Neues Africa Spectrum 1/2018

Africa Spectrum Vol. 53, No. 1 (2018)

Editorial

• Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber: For the last time from these editors Abstract | PDF

Research Articles

• George Bob-Milliar, Jeffrey Paller: Democratic Ruptures and Electoral Outcomes in Africa: Ghana’s 2016 Election Abstract | PDF

• Michael Stasik: The Popular Niche Economy of a Ghanaian Bus Station: Departure from Informality Abstract | PDF

• Melchisedek Chétima: “Vernacularising Modernity?” Rural–Urban Migration and Cultural Transformation in the Northern Mandara Mountains Abstract | PDF

• B Camminga: “Gender Refugees” in South Africa: The “Common-Sense” Paradox Abstract | PDF

Analyses and Reports

• Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie: From Oil to Water? The Deepening Crises of Primitive Accumulation in the Waterscapes of Nigeria’s Niger Delta Abstract | PDF

Book Reviews

• Henning Melber: Book Review: Lena Kroeker, David O’Keane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds), Middle Classes in Africa: Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges (2018) Abstract | PDF

• Henning Melber: Book Review: Christi van der Westhuizen, Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa (2017) Abstract | PDF

• Helmut Asche: Book Review: Simone Claar, International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa: The Economic Partnership Agreement (2018) Abstract | PDF