Issue 71.1, Fall 2024, of Africa Today has been published in print and on Project Muse.

Aside from superb research articles and book reviews, we are happy to introduce a new methodological genre—Research Note—with our first contribution from Richard Levy Raber.  

 

TOC: 

Rethinking Campaign Songs as Strategic Narratives: A Critical Analysis of “Awurade Kasa” and “Wona Mayi Wo” in Elections in Ghana

Rogers Asempasah



Maendeleo and Manhood: Kenyan Runners in Japan

Michael Kentaro Peters

 

Mobilities in Zimbabwe: Colonial Echoes and Contradictions in the Migration/Nonmigration Binary

Rose Jaji

 

Elitization: Mainsprings of Elite Social Control of Local Politics in Cameroon

Jean Daniel Bombela Bombela



Widening the Archival Sliver: Availing and Available Archival Materials Tied to Apartheid-Era African-Staffed Military Forces

Richard Levi Raber

 

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana by Barry Driscoll (review)

Adebisi Alade

 

Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal by Lauren Honig (review)

Lauren M. MacLean

 

You can access it here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53168. 

Enjoy!