In our annual Africa issue, Elyan Hill SMU Art History reviews a new book by Sarah Politz on international jazz bands from Benin and their engagement with Vodun.
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In our latest issue, Rose Jaji IDOS_research explains the migration dilemmas faced by Zimbabweans as their country's economic situation continues to deteriorate.
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this article in our annual Africa issue: Héritier Mesa on marginalized Congolese youth and their tactics for improvising livelihoods and political participation.
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In our latest issue, Kjetil Tronvoll explains how a disputed revolutionary legacy has kept Zanzibar in the grip of polarized politics and one-party rule, despite its cosmopolitan past and transforming economy.
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In our annual Africa issue, William F. S. Miles NU PoliSci takes a long view on Niger's deep poverty and its recent coup, the latest swing of a pendulum between military and civilian rule in a country now also confronted by the impact of climate change.
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In our new issue, Nathanael Ojong Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies draws on interviews with household users in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, and Kenya to weigh the potential of off-grid solar power for addressing African electricity deficits.
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In our annual Africa issue, Andrea Purdekova examines how different types of official forgetting of mass violence have been pursued in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya.
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to the lead article in our May issue: Héritier Mesa on how precarious youth in Kinshasa improvise livelihoods and political participation despite being outcasts from society.
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The EU and Ukraine – a strategy hesitantly unfolding? | Karen E. Smith LSE Intl Relations Current History blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our annual South Asia issue: Itty Abraham ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society on India’s space feats and the shifting role of techno-scientific endeavors in shaping national identity.
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In our annual South Asia issue, Rachel Berger reviews Julia Hauser's new book on the transnational roots of vegetarianism as a political project based on ideas of purity.
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Sonika Gupta outlines the key challenges faced by the Tibetan exile community in India in her article in Current History!

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In our latest issue, Sonika Gupta says the stateless Tibetan exile community in India is at a turning point, with emigration rising and a leadership transition looming.
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In our South Asia issue, susan banki and Ram Karki detail Bhutan’s growing pains, from economic stagnation and emigration to minority rights, a decade and a half after the country's democratic transition.
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Enjoy free access to this article in our annual South Asia issue, for a limited time: Itty Abraham ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society on India’s space program and the growing importance of techno-scientific prowess to national identity.
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In our South Asia issue, Hasan H. Karrar LUMS shows how Chinese investment in a northern border region of Pakistan is entangled with local histories of disenfranchisement and anxieties over losing control of resources.
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Read the new Current History article from IDS researcher Sohela Nazneen - analysing the gains and remaining challenges for women in #Bangladesh ♀️🇧🇩 👇

In our new issue, Sohela Nazneen Institute of Development Studies weighs up the gains and the remaining challenges for women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, where developmental metrics have greatly improved but patriarchal norms and practices are still prevalent.
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