Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 57, Issue 3 (2023)

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Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 57, Issue 3 (2023)

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Youth in West and Central Africa: quests for inclusion and the future of governance

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Youth in West and Central Africa: quests for inclusion and the future of governance
Jaimie Bleck, Trevor Lwere & Boukary Sangaré
Pages: 519-541
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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La participation des jeunes aux politiques de sécurité au Burkina Faso : entre inclusion précaire et alternative suicidaire
Abdoul Karim Saidou
Pages: 543-564
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Managing dissent or creating it? Cameroonian Muslim youth, secularism, and securitization in a time of terror
Brandon Kendhammer & Adama Ousmanou
Pages: 565-584
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Youth and protest: how “#Gambia” ended decades of autocratic rule
Lamin Keita
Pages: 585-604
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Torn between tradition and modernity: images of youth in the fictional work of Mariama Bâ
Khadidiatou Diallo
Pages: 605-624
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Research Articles / Articles de Recherche

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Traditional and new houses, old and new paths to social status in the Mandara highlands, Cameroon
Melchisedek Chétima
Pages: 625-643
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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“The cake is in Accra”: a case study on internal migration in Ghana
Maya Turolla & Lisa Hoffmann
Pages: 645-666
Published online: 06 Aug 2023
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Les Jeux des îles de l’océan Indien au prisme de la globalisation sportive (1979–2023)
Louis Violette, Olivier Naria & et Julien Fuchs
Pages: 667-691
Published online: 16 Aug 2023
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Cyberespace et limitations des libertés d’opinion et d’expression en contexte de lutte contre le terrorisme au Burkina Faso
Aboubacar Dakuyo
Pages: 693-711
Published online: 15 Aug 2023
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Research Note / Note de Recherche

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Collecte des données, protection des sources et production des savoirs sur Boko Haram en contexte de paranoïa sécuritaire au Cameroun
Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo
Pages: 713-730
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Commentary / Commentaire

Canada and the African Union: towards a shared agenda
Rita Abrahamsen & Barbra Chimhandamba
Pages: 731-747
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus

Book Review
Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa
edited by Francis Onditi and Douglas Yates, Delaware, Vernon Press, 2021, 456 pp.
Narnia Bohler-Muller
Pages: 749-751
Published online: 20 Apr 2023
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Religion and Global Politics: Soft Power in Nigeria and Beyond
edited by Olusola Ogunnubi and Sheriff Folarin, Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2022, ix + 295 pp.
Michael B. Aleyomi
Pages: 751-752
Published online: 06 Jun 2023
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White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of Their Own
by Duncan Money, Leiden, Brill, 2022, xiv + 294 pp.
Jeremy Seekings
Pages: 752-753
Published online: 06 Jun 2023
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Debt/Law/Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence
by Neil ten Kortenaar, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, x + 282 pp.
Hope Eze
Pages: 754-755
Published online: 08 Jun 2023
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Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution
by Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch, Raga Makawi and Alex de Waal, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, xv + 264 pp.
John Voll
Pages: 756-757
Published online: 05 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963
by Sean Redding, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023, 196 pp.
Gary Kynoch
Pages: 757-759
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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Book Review
State-Building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion, 1958–1974
by Riina Turtio, Woodbridge, UK: James Currey/Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2023, 360 pp.
Tim Stapleton
Pages: 759-761
Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
by Ebenezer Obadare, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2022, 195 pp.
Abimbola Adelakun
Pages: 761-763
Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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Book Review
The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
by Uroš Kovač, New York, Berghahn Books, 2022, 220 pp.
Tarminder Kaur
Pages: 763-765
Published online: 12 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Queer Bodies in African Films
by Gibson Ncube, Makhanda, African Humanities Association, NISC, 2022, ix + 159 pp.
Zethu Matebeni
Pages: 765-767
Published online: 19 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories
edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers and Nancy J. Jacobs, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2022, xii + 354 pp.
Jasper Knight
Pages: 767-768
Published online: 04 Sep 2023
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Book Review
Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession
by Thomas Hendriks, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, xxiv + 294 pp.
Benoît Henriet
Pages: 768-770
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’
edited by Michael Bollig, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane and Romie Nghitevelekwa, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, James Currey, 2023, xxii + 484 pp.
Theodore Trefon
Pages: 770-772
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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Book Review
Working Through Colonial Collections: An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin
by Margareta von Oswald, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2022, 320 pp.
Thomas Laely
Pages: 772-774
Published online: 07 Sep 2023
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Violences extrêmes. Enquêter, secourir, juger : République démocratique du Congo, Rwanda, Syrie
sous la direction de Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Jean-Hervé Bradol, Marc Le Pape et Claudine Vidal, Paris, CNRS Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2021, 268 pp.
Samba Diop
Pages: 774-776
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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