Archives, News from the Nordic Africa Institute
News from the Nordic Africa Institute was published between 1994 and 2007 with three numbers per year. The main articles (‘Commentaries’) were published online from 1999, and the entire bulletin in pdf from no 3/2001. All can be accessed on this page.
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2007: no. 1/2007 no. 2/2007 no. 3/20072006: no. 1/2006 no. 2/2006 no. 3/2006
2005: no. 1/2005 no. 2/2005 no. 3/2005
2004: no. 1/2004 no. 2/2004 no. 3/2004
2003: no. 1/2003 no. 2/2003 no. 3/2003
2002: no. 1/2002 no. 2/2002 no. 3/2002
2001: no. 3/2001
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Number 3/2007, November
African agriculture and the World Bank: Development or impoverishment? by Atakilte Beyene
Property rights formalisation in Africa by Tor A. Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
The relationship between inequality and climate change by Kjell Havnevik
Decoding the evolving China–Africa relations by Fantu Cheru
Number 2/2007, May
Mobile patients, local healers: Transnational dimensions of healing in Somaliland by Marja Tiilikainen
Collective organising among informal vendors in Kampala by Ilda Lourenço-Lindell and Jenny Appelblad
Angolan urban entrepreneurs: Old and new challenges by Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
When votes do not count: The 2007 general elections in Nigeria by Said Adejumobi
Number 1/2007, January
Democracy needs parties, not only democrats. And more women! by Bo Göransson
Zambia's 2006 elections: The ethnicization of politics? by Jeremy Gould
Prospects for credible elections in Nigeria by Jibrin Ibrahim
Social movements and the democratisation of South African foreign policy by Heidi Hudson
Number 3/2006, October
Incorporating social policy into the development agenda in Africa by Thandika Mkandawire
Gender and social policy in a global context by Shahra Razavi and Shireen Hassim
African cities: Competing claims on urban land by Paul Jenkins
Number 2/2006, May–June
Rainbow Kenya: Government of national unity by Fibian Kavulani Lukalu
Political parties and the challenge for democracy in Kenya by Mwandawiro Mghanga
Nordic Masters courses in African and development related studies
Number 1/2006, January
Trading down by Peter Gibbon
Rethinking social policy in Africa by 'Jìmí O. Adésinà
Presidential transitions and political accountability by Roger Southall
Why fight corruption? Example Transparency International by Carin Norberg
Number 3/2005, October
Youth in African cities by Amin Kamete
Urban youth and livelihoods in Zimbabwe by Penny Hlupo
Congo-Brazzaville: Multipartyism or illiberal democracy? by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Number 2/2005, May
Togo: Family matters by Richard Cornwell
Madagascar: The lost status of women by Mireille Rabenoro
Safeguarding the primary source by Marianne Lidskog
Number 1/2005, January
Conflict and peace in West Africa by Cyril Obi
Small arms proliferation and regional security in West Africa: The Ghanaian case by Emmanuel Addo Sowatey
No-peace-no-war in Uganda by Sverker Finnström
Inequity in world trade and the crisis of development in Africa by Georges Kobou
Perspectives on the crisis in Darfur by Øystein H. Rolandsen
The US and EU - Undermining regional economic integration in Africa by Margaret C. Lee
Challenges to regional integration: The case of SADC by Henning Melber
Number 2/2004, May
Why we must never forget the Rwanda genocide by Gerald Caplan
Ethno-religious conflicts in Northern Nigeria by Jibrin Ibrahim and Toure Kazah-Toure
Confronting the challenges of leadership by Carlos Lopes
Number 1/2004, January
Ghana, gateway to West African stabililty? by Takwa Zebulon Suifon
Agendas on HIV/AIDS by Catrine Christiansen
Dynamics of national service in Eritrea by Redie Bereketeab
Number 3/2003, October
Migrations, public policies for ‘foreigners’ and citizenship in West Africa by Francis Akindès
Sierra Leone: post-conflict transition or business as ususal? by Arthur Abraham
South Africa: Reintegration into civilian life of ex-combatants by Guy Lamb
The challenge of Nordic media: Bringing Africa home by Anne Hege Simonsen
Number 2/2003, May
Elections in Kenya – What now? by Anders Närman
The relations between HIV prevalence and virgin rape by Charlene Smith
Governance in Zimbabwe by Lovemore Chipungu
Number 1/2003, January
Sharia in Nigeria by Adetoun Ilumoka
Children of the storm (on AIDS orphans) by Bawa Yamba
Morocco today: Dynamics of political change by Abouhani Abdelghani
The road to reconciliation by Alex Boraine
Cameroon: Over twelve years of cosmetic democracy by Francis B. Nyamnjoh
The Makerere University lessons in privatisation by Muhammad K. Mayanja
Football in Africa by Andreas Mehler
Number 2/2002, May
Contradictions in constructions of African masculinity by Kopano Ratele
Silencing the guns in Sierra Leone by Jimmy D. Kandeh
South African higher education by Saleem Badat
Number 1/2002, January
Development research: Can it be good research? by Johan Helland
Chad – from civil strife and electoral fraud to petro-dictatorship? by Hans Eriksson
Interview with Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Whither the dividends of democracy in Nigeria? by Jibrin Ibrahim
Can sanctions work? The case of Angola by Anders Möllander
Number 2/2001, May
Regional integration in Africa: The case of SADC by Henning Melber
Democratic consolidation in Benin by Leonard Wantchekon and Paul Ngomo
Number 1/2001, January
Academic freedom and the African community of scholars by Ebrima Sall
Mali: The position of women and a dual commitment by Assitan Diallo and Mariken Vaa
The limits of agricultural reforms in contemporary Uganda by Nyangabyaki Bazaara
Which way, Namibia? by Henning Melber
Number 2/2000, May
The state of feminism in Africa today by Patricia McFadden
Mauritania – neither Arab nor African by Garba Diallo
Number 1/2000, January
The forgotten conflict in Guinea-Bissau by Ulla Andrén
The military and democratisation in Niger by Jibrin Ibrahim
Africa beyond structural adjustment by Adebayo Olukoshi
Number 2/1999, May
Sudan: An exhausted country by Gerard Prunier
AIDS research in the social sciences by Bawa Yamba