The inaugural issue of Governance in Africa is out. Brett O'Bannon (DePauw): Africa: Is There a State? Implications of Statelessness for a State-Centric Human Protection Norm. Caryn Peiffer and Richard Rose (Strathclyde): Why Do Some Africans Pay Bribes While Other Africans Don't? Sylvester Odion Akhaine (Lagos State): Threats to Democracy in Africa. Alarmingly a question being increasingly asked is whether democracy has failed in Africa, or similarly, whether democracy is unworkable or perhaps not suitable for Africa. Landry Signe on four reasons why Burkina Faso’s long-ruling dictator fell. Outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba wins the world's most valuable individual award, the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The people’s protest: Zachariah Mampilly on Sudan from the margins. Douglas H. Johnson on federalism in the history of South Sudanese political thought. Fantasies of federalism: Samuel Moyn reviews Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 by Frederick Cooper; and Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder.
Paul Andrew Gwaza (IPCR): Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights Protection in Africa. Christian Madubuko (New England): Environment Pollution: The Rise of Militarism and Terrorism in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. From the Journal of Terrorism Research, a special issue on terrorism and counter-terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa. T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones on the untold story of Firestone, Charles Taylor and the tragedy of Liberia. Government measures have proved inadequate, but communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone are coming up with ways to battle the Ebola virus. Wayetu Moore on how Ebola became the oldest story about Africa. He was a globally renowned expert in tropical diseases, and the hero who ran Sierra Leone’s worst Ebola ward — so why, when Sheik Humarr Khan finally fell ill, was he denied the extraordinary treatments that could have saved him? Helen Epstein on Ebola in Liberia: An epidemic of rumors. Last Ebola patient in Liberia discharged from treatment center. Andy Baker on how media portrayals of Africa promote paternalism: “A wave of criticism has pointed out how American journalists only cover Africa’s outbreaks of disease, disaster and violence, while overlooking the region’s many political and economic success stories”.
