Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 50, Issue 2 (2016)

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Painting between the lines: the Cape Verdean community of Colonial Dakar, 1920–1945
Rachel M. Petrocelli
Pages: 149-168
Published online: 16 Feb 2016
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A personal issue: feminist standpoint theory, epistemologies of ignorance, and perceptions of HIV transmission among northern Tanzanian wildlife conservation professionals
John Reid-Hresko & Mara Goldman
Pages: 169-189
Published online: 28 Jul 2016
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Beyond quota seats for women in the Tanzanian legislature
Mi Yung Yoon
Pages: 191-210
Published online: 25 Jul 2016
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Politics at the margins: alternative sites of political involvement among young people in Cameroon
Jude Fokwang
Pages: 211-228
Published online: 22 Sep 2016
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From nuclear imperialism to petro-democracy? Resource assemblages and the emergence of a new political configuration in Niger
Jannik Schritt
Pages: 229-254
Published online: 02 Aug 2016
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The political economy of infrastructure development in Africa: an assessment of the NEPAD Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI)
Francis Nguendi Ikome & Robert Tama Lisinge
Pages: 255-277
Published online: 04 Oct 2016
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Hydro-politics and hydro-power: the century-long saga of the Inga project
Keith Gottschalk
Pages: 279-294
Published online: 23 Sep 2016
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Ethnic federalism and conflicts in Ethiopia
Joanny Bélair
Pages: 295-301
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Canadian foreign policy in Africa: promising premises, disappointing results
David J. Hornsby
Pages: 303-308
Published online: 15 Jun 2016
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Mugabe: a life of snakes and ladders
Eliakim Sibanda
Pages: 309-323
Published online: 07 Apr 2016
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Book Review / COMPTES RENDUS

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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963–1968
Julie MacArthur
Pages: 325-326
Published online: 10 Nov 2015
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Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development
Siera Vercillo
Pages: 326-328
Published online: 13 Nov 2015
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European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500‒1800
Beatrice Nicolini
Pages: 328-330
Published online: 02 Dec 2015
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The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
Julie MacArthur
Pages: 330-331
Published online: 11 Jan 2016
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Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975
John Sandlos
Pages: 332-333
Published online: 20 Apr 2016
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In Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
Samantha Stevens-Hall
Pages: 333-335
Published online: 18 Apr 2016
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Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa: Coethnic Strangers
Sujata Ramachandran
Pages: 335-337
Published online: 27 Apr 2016
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Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan
John Voll
Pages: 337-339
Published online: 05 May 2016
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The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960–1974
Helena Cantone
Pages: 339-341
Published online: 30 Jun 2016
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Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus

Book Review
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850–1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal
Peter Limb
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 07 Jun 2016
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Mandela’s Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites & Apartheid’s First Bantustan
Matthew Graham
Pages: 343-345
Published online: 20 Jun 2016
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What is Not Sacred? African Spirituality
Blake I. Campbell
Pages: 345-346
Published online: 08 Jul 2016
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Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Blake I. Campbell
Pages: 346-347
Published online: 27 Sep 2016
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