Making War in Côte d’Ivoire, a review by André Liivakant Mike McGovern. Making War in Côte d’Ivoire. Chicago, USA. The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 238 pp, ISBN 97802265145898 After emerging from french colonialism Côte d’Ivorie, in the control of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, enjoyed something that has been referred to as…

Youth and revolution in Tunisia: Book review by Abrahim Aftai (2015) (Updated) Alcinda Honwana published a book called “Youth and revolution in Tunisia” in 2013. She is visiting professor of anthropology and international development at the Open University (UK). The reason she wrote the book was obviously the revolution that…

Paul Collier. Wars, guns & votes Democracy in dangerous places. Vintage books. London. 2009. ISBN 9780099523512. Collier´s “Wars, Guns & Votes” focuses on the causes of violence in impoverished small countries of the world economy, which he defines as “The bottom billion”. It focuses on the predominant and toughest aspects…

Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar a book review by Lia Hen. Jennifer Cole. Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar. Chicago, USA. The University of Chicago Press, 2010, 229 pp, ISBN 0226113302. In her book Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar Jennifer Cole explores…

A review of Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Sterns book Sexual violence as a weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond, by Nadja Piiroinen(2015). As a feminist I have had many reasons to feel hopeful during the last few years. As a consumer of entertainment I’ve…

‘Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is Another Way for Africa’ — Book Review by Thomas Perring Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa, Penguin Books (2010), ISBN 978–0–141–03118–7 Branded as a ‘polemic’ by The Guardian…

Book Review of Virginia Comolli: Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency Virginia Comolli, 2015. Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. Virginia Comolli has a rather impressive track record; she has been part of of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) since 2006, where her field…

Conflict Management in Africa, a solution from within? A review by Lovisa Asklöf Erskine, Lt-Gen Emmanuel Alexander, 2000. ”Peacekeeping Techniques for Africa’s Conflict Management” Accra, Afram Publications. ISBN 9964702094 Admiration. With my background as a soldier serving in the Swedish military with a pending bachelor in Peace and Conflict studies…

Gabrielle Lynch. I say to You. Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 291pp, ISBN 9780226498041. Gabrielle Lynch’s book ends in the Kenyan elections in 2007 with the subsequent political crisis and bloody aftermath that resulted in more than 1,000 people…