Editorial
Humanitarian imperialism
Ray Bush , Giuliano Martiniello & Claire Mercer

Articles
The Egyptian revolution: crisis of neoliberalism and the potential for democratic politics
Angela Joya

Labour protests in Egypt: causes and meanings
Rabab El-Mahdi

Urban renewal and social development in Morocco in an age of neoliberal government
Sami Zemni & Koenraad Bogaert

From resistance to governance: Eritrea’s trouble with transition
Dan Connell

Towards more stringent sustainability standards? Trends in the cut flower industry
Lone Riisgaard

Debate
Achieving equitable water use in the Nile Basin: time to refocus the discourse on collective human security?
Janot Mendler de Suarez

Briefings
Social and political geography of the Tunisian revolution: the alfa grass revolution
Habib Ayeb

Neoliberal threats to North Africa
Patrick Bond

Book Reviews
Development without freedom: how aid underwrites repression in Ethiopia
Roy Love

Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid
Michael Seifu

Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa
Carl Death

Creating memorials, building identities: the politics of memory in the Black Atlantic
Robbie Shilliam

The rise of China and India in Africa: challenges, opportunities and critical interventions
Vincent Duclos

The early morning phone call: Somali refugees’ remittances
Abdi Ismail Samatar

Erratum

Editorial
The accumulation of dispossession
Ray Bush , Janet Bujra & Gary Littlejohn

Articles
Land grabbing in Southern Africa: the many faces of the investor rush
Ruth Hall

The politics of agrofuels and mega-land and water deals: insights from the ProCana case, Mozambique
Saturnino M. Borras Jr , David Fig & Sofía Monsalve Suárez

Strategic privatisation: rehabilitating the Mozambican sugar industry
Lars Buur , Carlota Mondlane & Obede Baloi

Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe
Sam Moyo

Debates
Who wants to be a millionaire? Nigerian youths and the commodification of kidnapping
Oarhe Osumah & Iro Aghedo

Canada and the geopolitics of mining interests: a case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Delphine Abadie

Briefings
Egypt: a permanent revolution?
Ray Bush

An Arab spring
Marion Dixon

Against the flow – new power dynamics and upstream mobilisation in the Nile Basin
Alan Nicol & Ana Elisa Cascão

Elections in the imperial periphery: Ethiopia hijacked
Glenn Brigaldino

Somaliland: progress, state and outsiders
Michael Walls & Steve Kibble

Book Reviews
Land, liberation and compromise in Southern Africa
Grasian Mkodzongi

Zimbabwe’s land reform: myths & realities
Lionel Cliffe

The governance of daily life in Africa: ethnographic explorations of public and collective services
Gisa Weszkalnys

The Arab state and neoliberal globalization: the restructuring of state power in the Middle East
Angela Joya

Book Review
Colin Darch

Editorial
Poverty reduction and the chronically rich
Graham Harrison

Articles
The political economy of salt in the Afar Regional State in northeast Ethiopia
Dereje Feyissa

The agrarian question in Tanzania: using new evidence to reconcile an old debate
Bernd E.T. Mueller

Ill health unleashed? Cities and municipal services in Ghana
Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Is ‘another world’ really possible? Re-examining counter-hegemonic forces in post-apartheid South Africa
Luke Sinwell

Theme: Southern Africa – the liberation struggle continues
Introduction to the theme
John S. Saul

Angola: reinventing pasts and futures
David Sogge

Mozambique – not then but now
John S. Saul

Namibia: a trust betrayed – again?
Henning Melber

South African splinters: from ‘elite transition’ to ‘small-a alliances’
Patrick Bond

Zimbabwe: liberation nationalism – old and born-again
Richard Saunders

Debates
The end of the oil gambit: economic contraction and Africa
Gary Littlejohn

Offshore finance in Ghana: why not?
William Vlcek

Briefings
The hidden element in the 2010 public-sector strike in South Africa
Claire Ceruti

Interview with Shahenda Maklad
Yasmine M. Ahmed & Reem Saad

Report on conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, Maynooth, Ireland, 24–28 August 2010
Cristiana Panella

Book and film reviews
Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria
Ignasio Malizani Jimu

Global agro-food trade and standards: challenges for Africa
Ben Richardson

Agricultural land redistribution: toward greater consensus
Lionel Cliffe

Empire, development and colonialism: the past in the present
Peter Wilkin

Moolaadé
Usman Tar

Peace versus justice? The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa
Jasna Dragovic-Soso

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

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

Editorial
Demanding development
Graham Harrison & Claire Mercer

Articles
Fake capitalism? The dynamics of neoliberal moral restructuring and pseudo-development: the case of Uganda
Jörg Wiegratz

Ubuntu bashing: the marketisation of ‘African values’ in South Africa
David A. McDonald

Sudan’s uncivil war: the global–historical constitution of political violence
Alison J. Ayers

Local violence and international intervention in Sudan
Gunnar M. Sørbø

The Anglo-Leasing corruption scandal in Kenya: the politics of international and domestic pressures and counter-pressures
Jérôme Y. Bachelard

Briefings
South Africa – the ANC’s difficult allies
Martin Plaut

‘Green revolution’ for whom? Women’s access to and use of land in the Mozambique Chókwè irrigation scheme
Roberta Pellizzoli

A contest of visions: Ethiopia’s 2010 election
Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge

Patrons and petits patrons: knowledge and hierarchy in illicit networks of trade in archaeological objects in the Baniko region of Mali
Cristiana Panella

Book reviews
Scribbles from the den: essays on politics and collective memory in Cameroon
Joyce Ashuntantang

France and the new imperialism. Security policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Paul Kirkness

The quest for sustainable development and peace: the 2007 Sierra Leone elections
Mala Mustapha

Oil and politics in the Gulf of Guinea
Marcus Power

Zunami! The South African elections of 2009
Gillian Hart

Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa
Derick Fay

Editorial
Post-neoliberalism?
Graham Harrison

Articles
Oil, land and conflict: the decline of Misseriyya pastoralism in Sudan
Sara Pantuliano

Rebellion of the poor: South Africa’s service delivery protests – a preliminary analysis
Peter Alexander

From formal- to informal-sector employment: examining the Chinese presence in Zambia
Aleksandra W. Gadzala

Race, class, gender and voice: four terrains of liberation
John S. Saul

The state and the question of development in sub-Saharan Africa
Kevin R. Cox & Rohit Negi

Briefings
Briefings reloaded: tell us about it
Gary Littlejohn

Frelimo landslide in tainted election in Mozambique
Joseph Hanlon

South African farmers in the new scramble for African land
Giuliano Martiniello

After the rainbow: following the footprints of the May 2008 xenophobic violence in South Africa
Ashwin Desai

Book reviews
Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa
Vincent Tickner

The state of the state: institutional transformation, capacity and political change in South Africa
Mala Mustapha

Globalization and restructuring of African commodity flows
Elisa Da Vià

The risks of knowledge: investigations into the death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990
Elly Omondi Odhiambo

The World Bank and social transformation in international politics: liberalism, governance, and sovereignty
Graham Harrison

A new scramble for Africa? Imperialism, investment and development
Miles Larmer

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

Editorial
Africa’s Future is up to Africans. Really?
Tunde Zack-Williams & Graham Harrison

Articles
Understanding the ‘Zuma Tsunami’
Roger Southall

Defence Expenditures, Arms Procurement and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Susan Willett

Fighting HIV and AIDS: Reconfiguring the State?
Sophie Harman

The International Criminal Court and African Conflicts: The Case of Uganda
Issaka K. Souaré

Women’s Organisations Seeking Gender Justice in the Sudan 1964–1985
Asma Mohamed Abdel Halim

Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Boku Tache PhD & Gufu Oba

Briefings
The Student Movement in Nigeria: Antinomies and Transformation
Sylvester Odion-Akhaine

Rooting Transformative Feminist Struggles in Tanzania at Grassroots
Demere Kitunga & Marjorie Mbilinyi

The Ghanaian Election of 2008
Bob Kelly

Debates
Southern African Liberation Movements as Governments and the Limits to Liberation
Henning Melber

Book reviews
Under the Tree of Talking: Leadership for Change in Africa
Mike Powell

Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
Christopher Cramer

The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
Ben Page

Corruption and Development: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Laura Routley

The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony
David P. Thomas

Africa and Fortress Europe: Threats and Opportunities
Ali Bilgic

Fearless Fighter: An Autobiography
Dean Kampanje Phiri & Jessica Mzamu Kampanje

Death and the King’s Horseman
Ekua Ekumah

Editorial
Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa
Lionel Cliffe , Roy Love & Kjetil Tronvoll

Jan Burgess – Retirement

Articles
The Ethiopia–Eritrea Conflict and the Search for Peace in the Horn of Africa
Terrence Lyons

Post-war Ethiopia: The Trajectories of Crisis
Christopher Clapham

The End of Democracy? Curtailing Political and Civil Rights in Ethiopia
Lovise Aalen & Kjetil Tronvoll

The Politics of Silence: Interpreting Stasis in Contemporary Eritrea
Richard Reid

Somalia: ‘They Created a Desert and Called it Peace(building)’
Ken Menkhaus

How Liberal Peacebuilding May Be Failing Sierra Leone
Carla Castañeda

Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire and Contemporary African Studies
David P. Thomas

In memoriam Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)
Gavin Williams

Debates
Development in Africa: What is the Cutting Edge in Thinking and Policy?
Elizabeth Schmidt , James H. Mittelman , Fantu Cheru & Aili Mari Tripp

Briefings
What Will the World Financial Crisis Do to Africa?
Peter Lawrence

Angola: Thirty Years of Dos Santos
Alex Vines & Markus Weimer

‘Dollarisation’ in Zimbabwe and the Death of an Industry
Rory Pilossof

Book reviews
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power
Carl Death

Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dave Renton

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers
Barry Riddell

Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa
John Lungu

High Stakes and Stakeholders. Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria
Rita Abrahamsen

Becoming Somaliland
Michael Walls