The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa â all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.
Jon Abbink is a professor of Politics & Governance in Africa at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. His interests are political anthropology, ethno-history, and culture and religion in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia). Current research projects are on Ethiopian regional history and livelihoods, the rhetoric and practice of âdevelopmentâ, and religion and community formation in Northeast Africa.
Victor Adetula, PhD (1996), is Head of Research, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), and Professor of International Relations & Development Studies at the University of Jos (Nigeria). He was previously Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala (2013), Head Division of Africa and African Integration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria (2012), Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011), and Director of the Centre for Development Studies, University of Jos (1998- 2001).
Andreas Mehler, PhD (1993) in Political Science, University of Hamburg, is Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. He has published extensively on democratisation processes and violent conflicts in West and Central Africa. With Henning Melber he was managing editor of Africa Spectrum.
Henning Melber, PhD (1980) in Political Science, University of Bremen, is Director emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Fellow of The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State. He has published extensively on Southern Africa and in particular Namibia. With Andreas Mehler he was managing editor of Africa Spectrum.
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Part 1
Sub-Saharan Africa
âJon Abbink, Victor Adetula, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber
Part 2
African-European Relations
âChristine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer
Part 3
West Africa
âVictor Adetula
Benin
âAlexander Stroh
Burkina Faso
âDaniel Eizenga
Cabo Verde
âGerhard Seibert
Côte dâIvoire
âJesper Bjarnesen
The Gambia
âAlice Bellagamba
Ghana
âJennifer C. Boylan
Guinea
âAnita Schroven
Guinea-Bissau
âChristoph Kohl
Liberia
âFranzisca Zanker
Mali
âBruce Whitehouse
Mauritania
âHelena Olsson and Claes Olsson
Niger
âKlaas van Walraven
Nigeria
âHeinrich Bergstresser
Senegal
âMamadou Bodian
Sierra Leone
âKrijn Peters
Togo
âDirk Kohnert
Part 4
Central Africa
âAndreas Mehler
Cameroon
âFanny Pigeaud
Central African Republic
âAndreas Mehler
Chad
âKetil Fred Hansen
Congo
âBrett L. Carter
Democratic Republic of the Congo
âJanosch Kullenberg