Decolonizing African studies

African Political Thought

• Achebe, C., 1984. The trouble with Nigeria. Heinemann.
• Adi, H. and M. Sherwood. 2003. Pan-African History. New York: Routledge.
• Ani, M. Y. 1994. An African Centred Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. Trenton NJ: Africa World.
• Appiah, K.A., 2010. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time). WW Norton & Company.
• Appiah, K.A., 2010. The ethics of identity. Princeton University Press.
• Biko, S. 1978. I write what I like.” London: Bowerdean.
• Cabral, A., 1979. Unity and struggle: speeches and writings. Monthly Review Press.
• Coetzee, P. H. and A.P.J. Roux. 2004. The African Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge.
• Fanon, F., 1965. The wretched of the earth(Vol. 390). Grove Press.
• Fanon, F., 1967. A dying colonialism. Grove Press.
• Fanon, F. and Maspero, F., 1970. Toward the African revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Fanon, F., 2008. Black skin, white masks. Grove press.
• Gordon, L. 1997. Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
• Mandela, R. N. 1990. The Struggle is my Life. New York: Pathfinder.
• Mangcu, X. 2013. Biko: A Biography. New York: IB Tauris.
• Mboya, T., 1970. The challenge of nationhood: a collection of speeches and writings(Vol. 81). Heinemann International Inc..
• Mkandawire, T. 2001. “African Intellectuals and Nationalism in the Changing Global Context”. Australasian Review of African Studies 23(1):11-37.
• Mbembe, A. 1992. “The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony”. Public Culture. 4(2): 1-30.
• Mbembé,  A. 2001. On the Postcolony. Univ of California Press.
• Mbembe, A. and L. Meintjes. 2003. Necropolitics. Public Culture. 15(1): 11-40.
• Mbembe, A. 2005. “Sovereignty as a Form of Expenditure” in Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, 148-166.
• Mbembe, A. 2006. “On Politics as a Form of Expenditure” in Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, 299-335.
• Mbembe, A. 2006. “On the Postcolony: A Brief Response To Critics”. African identities 4(2): 143-178.
• Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa: Prognosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowlegde.Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Nkrumah, K. 1970. Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation. First Modem.
• Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana: the autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. Intl Pub, 1971.
• Nyerere, J. 1986. Freedom and Unity: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1952-65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Odinga, O., and K. Nkrumah. 1967. Not Yet Uhuru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga.
• Sankara, T. 2010. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987. New York: Pathfinder Press.
• Senghor, L.S. 1974. ‘Negritude’ Indian Literature. 269-273.
• Shivji, I.G., 1989. The concept of human rights in Africa. African Books Collective.

Pre-colonial Politics, Slavery and the Role of Traditional Leaders

• Bob-Milliar, G. M. 2009. Chieftaincy, diaspora, and development: The institution of Nksuohene in Ghana. African Affairs. 108 (433): 541-558
• Chigudu, D. 2015. Assessing Policy Initiatives on Traditional Leadership to Promote Electoral Democracy in Southern Africa. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 6(1):120.
• Diop, C.H. 1989. The African Origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality.Chicago Review Press.
• Kenyatta, J. 1961. Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu. London: Mercury Books.
• Mbodj, M. 1993. “The Abolition of Slavery in Senegal, 1820-1890: Crisis or the Rise of a New Entrepreneurial Class?” Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. 197-211.
• Ntsebeza, L. 2004. “Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa.” The European Journal of Development Research. 16(1): 71-89.
• Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africa. Leiden: Brill.
• Plaatje, S. T. 2008. Native Life in South Africa.Blackmask Online.
• Rodney, W. 1966. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-trade. The Journal of African History. 7(03): 431-443.
• Samatar, A. I. 1992. Destruction of state and society in Somalia: Beyond the tribal convention. Journal of Modern African Studie.30(04):625-641.

 Nationalism, Pan Africanism, and Anti-colonial Struggles

• Barnett, D.L. and K. Njama. 1968. Mau Mau From Within.
• Cabral, A., 1970. National liberation and culture(No. 57). Syracuse University.
• Cabral, A., 1974. Revolution in Guinea: an African people’s struggle: selected texts. Stage 1.
• Chinodya, S. 1990. Harvest of Thorns.
• Fanon, F., 1965. The wretched of the earth(Vol. 390). Grove Press.
• Fanon, F., 1967. A dying colonialism. Grove Press.
• Fanon, F. and Maspero, F., 1970. Toward the African revolution(p. 107). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Langa, M. 2014. The Texture of Shadows.
• Mkandawire, T. 2002. “The Terrible Toll of Post-Colonial “Rebel Movements” in Africa: Toward an Explanation of the Violence Against the Peasantry.” Journal of Modern African Studies. 40(2): 181-215.
• Nkrumah, K. 1971. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. International Publishers.
• Nyerere, J. 1986. Freedom and Unity: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1952-65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Odinga, O., and K. Nkrumah. 1967. Not Yet Uhuru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga.
• Rutanga, M. 1991. Nyabingi Movement: People’s Anti-Colonial Struggles in Kigezi, 1910-1930. CBR Working Paper Series. Centre for Basic Research.
• Sankara, Thomas. 2010. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987. New York: Pathfinders.
• Sembène, O. 1960. Gods Bits of Wood. Le Livre Contemporain.
• Senghor, L.S. 2004. “Negritude and African Socialism” in The African Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge, edited by P. Coetzee et al, 438-447.
• Soyinka, W. 2002. Death and the King’s Horseman. WW Norton & Company.
• Vera, Y. 2002. The Stone Virgins.

Citizenship and Statehood

• Adebanwi, W. 2009. Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in Northern Nigeria. Citizenship studies. 13(4): 349-363.
• Bezabeh, S. A. 2011. Citizenship and the Logic of Sovereignty in Djibouti. African Affairs, 110(441). 587-606.
• Diouf, M. 1998. “The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. Development and Change. 29(4): 671-696.
• Diouf, M., and S. Rendall. 2000. “The Senegalese Murid trade diaspora and the making of a vernacular cosmopolitanism.” Public Culture.12(3): 679-702.
• Ekeh, P.P. 1975. “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement.” Comparative Studies in Society and History.17(01): 91-112.
• Ekeh, P.P. 1990. “Social Anthropology and Two Contrasting Uses of Tribalism in Africa.” Comparative Studies in Society and History32(04): 660-700.
• Emecheta, B. 1994. Second-class citizen. Heinemann.
• Golooba‐Mutebi, F. 2004. Reassessing Popular Participation in Uganda. Public Administration and Development. 24(4): 289-304.
• Karekwaivanane, G. H. 2011. ‘It Shall be the Duty of Every African to Obey and Comply Promptly’: Negotiating State Authority in the Legal Arena, Rhodesia 1965–1980. Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(02): 333-349.
• Mahmood, M. 2001. “Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism.” Comparative Studies in Society and History43(4): 651–64.
• Mamdani, M. 1996. “From Conquest to Consent as the Basis of State Formation: Reflections on Rwanda”. New Left Review, 216: 3–36.
• Mamdani, M. 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Pinceton: Princeton University Press.
• Mustapha, A. R.. 1986. “The National Question and Radical Politics in Nigeria.” Review of African Political Economy.13(37): 81-96.
• Ndegwa, S. N. 1997. “Citizenship and Ethnicity: An Examination of Two Transition Moments in Kenyan Politics.” American Political Science Review. 91(03): 599-616.
• Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2005. Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging. London: Zed Books.
• Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2006. Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa. Zed Books.
• Nzongola-Ntalaja, G. 2007. “The Politics of Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo” in Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa, edited by Sarah Rich Dorman et al, 69-80.
• Samatar, A. and A.I. Samatar. 2002. The African State: Reconsiderations. London: Heinemann.
• Samatar, A. I. 2004. Ethiopian Federalism: Autonomy Versus Control in the Somali Region. Third World Quarterly. 25(6):1131-1154.

 Social Movements and Civil Society

• Ekeh, P. “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement”,Comparative Studies in Society and History.17:91-112.
• Gyimah-Boadi. E. 1996. ‘Civil Society in Africa’. Journal of Democracy. 7(2): 118-32.
• Gyimah-Boadi, E. 2004. “Civil society and Democratic Development.” Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress, edited by E. Gyimah-Boadi, 99.
• Habib, A. 2005. State-civil Society Relations in Post-apartheid South Africa. Social Research. 72(3):671-692.
• Maundeni, Z. 2004. Civil Society, Politics and the State in Botswana. Medi Publishing.
• Mbali, M. 2004. “AIDS Discourses and the South African State: Government Denialism and Post-apartheid AIDS Policy-making. Transformation”: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 54(1):104-122.
• Mbali, M. 2013. South African AIDS activism and global health politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Murunga, G.R. 2000. “Civil Society and the Democratic Experience in Kenya.” African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie.4(1): 97-118.
• Nzongola-Ntalaja, G. 2002. The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Lonson: Zed Books.
• Oloka‐Onyango, J., and J.J. Barya. 1997. Civil Society and the Political Economy of Foreign Aid in Uganda. Democratization. 4(2):113-138.
• Oloka-Onyango, J. 2002. Reinforcing Marginalized Rights in an Age of Globalization: International Mechanisms, Non-State Actors, and the Struggle for People’s Rights in Africa. American University International Law Review.18:851.

Parties, Elections and Democracy

• Ake, Claude. Democratization of Disempowerment in Africa. Lagos: Malthouse Press.
• Ake, C. 2001. Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
• Ake, C. 2000. The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa. African Books Collective.
• Alieno, A. 2007. “Mungiki: “Neo-Mau Mau” and the Prospects for Democracy in Kenya’”. Review of African Political Economy. 34(113):526-531.
• Chigudu, D. 2015. Foreign Election Observers in Africa: Towards an Obligations-Based Approach. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 6(1):272.
• Kiwuwa, D. 2012. Ethnic Politics and Democratic Transition in Rwanda. London: Routledge.
• Makara, S., L. Rakner and L. Svåsand. 2009. Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda. International Political Science Review. 30(2):185-204.
• Mandela, R.N. 1994. A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. London: Bayback Books.
• Mangcu, X. 2005. The Meaning of Mandela (essays by Wole Soyinka, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.) Johannesburg: HSRC Press.
• Mangcu, X. 2008. To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa. Durban: UKZN Press.
• Murunga, G. R., and Shadrack W. Nasong’o. 2007. Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy. London: Zed Books.
• Murunga, G. 2002. “A Critical Look at Kenya’s Non-transition to Democracy.” Journal of Third World Studies.19(2): 89.
• Murunga, G. et al (eds). 2014. Kenya the Struggle for a New Constitutional Order. London: Zed books and NAI.
• Muzondidya, J. 2013. “The Opposition Dilemma in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review of the Politics of the Move.” In The Hard Road to Reform: The Politics of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement, edited by Brian Raftopoulos, 39–70.
• Mwenda, A. M. 2007. Personalizing Power in Uganda. Journal of Democracy.18(3): 23-37.
• N’Diaye, B. 2006. “Mauritania, August 2005: Justice and Democracy, or Just Another Coup?.” African Affairs.105(420): 421-441.
• Ndegwa, Stephen N. 2003. “Kenya: Third Time Lucky?.” Journal of Democracy. 14(3): 145-158.
• Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. 1984. “Bureaucracy, Elite, New Class: Who Serves Whom and Why in Mobutu’s Zaire?”Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines.18(1): 99–102.
• Olukoshi, A. O. 1998. The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa. Nordic Africa Institute.
• Omotola, J. S. 2010. Elections and democratic transition in Nigeria under the Fourth Republic. African Affairs. 109 (437):535-553.
• Osoba, S. 1977. “The Nigerian Political Elite: 1952-1965.” in African Social Studies, edited by P. Gutkind and P. Waterman. London: Heinemann.
• Owusu, M. 1992. ‘Democracy and Africa: A View from the Village’, Journal of Modern African Studies. 30(3).369-396.
• Prempeh, H. K. 2008. “Presidents Untamed.” Journal of Democracy.19(2):109-123.
• Tendi, B.M. 2014. “The Origins and Functions of Demonisation Discourses in Britain–Zimbabwe Relations (2000–).” Journal of Southern African Studies. 1–19.
• Ugochukwu Nwosu B. 2012. ‘Tracks of the Third Wave: Democracy Theory, Democratisation and the Dilemma of Political Succession in Africa’. Review of African Political Economy. 39(131): 11-25.
• Wamba-dia-Wamba, E. 1992. “Beyond Elite Politics of Democracy in Africa.” Quest: An International African Journal of Philosophy. 6.1:29-42.
• Zamchiya, P. 2013. The MDC-T’s (Un) Seeing Eye in Zimbabwe’s 2013 Harmonised Elections: A Technical Knockout. Journal of Southern African Studies. 39(4): 955-962.

 The Politics of Ethnicity

• Ake, C. 1993. “What is the Problem of Ethnicity in Africa.” Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa.22: 1-14.
• Ake, C. “A World of Political Ethnicity.” inThe Historical Dimension of Development, Change and Conflict in the South, edited by R. Berg (et al).
• Habyarimana, J., M. Humphreys, D.N. Posner, and J.M. Weinstein. 2004. Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach. Los Angeles: University of California.
• Langer, A., A.R. Mustapha, A. R., and F. Stewart. 2009. Diversity and Discord: Ethnicity, Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict in Ghana and Nigeria. Journal of International Development. 21(4):477-482.
• Mafeje, A. 1971. “The Ideology of ‘Tribalism.’” The Journal of Modern African Studies.9(2):253–61.
• Mamdani, M. 2012. Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
• Murunga, G.R. and S. W. Nasong’o. 2006. “Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies.24(1). 1-28.
• Mustapha, A. R. 2009. Institutionalising ethnic representation: How effective is affirmative action in Nigeria? Journal of International Development. 21(4): 561-576.
• Mustapha, A. R. “Ethnicity and the Politics of Democratization in Nigeria.” in Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, edited by Bruce Berman (et al).
• Mwangi Kagwanja. P, 2003. “Facing Mount Kenya or Facing Mecca? The Mungiki, Ethnic Violence and the Politics of the Moi Succession in Kenya, 1987-2002”. African Affairs. 102(406): 25-49.
• Osaghae, E. E. 1998. “Managing Multiple Minority Problems in a Divided Society: The Nigerian Experience.” The Journal of Modern African Studies.36(1): 1–24.
• Osaghae, E. E. 1995. Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria. 98. Nordic Africa Institute.
• Samatar, A. I. 1997. Leadership and Ethnicity in the Making of African State Models: Botswana versus Somalia. Third World Quarterly, 18(4): 687-708.
• Ukiwo, U. 2005. The Study of Ethnicity in Nigeria. Oxford Development Studies. 33(1): 7-23.

 The Politics of Religion

• Addo, E. O. 1997. Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana. University Press of America.
• Ahmed, A.C., 1999. Islam et politique aux Comores: évolution de l’autorité spirituelle depuis le protectorat français (1886) jusqu’à nos jours.
• Babou, C.A., 2007. Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913. Ohio University Press.
• Mbiti, J. S. 1990. African Religions and Philosophy. New York: Heinemann.
• Mustapha, A. R. (ed). 2014. Sects and Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria. Rochester: Boydell and Brewer Ltd.
• Mustapha, A. R. 2014. Understanding Boko Haram. Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria, edited by Raufu Mustapha, 147 – 198.
• Mwaura, P. N., and D.S. Parsitau. 2012. Perceptions of Women’s Health and Rights in Christian New Religious Movements in Kenya. African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with Other World Religionsedited by A. Adogame (et al), 175 – 185.
• Kane, O., 2003. Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: A study of the society for the removal of innovation and reinstatement of tradition.
• Parsitau, D. S. 2008. “Sounds of Change and Reform: The Appropriation of Gospel Music and Dance in Political Discourses in Kenya”. Studies in World Christianity. 14(1): 55-72.
• Sherrif, A. 2010. Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam. Columbia University Press and Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute.
• Tayob, A., 1999. Islam in South Africa: mosques, imams, and sermons. University Press of Florida.
• Tarusarira, J., and G. Ganiel. 2012. Religion, Secular Democracy and Conflict Resolution in Zimbabwe. The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution, 99-117.
• Tayob, A. 2008. Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia. South African Historical Journal. 60(4): 583-599.
• Ukah, A. F. 2007. African Christianities: Features, Promises and Problems. Working Paper 79. Johannes Gutenbertg-Universität.
• Umar, M.S., 2006. Islam and Colonialism: intellectual responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British colonial rule(Vol. 5). Brill.

The Politics of Gender and Youth

• Adichie, C. N. 2014. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage.
• Alidou, O.D., 2005. Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger. Univ of Wisconsin Press.
• Amadiume, I. 1987. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Amadiume, I. 1997. Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, religion and culture. London: Zed Books.
• Amadiume, I. 2000. “Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy.” London: Zed Books.
• Bennett, J., and H. Chigudu. 2012. Researching Sexuality with Young Women: Southern Africa. Feminist Africa. 17:1-7.
• Diouf, M. (2003) “Engaging Postcolonial Cultures: African Youth and Public Space.” African Studies Review. 46(02): 1-12.
• Hassim, S., 2006. Women’s organizations and democracy in South Africa: contesting authority. Univ of Wisconsin Press.
• Imam, A., A. Mama, and F. Sow (eds). 1997. Engendering African Social Sciences. Dakar: CODESRIA.
• Mama, A. 1997. “Feminism or Femocracy? State Feminism and Democratisation in Nigeria.” Africa Development.20(1): 37–58.
• Mama, A. 2001. “Challenging Subjects: Gender and Power in African Contexts.” African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie5(2): 63–73.
• Medie, P. A. 2013. Fighting Gender-based Violence: The Women’s Movement and the Enforcement of Rape Law in Liberia. African Affairs. 112 (448): 377-397.
• Oloka-Onyango, J. and Tamale, S. 1995. ” The Personal is Political,” or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism. Human Rights Quarterly. 17(4): 691-731.
• Oyěwùmí, O. 1997. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press.
• Tamale, S. 2011. African Sexualities: A Reader. London: Pambazuka.
• Tamale, S. 1999. When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda. Westview Press.
• Tamale, S. 2007. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda. Africa After Genderedited by C.M. Cole (et al), 17-29.

 Agricultural Politics and Land Reform

• Kimuli, K. 2007. ‘Tax me if you can: Ethnic geography, democracy, and the taxation of agriculture in Africa’. American Political Science Review. 101(1): 159-172.
• Mkandawire, T., 2009. Institutional Monocropping and Monotasking in Africa. UNRSID.
• Moyo, S. 2005. “Land and Natural Resource Redistribution in Zimbabwe: Access, Equity and Conflict.” African and Asian Studies.4(1): 187-224.
• Ntsebeza, L. 2004. “Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa.” The European Journal of Development Research. 16(1):71-89.
• Zamchiya, P. 2011. A Synopsis of Land and Agrarian Change in Chipinge district, Zimbabwe. Journal of Peasant Studies. 38(5): 1093-1122.
• Zamchiya, P. 2013. The Role of Politics and State Practices in Shaping Rural Differentiation: A Study of Resettled Small-Scale Farmers in South-Eastern Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies. 39(4):937-953.

 Urban Politics

• Bagaeen, S., and O. Uduku (eds). 2010. Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments. London: Routledge.
• Chipungu, L. and Adebayo, A.A. 2013. Policy and Planning Divide: An Evaluation of Housing Production in the Aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.28 (2): 381-396.
• Hamalengwa, Munyonzwe. 1992. Class Struggles in Zambia, 1889-1989 and the Fall of Kenneth Kaunda, 1990-1991. University Press of America
• Ismail, S. 2015. The Victoria Mxenge Housing project- women building activism through social activism and informal learning. UCT Press, Cape Town
• Kombe, W. J., and Kreibich, V. 2000. Reconciling Informal and Formal Land Management: An Agenda for Improving Tenure Security and Urban Governance in Poor Countries. Habitat International. 24(2): 231-240.
• LeVan, C. and J. Olubowale. 2014. ‘I am Here Until Development Comes’: Displacement, Demolitions, and Property Rights in Urbanizing Nigeria’. African Affairs.113 (452): 387-408.
• Musoni, Francis. 2010. “Operation Murambatsvina and the Politics of Street Vendors in Zimbabwe.” Journal of Southern African Studies.36(2): 301–17.
• Ngalamulume, K. 2004. Keeping the City Totally Clean: Yellow Fever and the Politics of Prevention in Colonial Saint-Louis-du-Sènègal, 1850–1914. The Journal of African History. 45(02):183-202.
• Nuwagaba, A. 1996. Urbanisation and Environmental Crisis in a Ugandan City: Implications for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review. 12(1): 15-33.
• Obeng-Odoom, F. 2011. Ill Health Unleashed? Cities and Municipal Services in Ghana. Review of African Political Economy. 38(127): 43-60.
• Yeboah, I. 2006. Subaltern Strategies and Development Practice: Urban Water Privatization in Ghana. The Geographical Journal. 172(1): 50-65.
• Zikode, S. 2008. The Greatest Threat to Future Stability in Our Country is the Greatest Strength of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (SA). Journal of Asian and African studies. 43(1):113-117.

 Foreign Policy, International Relations, and African Union

• Adejumobi, S. and A. Olukoshi (eds.). 2008. The African Union and New Strategies for Development in Africa. New York: Cambria Press.
• Akokparti, J., A. Ndinga-Muvumba and T. Murithi (eds.). 2009. The African Union and its Institutions. Cape Town: Jacana.
• Asante, Samuel KB. The political economy of regionalism in Africa: a decade of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Praeger Publishers, 1986.
• Baimu, E., and K. Sturman. 2003. “Amendment to the African Union’s Right to Intervene: A Shift from Human Security to Regime Security?.” African Security Studies.12(2): 37-45.
• Carmody, P. R., and F.Y. Owusu. 2007. “Competing Hegemons? Chinese versus American Geo-economic Strategies in Africa.” Political Geography.26(5): 504-524.
• Legler, T., and T. Kwasi Tieku. 2010. “What Difference Can a Path Make? Regional Democracy Promotion Regimes in the Americas and Africa.” Democratization. 17(3): 465-491.
• Makinda, S. M., and F. Wafula Okumu. 2007. The African Union: Challenges of Globalization, Security, and Governance. London: Routledge.
• Mugomba, A. T. 1978. “Regional Organisations and African Underdevelopment: The Collapse of the East African Community.” The Journal of Modern African Studies.16(02): 261-272.
• Murithi, T. 2008. “The African Union’s Evolving Role in Peace Operations: The African Union Mission in Burundi, the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Mission in Somalia.” African Security Studies.17(1): 69-82.
• Murithi, T. 2005. The African Union. Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Omar A. Touray. 2005. “The Common African Defence and Security Policy”. African Affairs. 104 (417): 635-656.
• Tieku, T. K. 2004. “Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union.” African Affairs.103(411): 249-267.

 The Military and Security Sector Reform

• Aboagye, F. 1999. The Ghana Army. Accra: Sedco.
• Agbese, P.O. 1988. “Defence Expenditures and Private Capital Accumulation in Nigeria” Journal of Asian and African Studies. 13: 3-4.
• Assenoh, A.B. and Yvette M.A. 2001. African Military History and Politics: Coups and Ideological Incursions 1900-present. New York: Palgrave.
• Egbo, O., I. Nwakoby, J. Onwumere, and C. Uche. 2012. Security Votes in Nigeria: Disguising Stealing from the Public Purse. African Affairs111(445):597-614.
• Hutchful, E. and Abdoulaye B. (eds.) 1998. The Military and Militarism in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA.
• Ihonvbere, J.O. 1996. “Are Things Falling Apart? The Military and the Crisis of Democratisation in Nigeria” Journal of Modern African Studies. 34(2):193-225.
• Kandeh, J. 1996. “What Does the ‘Militariat’ Do when it Rules? Military Regimes, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia”. Review of African Political Economy. 23(69): 387-404.
• Mashike, L. 2008. Age of despair: The Un-integrated Forces of South Africa. African Affairs. 107(428):433-453.
• Mazrui, A.A 1975. Soldiers and Kingsmen in Uganda: The Making of a Military Ethnocracy. London: Sage Publications.
• Mazrui, A.A. (ed). 1977. The Warrior Tradition in Africa. Leiden: Brill.
• Mazrui, A.A. 1977. “Soldiers as Traditionalizers: Military Rule and the Re-Africanization of Africa.” Journal of Asian and African Studies. 12(4): 236-58.
• Mazrui, A.A. 1980. The African Condition: The Reith Lectures. London: Heinemann.
• Murithi, T. 2008. “The African Union’s Evolving Role in Peace Operations: The African Union Mission in Burundi, the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Mission in Somalia” The African Security Review. 17(1): 69-82.
• Museveni, Y. 1997. Sowing the Mustard Seed:The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda. London:
• Mwenda, A. and R. Tangri. 2003. “Military Corruption & Ugandan Politics since the late 1990s” in Review of African Political Economy, 30:98, pp. 539-552.
• N’Diaye, B. 2001. The Challenge of Institutionalising Civilian Control: Botswana, Ivory Coast and Kenya in Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Leighton Books.
• Nindorera, W. 2007. Security Sector Reform in Burundi: Issues and Challenges for Improving Civilian Protection, Centre d’Alerte et de Prévention des Conflits (CENAP)/North-South Institute (NSI). Working Paper. Ottawa. NSI.
• Nwagwu, E. 2002. Taming the Tiger: Civil-Military Relations and the Search for Political Stability in Nigeria. University Press of America.
• Okoye, I. 1991. Soldiers and Politics in Nigeria. Enugu: New Age Publishers.
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 Conflict and Civil War

• Elbadawi, E., and N. Sambanis. 2000. “Why Are There So Many Civil Wars in Africa? Understanding and Preventing Violent Conflict.” Journal of African Economies.9(3): 244-269.
• Golooba-Mutebi, F. 2008. “Collapse, War, and Reconstruction in Rwanda: An Analytical Narrative on State Making.” Crisis States Working Papers Series No. 2. LSE.
• Kisangani, E. F. 2012. Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
• Mamdani, M. 2002. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Mamdani, M. 2002. “African States, Citizenship and War: A Case–study.” International Affairs.78(3): 493–506.
• Mamdani, M. 2007. The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency. London Review of Books. 29(5):5-8.
• Medie, P. A. 2013. Fighting Gender-based Violence: The Women’s Movement and the Enforcement of Rape Law in Liberia. African Affairs. 112 (448): 377-397.
• Mwagiru, M. 2006. Conflict in Africa: Theory, Processes and Institutions of Management. Nairobi: CCR Publications.
• Mwakikagile, G. 2013. Civil Wars in Rwanda and Burundi: Conflict Resolution in Africa. New Africa Press.

 The Politics of Refugees and Migration

• Adepoju, A. 1982. “The Dimensions of the Refugee Problem in Africa.” African Affairs.81(322): 21–35.
• Akyeampong, E. 2005. “Diaspora and Drug Trafficking in West Africa: A Case Study of Ghana.” African Affairs.104(416): 429–47.
• Akyeampong, E. 2000. Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Crush, J. and D. Tevera. 2010. Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival. Southern African Migration Project.
• Mamdani, M. 2011. From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians come to Britain. London: Pambazuka.
• Mazrui, A. A. A., I. Okpewho and C.B. Davies. 1999. The African Diaspora: African Origins and the New World Identities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Mbembé, J-A. and Steven Rendall. 2000. “At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa.” Public Culture.12(1): 259-284.
• Mushemeza, E.D. 2007. The Politics and Empowerment of Banyarwanda Refugees in Uganda, 1959-2001. Fountain Publishers.
• Ndjio, B. 2008. Mokoagne Moni: Sorcery and New Forms of Wealth in Cameroon. Past & Present. 199(3):271-289.
• Ndjio, B. 2009. “Shanghai Beauties’ and African Desires: Migration, Trade and Chinese Prostitution in Cameroon”. European Journal of Development Research, 21(4): 606-621.
• Obadare, E., and W. Adebanwi. 2009. “Transnational Resource Flow and the Paradoxes of Belonging: Redirecting the Debate on Transnationalism, Remittances, State and Citizenship in Africa.” Review of African Political Economy. 36(122): 499-517.
• Okpewho, I., and N. Nzegwu. 2009. The New African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Oloka-Onyango, J. 1995. Plight of the Larger Half: Human Rights, Gender Violence and the Legal Status of Refugee and Internally Displaced Women in Africa, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 24 (3): 349–489.
• Samatar, A. I., M. Lindberg and B. Mahayni. 2010. “The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: The Rich Versus the Poor”. Third World Quarterly.31(8):1377-1394.

 Peace-making, Peace-building, and Reconciliation

• Adebajo, A. 2002. Building Peace in West Africa; Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. Lynne Reiner.
• Amadiume, I. 2000. The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice. London: Zed Books.
• Kimonyo, J.P., N. Twagiramungu, and C. Kayumba. 2004. Supporting the Post-Genocide Transition in Rwanda : The Role of the International Community. The Hague: Netherlands.
• Mandaza, I. 1999. Reconciliation and Social Justice in Southern Africa: The Zimbabwe Experience in  African Renaissance: The New Struggle, edited by Malegapuru William Makgoba, 81.
• Mbembe, A. 2008. “Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa”. Public Culture. 20(1): 5-18.
• Mgbako, C. 2005. “Ingando Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation and Political Indoctrination in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” Harvard Human Rights Journal.18: 201–24.
• Murithi, T. 2005.The African Union:Pan-African Peacebuilding and Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Saliu, H.A. 2007. “Nigeria and Peace Support Operations: Trends and Policy Implications”. International Peacekeeping. 7(3): 105-119.
• Tarusarira, J. and Ganiel, G. 2012. Religion, Secular Democracy and Conflict Resolution in Zimbabwe in The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution, 99-117.

 The Politics of International Development

• Adejumobi, S. and A. Olukoshi (eds.). (2008). The African Union and New Strategies for Development in Africa; Cambria Press, New York.
• Amin, S. 1976. Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism. New York : Monthly Review Press
• Amin, S. 2011. Maldevelopment: Anatomy of a Global Failure. London: Pambazuka Press.
• Bob-Milliar, G. M. 2009. Chieftaincy, Diaspora, and Development: The Institution of Nksuohene in Ghana. African Affairs. 108 (433): 541-558
• Booth, D. and F. Golooba-Mutebi. 2012. “Developmental patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda.” African Affairs.111(444): 379-403.
• Chipungu, L. and H. Magidimisha. 2015. Governance for Development in Africa: Solving Collective Action Problems. African Affairs. 114 (454): 152-154.
• Kagwanja, P. 2007. “Calming the Waters: The East African Community and Conflict Over the Nile Resources.” Journal of Eastern African Studies.1(3): 321-337.
• Mkandawire, T. 2001. “Thinking About Developmental States in Africa.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 25(3): 289-313.
• Mkandawire, T. ed. 2004. Social Policy in a Development Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mkandawire, T. 2010. “From Maladjusted States to Democratic Developmental States in Africa,” in Constructing a democratic developmental state in South Africa: Potentials and Challenges, edited by Omano Edigheji, 59 – 81.
• Mkandawire, T. 2010. “How the New Poverty Agenda Neglected Social and Employment Policies in Africa.” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development. 11(1): 37 – 55.
• Mkandawire, T. 2010. “On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa.” Journal of Development Studies. 46(10): 1647-1669.
• Mwenda, A. and R. Tangri. 2005. “Patronage Politics, Donor Reforms, and Regime Consolidation in Uganda” in African Affairs, 104(416). 449-467.
• Ndegwa, S.N. and B. Levy. 2003. The Politics of Decentralization in Africa: A Comparative Analysis. World Bank.
• Tangri, R., and A. M. Mwenda. 2006. Politics, Donors and the Ineffectiveness of Anti-corruption Institutions in Uganda. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 44(01): 101-124.
• Murithi, T. 2005. The African Union: Pan-African Peacebuilding and Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Odetola, O. 1982. Military Regimes and Development: A Comparative Analysis in African Societies. London: George Allen and Unwin.
• Rodney, W. 2012. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Pambazuka Press.
• Tangri, R. and A. Mwenda. 2001. “Corruption and Cronyism in Uganda’s Privatization in the 1990s”. African Affairs. 100(398):117-133.

 The Politics of Language, Knowledge and Education

• Appiah, K. A. 1991. Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? Critical Inquiry. 17(2): 336–357.
• Federici, S., Caffentzis, C.G. and Alidou, O., 2000. A thousand flowers: Social struggles against structural adjustment in African universities. Africa World Press.
• Mama, A. 2007. “Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom.” African Studies Review. 50(1): 1–26.
• Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa: Prognosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Mudimbe, V. Y. 1991. Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa. Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press.
• Mudimbe, V.Y. 1994. The Idea of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2012. “Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa”. Africa Spectrum. 47: 63–92.
• Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2012. “‘Potted plants in greenhouses’: A Critical Reflection on the Resilience of Colonial Education in Africa”. Journal of Asian and African Studies.  47 (2): 129-154.
• Owomoyela, O. 1994. “With Friends like These… A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology”. African Studies Review. 37(3): 77-101.
• Rutazibwa, O. U. 2014. Studying Agaciro:Moving Beyond Wilsonian Interventionist Knowledge Production on Rwanda. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding8(4): 291-302.
• Tamale, S. R., and J. Oloka-Onyango. 2000. Bitches at the Academy: Gender and Academic Freedom in Africa.
• Tendi, B.M. 2010. Making History in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media. Oxford: Peter Lang.
• Wa Thiong’o, N. 1981. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Oxford: James Curry.
• Wa Thiong’o, N. 1998. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Zeleza, P.T. 2005. “Transnational Education and African Universities.” Journal of Higher Education in Africa. 3(1): 1–28.