Africa Yearbook Volume 15

Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2018

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The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – 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.
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2019
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Victor Adetula, Ph.D. (1996) in Political Economy and Development Studies, University of Jos, 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).

Benedikt Kamski, Ph.D. (2017) in Political Science, University of Freiburg, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and political analyst based in Addis Ababa. His research focus is on Ethiopia’s development model, hydro-agricultural development, and politico-economic dynamics across the Horn of Africa. He is a founding member of the Omo-Turkana Research Network.

Andreas Mehler, Ph.D. (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. He is the initiator and currently President of the executive council of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

Henning Melber, Ph.D. (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. He is currently the President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).
'We, in this present Journal of Oriental and African Studies, have been reviewing the Yearbook since its very beginnings, [...]. In all these years, the Yearbook has matured and has lived up to the expectations of its inceptors – but most importantly, it has managed to become the living reflection of Africa itself, it has managed to become a unique tool of analysis and information for all the developments in the Dark Continent.
[...] Every Yearbook is at the same time typical of all the other yearbooks and distinct. This has to do with the political and economic developments of the continent’s countries themselves – for example, 2018 was a significant year in African history, as “for the first time for more than a decade, not a single violent or unconstitutional overthrow of the government was recorded”. At the same time, the 2018 Yearbook records all the usual (but also some new) challenges and problems: reactions against the Chinese economic intrusion, internal conflicts, terrorism, desertification and climate change, bending of democratic rules, extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure, corruption, epidemics, but also some faint signs of hope (regional interconnection, infrastructural cooperation, development).
[...] The Yearbook fulfils its mission, as usual, in the best possible way. But at the same time, the Yearbook is something much more than a “simple” yearbook: it is Africa’s ongoing adventure recorder, its novel and its travelogue.

Sotiris S. Livas, in Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 30 (2021), pp 519-520
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2018)
List of Authors

Sub-Saharan Africa
 Victor Adetula, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber

African-European Relations
 Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer

West Africa
 Victor Adetula

Benin
 Alexander Stroh

Burkina Faso
 Daniel Eizenga

Cabo Verde
 Gerhard Seibert

Côte d’Ivoire
 Jesper Bjarnesen

The Gambia
 Alice Bellagamba

Ghana
 Jennifer Boylan

Guinea
 Anita Schroven

Guinea-Bissau
 Christoph Kohl

Liberia
 Franzisca Zanker

Mali
 Bruce Whitehouse

Mauritania
 Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson

Niger
 Klaas van Walraven

Nigeria
 Heinrich Bergstresser

Senegal
 Mamadou Bodian

Sierra Leone
 Krijn Peters

Togo
 Dirk Kohnert

Central Africa
 Andreas Mehler

Cameroon
 Fanny Pigeaud

Central African Republic
 Andreas Mehler

Chad
 Ketil Fred Hansen

Congo
 Brett L. Carter

Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Janosch Kullenberg

Equatorial Guinea
 Joseph N. Mangarella

Gabon
 Douglas Yates

São Tomé and Príncipe
 Gerhard Seibert

Eastern Africa
 Benedikt Kamski

Burundi
 Tomas van Acker

Comoros
 Simon Massey

Djibouti
 Nicole Hirt

Eritrea
 Nicole Hirt

Ethiopia
 Jon Abbink

Kenya
 Nanjala Nyabola

Rwanda
 Margot Leegwater

Seychelles
 Anthoni van Nieuwkerk

Somalia
 Jon Abbink

South Sudan
 Daniel Large

Sudan
 Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes

Tanzania
 Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier

Uganda
 Anna Reuss

Southern Africa
 Henning Melber

Angola
 Jon Schubert

Botswana
 David Sebudubudu

Eswatini
 Marisha Ramdeen

Lesotho
 Roger Southall

Madagascar
 Richard R. Marcus

Malawi
 George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri

Mauritius
 Sheila Bunwaree

Mozambique
 Joseph Hanlon

Namibia
 Henning Melber

South Africa
 Sanusha Naidu

Zambia
 Edalina Rodrigues Sanches

Zimbabwe
 Amin Y. Kamete
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