). Readers will notice right away that I have made significant changes to the look of our newsletter. The changes are meant to be more than just superficial. I hope that this is easier to read and navi-gate and I look forward to hearing your comments on these changes.

In the very first issue of this newsletter, Staffan noted that “at the heart of this newsletter...[are] the sections on recent publications of African politics and news from members.” I believe that this is still the case today. In terms of content, the most striking aberration occurred in the very first newsletter, the only one to feature a “Speaker’s Corner”. Its purpose was to provide “a virtual Hyde Park that encourages a dialogue on issues of inter-est to Africans and Africanists expressing views that are those of the author alone and not necessarily those of the Editor or the APCG.” Denis Venter, former direc-tor of the Africa Institute of South Africa wrote about NEPAD. In no other version of this newsletter have we provided space for public comment.

Perhaps the most significant addition to the current newsletter are the statements of the annual award committees. This was the result of a suggestion during our busi-ness meeting at the ASA. As one colleague suggested, there is a lot in these award statements that we and our students can learn about good scholarship. Our organi-zation continues to grow and it is possible that we may discover other purposes for this newsletter as well. I strongly encour-age all of you to contact me with any ideas you might have to that end.

This newsletter’s success requires a col-lective effort on the part of the member-ship. In my short time, I have already discovered that quite a bit of work goes into collecting the newsletter’s core infor-mation. Relying solely on member com-munication sometimes may yield as few as 5 or 6 references for our publication section. Because of this, past editors have alternated between relying on member submissions and conducting their own research regarding publications, news, and other relevant announcements. However, the best issues of this newsletter will always be those that include the greatest amount of member-generated content. So please continue to send me your news!

There are a number of rewards that accompany the editor’s task and chief among them is discovering what all of my colleagues are doing: planning confer-ences, writing fantastic articles and books, and discovering their professional paths. In preparing the current newsletter I have been impressed by the global scope of our fellow members’ activities and in how productive our researchers have been. I feel honored to be a witness to all of this.

Best,

Mike

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Committees & Other Officials

APSA CommitteeJeff Conroy-KrutzMichigan State University

Brandon KendhammerOhio University

Kate BaldwinPrinceton University/University of Florida

ISA CommitteeSteve BurgessUS Air War College

Aaron Hale

Jana Honke Freie Universität Berlin

ASA CommitteeLaura SeayMorehouse College

Ngonidzashe MunemoWilliams College

Fredline M’Cormack-HaleSeton Hall University

Representative to the MPSADominika KoterUniversity of Chicago

Representative to French AfricanistsNadia HorningMiddlebury Collge

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Join the APCG Discussion Forum!http://groups.google.com/group/discussionAPCGA public/open forum for APCG members. APCG members who sign up can communicate with each other in an open format. Want to advertise a new book, talk about an Africa-related issue, find a conference roommate, or get info on a research location -- you can do that here.

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APCG has two sponsored panels at ISA this year.

Crisis, Violence and Extremism in Africa and African Solutions

TA57: Thursday, 17 March 8:15 AM - 10:00 AMChair: John W. Harbeson, Johns Hopkins UniversityDiscussant: Bruce A. Magnusson, Whitman College

PapersBertin Kouadio, Wilson College, “The Ivorian Socio-Political Crisis in Comparative Perspective”Maja Bovcon, Oxford University, “Presidential Election in Côte d’Ivoire in 2010”Harvey Glickman, Haverford College, “Islamism in Black Africa: Three Cases”Monica L. Malbrough, Georgia State University, “Democratic Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Explaining Variations in Local Government Effectiveness”Helen Purkitt, US Naval Academy, “Environmental Security in Africa: Western and African Perspectives”

Beyond the State: New Dimensions of African Security Challenges

TB16: Thursday, 17 March 10:30 AM - 12:15 PMChair: Jessica R. Piombo, Naval Postgraduate SchoolDiscussant: Jessica R. Piombo, Naval Postgraduate School

Papers Kenneth J. Menkhaus, Davidson College, “Part of the Solution and Part of the Problem: State-Building, Stabilization, and Humanitarian Intervention in Threat Reduction Strategies in Africa”Sarah K. Lischer, Wake Forest University, “Forced Displacement in Africa: Challenges for Human Security and International Security”Robert H. Muggah, Small Arms Survey, “Rethinking Small Arms Control in Africa: Setting an Armed Violence Reduction Agenda”Terrence Lyons, George Mason University “Governance and Security: The Politics of Civil War Onset, Endurance, and Resolution”

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Treasurer’s ReportExpenditures to date for 2010: Web Site Support $102 Total: $102 Dues collected for 2010: $590 Balance as of November 18, 2010: $3004.61*

To date for 2010 we have 57 paying members.

Web cost: we budgeted $500 plus $150/year in maintenance. Actual cost was $102. This report excludes expected costs yet to be itemized and released for 2010 awards and associated reimbursements.

As of November 20, 2010 Carl LeVan, American University, will take over as Treasurer. In preparation the existing APCG account was vacated. A new EIN has been created with a Washington DC affiliation (27-3992943). It is hoped that this will resolve account-ing issues and ensure a permanent account smoothing the transition between Treasurers.

The paperwork has been put together for establishing 501c3 status (IRS Form 2023). Submission is pending the move of funds to the new account, the establishment of the new Treasurer, and ratification of the new bylaws. New status will take from 2 weeks to 6 months.

As the organization generates less than $5000/year it is expected to cost $200 for registering the organization ($50 to the state, $150 to the federal government). Once the new status is established the APCG will be a charitable organization. It will be exempt from pay-ing taxes on its proceeds and donors will be able to deduct contribu-tions from their tax returns.

Since a new account is not yet set up an extension to the transition time has been agreed upon by the steering committee (not to exceed 2 weeks).

We have created a mechanism for reconciling the members list (maintained by the chair) and the Treasurer’s list of paying members. We now have the capacity to alert those members to whether they have paid or not. We are working towards an automated on line mechanism.

If you have any questions, please just give me a call or email:

Richard R. MarcusAPCG Treasurer (outgoing)rmarcus@csulb.edu562-985-4714

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[Editor’s Note: I have listed these in order of submission due dates.]

Call for Papers: ‘The History of State Power and the Power of State Histories’ Workshop

Submission Deadline: December 20, 2010

9-10 May, 2011, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The African Studies and Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa,invites paper proposals for a day and a half work-shop on ‘The History of State Power and the Power of State Histories’, to be held in May 2011. Studies of the state have long figured in African studies scholarship,even if at times eclipsed by other concerns such as resistance, social forces or structures. More recently, the state has re-emerged with research focused on fragile states, fictional states, predatory states, states-in-society, states as development partners or state ownership, to name a few. At the heart of many of these perspectives we find questions of state power: how it is exercised; how it changes; what constitute challenges to state power; and what consti-tute state power successes. Representations of the state have their role to play in how a state defines itself, its origins and evolution, as well as its power—what comes to count as state history; who writes state history and who challenges it; what are state history’s roles and impacts? Our workshop centers on state power in Africa, its exercise and representations, as well as the interconnections between the power of states and state histories. We are interested in contributions that examine how the state and state actors constitute and exercise power, in work concerned with rep-resentations of the state, as well as in papers looking at the links between state power and state histories. Single or comparative case studies are welcome. The Laboratory—as an interdisciplinary forum—invites contribu-tions from all disciplinary perspectives. The workshop will be bilingual (English-French); proposals and papers may be deliv-ered in either language. Inquiries may be

made to the organizers: Marie-Eve Desrosiers (mdesros3@uOttawa.ca) and Eric Allina (eallinap@uottawa.ca) Those interested should send an abstract (maximum 500 words) outlining their pro-posed contribution, along with full contact and affiliation details, to Fernand Niyokindi (fniyo033@uottawa.ca). The workshop is opened to Canadian and international par-ticipants. Please note that the Laboratory has limited funds to help defray some costs associated with participation.The deadline for submitting proposals is 20 December 2010.

4th European Conference on African Studies from 15-18 June, 2011 in Uppsala, Sweden

Submission Deadline: December 22, 2010Website: http://www.nai.uu.se/ecas-4/con-ference-announcement/Conference Theme: African Engagements: On whose terms?

New York Political Science Association’s 65th Annual Conference

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010 The New York State Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Call for Papers and Participation for the 65th Annual Conference, April 8-9, 2011 at Niagara University (Lewiston NY). We invite paper, panel, and round-table submissions from academics, graduate students, undergraduates, journalists, and practitioners. The NYSPSA conference pro-vides an excellent venue for established and emerging scholars to share and discuss their work. We invite paper and panel submissions from individuals working in political science and associated disciplines such as history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, gender studies, and economics.Go to: www.nyspsa.org for more informa-tion and online submission of paper or roundtable proposals. We have twelve very active Sections cover-ing most of the discipline of Political Science (American Politics, Canadian Politics,

Comparative Politics, Gender, Race & Diversity, History & Politics, International Relations, Judicial Process & the Law, Law and Society, Political Theory, Public Policy & Public Administration, State and Local Politics, and Teaching and Learning) but actively seek papers and proposals from related disciplines like History, Economics, Business, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, Communications, to name just a few. The deadline for submissions is December 31st 2010 so please go to www.nyspsa.org soon and submit your online proposal.

‘Global health governance and African health systems: issues, actors, and outcomes’

Submissions due December 31, 2010University of EdinburghCentre of African Studies2011 International ConferenceMay 31, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr. Delanyo Dovlo, Department of Health Systems Governance, World Health OrganizationProfessor Nicoli Nattrass, Director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Rationale:Heightened attention to both Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pertaining to health as well as to specific African health crises underscores the importance of strength-ening state capacities and global health gov-ernance norms, as well as rethinking poli-cies. The relationship between capacities and norms, however, is under-theorized, despite its central importance to developing health policy.Although global health aid accounts for only 6.5% of total health expenditures for all of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this includes more than 30% of total health expenditures among the poorest SSA states, 40-60% of the Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan budgets, and ris-ing to as much as two-thirds of the national health budget of Mozambique. The recent proliferation of health funding initiatives has

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6underscored the importance of the calls in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action to strengthen country ownership, defined as the exercise of effective leadership over policy development, strategy and coordination. The 2007 International Health Partnership sim-ilarly aims to improve ownership through increasing donor coordination in the context of “country compacts” but their net effects upon national capacity are unclear, particu-larly when donor accountability is absent. This conference therefore will explore the transnational and domestic African contexts and empirical reality of governance, owner-ship and coordination, as well as questions regarding the process by which health gover-nance norms are developed and change over time. It will address such questions as: Is there a necessary trade-off between ownership and outcomes? How can funding incentives be aligned with improving health systems’ capacity, country ownership, and funding pre-dictability? What reforms are needed for the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank (WB) to better realize these goals? Does the inclusion of non-state actors improve government or donor accountability? Do current funding and treatment regimes inculcate dependency at the individual or national level? What forms of agency can and do African actors - policy makers, profession-als, and civil society members - exercise? Papers for presentation may entail case stud-ies of specific African countries (alone or in comparison), of state-international organiza-tion relations, or of alternative proposals for funding, ownership, and coordination. Please send abstract submissions of up to 300 words as well as a brief academic bio of 50 to 100 words to the organiser, Andrew Lawrence at Andrew.Lawrence@ed.ac.ukby December 31st 2010.-------------------------------------------Andrew LawrenceUniversity of EdinburghEdinburgh

Call for Papers for African Scholars on Environmental Security

Submission Deadline: Midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, January 1, 2011Website: http://cshendrix.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/ccaps-call-for-papers.pdf

“Mission and Topic: The goal of the Call for Papers is to publish a number of working papers on the links between climate change and security in Africa. The Call for Papers seeks to foster innovative African scholar-ship on these issues and foster a conversa-tion between academics, practitioners, and policymakers in Africa, the United States, and the international community. Given its physical exposure and the immense challeng-es of adaptation, Africa is widely understood to be one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change. These effects are not likely to be uniformly distributed, nor are the potential consequences clearly understood. This Call for Papers seeks contributions that further global understanding of the likely location of vulnerabilities in Africa, the potential impacts of climate change on Africa’s political stability or security, and/or strategies for addressing these challenges. The Call for Papers is open to submissions from all disciplines. The paper can have a continental focus, a regional focus, a country focus, a local sub-national focus, or a mix of these. The review committee prefers submis-sions that will be supported by case study research.” The call for papers is open exclusively to scholars from and based in Africa, with the intent of supporting African scholarship on these issues and engaging African stakehold-ers more in the CCAPS (Climate Change and African Political Stability) program. This will be an annual initiative, with a differ-ent topic each year. The first through third prizes include publication of the paper under the auspices of CCAPS, as well as research awards (up to $5,000) and $3,000 for travel to an international conference. The CCAPS team is very pleased to have the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Institute for Security Studies as co-sponsors.

Africa Media & Democracy ConferenceSubmission Deadline: April 22, 2011Website: http://www.amdmc.org/CALL FOR PAPERS AFRICA MEDIA & DEMOCRACY CONFERENCE – ACCRA 2011. The Africa Media & Democracy Institute invites papers for its annual Media and Democracy Conference, (AMDMC) to be held from 17th-19th August 2011, Accra-Ghana. Theme: Media & Democracy towards sustainable stability. The AMDMC Conference is organised annu-ally and takes place in a selected African country; presentations at the conference are made by distinguished scholars and individu-als from Africa and the rest of the world. The theme for the Accra Conference 2011 is ‘Media & Democracy towards sustainable stability’. The Conference aims to examine the broad impact of the media on democracy. BACKGROUND: Africa’s emerging democ-racies in the last two decades have had to co-exist with a vibrant media contestation. The media has relatively emerged as a for-midable constituent as it vie for legitimacy in representing the broad masses. This con-testation provides the framework for criti-cal examination on how the media impacts on the democratic process. The Conference therefore aims to address and examine various issues of media in the practise of democratic governance in Africa. The event is open to academics, media industry professionals, gov-ernment agencies, policymakers, regulators, UN agencies, donors, civil society organisa-tions, independent consultants and research groups and students. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: ABSTRACTS & PAPERS: Please email abstracts (maximum one page) along with contact information and a 500-word bio to: info@amdmc.org. All Abstracts must be in English, full papers may be submit-ted in either English or French. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 22nd April 2011 Notice of acceptance of abstracts: 22nd May 2011 Deadline for receipt of full papers: 22nd June 2011 Notification of Acceptance of Paper/Panel/Workshop: 30th July 2011 For further information and other enquiries please contact Conference Team. ENQUIRIES HOTLINE 24HRS: MOBILE: + 233 0200723197 or visit www.amdmc.org ONLY PAPERS DELIVERED AT THE CONFERENCE WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE AFRICA MEDIA & DEMOCRACY JOURNAL.

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News & AnnouncementsAPSA: Successful APCG PanelsAs chair of one of the two APCG-sponsored panels at ASA this year, I would like to thank the other panel members for their fine papers. Our papers blended together very well on the theme of restrictions being placed on civil society by African regimes today and how people have in the past and can today resist such challenges. The other panel members included: Jeanne Elone, PhD can-didate, Johns Hopkins University; Warigia Bowman, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi; and Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor, American University.Bob Press, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Southern Mississippi

ASA - India & APCGAPCG extends its thanks to Professor Aparajita Biswas of the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, who joined us at our business meeting in San Francisco. As she indicated, the African Studies Association of India is seeking to increase its connections with Africanist scholars in North America. We have linked their web-site, www.africanstudies.in, to our own. We also hope some of our members will take the opportunity to submit and review publica-tions for their two journals, Africa Review and Insight on Africa Those seeking more details should write to Professor Biswas at aparajitab@hotmail.com, or Professor Ajay Dubai at akdubey@hotmail.com.

The Wars of the Democratic Republic of Congo Human Survival and Social Change Amidst DevastationJohn F. Clark (Florida International University) invites fellow APCG members to attend a conference he is hosting on the DRC on March 24-25, 2011.Location: GL 220, Modesto Maidique Campus, Florida International University

This conference will address the social crises wrought by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s wars, which have raged in the country continuously since 1996. From 1996 to 2010, the DRC wars have involved

the intervention of several neighboring states, the emergence of rebel armies that have sought to seize control of resources and of the state, and the advent of local militias cre-ated for both predation and protection. The social costs have been devastating. The con-flicts have caused more deaths—estimates range to over 5 million—than any violent conflict since World War II. Meanwhile, the wars have shredded the social and political fabric of the eastern region, and have had overwhelmingly destructive impacts on the entire country. Social and environmental devastation have led to the emergence of new forms of spirituality, new techniques for sur-vival amidst chaos, and new patterns of state-society relations. The papers presented at this conference shed light on the social and political transformations that have accompa-nied the long years of war in the DRC.

Book Reviews and Reviewers for the African Studies Review

From Catharine Newbury (Smith College) to APCG members:

After four years as book review coeditors for the African Studies Review, in spring 2010 David Newbury and I handed over book review responsibilities to a new editor. The new book review editor is John Lemly, Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College (asr-book@mtholyoke.edu). David and I would like to thank the APCG mem-bers who kindly agreed to write book reviews during our term as book review editors. We appreciate your giving the time and thought to this important (if often unrecognized) service to Africanist scholarship.

If you would like to serve as a book reviewer for ASR in the future, please visit the ASR website and record there your willingness to review books; you will find a check list where you may indicate your discipline, the region/s of Africa in which you are inter-ested, and the themes or topics on which you work. It takes less than five minutes to enter the information. Here is the link: http://www.umass.edu/anthro/asr/bookre-views.html.

Of course, if you have already entered your interests at the ASR website there is no need to do so again. However, I encourage every-one who hasn’t visited the website to go there and describe their expertise (even those who have served as a reviewer in the past). This will insure that the ASR reviewer database, and thus also the new book review editor, will have accurate information about your contact information and the types of books you are interested in reviewing.

And when you publish a new book, please ask your publisher to send a review copy to the ASR:Book Review Editor African Studies Review Mount Holyoke College 50 College Street South Hadley MA 01075

Individual Member News

Jérôme Bachelard successfully defend-ed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva in September 2010. The disser-tation is entitled: Governance reform in Africa: International and Domestic Pressures and Counter-Pressures. He is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Development Strategies, Columbia University, until August 2011, and will then pursue a career in academia.

John Harbeson (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University) notes that the new executive director of ASA, Karen Jenkins, is very interested in strengthening ASA’s presence in the DC area. To that end, she is encour-aging some special policy-centric panels and roundtables. John has put together a DC-area email network for this purpose. He encourages any interested DC area APCG-ers to contact him (Jwharbeson@aol.com) so that he can add them to the list. Ideas for panels and roundtables are also welcome.

Ken Menkhaus (Davidson College) begins a four year term on the Board of the Journal of Modern African Studies in January.

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Rift Valley InstituteEach summer, the Rift Valley Institute offers three one week intensive field courses -- on Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes. These course bring together a dozen top regional experts and 40 course participants, most of whom are mid-career professionals in foreign service, development, the UN, the media, academia, think tanks, and the military. APCG member Ken Menkhaus serves as director of studies for the Horn of Africa course (offered in early June in Lamu, Kenya) and is happy to field any ques-tions you may have about these programs. The courses are an excellent immersion

experience for graduate students or fac-ulty looking to broaden or update their regional expertise. Exact dates of the 2011 courses will be announced soon. For more information, see the RVI website at http://www.riftvalley.net/ .

Study Africa at EdinburghGraduate School of Social and Political Science

The University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies (CAS) - now approaching its fiftieth anniversary - brings together vibrant, cutting edge postgraduate teach-ing, supervision and research on Africa,

drawing upon expertise from all three of the University’s colleges. It also supports cultural activities, works closely govern-ment and local NGOs, and forges closer relationships among Scotland, Africa, and the global Africanist community. Two alumni featured in a recent ‘top 50 influ-ential Scots’ newspaper feature, and many others have pursued successful academic, non-profit and government careers.

MSc in African StudiesThe MSc in African Studies provides stu-dents with an in-depth interdisciplinary knowledge of Africa. It can be taken on a full-time (one year) or part-time (two year) basis. Its students gain critical skills

He recently published “The Question of Ethnicity in Somali Studies: The Case of Somali Bantu Identity” in the edited volume  Milk and Peace, Drought and War: Somali Culture, Society, and Politics;  “Stabilisation and Humanitarian Access in a Collapsed State: The Somali Case” in the journal Disasters; “State Failure and Ungoverned Space” in the edited volume Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives; and “Non-State Actors and the Role of Violence in Stateless Somalia”  in the edit-ed volume Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics.

Amy R. Poteete (Concordia University) has received a three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a research project entitled “Electoral Competition, Natural Resource Policy, and Political Development in Africa.” The project will examine the relationship between the competitiveness of elections and natural resource policies in Botswana, Tanzania, and Senegal. I am particularly interested in whether the rela-tionship between electoral competition and policy changes with (1) the scale of electoral competition (localized or generalized) and

(2) changes in the competitiveness of elec-tions over time.The Dudley Seers award for the best article published in the Journal of Development Studies during 2009 (volume 45) has been awarded to Amy R. Poteete for her article “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana,” Journal of Development Studies 45, no. 4 (April): 544 – 571.

Michael Schatzberg has recently pub-lished  “Les complexités de la ‘démocratie’: la Fédération ougandaise de football en tant que ‘polity,’” Politique africaine, no. 118 (juin 2010), 123-141.  An English language version of this paper, although not a precise translation, was picked up by the web site of playthegame.org: http://www.playthegame.org/knowledge-bank/articles/the-complexities-of-democracy-the-ugan-dan-football-association-as-polity-4861.html.  He also has written “Ethnography and Causality: Sorcery and Popular Culture in the Congo,” in Edward Schatz, ed., Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,  2009), 183-200.

Theodore M. Vestal’s book The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of Americans’ Attitudes toward Africa will be released in 2011 by ABC CLIO.

Beth Whitaker was a 2010 finalist for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence at UNC Charlotte, the univer-sity’s  most prestigious faculty-wide award. She was delighted to be nominated by her students and to be a finalist in her first year of eligibility. Coincidentally, in the semester she was honored for her teaching, Beth was on research leave from UNC Charlotte working on a book about the politics of immigration in Africa.

Susanna Wing’s book, Constructing Democracy in Africa: Mali in Transition (Palgrave Macmillan) comes out in paper-back this month (December 2010).

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necessary to analyse and interpret Africa in a global context, and evaluate contempo-rary debates. Its core course, The Political Economy of Modern Africa, is taught by the Centre’s Director, Professor Paul Nugent; expanded course options cover an array of regions, themes, and culture.Scholarships and funding sources for U.S. applicants include:• Scotland’s Saltire Scholarships at the

University of Edinburgh (www.scholar-ships.ed.ac.uk/scotlandscholarship.htm)

• Marshall Scholarships (www.scholar-ships.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/internet/marshall.htm)

• US Student Loans (http://www.scholar-ships.ed.ac.uk/usloans)

• Edinburgh Global Master’s Scholarships (www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-funding/postgraduate/interna-tional/masters)

Centre of African Studies: www.cas.ed.ac.uk Postgraduate advisor: andrew.lawrence@ed.ac.uk

Job DatabaseDaniel Esser (SIS, American University) has created a useful resource for job-seekers: http://danielesser.org/jobs/

University of Massachusetts Amherst (tenure track)From Fred Schaffer:The Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (http://polsci.umass.edu/) seeks to fill a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Global Politics or US Foreign Policy to start in September 2011. The Department welcomes applications from all subfields of political science as well as from related disciplines.

Successful candidates must have the Ph.D. in hand by September 2011 and will teach courses in the Department’s graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as two courses a year (of four courses total) open to advanced undergraduate honors students campus-wide. Salary and credit towards tenure will be commensurate with qualifica-

tions and experience.

We are interested in candidates who spe-cialize in questions of global politics or US foreign relations and who link systemic- and actor-level analyses. Geographic and methodological specializations are open, but the successful candidate will be able to engage in substantive debates that cross sub-field and methodological lines. Within the theme of Global Politics, we are particularly interested in questions of human security, national security, international political economy, human flows within and across borders, the environment, transitional jus-tice, international law, human rights, and inter-cultural flows and exchanges. Within the theme of US foreign policy, we are particularly interested in the ways in which foreign policies adopted by the governments of leading countries like the USA affect and elicit responses not only from governments of other countries but also from a host of non-governmental actors including popular-based political movements, ethnic diasporas, business firms, scientific and professional associations, and intergovernmental organi-zations. Both themes emphasize the ways in which domestic and international politics interact, and candidates may focus on his-torical as well as contemporary cases.

This search continues the department’s efforts to hire scholars whose work spans traditional fields of political science and deals with one or more of these thematic emphases: a) global forces (economic, reli-gious, and demographic changes; social movements; other globalizing forces that redefine national identity or redistribute political and economic power); b) gover-nance and institutions (the origins or conse-quences of political institutions or process-es, including public policy and administra-tion; the role of networks, information and communication technologies; the interplay of structure and action; institutional effec-tiveness; American, comparative or global political development); and c) democracy, participation and citizenship (democratic institutions and practices; political par-ticipation; migration; citizenship; conflicts between political ideals and social inequali-

ties; variations in the meanings of demo-cratic practice).

The deadline for applications is 10 January 2011 and will continue until the position is filled.  The department strongly prefers that applicants submit their cover letter, curricu-lum vitae, and writing samples in electronic form through the Academic Jobs Online website at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo and arrange for electronic transmis-sion of three letters of recommendation to the same site. Alternatively, printed versions of the application materials can be sent to Tracy Tudryn, Dean’s Assistant, Dean’s Office, 230 Draper Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Inquiries about the position may be direct-ed to positions@polsci.umass.edu. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. It and the Department are strongly committed to increasing the diver-sity of faculty, students, and curriculum, and encourage applications from women, minorities, and LGBT candidates.

Searches at American UniversityFrom Carl LeVan

Dean, School of International Servicehttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#SISDean

International Relations - Economics - Multi-year Non-Tenure Track, Faculty-in-Residencehttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#ECON-IER

International Relations - International Communication, Tenure-Track, Assistant Professorhttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#IRIC

International Relations - International Development (Global Public Health), Tenure-Track Assistant Professorhttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#GPH

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The steering committee would like to thank the award committees for their ser-vice this past year:Best Book Award: Elliott Green, Omar McDoom, and Susanna WingBest Article Award: Richard Marcus, Rachel Ellett, and Tyson RobertsBest Graduate Student Paper Award: Kevin Fridy, Tim Longman, and Laura Seay

APCG Best Book Award Statement 2010

This year the Committee received 34 nominations, more than the previous year, from a total of sixteen different presses. A large number of books were of a very high quality, making our decision difficult. As in previous years, we used the follow-ing criteria as benchmarks in making our decision: Originality of research, evidence of exhaustive investigation, a compelling argument based on extensive data collec-tion and analysis using rigorous qualita-tive, quantitative or mixed methodology, that makes the argument important in revisiting existing theory or unexamined assumptions possibly opening up a previ-ously underexplored but fundamentally important area for subsequent research. Finally, we also looked for evidence that the book not only engages but also con-tributes to the broader, non-Africanist literature in comparative politics.

Out of the 34 books 15 made it into a sec-ond round and six were chosen as exempla-ry, namely Pierre Englebert’s Africa: Unity, Sovereignty and Sorrow (Lynne Rienner); Lee Ann Fujii’s Killing Neighbours: Webs of Violence in Rwanda (Cornell University Press); James Habyarimana, Marcatan Humphreys, Daniel Posner and Jeremy Weinstein, Coethnicity: Diversity and Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage); Ato Onoma, The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (Cambridge University Press); Jessica Piombo, Institutions, Ethnicity and Political Mobilization in South Africa (Palgrave); and Peter VonDoepp, Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner). The prize committee chose to make two awards. An honorary mention goes to Ato Onoma, The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa. The book is a pro-found contribution to the literature on property rights and development, which has long demonstrated the need for strong property rights but has generally failed to identify where and why such rights evolve internally, except to posit a positive rela-tionship between land scarcity and private property rights. Onoma not only ques-tions this relationship but develops a new theory of dynamic property rights institu-tions in the African context. He argues that property rights are strengthened or weakened in accordance with their use by political elites who may in fact see ben-

2010 Awards

2010 AwardsBest Book AwardPierre Englebert, Africa: Unity, Sov-ereignty, and Sorrow (Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Best Book - Honorable MentionAto Onoma, The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (Cam-bridge University Press)

Best Article AwardLeo Arriola, “Patronage and Political Stability in Africa,” Comparative Po-litical Studies, October 2009, 42 (10).

Best Graduate Student Paper AwardKim Yi Dionne, “Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS” (2009 APSA Annual Meeting)

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More positions at American University...

International Relations - Global Environmental Politics(Food Security), Tenure-Track Assistant Professorhttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#GPHGE

International Relations - International Organizations (Global Governance), Tenure-Track Assistant Professorhttp://www.american.edu/hr/Ft-Faculty.cfm#IOGG

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efits from maintaining weak property rights institutions. Onoma’s argument is based on extensive fieldwork in Botswana, Ghana and Kenya. Onoma utilizes a variety of data from his three cases to demonstrate the valid-ity of his argument, including local news-papers, interviews, secondary literature and archival material. Moreover, the diversity in outcomes among his three cases strongly demonstrate the value in “exploit[ing] het-erogeneity in causal analyses of the political economy of Africa” (p. 13), a lesson that has much broader application than the book’s subject. The African Politics Conference Group’s 2010 Best Book Award, for the best book on African politics published in 2009, goes to Pierre Englebert’s Africa: Unity, Sovereignty and Sorrow (Lynne Rienner). Englebert starts by asking a very important question, namely why Africa has had so few examples of secession compared to other parts of the world in the post-colonial period, and finds an original answer in the concept of “legal command” granted to African states through the norms of international sovereignty. He claims that previous theories of Africa’s “secessionist deficit” have focussed too much on the OAU, territorial nationalism, ethnic-ity and other factors and not enough on how international norms of sovereignty have been translated into a form of domestic “cur-rency” which disincentives secession across the continent. Methodologically the book is a rare example of a study that manages to combine quali-tative and quantitative methodologies in a seamless way. Englebert uses regression analysis in Chapter 2 to demonstrate Africa’s statistically significant secessionist deficit, both through the use of country-year panel data and Minorities at Risk data on ethnic group involvement in civil conflict. His quantitative results are both robust and striking. In subsequent chapters, however, Englebert largely employs qualitative analysis to investigate the causal mechanisms behind Africa’s secessionist deficit, thereby utiliz-ing the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to their upmost. Moreover, Englebert’s qualitative methodol-

ogy is in large part based on his field work in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia. The book expertly uti-lizes this field work to show that Englebert’s concept of legal command is truly cross-national in its importance, not only across different parts of the continent but also across the Francophone-Anglophone divide. Indeed, the book is notable for the way in which it uses copious amounts of secondary literature in both English and French from a variety of authors and disciplines. In another example of methodological sophistication Englebert not only discusses African states where legal command has hin-dered secession but, in the case of the Horn of Africa, where it has not. In particular Englebert makes a convincing argument that such states as Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan are exceptional within Africa in the way certain dominant ethnic groups “own” the state, thereby making it impossible for other minority groups to gain access to legal com-mand and leading them instead to pursue secession as a viable option. Finally, Englebert’s book concludes with a variety of policy suggestions that follow from his academic analysis. These suggestions are controversial and include the western “dele-gitimization” of African states such that more of them might function like Somaliland and exist on the basis of their own internal legiti-macy. His attempt to make his scholarship useful for policy makers and his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom is both notable and praiseworthy. The Best Book committee warmly con-gratulates Pierre Englebert as it confers on his book the African Politics Conference Group’s award for the best book on African politics published in 2009.

Best Article Award

The 2010 Best Article Award Committee included Richard Marcus (Chair), Tyson Roberts, and Rachel Ellett. The commit-tee received a number of nominations. In

addition, the committee identified articles on topics related to African Politics from 20 Africa Area Studies and Political Science journals. The breadth of outstanding work being done in this field made the selection process a challenge.

The award winner was Leonardo Arriola for his article “Patronage and Political Stability in Africa.” Comparative Political Studies vol. 42, no. 10 (2009): 1339-1362. Using a novel and sophisticated methodological approach, this article realigns existing litera-ture on the relationship between patronage and regime stability.  The author is convinc-ing in his argument that intra-elite accom-modation can generate greater stability in a regime. The committee was also convinced by Arriola’s claim that the implications of this model/findings are important beyond Africa. It is methodologically innovative and conceptually moves the discipline forward.  There were three other “finalists” for this award. Catherine Boone’s “Electoral Populism Where Property Rights Are Weak: Land Politics in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa” (Comparative Politics, January 2009, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p183-201, 19p) is an art-ful case study on one specific aspect of the constitutional order - property rights. Boone is able to move beyond ubiquitous and over-generalized statements about the negative effects of weak rule of law that pepper the literature on the African state. Anne Pitcher, Mary H. Moran, and Michael Johnston’s “Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa”  (African Studies Review, April 2009, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p125-156, 32p) successfully unsettle the problematic conceptualization of neopatri-monialism so common to our field. 

Michael J. Williams’  “Legislating ‘Tradition’ in South Africa” (Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol.35, No.1, March 2009) unpacks the story behind a single piece of legislation offering an effective and innovative approach to case study analysis tackling broader ques-tions about the relationship between  tradi-tional authorities, the state, and civil society. 

The Committee congratulates Leo and all of

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Recent PublicationsBooksAdebajo, Adekeye. 2010. UN Peacekeeping

in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Alexander, Christopher. Tunisia: Stability and reform in the modern Maghreb. (London: Routledge, 2010).

Andreasson, Stefan. 2010. Africa’s Development Impasse: Towards a politi-cal economy of transformations. London: Zed Books.

Barume, Albert K. 2010. Land Rights of Indigenous People in Africa: With special focus on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. Copenhagen, IGWIA.

Beckman, Bjorn, Buhlungu, Sakhela and Sachikonye, Lloyd. 2010. Trade Unions and Party Politics: Labour movements in Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Bieri, Fanziska. 2010. From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process: How NGOs Cleaned Up the Global Diamond Industry. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Carmody, Pádraig. 2010. Globalization in Africa: Recolonization or Renaissance? Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Cockett, Richard. 2010. Sudan: Darfur and the failure of an African state. (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press).

Crilly, Rob. 2010. Saving Darfur: Everyone’s favourite African war. London: Reportage.

Deng, F. Frontiers of Unity: An experiment in Afro-Arab co-operation. (London: Routledge, 2010).

Foley, Ellen E. Your Pocket Is What Cures You: The politics of health in Senegal.

(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010).

Foster, Noel. 2010. Mauritania: The Struggle for Democracy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Fourie, Pieter and Melissa Meyer. 2010. The Politics of AIDS Denialism: South Africa’s Failure to Respond. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Hounnikpo, Mathurin C. Guarding the Guardians: Civil–military relations and democratic governance in Africa. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).

Lambright, Gina M.S. 2010. Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2010. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press.

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the finalists and, most importantly thanks all of the contributors for their scholarship, making this a fun yet intellectually chal-lenging effort. It gave us an opportunity to debate amongst ourselves the fundamentals of what makes a case study work, what we learn from cross-national studies, and what we get out of both new and mainstay meth-odological approaches.

Statement on the Best Graduate Student Paper in 2009/2010 Award

After soliciting for nominations in February for graduate papers that make a contribution to the study of African politics, demonstrate originality in their research and data, have effective arguments, and are well situated in the scholarly literature the committee received several nominations for high quality papers from APCG members. The submis-sions ranged in quality from great to excel-

lent so our task was a difficult one. After reviewing the submissions and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each with Tim Longman and Laura Seay, the committee decided that Kim Yi Dionne’s paper present-ed at the 2009 American Political Science Association annual meeting and titled “Local Demand for a Global Intervention: Policy Priorities in the Time of AIDS” was the most deserving of APCG recognition. The topic of Dr. Dionne’s paper is the local demand for a beefed up response to the AIDS epidemic. It is a section of her dissertation which was chaired by Dan Posner and completed at UCLA. Dr. Dionne’s paper is theoretically interesting, methodologically sound, and important in the real world sense. Many in the West and non-profit community think about Africa first and foremost as a place suffering from AIDS. Yet Dr. Dionne finds that Malawians, who are suffering with the AIDS crisis more than most Africans, would

like to reduce the emphasis on HIV/AIDS care as a public policy. Why the disjuncture? That is Dr. Dionne’s puzzle. She uses a mass survey of four villages, a separate study of village headman, and Afrobarometer data to venture an answer. While money for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment are not unwelcome, Dr. Dionne finds that even people who had a recent household death likely from AIDS, knew someone who is HIV-positive, and have a relative who is HIV-positive would prefer development assistance to be funneled to other areas of poverty alleviation. Village headman were particularly excited about the idea of cleaner water though they also ranked generic health services, agricultural development, and edu-cation as more important sectors for their communities to receive assistance in than HIV/AIDS services. Congratulations to Kim Yi Dionne for creating such an excep-tional work.

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13Lund, Christian. 2010. Local Politics and

the Dynamics of Property in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Marcellin, Sherry S. 2010. The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents: US Sectional Interests and the African Group at the WTO. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Mbanaso, Michael U. and Chima J. Korieh. 2010. Minorities and the State in Africa. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Meierhenrich, Jens. 2010. The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652 – 2000. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Moore-Harell, Alice. 2010. Egypt’s African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and the Creation of Equatoria. East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.

Ogunsanwo, Alaba. 2010. China’s Policy in Africa 1958 – 71. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ojeleleye, Olukunie. 2010. The Politics of Post-War Demobilisation and Reintegration in Nigeria. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Patterson, Amy S. 2010. The Church and AIDS in Africa: The Politics of Ambiguity. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Piot, Charles. 2010. Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sicurelli, Daniela. 2010. The European Union’s Africa Policies: Norms, Interests and Impact. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Smith, Malinda S. 2010. Securing Africa: Post-9/11 discourses on terrorism. Farnham: Ashgate.

Spears, Ian S. 2010. Civil War in African States: The Search for Security. Boulder: Lynne Rienner

Taylor, Ian. 2010. The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa. Continuum.

Tripp, Aili Mari. 2010. Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Edited BooksAgyeman-Duah, Ivor. (Editor). 2010.

Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen (Editors). The Lord’s Resistance Army: Myth and reality. (London: Zed Books, 2010).

Bello, Valeria and Gebrewold, Belachew (Editors). A Global Security Triangle: European, African and Asian interaction. (London: Routledge, 2010).

Besada, Hany (Editors). Crafting an African Security Architecture: Addressing region-al peace and conflict in the twenty-first century. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).

Chachage, Chambi and Casson, Annar (Editors). Africa’s Liberation: The legacy of Nyerere. (Cape Town and Oxford: Pambazuka, 2010).

Cheru, Fantu and Obi, Cyril (Editors). 2010. The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and critical interventions. London: Zed Books.

Dittmer, Lowell and Yu, George T. (Editors). China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010).

Engel, Ulf and J. Gomes Porto (Editors). 2010. Africa’s New Peace and Security Architecture: Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Falola, Toyin and Agwuele, Augustine (Editors). Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture. (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010).

Francis, David J. (Editor). US Strategy in Africa: AFRICOM, terrorism and secu-rity challenges. (London: Routledge, 2010).

Gerhart, Gail M. and Clive L. Glaser. 2010. From Protest to Challenge – Volume

6. A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882 – 1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Papers

African AffairsVol. 109, no. 436, July 2010

Baines, Erin. “Spirits and Social Reconstruction after Mass Violence: Rethinking Transitional Justice”.

Harrison, Graham. “The Africanization of Poverty: A Retrospective on ‘Make Poverty History’”

Höhn, Sabine. “International Justice and Reconciliation in Namibia: The ICC Submission and Public Memory”

Vol. 109, no. 437, October 2010

Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Democracy and Civil War: Citizenship and peacemaking in Côte d’Ivoire.”

Death, Carl. “Troubles at the top: South African protests and the 2002 Johannesburg Summit.”

Gready, Paul. “‘You’re either with us or against us’: Civil society and policy mak-ing in post-genocide Rwanda.”

Omotola, J. Shola. “Elections and demo-cratic transition in Nigeria under the Fourth Republic.”

Patey, Luke A. “Crude days ahead? OIL and the resource curse in Sudan.

African Journal of Political Science and International RelationsJune 2010; 4(6)

Mia Mahmudur Rahim, “Who’s who: Transnational corporations and nation states interface over the theoretical shift into their relationship”

Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya, “Democracy and good governance: Nigeria’s dilemma”

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14Eze Wosu and A. Kinikanwo Anele, “Rural-

urban migration of young persons from selected conflict ridden communities in Rivers State: A sociological approach”

Wahab O. Egbewole and Muhtar A. Etudaiye, “The role of opposition in Nigerian politics”

Collins Greenwell Matchaya, “The perfor-mance of the Malawi Congress Party in general elections: The role of sectional-ism of a regional and ethnic nature”

Mbaye Lo and Aman Nadhiri, “Contextualizing “Muridiyyah” with-in the American muslim community: Perspectives on the past, present and future”

Ioannis Mantzikos, “U. S. foreign policy-making toward Ethiopia and Somalia (1974 – 1980)”

African SecurityVolume 3, Issue 4, September 2010

“Piracy and Maritime Security off the Horn of Africa: Connections, Causes, and Concerns” by Freedom C. Onuoha

“Bringing Global Jihad to the Horn of Africa: al Shabaab, Western Fighters, and the Sacralization of the Somali Conflict” by Lorenzo Vidino, Raffaello Pantucci, and Evan Kohlmann.

“Peacemaking in Burundi: Conflict Resolution versus Conflict Management Strategies” by Jessica Piombo

African Studies ReviewVolume 53, Number 2, September 2010,

Forum: “Africa in the Age of Obama”

Ralph Faulkingham and Mitzi Goheen. “Africa in the Age of Obama”

Elizabeth Schmidt. “Introduction”

Bereket Habte Selassie. “Can We Expect More than Symbolic Support?”

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. “Putting Africa’s House in Order to Deal with Developmental Challenges”

David S. Wiley. “Superb Intentions and U.S.

Policy Constraints”

Brian Dill. “Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Norms of Participation in Tanzania: Working against the Grain”

Hazel McFerson. “Developments in African Governance since the Cold War: Beyond Cassandra and Pollyanna”

DemocratizationBolleyer, Nicole and Lise Storm. 2010.

“Problems of party assistance in hybrid regimes: the case of Morocco.” Volume 17, Issue 6, pages 1202- 1224.

Emmanuel, Nikolas. 2010. “Undermining cooperation: donor-patrons and the fail-ure of political conditionality.” Volume 17, Issue 5, pages 856 − 877.

Rakner, Lise and Lars Svåsand. 2010. “In search of the impact of international sup-port for political parties in new democra-cies: Malawi and Zambia compared.” Volume 17, Issue 6, pages 1250 − 1274.

Weissenbach, Kristina. 2010. “Political party assistance in transition: the German ‘Stiftungen’ in sub-Saharan Africa.“ Volume 17, Issue 6, pages 1225 − 1249.

The August 2010 (Volume 17, no. 4) was a special issue on “Ethnic Party Bans in Africa.”

“Ethnic Party Bans in Africa: An Introduction” by Matthijs Bogaards, Matthias Basedau, and Christof Hartmann

“Party Bans in Africa: An Empirical Overview” by Anika Moroff

“Understanding Variations in Party Bans in Africa” by Christof Hartmann and Jorg Kemmerzell

“An Effective Measure of Institutional Engineering? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa” by Anika Moroff and Matthias Basedau

“Why There Is No Party Ban in the South African Constitution” by Jorg Kemmerzell

“Political Party Bans in Rwanda 1994– 2003: Three Narratives of Justification”

by Peter Niesen

“Ethnic Party Bans and Institutional Engineering in Nigeria” by Matthijs Bogaards

“Comparing Ethnic Party Regulation in East Africa” by Anika Moroff

“Senegal’s Party System: The Limits of Formal Regulation” by Christof Hartmann

Development and ChangeVolume 41, Issue 6 (November 2010)

Glover, Dominic. “Exploring the Resilience of Bt Cotton’s ‘Pro-Poor Success Story’”.

Beckmann, Nadine and Janet Bujra. “The ‘Politics of the Queue’: The Politicization of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.”

Frederiksen, Bodil Folke. “Mungiki, Vernacular Organization and Political Society in Kenya.”

Lesorogoi, Carolyn K. “The Impact of Privatization on Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya.”

Hilhorst, Dorothea and Bram J. Jansen. “Humanitarian Space as Arena: A Perspective on the Everyday Politics of Aid.”

Human Rights QuarterlyVolume 32, Number 4 (November 2010)

Ngwena, Charles G. “Inscribing Abortion as a Human Right: Significance of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.”

Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E. “Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, 2000-2009: Massive Human Rights Violations and the Failure to Protect.”

Barelli, Mauro. “The Interplay Between Global and Regional Human Rights Systems in the Construction of the Indigenous Rights Regime.”

Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne, and Andrew G. Reiter. “The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human

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Rights and Democracy.”

Journal of DemocracyVolume 21, Number 4, October 2010

Cheeseman, Nic. “African Elections as Vehicles for Change.”

Radelet, Steven. “Success Stories from “Emerging Africa””.

Diamond, Larry. “Introduction” from “The Meaning of Democracy.”

Bratton, Michael. “Anchoring the “D-Word” in Africa.” from “The Meaning of Democracy.”

Journal of Modern African StudiesVol. 48, no.1, March 2010

“We Are Citizens too: the Politics of Citizenship in Independent Ghana” by Ousman Kobo

“The Successful Ghana Election of 2008: A Convenient Myth?” by Heinz Jockers, Dirk Kohnert, and Paul Nugent

“What Accountability Pressures Do MPs in Africa Face and How Do They Respond? Evidence from Ghana” by Staffan I. Lindberg

“Bilateral Donors and Aid Conditionality in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Case of Mozambique” by Carrie Manning and Monica Malbrough

Vol. 48, no. 2, June 2010

“Power-Sharing in Comparative Perspective: The Dynamics of ‘Unity Government’ in Kenya and Zimbabwe” by Nic Cheeseman and Blessing-Miles Tendi

“‘The Kenyans We Don’t Want’: Popular Thought Over Constitutional Review in Kenya” by Stephanie Diepeveen

“Fairy Godfathers and Magical Elections: Understanding the 2003 Electoral Crisis in Anambra State, Nigeria” by Leena Hoffman

“Abuse of Powers of Impeachment in Nigeria” by Mamman Lawan

Vol. 48, no. 3, September 2010

“Powers - mengist - and peasants in rural Ethiopia: the post-2005 interlude” by René Lefort

“Mixed regimes and political violence in Africa” by Arthur A. Goldsmith

“Bridging community associations in post-conflict Burundi: the difficult merging of social capital endowments and new ?institutional settings?” by Thomas Vervisch and Titeca Kristof

“Struggles with activism: NGO engage-ments with land tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa” by Elizabeth Fortin

Vol. 48, no. 4, November 2010

“Civil society and the consolidation of democracy in Kenya: an analysis of a Catholic parish’s efforts in Kibera slum” by Christine Bodewes

“Troubled state-building in the DR Congo: the challenge from the mar-gins” by Denis M. Tull

“Youth music and politics in post-war Sierra Leone” by Susan Shepler

“Recasting maritime governance in Ghana: the neo-developmental state and the Port of Tema” by Brenda Chalfin

“Turkey’s opening to Africa” by Mehmet Özkan and Akgün Birol

“Who is subsidising whom? Water sup-ply cross-subsidisation policy, practice and lessons from Zambia” by Horman Chitonge

Review of African Political EconomyVol. 37, no. 124, June 2010

“Fake Capitalism? The Dynamics of Neoliberal Moral Restructuring and Pseudo-Development: the Case of Uganda” by Jörg Wiegratz

“Sudan’s Uncivil War: the Global- Historical Constitution of Political Violence” by Allison J. Ayers

“South Africa – the ANC’s Difficult Allies” by Martin Plaut

“A Contest of Visions: Ethiopia’s 2010 Election” by Kwesi Sansculotte- Greenidge

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Thomas, Edward. “Sudan’s 2010 elections – victories, boycotts and the future of a peace deal”

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