A new issue of the African Human Rights Law Journal is out. From Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, a special issue on African philosophy. From the inaugural issue of the Rift Valley Review, Christopher Clapham (Cambridge): Why is the Horn Different? Dani Rodrik (IAS): An African Miracle? Implications of Recent Research on Growth Economics. Abdi Zenebe Meskela (Hargeisa): The Quest of the African State for Viability: Democracy and Development for National Integration in Africa. Makau W. Mutua (SUNY-Buffalo): Typologies of Scholarship on Africa. Marshal N Mapondera (ZILS): Exploring the Challenges of Preserving the Right to Cultural Expression in Contemporary African Society. Tom Juma and Ken Oluoch (Moi): The “African-State” Sovereignty in the 21st Century on Spotlight: Building Paradigms. Jonathan Powell (UCF): An Assessment of the “Democratic” Coup Theory: Democratic Trajectories in Africa, 1952-2012. Kevin Coffey (UCD): Why African States Supported the ICC: Equality Not Exceptionalism in International Law. Summer Lindsey (Columbia) and Monica Toft (Oxford): Reporting Rape in Congo: A Unique or Paradigmatic Case? Godwyns Ade' Agbude (Covenant): African Politics and Hegel’s Concept of the State; and The Humanistic Imperative in African Politics. Maxim L. Pinkovskiy (FRB) and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia): Africa is on Time. From The Monkey Cage, are conflicts over citizenship inevitable in Africa? Edmond J. Keller on what five African cases teach us about identity politics and belonging in Africa; and what influence do women wield in African governments? Leonardo Arriola and Martha Johnson investigate. Does Botswana deserve its reputation as a stable democracy? Amy Poteete investigates. Ali Mazrui, scholar of Africa who divided U.S. audiences, dies at 81. As Ebola ravages West Africa, Twitter loses interest.
