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Capsule Review Category Africa

Africa

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and Development

Nicolas van de Walle

Multiethnic Democracy: The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

Nicolas van de Walle

Books for the Century: Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on Conflict in the Congo

Nicolas van de Walle

African Peacekeeping

Nicolas van de Walle

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Nicolas van de Walle

Salafism and Political Order in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family’s Quest for a Country to Call Home

Two Books on U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

African Europeans: An Untold History

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on Ghana

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Understanding South Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

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

Nicolas van de Walle

From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

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

Nicolas van de Walle

The Quality of Growth in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Africa’s Totalitarian Temptation: The Evolution of Autocratic Regimes

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on Islamist Militants in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet

Nicolas van de Walle

Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed

Nicolas van de Walle

The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics

Nicolas van de Walle

Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary

Nicolas van de Walle

African Americans and Africa: A New History

Nicolas van de Walle

Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White

Nicolas van de Walle

The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent

Nicolas van de Walle

The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy

Nicolas van de Walle

African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church

Nicolas van de Walle

Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Politics in Kenya

Nicolas van de Walle

Combatants: A Memoir of the Bush War and the Press in Uganda

Nicolas van de Walle

How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity in Change

The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment

Nicolas van de Walle

Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit

Nicolas van de Walle

Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana

Nicolas van de Walle

Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics

Nicolas van de Walle

African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe

Nicolas van de Walle

Two Books on South Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding

Nicolas van de Walle

Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania

Nicolas van de Walle

The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider’s View From the Inside

Nicolas van de Walle

Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century

Nicolas van de Walle

Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development

Nicolas van de Walle

Africa Through an Economic Lens

Nicolas van de Walle

The Politics of Deforestation in Africa: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda

Nicolas van de Walle

Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics, and Profit

Nicolas van de Walle

Blood Papa: Rwanda’s New Generation

Nicolas van de Walle

Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

Nicolas van de Walle

African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms

Nicolas van de Walle

Robert Mugabe

Nicolas van de Walle

Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace

Nicolas van de Walle

Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid

Nicolas van de Walle

Peacekeeping in Africa: Politics, Security, and the Failure of Foreign Military Assistance

Nicolas van de Walle

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