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Author Directory V

Nicolas van de Walle

Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic

Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence

Using Force to Protect Civilians: Successes and Failures of United Nations Peace Operations in Africa

War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953

The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

Djibouti: A Political History

Bushmeat: Culture, Economy, and Conservation in Central Africa

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide

Where Credit Is Due: How Africa’s Debt Can Be a Benefit, Not a Burden

Human Trafficking in South Africa

Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East

The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana

Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE

History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present

Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963

Ugandan Agency Within China-Africa Relations: President Museveni and China’s Foreign Policy in East Africa

China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order

Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria

The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation

The Tragedy of Madagascar: An Island Nation Confronts the Twenty-first Century

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda

The Invention of Green Colonialism

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa

Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État

Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and Development

Two Books on Nigeria

States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning

Sharia, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics

Multiethnic Democracy: The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya

To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré

Books for the Century: Africa

African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces

African Peacekeeping

Two Books on Conflict in the Congo

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid

The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Salafism and Political Order in Africa

The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards, and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century

The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront

“We Are Not Scared to Die”: Julius Malema and the New Movement for African Liberation

Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870–1920

Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda

Youth on the Move: Views From Below on Ethiopian International Migration

The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies

Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo

Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?

Two Books on U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa

Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History

East Africa After Liberation: Conflict, Security, and the State Since the 1980s

The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia—and What It Should Avoid

Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule

The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer: The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policymaking in South Africa and Tanzania

Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making

African Europeans: An Untold History

These Are Not Gentle People: Two Dead Men. Forty Suspects. The Trial That Broke a Small South African Town

The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley’s Long Shadow

Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil

Party Proliferation and Political Contestation in Africa: Senegal in Comparative Perspective

Riverblindness in Africa: Taming the Lion’s Stare

Two Books on Ghana

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel

Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan: Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival

U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik

When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Whose Agency: The Politics and Practice of Kenya’s HIV-Prevention NGOs

Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Understanding South Africa

Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years

Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies

The Quality of Growth in Africa

Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa

South Sudan’s Injustice System: Law and Activism on the Frontline

Africa’s Totalitarian Temptation: The Evolution of Autocratic Regimes

China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet

The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics

Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed

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