Arkiv, 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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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

N
umber 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

Number 3/2004, October

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 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

Number 3/2002, October
Number 3/2001, October

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

Number 3/2000, October

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

Number 3/1999, October