New Double Issue is Out: Africa Today’s Issue 71.3-4, Spring/Summer 2025, has been published in print and on Project Muse.

Special double issue on Rethinking Women’s Political Power in West Africa.

Guest Editors:
Erdmute Alber,
Gretchen Bauer, and
Akosua Darkwah

TOC:

Rethinking Women’s Political Power in West Africa

Erdmute Alber, Gretchen Bauer, Akosua Darkwah

“We See What Men Don’t See”: Reflections of Women Cabinet Ministers from The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

Gretchen Bauer

Women’s Political Presence in Cabo Verde: Are We Closing the Leadership Gap?

Aleida Borges

Situating Political Engagement in Their Life Courses and Class Positionalities: Women in Politics in the Republic of Benin

Erdmute Alber

The Politics of the Entrepreneurial Middle Class: An Examination of Female Entrepreneurs in Eldercare in Accra

Cati Coe

Getting Power, Keeping Power: Perspectives on Clergywives and Power

Abena Kyere

In Defense of Pluralism About African Logic

L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya

The Political Energy of the Backway: Government, Migration, and Youth in The Gambia (2010s–21)

Alice Bellagamba, Ebrima Ceesay, Elia Vitturini

The Suspended Disaster: Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika’s Algeria by Thomas Serres (review)

Fouad Mami

A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa by Robyn d’Avignon (review)

Patrick Chukwudike Okpalaeke

An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo by Rachel Marie Niehuus (review)

Jeremy Rich