Publications

A rare and unique history of how colonialism in southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. The book positions cattle as sentient, feeling beings in the narrative flow, and uses an animal-centered approach and diverse sources to investigate cattle...

Zargula, an East Ometo language in southwest Ethiopia, employs a few locative suffixes and numerous relational locative nouns to express spatial relations. Case categories such as the nominative and accusative play a role in the system of spatial grammar. The language has a...

Following the dismantling of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in early 2025, this article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with government officials in Lilongwe and NGO staff in Malawi's southern districts to examine how aid cuts reshape disaster...

Exile is a key dimension of armed groups, which often depend on the safety of third-party countries to establish headquarters, train soldiers, and forge connections with the outside world. A fitting illustration are the Frontline States in Africa, which offered refuge to...

While research on disinformation in Africa is starting to gain attention, only a few of these studies have sought to uncover its connection to conflict contexts, an important area we seek to draw attention to with this study. Furthermore, barely any studies have uncovered...

This article examines the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the amplification of violent divisive discourse during Ethiopia's Tigray conflict (2020–2022), introducing the concept of Hatetags to analyze the transforming of hashtags into vehicles of...

Ethiopia is frequently facing serious political–communal conflict. Prevailing narratives attempting to identify causes often focus on presumed ‘ethnic’ groups and inequalities – a perspective crystallized especially in the past ca. 30 years. While...

This issue reflects on ‘Just Transitions’ as a conceptual framework to draw out injustice, marginality and inequality arising out of and linked to antimicrobial resistance. We contemplate what an equitable and sustainable future with AMR might look like, and how...

In the 1890s financial speculation and market manipulation were prominent features of the Southern African gold mining industry. Extravagantly capitalised, starved of working capital, and poorly managed, many mines could not be made to pay. Investors suffered more at the...

African art never was popular in Christian eyes. Its appreciation has suffered from a long history where Christian missionizing went hand in hand with colonial occupation, also colored by the racism that was dominant from the 18th century. Throughout, these objects were...