CONTENTS
| Editorial | |
| 1 | Africa – coping with the ‘new normal’ |
| Alfred Zack-Williams | |
| Articles | |
| 10 | Have the social classes of yesterday vanished from Africanist issues or are African societies made up of new classes? A French anthropologist’s perspective |
| Jean Copans | |
| 27 | Safety and health before and after Marikana: subcontracting, illegal mining and trade union rivalry in the South African mining industry |
| Paul Stewart, Andries Bezuidenhout and Christine Bischoff | |
| 45 | The strategies and tactics of fighting against precarisation of work: a comparative study of precarious workers’ struggles in two South African municipalities |
| Lawrence Ntuli | |
| 59 | The politics of youth struggles for land in post-land reform Zimbabwe |
| Fadzai Chipato, Libin Wang, Ting Zuo and George T. Mudimu | |
| 78 | From war to wealth? Land policies and the peace economy in Côte d’Ivoire |
| Jacobo Grajales | |
| Briefings | |
| 95 | Digital labour at economic margins: African workers and the global information economy |
| Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham | |
| 106 | China’s involvement in the trans-Saharan textile trade and industry in Nigeria: the case of Kano |
| Murtala Muhammad, Ramatu Buba, Muhammad Danial Azman and Abubakar Ahmed | |
| 115 | The political economy of automobile development in Nigeria |
| Michael I. Ugwueze, Christian C. Ezeibe and Jonah I. Onuoha | |
| 126 | Poverty and living conditions with Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin: the case of southeastern Niger |
| Youssoufou Hamadou Daouda | |
| Debates | |
| 135 | Why inequality persists in Africa |
| Franklin Obeng-Odoom | |
| 144 | Samir Amin’s contribution to historical materialism |
| Morten Ougaard | |
| 153 | The African hero in Mozambican history: on assassinations and executions – Part I |
| John S. Saul | |
| Book review | |
| 166 | Ashwin Desai, Wentworth: the beautiful game and the making of place |
| Reviewed by Douglas Booth |
Volume 47 Number 164 June 2020
Issue Editor: Reginald Cline-Cole
| Editorial | |
| 169 | Socially distanced capitalism in a time of coronavirus |
| Reginald Cline-Cole | |
| Editorial notice | |
| 197 | Ruth First Prize |
| Articles | |
| 199 | Oil production, environmental pressures and other sources of violent conflict in Nigeria |
| Isidore Udoh | |
| 220 | Chinese investment in the Sierra Leone telecommunications sector: international financial institutions, neoliberalism and organisational fields |
| Aaron C. van Klyton, Said Rutabayiro-Ngoga and Lakmal Liyanage | |
| 238 | Campaign funding laws and the political economy of money politics in Nigeria |
| G. S. Mmaduabuchi Okeke and Uche Nwali | |
| 256 | Finance, infrastructure and urban capital: the political economy of African ‘gap-filling’ |
| Tom Goodfellow | |
| 275 | The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa |
| Jean-Claude N. Ashukem | |
| Briefings | |
| 291 | Conditional cash transfer and education under neoliberalism in Nigeria: inequality, poverty and commercialisation in the school sector |
| Ikedinachi K. Ogamba | |
| 301 | Zimbabwe’s 2018 elections: funding, public resources and vote buying |
| Musiwaro Ndakaripa | |
| Debates | |
| 313 | Crisis of political leadership in Zimbabwe |
| Mike Chipere | |
| 324 | The imagined Africa of the West: a critical perspective on Western imaginations of Africa |
| Rune Larsen and Stig Jensen | |
| 335 | The African hero in Mozambican history: on assassinations and executions – Part II |
| John S. Saul | |
| Book review | |
| 346 | Tamer M. A. Abd Elkreem, Power relations of development: the case of dam construction in the Nubian homeland, Sudan |
| Reviewed by Abeer R. Y. Abazeed | |
| 349 | Correction |
Volume 47 Number 165 September 2020
Issue Editor: Peter Lawrence
| Editorial | |
| 351 | Global capitalism and Africa after Covid-19 |
| Peter Lawrence | |
| Articles | |
| 363 | Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: a ‘new’ countryside |
| Toendepi Shonhe and Oliver Mtapuri | |
| 382 | Setting them up to fail: enforcement of the agribusiness model on land reform projects in South Africa |
| Clemence Rusenga | |
| 399 | Political leadership and non-state actors in the greening of Botswana |
| Emmanuel Mogende and Maano Ramutsindela | |
| 416 | The Economic Freedom Fighters: rethinking Du Bois in a tale of reconstruction |
| Mosa Phadi | |
| 432 | The political economy of disability in South Africa, between social grants and job-creation programmes |
| Marie Schnitzler | |
| 449 | Toward non-hagiographical reflections on Zimbabwe’s ‘heroes’: Dumiso Dabengwa’s history |
| David Moore | |
| Obituary | |
| 469 | John Loxley, 1942–2020: socialist economist and radical academic activist |
| Peter Lawrence | |
| Briefing | |
| 474 | Africa’s stalled structural transformation: the end of the flying geese? |
| Elijah N. Munyi | |
| Debate | |
| 484 | The deep coloniality of economics – a (r)evolutionary appraisal |
| Deniz Kellecioglu | |
| Review article | |
| 494 | Mafeje: scholar–activist with noble convictions |
| Peter T. Jacobs | |
| Book reviews | |
| 504 | Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha, and Paris Yeros (eds), Reclaiming Africa: scramble and resistance in the 21st century |
| Reviewed by Max Ajl | |
| 506 | John S. Saul, On building a social movement: the North American campaign for southern African liberation revisited |
| Reviewed by Arianna Lissoni | |
| 508 | Henning Melber, Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the decolonisation of Africa Reviewed by Alanna O’Malley |
Volume 47 Number 166 December 2020
Issue Editor: Elisa Greco
| Editorial | |
| 511 | Africa, extractivism and the crisis this time |
| Elisa Greco | |
| Articles | |
| 522 | Extractivism, exclusion and conflicts in Senegal’s agro-industrial transformation |
| Maura Benegiamo | |
| 545 | The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya |
| Matteo Capasso | |
| 568 | Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe: an analysis of contract farming at Hippo Valley |
| Freedom Mazwi | |
| 585 | Africa–EU relations and natural resource governance: understanding African agency in historical and contemporary perspective |
| Duncan Money, Hans Otto Frøland and Tshepo Gwatiwa | |
| 604 | Mining-induced violent resistance: the case of salt mining near Keta lagoon |
| Alhassan Atta-Quayson and Amina H. Baidoo | |
| 621 | So many ‘Africanists’, so few Africans: reshaping our understanding of ‘African politics’ through greater nuance and amplification of African voices |
| Zack Zimbalist | |
| Briefings | |
| 638 | Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors |
| Angus Elsby | |
| 651 | Africa’s Blue Economy: potentials and challenges for more locally beneficial development |
| Eddy Akpomera | |
| 662 | Oil and its discontents: the political economy of artisanal refining in Nigeria |
| Agaptus Nwozor, John Olanrewaju, Modupe Ake and Onjefu Okidu | |
| Debate | |
| 676 | Does political settlements analysis capture the unsettling politics of oil in Africa? |
| Nelson Oppong | |
| Book reviews | |
| 687 | Bettina Engels and Kristina Dietz (eds), Contested extractivism, society and the state: struggles over mining and land |
| Reviewed by Ray Bush | |
| 688 | Koenraad Bogaert, Globalised authoritarianism: megaprojects, slums, and class relations in urban Morocco |
| Reviewed by Ray Bush | |
| 691 | Volume index |
Author index, Volume 47, 2020
| Abazeed, Abeer R. Y., | 346 | Mazwi, Freedom, | 568 |
| Ahmed, Abubakar, | 106 | Mmaduabuchi Okeke, G. S., | 238 |
| Ajl, Max, | 504 | Mogende, Emmanuel, | 399 |
| Ake, Modupe, | 662 | Money, Duncan, | 585 |
| Akpomera, Eddy, | 651 | Moore, David, | 449 |
| Anwar, Mohammad Amir, | 95 | Mtapuri, Oliver, | 363 |
| Ashukem, Jean-Claude N., | 275 | Mudimu, George T., | 59 |
| Atta-Quayson, Alhassan, | 604 | Muhammad, Murtala, | 106 |
| Azman, Muhammad Danial, | 106 | Munyi, Elijah N., | 474 |
| Baidoo, Amina H., | 604 | Ndakaripa, Musiwaro, | 301 |
| Benegiamo, Maura, | 522 | Ntuli, Lawrence, | 45 |
| Bezuidenhout, Andries, | 27 | Nwali, Uche, | 238 |
| Bischoff, Christine, | 27 | Nwozor, Agaptus, | 662 |
| Booth, Reviewed by Douglas, | 166 | O’Malley, Alanna, | 508 |
| Buba, Ramatu, | 106 | Obeng-Odoom, Franklin, | 135 |
| Bush, Ray, | 687, 688 | Ogamba, Ikedinachi K., | 291 |
| Capasso, Matteo, | 545 | Okidu, Onjefu, | 662 |
| Chipato, Fadzai, | 59 | Olanrewaju, John, | 662 |
| Chipere, Mike, | 313 | Onuoha, Jonah I., | 115 |
| Cline-Cole, Reginald, | 169 | Oppong, Nelson, | 676 |
| Copans, Jean, | 10 | Ougaard, Morten, | 144 |
| Elsby, Angus, | 638 | Phadi, Mosa, | 416 |
| Ezeibe, Christian C., | 115 | Ramutsindela, Maano, | 399 |
| Frøland, Hans Otto, | 585 | Rusenga, Clemence, | 382 |
| Goodfellow, Tom, | 256 | Rutabayiro-Ngoga, Said, | 220 |
| Graham, Mark, | 95 | Saul, John S., | 153, 335 |
| Grajales, Jacobo, | 78 | Schnitzler, Marie, | 432 |
| Greco, Elisa, | 511 | Shonhe, Toendepi, | 363 |
| Gwatiwa, Tshepo, | 585 | Stewart, Paul, | 27 |
| Hamadou Daouda, Youssoufou, | 126 | Udoh, Isidore, | 199 |
| Jacobs, Peter T., | 494 | Ugwueze, Michael I., | 115 |
| Jensen, Stig, | 324 | van Klyton, Aaron C., | 220 |
| Kellecioglu, Deniz, | 484 | Wang, Libin, | 59 |
| Larsen, Rune, | 324 | Zack-Williams, Alfred, | 1 |
| Lawrence, Peter, | 351, 469 | Zimbalist, Zack, | 621 |
| Lissoni, Arianna, | 506 | Zuo, Ting, | 59 |
| Liyanage, Lakmal, | 220 |