Editorial
Social movement struggles in Africa
Miles Larmer
Articles
The extraversion of protest: conditions, history and use of the ‘international’ in Africa
Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle
Internal dynamics, the state, and recourse to external aid: towards a historical sociology of the peasant movement inSenegal since the 1960s
Marie Hrabanski
Peasant struggles in Mali: from defending cotton producers’ interests to becoming part of the Malian power structures
Alexis Roy
The politicisation of sexuality and rise of homosexual movements in post-colonial Cameroon
Patrick Awondo
Claiming workers’ rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the case of the Collectif des ex-agents de la Gécamines
Benjamin Rubbers
West African social movements ‘against the high cost of living’: from the economic to the political, from the global to the national
Bénédicte Maccatory , Makama Bawa Oumarou & Marc Poncelet
Briefings
The zombies of development economics: Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid and the fictional African entrepreneurs
Toby Leon Moorsom
Sudan’s 2010 elections – victories, boycotts and the future of a peace deal
Edward Thomas
Book reviews
Why planning does not work? Land use planning and residents’ rights in Tanzania
Joe L.P. Lugalla
African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state: the contradictions of neo-liberal land reforms
Giuliano Martiniello
Development and the African diaspora: place and the politics of home
Chandran Komath
Becoming Zimbabwe: A history from the pre-colonial period to 2008
Miles Larmer
