2017 Index, Volume 44
Review of African Political Economy
Volume 44 Number 151 March 2017
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
CONTENTS
Editorial
1 On political economies of governance and resistance to (mis)rule
Reginald Cline-Cole
Articles
10 For richer, for poorer: why ethnicity often trumps economic cleavages in Kenya
Biniam E. Bedasso
30 Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
47 Statistics versus livelihoods: questioning Rwanda’s pathway out of poverty
An Ansoms, Esther Marijnen, Giuseppe Cioffo and Jude Murison
66 The politics of recognition, and the manufacturing of citizenship and identity in Senegal’s decentralised charcoal market
Papa Faye
85 Rethinking peace-building practices through the Somaliland experience
Marta Regina Fernández y Garcia
104 Mozambican economic porosity and the role of Brazilian capital: a political economy analysis
Isabela Nogueira, Ossi Ollinaho, Eduardo Costa Pinto, Grasiela Baruco, Alexis Saludjian, José Paulo Guedes Pinto, Paulo Balanco and Carlos Schonerwald
Briefings
122 Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform
Ruth Hall and Thembela Kepe
131 Beyond ethnicity: the violence in Western Uganda and Rwenzori’s 99 problems
Anna Reuss and Kristof Titeca
142 The African middle class(es) – in the middle of what?
Henning Melber
155 Burkina Faso: from Thomas Sankara to popular resistance
Leo Zeilig
Book reviews
165 Understanding Eritrea: inside Africa's most repressive state, by Martin Plaut
Reviewed by Habtom Yohannes
170 Africa: why economists get it wrong, by Morten Jerven
Reviewed by Alfred Zack-Williams
Volume 44 Number 152 June 2017
Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa
Issue Editors: Vito Laterza, John Sharp and Alexander Beresford
Editorial
173 Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa
Vito Laterza and John Sharp
Articles
189 Towards a life of poverty and uncertainty? The livelihood strategies of Gécamines workers after retrenchment in the DRC
Benjamin Rubbers
204 Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo)
Jeroen Cuvelier
220 Multiple livelihoods and social relations in the South African Lowveld, 1986–2013
Kees (C. S.) van der Waal
237 After the mines: the changing social and economic landscape of Malawi–South Africa migration
Jessica A. Johnson
252 From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism: worker safety on South African mines, c.1955–2016
Paul Stewart and Dhiraj Kumar Nite
272 Plus ça change? Mining in South Africa in the last 30 years – an overview
Hugh Macmillan
292 Contested labour and political leadership: three mineworkers’ unions after the opposition victory in Zambia
Esther Uzar
Briefings
312 The 2015 general elections in Nigeria: new media, party politics and the political economy of voting
Mala Mustapha
322 Liberia’s run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics
Robtel Neajai Pailey and David Harris
Debate
336 Assembling effective industrial policy in Africa: an agenda for action
Pádraig Carmody
Book review
346 A flawed freedom: rethinking southern African liberation, by John S. Saul
South Africa – the present as history: from Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana, by John S. Saul and Patrick Bond
Reviewed by Peter Lawrence
Volume 44 Number 153 September 2017
Issue Editor: Hannah Cross
Editorial
353 Neoliberalism, labour power and democracy – the sense of an ending
Hannah Cross
Articles
358 Neoliberal democratisation, colonial legacies and the rise of the non-state provision of social welfare in West Africa
Lauren M. MacLean
381 A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Hannah Cross and Lionel Cliffe
399 The International Labour Organization and African trade unions: tripartite fantasies and enduring struggles
Nick Bernards
415 Institutionalised conflict, subaltern worker rebellions and insurgent unionism: casual workers’ organisation and power resources in the South African Post Office
David Dickinson
432 ‘We recommend compliance’: bargaining and leverage in Ethiopian–US intelligence cooperation
Sobukwe Odinga
449 China and Namibia, 1990 to 2015: how a new actor changes the dynamics of political economy
Gregor Dobler
Debates
466 The myth of economic growth in Africa
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
476 Oil and democratisation in Ghana
Ehis Michael Odijie
Briefings
487 Beyond forceful measures: Tanzania’s ‘war on poaching’ needs diversified strategies more than militarised tactics
Mathew Bukhi Mabele
499 The difference that ‘capitalism’ makes: on the merits and limits of critical political economy in African Studies
Stefan Ouma
Book review
510 Africa and International Relations in the 21st century, edited by Scarlett Cornelissen , Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw
Reviewed by Samuel Oyewole
Volume 44 Number 154 December 2017
Issue Editor: Alfred Zack-Williams
Editorial
513 Political economies of the everyday
Alfred Zack-Williams
Editorial notice
522 Ruth First prize
Articles
523 Africa’s next debt crisis: regulatory dilemmas and radical insights
Carolyn Bassett
541 How far does neoliberalism go in Egypt? Gender, citizenship and the making of the ‘rural’ woman
Karim Malak and Sara Salem
559 ‘Only the people can defend this struggle’: the politics of the everyday, extrajudicial executions and civil society in Mathare, Kenya
Peris S. Jones, Wangui Kimari and Kavita Ramakrishnan
577 Reform and counter-reform in Kenya's land governance
Jacqueline M. Klopp and Odenda Lumumba
595 Gendering the extraverted state: the politics of the Kenyan sex workers’ movement
Eglė Česnulytė
611 Military corruption in war: stealing and connivance among Zimbabwean foot soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1998–2002)
Godfrey Maringira
624 Ambivalent outcomes of statebuilding: multiplication of brokers and educational expansion in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2004–13)
Cyril Owen Brandt
Obituary
643 A tribute to Ken Post, 1935–2017
Robin Cohen
Debates
646 The Russian Revolution and the development challenge – Part I: the Russian Revolution and a myriad of global cleavages
Arndt Hopfmann
654 For a multidimensional class analysis in Africa
Joël Noret
Briefings
662 Eritrea: a mafia state?
Martin Plaut
673 The impact of Chinese textile imperialism on Nigeria’s textile industry and trade: 1960–2015
Murtala Muhammad, Mansur Ibrahim Mukhtar and Gold Kafilah Lola
Book review
683 Neoliberal moral economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda, by Jörg Wiegratz
Reviewed by Stefano Ponte
Volume index
Ansoms, An, 47
Balanco, Paulo, 104
Baruco, Grasiela, 104
Bassett, Carolyn, 523
Bedasso, Biniam E., 10
Bernards, Nick, 399
Brandt, Cyril Owen, 624
Carmody, Pádraig, 336
Cesnulyte, Egle, 595
Cioffo, Giuseppe, 47
Cliffe, Lionel, 381
Cline-Cole, Reginald, 1
Cohen, Robin, 643
Conteh, Felix Marco, 30
Cross, Hannah, 353, 381
Cuvelier, Jeroen, 204
Dickinson, David, 415
Dobler, Gregor, 449
Faye, Papa, 66
Fernández y Garcia, Marta Regina, 85
Hall, Ruth, 122
Harris, David, 322
Hopfmann, Arndt, 646
Johnson, Jessica A., 237
Jones, Peris S., 559
Kepe, Thembela, 122
Kimari, Wangui, 559
Klopp, Jacqueline M., 577
Laterza, Vito, 173
Lawrence, Peter, 346
Lola, Gold Kafilah, 673
Lumumba, Odenda, 577
Mabele, Mathew Bukhi, 487
MacLean, Lauren M., 358
Macmillan, Hugh, 272
Malak, Karim, 541
Marijnen, Esther, 47
Maringira, Godfrey, 611
Melber, Henning, 142
Muhammad, Murtala, 673
Mukhtar, Mansur Ibrahim, 673
Murison, Jude, 47
Mustapha, Mala, 312
Nite, Dhiraj Kumar, 252
Nogueira, Isabela, 104
Noret, Joël, 654
Obeng-Odoom, Franklin, 466
Odijie, Ehis Michael, 476
Odinga, Sobukwe, 432
Ollinaho, Ossi, 104
Ouma, Stefan, 499
Oyewole, Samuel, 510
Pailey, Robtel Neajai, 322
Pinto, Eduardo Costa, 104
Pinto, José Paulo Guedes, 104
Plaut, Martin, 662
Ponte, Stefano, 683
Ramakrishnan, Kavita, 559
Reuss, Anna, 131
Rubbers, Benjamin, 189
Salem, Sara, 541
Saludjian, Alexis, 104
Schonerwald, Carlos, 104
Sharp, John, 173
Stewart, Paul, 252
Titeca, Kristof, 131
Uzar, Esther, 292
van der Waal, Kees (C. S.), 220
Yohannes, Habtom, 165
Zack-Williams, Alfred, 170, 513
Zeilig, Leo, 155