GIGA Journal Family | 07/05/2025

New Africa Spectrum 1/2025

This issue covers topics such as chieftaincy disputes in Ghana, colonial and contemporary uses of Jackson Park in Ghana, effects of agricultural mechanisation on customary land tenure relations in Ghana’s transitional zone, Africa’s emergent tech sector, family support and migration in Nigeria, and more.


  • Africa Spectrum Vol. 60, No. 1 (2025)

    Research Articles

    • Xiran Chen: Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana

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    • Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson, Karen Lauterbach: Memory-Making in an Urban Park: Colonial and Contemporary Uses of Kumase’s Jackson Park

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    • Kwasi Sarfo, Bernard Okoampah Otu, Michael Atakro: Assessing the Implications of Agricultural Mechanisation for Customary Land Tenure Relations in the Transitional Zone, Ghana

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    Debates

    • Richard Fosu: Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory: Beyond the Binary of the West Versus Africa

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    • Nick Malherbe, Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo: Against Climate Aid Colonialism: The Case for Climate Reparations and South-South Solidarity

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    Analyses and Reports

    • Jann Lay, Tevin Tafese: Africa's Emergent Tech Sector: Characteristics and Development Implications

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    • Daniel Tuki: Family Support and Migration in Nigeria

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    Book Reviews

    • Joanna Da Sylva: Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nyabola, Nanjala

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    • Philipp Öhlmann: Disability is not Inability: A Quest for Inclusion and Participation of People with Disability by James N. Amanze, and Fidelis Nkomazana

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    • Manish Karmwar, Abhinav: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam

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