Editorial
Against One-dimensional Africa
Graham Harrison & Reginald Cline-Cole
Articles
Knocking on a Wide-open Door: Chinese Investments in Africa
Peter Kragelund
Transnational Resource Flow and the Paradoxes of Belonging: Redirecting the Debate on Transnationalism, Remittances, State and Citizenship in Africa
Ebenezer Obadare & Wale Adebanwi
Revolutionising Local Politics? Radical Experiments in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda in the 1980s
J. Tyler Dickovick
Do We Understand the Linkages between Economic Growth, Poverty Targets and Poverty Reduction?
Thorkil Casse & Stig Jensen
Violent Conflicts and Sustainable Development in Bayelsa State
Ibaba S. Ibaba
Violence and National Development in Nigeria: The Political Economy of Youth Restiveness in the Niger Delta
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
Briefings
Removing Neocolonialism’s APRM Mask: A Critique of the African Peer Review Mechanism
Patrick Bond
Durable Solution, Help or Hindrance? The Failings and Unintended Implications of Relief and Recovery Efforts for Kenya’s Post-election IDPs
Gabrielle Lynch
Questioning Pro-poor Responses to the Global Economic Slump
Peter T. Jacobs
Debates
Introduction
Lionel Cliffe & Mahmood Mamdani
Understanding Sudan’s Saviors and Survivors: Darfur in the Crossfire between Humanitarian Fundamentalism and Khartoum’s Divide and Rule
Harry Verhoeven , Lydiah Kemunto Bosire & Sharath Srinivasan
Dedications
Tributes to Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (1961–2009)
Alfred B. Zack-Williams , Ibrahim Abdullah & ‘Funmi Olonisakin
Haroub Othman (1942–2009)
Janet Bujra & Lionel Cliffe
Arrighi and Africa: Farewell Thoughts
John S. Saul
In Memoriam
Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)
Gavin Williams
Book reviews
Saviors and Survivors; Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
Bill Freund
Votes, Money and Violence: Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa
J. Shola Omotola
Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa
Trevor Parfitt
Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995
Jacob Mundy
Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Marinko Banjac
The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect
Linnea Bergholm
