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vol. 11, issue 4 - January, 2018
A New Congo Crisis?
vol. 9, issue 9 - June, 2016
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
vol. 6, issue 6 - March, 2013
Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam
In Senegal, a protester holds a sign rejecting "monarchy" in the form of proposed changes to the constitution which would extend the current president's term in office.
vol. 5, issue 6 - March, 2012
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
Jenni Williams (Left) and Magodonga Mahlangu (Center) of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) receiving the Robert F. Kenndey Human Rights Award from President Barack Obama in November 2009.
vol. 3, issue 11 - August, 2010
The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
Soccer fans, painted in the colors of South Africa's flag, celebrate the coming of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa.
vol. 3, issue 10 - July, 2010
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
A 17th-century map depicting the locations of the Periplus of the Erythraean
vol. 2, issue 9 - June, 2009
Pirates of Puntland, Somalia
A refugee camp holding thousands of displaced Darfurians/Sudanese in the aftermath of war in the western part of Sudan.
vol. 2, issue 5 - February, 2009
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
The Kenya flag.
vol. 1, issue 7 - April, 2008
Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

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The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010 (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
June, 2013
Fifty Years and Counting
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
April, 2012
When Ethiopia Stunned the World
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
November, 2007
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

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