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2024

Journal articles

Simone, A., Somda, D., Torino, G., Irawati, M., Ramesh, N., Bathla, N., Castriota, R., Vegliò, S. & Chandra, T. (2024). Extending dialogues on the urban. Dialogues in Human Geography, 0(0).
Somda, D. (2024). Review: Open Restitution Africa. Reviews in Digital Humanities, V(4).

Op-eds

Ahmed, A.M.B. & Pabón, F.A.D. (2024). Handling AI, but with care. D+C/E+Z, 21 January.
Alaoui Soulimani, A. (2024). Review: At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique. Kronos, 50(1): 1-3.
Ferdaoussi, N. (2024). Climate as border. Africa Is a Country, 18 March.
Ferdaoussi, N. (2024). Turning grief into action: families of dead and disappeared migrants in Morocco. African Arguments, 13 February.

Conferences, workshops and seminars

Somda. D. (2024, January 7-14). Knowledge and attachments to urban plants in sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal): identification and production of a heritage from below [Workshop presentation]. International Research Program Infripatri, Porto Novo, Benin.
Somda. D. (2024, March 7). Rethinking hybridity from a Malagasy frontier [Seminar presentation]. Stellenbosch University, Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Alaoui Soulimani, A. (2024, March 11). Software as health infrastructures in the majority world [Seminar presentation]. University of Cape Town, Dept of Sociology, Cape Town, South Africa.

2023

Books and chapters in books

Chabrol, F. & Gaudillière, J.-P. (2023). Introduction à la santé globale. Paris: La Découverte.
Osha, S. (2023). Harry Garuba: A priest in Christopher Okigbo’s Shrine. In Harry O. Garuba Shadow and Dream: Alive in Poetry. Bamenda: RPCIG.
Chabrol, F., Traverson, L., Hou, R., Chotard, L., Lucet, J.-C., Peiffer-Smadja, N., Bendjelloul, G., Lescure, F.-X., Yazdanpanah, Y., Zinszer, K. & Ridde, V. (2023). Les adaptations et réponses à l’épidémie de Covid-19 d’un hôpital de référence parisien, in: Ridde, V., Traverson, L. & Zinszer, K. (Eds.), Hôpitaux et Santé Publique Face à La Pandémie de Covid-19. Perspectives de Santé Mondiale (pp. 71-86). Québec: Editions science et bien commun.
Chabrol, F. & Chotard, L. (2023). L’approche matérielle et spatiale d’un hôpital parisien face à la Covid-19. Vers un hôpital dés-affecté?, in: Ridde, V., Traverson, L. & Zinszer, K. (Eds.), Hôpitaux et Santé Publique Face à La Pandémie de Covid-19. Perspectives de Santé Mondiale (pp. 109-126). Québec: Editions science et bien commun.
Richard, Z., Chabrol, F., Gautier, L., Zinszer, K. & Ridde, V. (2023) La prise en compte des inégalités sociales de santé dans une intervention de réponse à la pandémie de Covid-19 en Île-de-France : « faire dans la dentelle » en temps de crise sanitaire? in: Ridde, Valery, Traverson, L. & Zinszer, K. (Eds.), Hôpitaux et Santé Publique Face à La Pandémie de Covid-19 (pp. 419-442). Québec: Editions science et bien commun.
Alaoui Soulimani, A. 2023. ‘We Sent Your Blood to France’: A Moroccan study case of genomic (im)mobility. In Jansen, J. & Auerbach, J., The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: South/African Perspectives (pp. 217-236). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Sanogo, S.F. (2023). COVID-19 anti-crisis: the masked vaginas of Zongo. In: Jansen, J. & Auerbach, J. (Eds.), The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences (pp. 237-248). Cham: Springer.

Journal articles

Aboderin, I., Fuh, D., Gebremariam, E. & Segalo, P. (2023). Beyond ‘equitable partnerships’: the imperative of transformative research collaborations with Africa. Global Social Challenges Journal, 1(aop):1-17.
Chabrol, F. & David, P.-M. (2023). How resilience affected public health research during COVID-19 and why we should abandon it. Global Public Health, 18, 2212750. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2212750
Chabrol, F., Traverson, L., Hou, R., Chotard, L., Lucet, J.-C., Peiffer-Smadja, N., Bendjelloul, G., Lescure, F.-X., Yazdanpanah, Y., Zinszer, K. & Ridde, V. (2023a). Adaptation and response of a major Parisian referral hospital to the COVID-19 surge: a qualitative study. Health Systems & Reform, 9, 2165429. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2023.2165429
Chabrol, F., Traverson, L., Hou, R., Chotard, L., Peiffer-Smadja, N., Lucet, J.-C., Bendjelloul, G., Dagenais, C. & Ridde, V. (2023b). Échanges interprofessionnels en temps de COVID-19 à l’hôpital Bichat Claude-Bernard : éclairages pour la recherche. Santé Publique, 35: 59-64. https://doi.org/10.3917/spub.231.0059
Coulibaly, A., Chabrol, F., Touré, L., Hou, R., Dramé, B.S.I., Zinszer, K. & Ridde, V. (2023). Responses to hospital restrictions on family visits during the COVID-19 epidemic in Mali and France. Health Systems & Reform, 9, 2241188. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2023.2241188
Coulibaly, A., Touré, L., Chabrol, F., Zinszer, K. & Ridde, V. (2023). Quand les pratiques des soignants « calment » ou « stressent » les malades : l’accompagnement psychosocial des malades infectés par le SARS-CoV-2 à Bamako. Sciences sociales et santé, 41: 69-94. https://doi.org/10.1684/sss.2023.0255
Ferdaoussi, N. (2023). Book Review: Joris Schapendonk, Finding Ways Through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside. Africa, 93(2): 321-323.
Gebremariam, E. B., Aboderin, I. A. G., Fuh, D. & Segalo, P. (2023). Beyond thinkering: changing Africa’s position in the global knowledge production ecosystem. CODESRIA Bulletin, 7, 2003.
Osha, S. (2023). Abidjan ’99: A Journey through disbelief. World Literature Today, May.
Osha, S. (2023). Kwasi Wiredu: Theorist of Conceptual Decolonization. Journal of World Philosophies, Summer, 8.
Osha, S. (2023). Spaces of African Thought: A critique of an enactivist rendering. Philosophia Africana, 22(1).
Sadiki, A., Tshifhumulo, R., Mpatlanyane, V. & Amaechi, E.K. (2023). Undergraduate students’ experiences with electronic learning platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic at a rural-based tertiary institution in South Africa. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 22(8).
Simone, A., Somda, D., Torino, G., Irawati, M., R., N., Bathla, N., Castriota, R., Vegliò, S. & Chandra, T. (2023). Inhabiting the extensions. Dialogues in Human Geography, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231168896.

Op-eds

Borland, R. (2023). Art meets medicine with the help of advancing AI. Wanted Online, 9 February.
Osha, S. (2023). AKA: slain South African rapper was a once-in-a-generation pop culture sensation. The Conversation, 12 February.
Osha, S. (2023). Amapiano Awards: South Africa’s dance music scene spreads its joy across the world. The Conversation, 30 March.
Osha, S. (2023). Angelique Kidjo: the diva from Benin carries with her a fierce history. The Conversation. 1 February.
Osha, S, (2023). Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture. The Conversation, 13 March.
Osha, S. (2023). Mass Country review: murdered South African rapper’s posthumous album is a mixed bag. The Conversation, February 24.
Osha, S, (2023). Toyin Falola: 3 recent books that explain the work of Nigeria’s famous decolonial scholar. The Conversation, 15 March.
Osha, S. (2023). Toyin Falola at seventy – a Pan-Africanist luminary for the digital age. The Johannesburg Review of Books, 17 February.

2022

Chapters in books

Mwaura, J. (2022). Digital dissidents or whistle-blowers? A critical analysis of microbloggers in Kenya. In: Kperogi, F. A. (Ed.) Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa. London: Routledge, 2022.
Osha, S. (2023). C.A. Diop’s decolonising historiography: a re-reading of precolonial Black Africa today” In: Kresse, K. & Sounaye, A. (Eds.) Thinking the Rethinking the of the World. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

Journal articles

Ahmed, M.B.A. (2022). "Tuti is losing its uniqueness": genealogy documentation of the Mahas of Tuti Island and the (de)construction of belonging. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 34(4): 438-455.
Kimari, W. (2022). To retreat or to confront? Grassroots activists navigating everyday torture in Kenya. Journal of the British Academy, 10(3): 79-96.
Kimari, W. & Pinheiro de Oliveira, A. (2021). Resisting colonial deaths: marginalised Black populations and COVID-19 in Brazil and Kenya. Kalfou, 8(1-2).
Mwaura, J. (2022). Book review: Searching for a New Kenya: politics and social media on the streets of Mombasa, by Stephanie Diepeveen. African Journalism Studies, 10 June.
Mwaura, J. & Akpojivi, U.(2022).Imagine dying from an overseas disease, when you do not even own a passport: a critical analysis of Twitter conversations in the wake of COVID-19 in Kenya and South Africa. Journal of African Media Studies. 14(1): 29-44.
Osha, S. (2022). A brief reflection on Don Mattera. Brittle Paper, 5 September.
Osha, S. (2022). Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939–2020): philosopher, polymath, humanist. Yorùbá Studies Review , 6(2): 239-246.
Osha, S. (2022). Ralph Borland on technology and art. Africanah.org, 5 May.
Osha, S. (2022). Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe. Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). 1 June.
Osha, S. (2022). Smith, Jack: travails of an underground artist. Senses of Cinema. (101), May.
Osha, S. (2022). The house of Amapiano. Los Angeles Review of Books. 17 October.
Osha, S. (2022). ThejunkmanfromAfrica, also known as Dilomprizulike. Africanah.org. 6 March.
Pfingst, A. & Kimari, W. (2021). Carcerality and the legacies of settler colonial punishment in Nairobi. Punishment and Society. 23(5): 697-722.
Somda, D. (2022). La politique des broderies. Fabriquer la vertu des femmes dans les communautés luthériennes (sud de Madagascar) [The politics of embroideries. Shaping female virtue in Lutheran communities in Southern Madagascar]. Techniques et cultures. (77): 182-197.
Somda, D. (2022). Le secret dans les archives. Pour une généalogie des silences sur l’esclavage au Sud de Madagascar [The secret in the archives. For a genealogy of silences on slavery in South Madagascar]. Esclavages & post~esclavages [Slaveries & Post~Slaveries]. (6). 19 May.
Uzuegbunam, C. (2022) Book review: Young children's play practices with digital tablets, by Isabel Froés. Mobile Media & Communication. 10(3): 554-555.

Op-eds

Alaoui Soulimani, A. (2022). Local talent should code Africa’s algorithmic health infrastructures. Africa at LSE, 15 August.
Kimari, W. (2022). Tomorrow's champions. How the fastest-growing African demographic is defying negative assumptions. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal (2).15 June.
Kimari, W. (2021). Kenyan mothers take on police violence. SAPIENS. 5 August.
Kimari, W., Melchiorre, L. & Rasmussen, J. (2021). Kenyan youth and the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI): Déjà vu all over again. African Arguments. 8 July.
Mwaura, J. (2022). As COVID hit Kenya and South Africa, race and class fears were amplified on Twitter. The Conversation. 18 April.
Osha, S. (2022). At 80, Paulin J. Hountondji is one of Africa’s greatest modern thinkers. The Conversation. 8 April.
Osha, S. (2022). Death and horror in real time prove our almost limitless capacity for evil. The Conversation. 26 May.
Osha, S. (2022). Francis B Nyamnjoh and the pleasant ironies of conviviality. The Johannesburg Review of Books. 17 February.
Osha, S. (2022). Grammy star Black Coffee: winning the world, losing at home. The Conversation. 11 April.
Osha, S. (2022). How Burna Boy set the world alight with his mixed brew of influences. The Conversation. 11 August.
Osha, S. (2022). Kwasi Wiredu cleared the way for modern African philosophy . The Conversation. 18 January.
Osha, S. (2022). Ori Olokun: remembering the dramaturgy of Ola Rotimi. Brittle Paper. 19 April.
Osha, S. (2022). Patrice Lumumba’s tooth represents plunder, resilience and reparations. The Conversation. 5 July.
Osha, S. (2022). Philosophy for the people. Africa is a Country. 3 October.
Osha, S. (2022). Robert Sobukwe: equal status in the pantheon of South African activists is long overdue. The Conversation. 8 June.
Osha, S. (2022). South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki at 80: admired on the continent more than at home. The Conversation. 21 July.
Osha, S. (2022). The world seen anew through Dani Nabudere’s eyes. The Elephant. 11 February.
Osha, S. (2022). Tracey Rose, renegade South African artist: understanding her 30 years of outrage. The Conversation. 4 October.
Somda, D. (2022). Entre panafricanisme sanitaire et mission chrétienne. La saga du Covid-Organics comme récit de résistance (première partie). [Prophecy and parody. The Malagasy diplomacy of COVID-organic]. Carnets de Terrain. 8 July.
Somda, D. (2022). Entre panafricanisme sanitaire et mission chrétienne. La saga du Covid-Organics comme récit de résistance (deuxième partie) [Prophecy and parody. The Malagasy diplomacy of COVID-organic]. Carnets de Terrain. 16 July.
Somda, D. (2022). The Woman King is more than an action movie – it shines a light on the women warriors of Benin. The Conversation. 15 September.
Somda, D. (2022). Remède anti-covid à Madagascar : une expression du panafricanisme sanitaire. The Conversation. 7 July.
Somda, D. (2022). Woman King is worth watching: but be aware that its take on history is problematic. The Conversation. 5 October.

2021

Books

Osha, S. (2021). Ken Saro-Wiwa’s shadow (expanded edition): politics, nationalism and the Ogoni protest movement. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Chapters in books

Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Negotiating youth-centred research: ethical reflections on research with young people in rural and urban spaces in Nigeria, In: Spencer, G. (Ed.) Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Vol. 7), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley. 43–55.

Journal articles

Madrid-Morales, D., Wasserman, H., Gondwe, G., Ndlovu, K., Sikanku, E., Tully, M., Umejei, E. & Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Motivations for sharing misinformation: a comparative study in six sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal of Communication. 15:1200–1219.
Mwaura, J. (2021). Book review: Book wars: the digital revolution in publishing, by John B. Thompson. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ). 3 December.
Mwaura, J. (2021). The practice of citizen journalism at Kibera News Network. Journal of African Media Studies. 42(4): 31-45.
Osha, S. (2021). African unity from below: a view from South Africa. Review of African Political Economy. 25 May.
Osha, S. (2021). Ibadan: a city of red earth and broken china (for Harry). The Black Scholar. 24 May.
Osha, S. (2021). Transformations on the margin: Jack Smith’s vital and difficult art . The Jugaad Project. 2 June.
Qoza, P. (2021). The conceptualisation of the South African virtual class: a review of 'Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa' by Tanja Bosch (2020). Agenda. 22 December.
Somda, D. (2021). Politique western. Zone d’exception et imaginaire de la frontière à Madagascar. Terrain. 74.
Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Oppositional gaze or revenge? A critical ideological analysis of foreignness and foreign identities in Nollywood feature films. Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies. 13(1):121-139.
Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Review of 'African Language Digital Media and Communication' by Abiodun Salawu (ed.) (2019). Journal of African Media Studies. 13(1):121-124.
Wasserman, H., Chuma, W., Bosch, T., Uzuegbunam, C. & Flynn, R. (2021). South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: a content analysis. Journal of African Media Studies. 13(3):333-350.

Op-eds

Kimari, W., Melchiorre, L. and Rasmussen, J. (2021). Kenyan youth and the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI): déjà vu all over again. African Arguments. 8 July.
Makone, I. (2021). A good reading culture: potential game changer in Africa. African Books Collective. 29 November.
Mwaura, J. (2021). African institutions of higher learning need to foster the craft of scholarly writing. The Metric. 2 November.
Mwaura, J. (2021). Marginalisation and exclusion of women in scholarly publishing and dissemination in Africa. African Books Collective. 9 August.
Mwaura, J. (2021). Police brutality: the intersections of class, cultures of silence and policing in Kenya. Ukombozi Review, 7. 15 November.
Osha, S. (2021). Is Kwesta da king of Afrikan or Katlehong rap? Culture Review. 23 June.
Osha, S. (2021). Nigerian icon Fela is long overdue for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Conversation. 12 April.
Osha, S. (2021). The chimera called Nigeria is still chronically dysfunctional and tragic after sixty years of independence. Daily Maverick. 10 March.
Osha, S. (2021). The future of Afrobeats: now. Agbowó. 19 April.
Osha, S. (2021). The mystery of Nasty C’s clout chasing. Culture Review. 18 May.
Osha, S. (2021). The N-word: a volcano kept active by the flickering embers of racism. The Conversation. 3 May.
Osha, S. (2021). The re-education of a colonialist. Los Angeles Review of Books. 4 April.
Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Scepticism fuelled by fake news threatens Africa's vaccination drive. Corona Times. 2 August.
Uzuegbunam, C. et al. (2021). Spotting hoaxes: how young people in Africa use cues to spot misinformation online. The Conversation. 25 May.
Wasserman, H., Uzuegbunam, C., Bosch, T. & Chuma, W. (2021). South African front-page stories about COVID were sensationalist and unhelpful. The Conversation. 9 November.

2020

Journal articles

Fuh, D. 2020. The pothole in my heart: tribute to Harry Garuba (1958–2020). Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. 8(1): 5-9.

Op-eds

Fuh, D. 2020. Africa is not just who we are; it is also our politics. News24. 29 May.
Fuh, D. 2020. A critical view from South Africa. Miniseries on COVID-19 and inequality, Global Research Programme on Inequality. #12. 30 April.
Fuh, D. 2020. Freedom Day is here, it is time to reflect and make up for our omissions. Daily Maverick. 24 April.
Fuh, D. 2020. Smiling behind the mask. Post-COVID fantasies. American Ethnologist. 27 July.
Fuh, D. 2020. The time of masks: everyone to themselves and COVID-19 for us all. Public Anthropologist. 8 May.

2019

Books

Posel, D. & van Wyk, I. Eds. 2019. Conspicuous consumption in Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Chapters in books

Posel, D. & van Wyk, I. 2019. Thinking with Veblen: case studies from Africa’s past and present. In Conspicuous Consumption in Africa. D. Posel & I. van Wyk, Eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
Posel, D. 2019. Changes in the order of things: department stores and the making of modern Cape Town. In Conspicuous Consumption in Africa. D. Posel & I. van Wyk, Eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
van Wyk, I. 2019. Jacob Zuma’s shamelessness: conspicuous consumption, politics and religion. In Conspicuous Consumption in Africa. D. Posel & I. van Wyk, Eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Journal articles

Fuh, D. 2019. Bending over backwards: dismantling toxic ‘opportunities’. Journal of African Cultural Studies. 31(3): 264-267.
Gukurume, S., 2019. Chinese migrants and the politics of everyday life in Zimbabwe. Asian Ethnicity. 20(1): 85-102.

Op-eds

Fuh, D. & Dieng, R.S. 2019. Talking back: a conversation with Divine Fuh. Talking Back series: African Feminisms in Dialogue. Review of African Political Economy Blog (ROAPE). 5 December.
Jeppie, S. 2019. Book review of Michael A. Gomez 'African dominion: a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa'. The American Historical Review. 124(2):587-588.

2018

Books

Matebeni, Z., Monro, S. & Reddy, V. Eds. 2018. Queer in Africa: LGBTQI identities, citizenship, and activism. New York: Routledge.

Chapters in books

Jeppie, S. 2018. Two examples of Sahelian book collectors over two centuries. In Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past. (African History, Volume: 6) T. Green & B. Rossi, Eds. Leiden: Brill. 259-274.
Jeppie, S. 2018. The little and the large: A little book and connected history between Asia and Africa. In Migration and agency in a globalizing world: Afro-Asian encounters. S. Cornelissen & Y. Mine, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 27-46.

Journal articles

Gukurume, S. 2018. Navigating precarious livelihoods: youth in the SME sector in Zimbabwe. IDS Bulletin. 49(5):89-104.
Matebeni, Z. 2018. Ihlazo: pride and the politics of race and space in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Critical African Studies. 10(3): 315-328.
Posel, D. 2018. Getting inside the skin of the consumer: race, market research and the consumerist project in Apartheid South Africa. Itinerario. 42(1): 120-138.
van Wyk, I. 2018. Fragile wars: anti-ecumenism in a South African church. Journal of Southern African Studies. 44(2): 269-281.

2017

Journal articles

Brown, J. & Deumert, A. 2017. My tribe is the Hessequa. I’m Khoisan. I’m African: language, desire and performance among Cape Town’s Khoisan language activists. Multilingua. 36. doi:10.1515/multi-2017-3046

2016

Chapters in books

Camminga, B. 2016. Magic Man: of rainbows and monsters. In Seismographic sounds: visions of a new world. T. Beyer, T. Burkhalter & H. Liechti, Eds. Bern: Norient Books. 374-379.
Camminga, B. 2016. Queer and of here. IIn Seismographic sounds: visions of a new world. T. Beyer, T. Burkhalter & H. Liechti, Eds. Bern: Norient Books. 387-391.
Shearing, C. & Stenning, P. 2016. The Privatisation of security: Implications for democracy. In Routledge handbook of private security studies. R. Abrahamsen & A. Leander, Eds. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. 140-149.

2015

Chapters in books

Berg, J. & Shearing, C. 2015. New authorities: relating state and non-state security auspices in South African improvement districts. In Policing and the politics of order making. H. Kyed & P. Albrecht, Eds. Oxon: Routledge. 91-107.
Froestad, J., Shearing, C. & van der Merwe, M. 2015. Criminology: reimagining security In Security: dialogue across disciplines. P. Bourbeau, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 177-195.
Jeppie, S. 2015. Making book history in Timbuktu. In Debates in African book history. D. Johnson & C. Davis, Eds. London: Palgrave. 83-102.
Jeppie, S. 2015. From Cairo to the Cape: dilemmas of revolution. In The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring: a season of rebirth? C. Villa-Vicencio et al., Eds. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 1-16.
Matebeni, Z. 2015. Well-Suited. In PROMISE. R.J. Salley, Ed. Cape Town: ACTSA Publishing. 14-19.
van Wyk, I. 2015. Their message is not new, they are just stronger: on the phenomenal success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa. In Pentecostalism in Africa. Presence and impact of Pneumatic Christianity in postcolonial societies. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Volume: 15) M. Lindhardt, Ed. Leiden: Brill. 136-162.

Journal articles

Froestad, J., Grimwood, S., Herbstein, T. & Shearing, C. 2015. Policy design and nodal governance: a comparative analysis of determinants of environmental policy change in a South African city. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research & Practice. 17(2):174-191.
Gukurume, S., 2015. Livelihood resilience in a hyperinflationary environment: experiences of people engaging in money-burning (kubhena mari) transactions in Harare, Zimbabwe. Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies. 41(2): 219-234.
Gunkel, H., Matebeni, Z. & Raissiguier, C. (guest editors). 2015. In movement: women in Africa and the African diaspora. JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. 26:1-18.
Gunkel, H. & Matebeni, Z. 2015. Resilience through new media: a conversation with Iranti-org’s Executive Director, Jabu C. Pereira. JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, 26:128-134.
Harrington, C. 2015. Toward a critical water security: hydrosolidarity and emancipation. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. 21(1):28-44.
Honig, M., Petersen, S., Herbstein, T., Roux, S., Nel, D. & Shearing, C. 2015. A conceptual framework to enable the changes required for a one-planet future. Environmental Values. 24(5):663-688.
Honig, M., Petersen, S., Shearing, C., Pintér, L. & Kotze, I. 2015. The conditions under which farmers are likely to adapt their behaviour: a case study of private land conservation in the Cape Winelands, South Africa. Land Use Policy. 48: 389-400.
Jeppie, S. 2015. A Timbuktu bibliophile between the Mediterranean and the Sahel: Ahmad Bul’araf and the circulation of books in the first half of the twentieth century. The Journal of North African Studies. 20(1):65-77.
Mabandla, N. 2015. Rethinking Bundy: land and the black middle class-accumulation beyond the peasantry. Development Southern Africa. 32(1):76-89.
Matebeni, Z. & Msibi, T. 2015. Vocabularies of the ‘non-normative’. Introduction to non-normative sexual and gender diversities in Africa. Agenda. 29(1):3-9.
Morgan, B. 2015. Moving beyond the core story of brain development. Ilifa Lantwana Insights. 3:5-7.
Petersen, S., Shearing, C. & Nel, D. 2015. Sustainability transitions: an investigation of the conditions under which corporations are likely to reshape their practices to reverse environmental degradation. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. 4(1):85-105.
Posel, D. 2015. Whither non-racialism? South Africa turns twenty-one. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(13):2167-2174.
Sandfort, T., Somjen Frazer, M., Matebeni, Z., Reddy, V., Southey-Swartz, I. and the Southern African Lesbian and Bisexual Women Research Team. 2015. Histories of forced sex and health outcomes among Southern African lesbian and bisexual women: a cross-sectional study. BMC Women’s Health. 15: 22.
Shearing, C. 2015. Criminology and the Anthropocene. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15(3): 255-69.
Shearing, C. 2015. Reflections on the nature of policing and its development. Police Practice & Research.
Shearing, C. 2015. Why Africans must join forces to protect scarce water resources. The Conversation, 15 May, 2015
Stenning, P. and Shearing, C. 2015. Privatisation, pluralisation and the globalisation of policing. Research Focus. 3(1):1-8.
van Wyk, I. 2015. Editorial. Anthropology Southern Africa, 2015, 38(1&2):1-3.
van Wyk, I. 2015. Editorial. Anthropology Southern Africa, 2015, 38(3&4):161-162.
van Wyk, I. 2015. Prosperity and the work of luck in the Universal Church Kingdom of God, South Africa. Critical African Studies. 7(3):262-279.

Other

Encyclopaedia entries. Matebeni, Z. 2015. Sexual Minorities in South Africa. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2^nd edition, Vol 21. J. D. Wright (editor-in chief). Oxford: Elsevier. 744-749.

2014

Books

Matebeni, Z. Ed. 2014. Reclaiming Afrikan: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities. Cape Town: Modjaji Books. 79pp
Posel, D. & Ross, F. Eds. 2014. Ethical quandaries in social research. Pretoria: HSRC Press.
Steinberg, J. 2014. A man of good hope. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
van Wyk, I. 2014. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in South Africa: a church of strangers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Africa series. 304pp

Chapters in books

Distiller, N. 2014. On Being Human. In South African essays on ‘universal’ Shakespeare. C. Thurman, Ed. Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate. 19-38.
Matebeni, Z. 2014. Death and the modern black lesbian. In New South African Review 4: a fragile democracy – twenty years on . D. Pillay, G. M. Khadiagala, P. Naidoo & R.Southall, Eds. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. 183-193.
Matebeni, Z. 2014. My best participants’ informed consent. In Ethical quandaries in social research. D. Posel & F. Ross, Eds. Pretoria: HSRC Press. 111-124.
Posel, D. 2014. The ANC Youth League and the politicisation of race, In The New South Africa at twenty. P. Vale & E. H. Prinsloo, Eds. Durban: University of Kwazulu Natal Press. 19-44.
Posel, D. 2014. “Madiba magic” and the politics of enchantment, in The Cambridge companion to Nelson Mandela. R. Barnard, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 70-91.
Posel, D. 2014. In depth, out of my depth: research and care in the field of HIV and AIDS research. In Ethical quandaries in social research. D. Posel & F. Ross, Eds. Pretoria: HSRC Press. 153-167.
Posel, D. and Ross, F. 2014. Opening up the quandaries of research ethics: beyond the formalities of institutional ethical review. In Ethical quandaries in social research. D. Posel & F. Ross, Eds. Pretoria: HSRC Press.
Weinberg, P., Posel, D. & Ross, F. 2014. The weight of a photographer’s ‘value backpack': an interview with Paul Weinberg. In Ethical quandaries in social research. D. Posel & F. Ross, Eds. Pretoria: HSRC Press. 250-264.
van Wyk, I. 2014. All answers: on the phenomenal success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa. In African Pentecostalism/Charismatic Christianity. M. Lindhardt (ed). Leiden: Brill. 136-162.
van Wyk, I. 2014. The ethics of dislike in the field. In Ethical quandaries in social research. D. Posel & F. Ross, Eds. Pretoria: HSRC Press. 199-213.

Journal articles

Jeppie, S. 2014. Writing, books, and Africa. History and Theory. 53:94-104.
Nyamnjoh, F. & Fuh, D. 2014. Africans consuming hair, Africans consumed by hair. Africa Insight. 44(1):52-68.
Posel, D. 2014. Julius Malema and the post-apartheid public sphere. Acta Academica. 46(1):32-54.

2013

Books

Nobili, M. 2013. Catalogue des Manuscrits Arabes du Fonds de Gironcourt (Afrique de l'Ouest) de l'Institut de France. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente. ISBN: 88-900597-7-X 978-88-900-597-7-3.

Chapters in books

Hodes., R. 2013. You know what a bad person you are? HIV, abortion and reproductive healthcare for women in South Africa. In Global HIV/AIDS politics, policy and activism: persistent challenges and emerging issues. R. A. Smith, Ed. Santa Barbara: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-39945-9
Matebeni, Z. 2013. Deconstructing violence towards black lesbians in South Africa. In Queer African Reader. S. Ekine & H. Abbas, Eds. Oxford: Fahamu Books.
van Wyk, I. 2013. Bad luck, slippery money and the South African Lottery. In Qualitative research in gambling: exploring the production and consumption of risk. R. Cassidy & C. Loussouarn, Eds. London: Routledge.

Journal articles

Hodes, R. 2013. The medical history of abortion in South Africa, 1970–2000. Journal of Southern African Studies. 39(4): 527-542.
Jeppie, S.. 2013. Mission statement responses. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 33(2):137-139.
Matebeni, Z. 2013. Intimacy, queerness and race. Cultural Studies. 27:3:404-417.
Matebeni, Z., Reddy, V. Sandfort T. & Southey-Swartz, I. 2013. “I thought we are safe”: Southern African lesbian women’s experiences of living with HIV Culture, Health & Sexuality. 5(S1): S34-S47.
Sandfort, T., Baumann, L.R.M., Matebeni, Z., Reddy, V., Southey-Swartz, I. 2013. Forced sexual experiences as risk factor for self-reported HIV Infection among Southern African lesbian and bisexual women. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53552. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053552
Mollins Literas, S. 2013. From Toledo to Timbuktu: the case for a biography of the Ka’ti archive, and its sources. South African Historical Journal. 65(1):105-124.
Nobili, M. 2013. Back to Saharan myths: preliminary notes on ‘Uqba al-Mustajab'. Annual Review of Islam in Africa. 12: 79-84.
Nobili, M. and Brigaglia, A. 2013. “Central Sudanic Arabic scripts: BarnÄwÄ«. Islamic Africa. 4(2):195-223.
Posel, D. 2013. The ANC Youth League and the politicisation of race in South Africa. Thesis Eleven. 115(1).
van Wyk, I. 2013. A response. Anthropology Southern Africa. 35(3&4):119-121
van Wyk, I. 2013. Beyond ethical imperatives in South African anthropology: morally repugnant and unlikeable subjects. Anthropology Southern Africa. 36(1&2):68-79.

Other:

Book review: Nobili, M. 2013. G. Bohas, A. Saguer & B. Salvaing, Eds. L’inspiration de l’éternel: Eloge de Shekou Amadou, fondateur de l’empire peul du Macina. Par Muá¸¥ammad bin Ê»AlÄ« Pereejo. (Grandvaux, Brinon-sur-Sauldre, 2011). Islamic Africa. 4(2):256-59.
Review: van Wyk, I. 2013. Review of Isak Niehaus’ Witchcraft and a Life in the new South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa. 36(1&2):93.

2012

Books

Distiller, N. 2012. Shakespeare and the coconuts: on past-apartheid South Africa culture. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-86814-561-4
Matebeni, Z. 2012. Black lesbian sexualities and identity in South Africa: an ethnography of black lesbian urban life. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-659-20294-0
van Wyk, I. 2012. A church of strangers: the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chisala, S. 2012. Protecting traditional health practices in Malawi. LAP Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-659-29385-6
Melis, N. & Nobili, M., Eds. 2012. FutÅ«á¸¥ al-buldÄn. Sources for the study of Islamic societies / Fonti per lo studio delle società islamiche. Rome: Aracne. ISBN: 978-88-548-5668-4

Chapters in books

Distiller, N. 2012. Begging the questions: producing Shakespeare for post-Apartheid South African schools. In Print, text, and book cultures in South Africa. A. van der Vleis, Ed. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. 476pp. ISBN 978-86814-566-9.
Jeppie, S, 2012. Educating Sudanese ulama for colonial Sharia. In Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam. M. Maussen, V. Bader & A. Moors, Eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 249pp ISBN 978-90-8964-356-8
Matebeni, Z ,2012. Deconstructing violence towards black lesbians in South Africa. In Queer African Reader. S. Ekins & H. Abas, Eds.. Oxford: Fahamu Books
Matebeni, Z, 2012. Feminizing lesbians, degendering transgender men: a model for building lesbian feminist thinkers and leaders in Africa? In Black genders and sexualities. S. McGlotten & D.-A.Davis, Eds. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Nobili, M. 2012. RisÄla min Maryam bint FÅ«dÄ« ilÄ al-ibn. A brief contribution to the study of 19^th century Nigeria eschatology. In FutÅ«á¸¥ al-buldÄn. Sources for the Study of Islamic Societies / Fonti per lo studio delle società islamiche. N. Melis & M. Nobili, Eds. Rome: Aracne.
Nobili, M. & Melis, N. 2012. Islam: a plurality of historical and linguistic experiences. In FutÅ«á¸¥ al-buldÄn. Sources for the Study of Islamic Societies / Fonti per lo studio delle società islamiche. N. Melis & M. Nobili, Eds. Rome: Aracne.
Nobili, M. 2012. Écriture et transmission du savoir islamique au Mali: le cas du á¹£aá¸¥rÄwÄ«. In Dynamiques de transmission du savoir islamique au Mali. E. Pelizzeri & O. Sylla, Eds. Paris/Torino: Harmattan. 35-68.
Posel, D, 2012. Screaming image: Klas Thibeletsa’s child abuse and the post-Apartheid confessional. In Figuring faith. F. Rankin-Smith, Ed. Johanneburg: Fourthwall Books. 287pp ISBN 978-0-986-98506-5.
van Wyk, I. 2012. Their message is not new, they are just stronger: On the phenomenal success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa. In African Pentecostalism/Christianity. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies Series). M. Lindhardt, Ed. Leiden: Brill.
van Wyk, I. 2012. The contrary case of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Durban, South Africa. In Christianity and public culture in Africa. H. Englund, Ed. Athens: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1945-8

Journal articles

Distiller, N. 2012. Shakespeare’s Perversion: A Reading of Sonnet 20,Shakespeare, 8 (2) pp 137-153.
Fuh, D. 2012. The prestige economy: Veteran clubs and youngmen’s competition in Bamenda, Cameroon. Urban Forum. 23(4):501-526.
Hoffman, M., Coetzee, D., Hodes, R., & London, L. 2012. From comprehensive medicine to public health at the University of Cape Town: A 40-year journey. The South African Medical Journal. 02(6):442-445.
Hardon A. & Posel, D. 2012. Secrecy as embodied practice: beyond the confessional imperative. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 14(sup1):1-13.
Hodes, R. 2012. Understanding Aids conspiracies: the critical value of Postmodernism. Science as Culture. 22(2):261-266.
Matebeni, Z. 2012. Queer(ing) porn: a conversation. Agenda. 26(3):61-69.
Steinberg, J. 2012. Policing, freedom and xenophobia in South Africa. British Journal of Criminology. 52:345-360.
van Wyk, I. 2012. Tata ma chance: on contingency and the lottery in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Africa. 82(1):41-68.

2011

Books

Distiller, N. 2011. Fixing gender: lesbian mothers and the Oedipus complex. Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 151pp. ISBN 978-1-61147-030-7
Jeppie, S. & Diagne, S. B., Eds. 2011. Tombouctou pour une histoire de l’erudition en Afrique de l’ouest. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 413 pp. ISBN978-2-86978-322-5
Steinberg, J. 2010. Little Liberia: an African odyssey in New York. New York: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 9781868423828

Chapters in books

Posel, D. 2011. Getting the national talking about sex: Reflections on the politics of sexuality and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa. In African Sexualities. S. Tamale, Ed. Oxon: Pambazuka Press. 130-144. ISBN 978-0-85749-016-2
Posel, D. 2011. Human complicities. In The humanist imperative in South Africa. J.W. de Gruchy, Ed. Stellenbosch: Sun Press. 221-132. ISBN 978-1-920338-56-5
Posel, D. 2011. Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch. In Dictionary of African biography. E. K. Akyeampong & H. L. Gates Jr, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press. 123-124. ISBN978-0-19-538207-5.
Posel, D. 2011. The Apartheid project, 1948–1970. In The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2, 1885–1994. R. Ross, A. Kelk Mager & B. Nasson, Eds. New York: Cambridge University Press. 319-368. ISBN-10 0521869838.
Steinberg, J. 2011. A bag of soil, a bullet from up high: some meanings of the Mpondo revolts today. In Rural resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo revolts after fifty years. T. Kepe & L. Ntsebeza, Eds. Leiden: Brill. 11-282. 9789004214460

Journal articles

Distiller, N. 2011. Am I that name? Middle-class lesbian motherhood in post-apartheid South Africa. Studies in the Maternal Journal. 3(1):2-21.
Jeppie, S. 2011. History for Timbuktu: Ahmad Bul’arf, archives and the place of the past. History in Africa: A Journal of Method. 38: 401-416.
Jeppie, S. 2011. ‘Workers’ movement: source of Egyptian uprising. South African Labour Bulletin. 35(2):49-50.
Steinberg J. 2011. Crime prevention goes abroad: policy transfer and policing in post-apartheid South Africa. Theoretical Criminology. 15(4): 349-364.
Steinberg, J. 2011. A truth commission goes abroad: Liberian transitional justice in New York. African Affairs. 110(438):35-53.
Steinberg, J. 2011. An eerie silence: Why is it so hard for South Africa to talk about AIDS?. Foreign Policy. 1(186):85-87.

Other

Book review: Jeppie, S. 2011. The Darfur sultanate: a history. Journal of Islamic Studies. 22(2): 274-275.

2010

Chapters in books

Jeppie, S. 2010. Sharia and state in the Sudan: from late colonialism to late islamism. In Powers: Religion as a social and spiritual force. M. B. ter Borg & J. W. van Henten, Eds. New York: Fordham University Press. 1-334. 9780823231577
Jeppie, S. 2010. The making and unmaking of colonial Sharia in the Sudan. In Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa. S. Jeppie, E. Moosa & R. Roberts, Eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 9-388. 9789089641724

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Posel, D. 2010. Races to consume: revisiting South Africa’s history of race, consumption and the struggle for freedom. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 33(2):157-175.
Posel, D. 2010. Social history and the Wits history workshop. African Studies. 69(1):29-40.
Steinberg, J. 2011. A truth commission goes abroad: Liberian transitional justice in New York. African Affairs. 110(438):35-53.