This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.

The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...

The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlords and the growing commercial class in Bida and in other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influenced the pattern of social communication between these two...

About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...

The transition in Guinea-Bissau is often described as an internal affair, triggered off by "bad government", i. e. decades of corruption, violent repression of opposition, and other human rights violations, which led to increasing conflicts among the power elite of the deposed dictator "Nino"...

Dieser Artikel basiert auf Feldstudien im ländlichen Westafrika. Es konzentriert sich auf die sozio-strukturellen Effekte der Entwicklungshilfe auf lange Sicht, im Gegensatz zu zahlreichen verfügbaren Evaluierungsberichten über die kurzfristigen Effekte von Entwicklungsprojekten. Die Studie...

Review Article:<ul><li>Chipkin, Ivor (2007), Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages.</li><li>Dorman, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and...</li></ul>

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