😮Thank you!😮 Our journal Impact Factor is out for 2022! We are thrilled to announce that Africa Spectrum is now the #2 African Studies Journal! This🥈is for you: authors, reviewers, readers, and friends of the journal. journals.sagepub.com/home/afr 🧵

Humbled to serve as EIC as Africa Spectrum climbs to new heights. Beyond the impressive IF, I am so proud of: - always #OpenAccess - huge part of authors & readers in #Africa - high quality review process - amazing Team journals.sagepub.com/home/afr Thx German Institute for Global and Area Studies Sage Journals

Incredible news for Africa Spectrum ! Btw- academics writing about African studies should consider publishing in this fabulous journal, which is totally open access at no additional cost to authors! 😍 #AcademicTwitter #Africa #AfricanStudies

After almost ten years (w/ short intermezzos), today is my last day German Institute for Global and Area Studies . As I leave, let me tell you if it is the right place for you, a 🧵: giga-hamburg.de

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"But mom, everyone ELSE has a smartphone!" How to solve the collective action problem of middle school students begging for smartphones. Four simple norms, from my talk at The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Norm #1: only flip phones before high school

With an #anthropological lens, Jesper Bjarnesen explores the journey of #Africanyouth in #BurkinaFaso! He delves into lives and dreams of this society's demographically dominant, socially & politically marginalised group with an extended case study. 🖱️doi.org/10.1177/000203…

🆕Ndubueze on how forgery during slave abolition in #Nigeria shaped gender relations. #AfricanHistory As always, 🆓#OpenAccess 🖱️doi.org/10.1177/000203… Joe Schmidt

2 articles Africa Spectrum trending OOIR - congrats Ndubueze & @BjarnesenJesper ! Danger with such rankings: you wanna read them all! What magnificent stuff #AreaStudies produces, right? #Colombia #Sudan #Pakistan #China #Mali #Kenya #Nigeria doi.org/10.1177/000203…

The inside story of why Netflix dropped the film adaptation of ‘Maximum City’: because the director Anurag Kashyap criticized the Modi government.

🆕Uroš Kovač & Dorothea Schulz (Universität Münster) examine how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to growing insecurity by drawing on long-standing #morality and the #Kenyan state. A wonderful read! ➡#OpenAccess, here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…

🆕Karol Czuba argues that #Uganda’s regime extended to #Karamoja in order to subdue and exploit the region. Uneven state capacity is thereby used as a coherent strategy for control rather than a sign of an incongruent political system. #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…

🆕Victor Agboga (PhD)'s research shows that party switchers in #Nigeria benefit by gaining ballot access even though they face party retaliation. The persistence of two main parties despite such frequent switching challenges the notion of weak parties in Africa. doi.org/10.1177/000203…

📢Our last issue of 2023 is out! It's a special issue titled "Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa". Guest edited by Bridges from Bamako. Read the stimulating issue introduction here: doi.org/10.1177/000203…. Thread 🧵

We (Martha Johnson and Maxine Rubin) are pleased to announce the publication of our first co-edited issue of Africa Spectrum! Thank you to former co-editors-in-chief Tim Glawion and Leonardo Arriola for passing the baton on to us and Jignesh for his help during the transition.

Wow, Martha Johnson and I hit the ground running taking over as EICs of Africa Spectrum. Thank you to Tim Glawion, Leonardo Arriola, and Jignesh for the help with the transition (also, Julia Grauvogel who always gives good advice!)

🆕Mathew Bukhi Mabele and Ulrike Müller-Böker's (University of Zurich) research shows that Community-Based Conservation in Kilosa, #Tanzania, allows marginalised individuals in Ihombwe and Ulaya Mbuyuni to contest marginalisation and access resources. #OpenAccess 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/000203…

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Africa Spectrum is now tied as the highest ranked African area studies journal. We are indebted to our past EICs (Tim Glawion Leonardo Arriola Julia Grauvogel ), editorial board, associate editors, anonymous peer reviewers, and our editorial assistant Jignesh. THANK YOU! 🥳🥇