Editorial
It is (always) the political economy, stupid!
Reginald Cline-Cole & Graham Harrison
Articles
Making a liberal state: ‘good governance’ in Ghana
David Williams
Versions of violence: Zimbabwe’s domestic violence law and symbolic politics of protection
Lene Bull Christiansen
Ill health unleashed? Cities and municipal services in Ghana
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Repression of Sudanese civil society under the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party
Bashir Ali
India’s rise to power: where does East Africa fit in?
Amrita Narlikar
Oil as the ‘curse’ of conflict in Africa: peering through the smoke and mirrors
Cyril Obi
Obituaries
Basil Davidson (1915–2010): a tribute
Lionel Cliffe
Ken Coates (1930–2010)
Lionel Cliffe
Debates
Poverty reduction is not development
Rick Rowden
Poverty in Uganda
Ndinwane Byekwaso
Briefings
What the Nigerien coup d’état means to the world
Franklin Charles Graham IV
What drives Turkey’s involvement in Africa?
Mehmet Ozkan
Book reviews
The threat of race: reflections on racial neoliberalism
Manuela Honegger
Snakes in Paradise: NGOs and the Aid Industry in Africa
Pádraig Carmody
Dispossession and access to land in South Africa: an African perspective
Giuliano Martiniello
Mining in Africa: regulation and development
Ray Bush
Critical reflections on the Eritrean war of independence: social capital, associational life, religion, ethnicity and sowing seeds of dictatorship
Dan Connell
