Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (2023)

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Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (2023)

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The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76
George Roberts
Pages: 1-21
Published online: 17 Aug 2023
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The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya
Kennedy Mkutu
Pages: 22-39
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya
Jannis Saalfeld & Hassan A. Mwakimako
Pages: 40-56
Published online: 19 Jul 2023
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Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda
Christopher Day, William Moreto & Riley Ravary
Pages: 57-78
Published online: 13 Jul 2023
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Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo
Emma Wild-Wood, Yossa Way, Amuda Baba, Sadiki Kangamina, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Liz Grant & Nigel Pearson
Pages: 79-100
Published online: 21 Jul 2023
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Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya
Timothy Downing, Daniel Olago & Tobias Nyumba
Pages: 101-120
Published online: 20 Jul 2023
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‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north
Flora McCrone
Pages: 121-140
Published online: 19 Aug 2023
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Special collection: Living with ruins: ruination and future-making in Kenya (and beyond)

Introduction
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)
Uroš Kovač & Anna Lisa Ramella
Pages: 141-164
Published online: 05 Sep 2023
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Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm
Anna Lisa Ramella, Mario Schmidt & Megan A. Styles
Pages: 165-185
Published online: 06 Jul 2023
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In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya
Léa Lacan
Pages: 186-206
Published online: 07 Jul 2023
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Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi
Wangui Kimari
Pages: 207-221
Published online: 09 Jul 2023
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The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya
Franziska Fay
Pages: 222-240
Published online: 09 Jul 2023
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Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya
David Greven
Pages: 241-261
Published online: 16 Jul 2023
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Special collection: Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda

Introduction
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda
Sam Wilkins & Richard Vokes
Pages: 262-279
Published online: 05 Sep 2023
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Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election
Anna Macdonald, Arthur Owor & Rebecca Tapscott
Pages: 280-300
Published online: 26 Jul 2023
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Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis
Jimmy Spire Ssentongo & Henni Alava
Pages: 301-324
Published online: 28 Jul 2023
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Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation
Moses Khisa
Pages: 325-343
Published online: 10 Aug 2023
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Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election
Sam Wilkins
Pages: 344-362
Published online: 04 Aug 2023
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