Table of Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2019)

List of Authors



Sub-Saharan Africa

 Albert Kanlisi Awedoba, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler, and David Sebudubudu



African–European Relations in 2019

 Benedikt Erforth and Niels Keijzer



West Africa

 Albert Kanlisi Awedoba



Benin

 Pauline Jarroux and Clarisse Tama-Imourou



Burkina Faso

 Daniel Eizenga



Cabo Verde

 Gerhard Seibert



Côte d’Ivoire

 Jesper Bjarnesen



The Gambia

 Alice Bellagamba



Ghana

 Jennifer Boylan



Guinea

 Anita Schroven



Guinea-Bissau

 Christoph Kohl



Liberia

 Ibrahim Al-Bakri Nyei



Mali

 Bruce Whitehouse



Mauritania

 Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson



Niger

 Klaas van Walraven



Nigeria

 Heinrich Bergstresser



Senegal

 Mamadou Bodian



Sierra Leone

 Krijn Peters



Togo

 Dirk Kohnert



Central Africa

 Andreas Mehler



Cameroon

 Fanny Pigeaud



Central African Republic

 Andreas Mehler



Chad

 Ketil Fred Hansen



Congo

 Brett L. Carter



Democratic Republic of the Congo

 Janosch Kullenberg



Equatorial Guinea

 Joseph N. Mangarella



Gabon

 Douglas Yates



São Tomé and Príncipe

 Gerhard Seibert



Eastern Africa

 Benedikt Kamski



Burundi

 Andrea Filipi and Katrin Wittig



Comoros

 Simon Massey



Djibouti

 Nicole Hirt



Eritrea

 Nicole Hirt



Ethiopia

 Jon Abbink



Kenya

 Nanjala Nyabola



Rwanda

 Erik Plänitz



Seychelles

 Anthoni van Nieuwkerk



Somalia

 Jon Abbink



South Sudan

 Daniel Large



Sudan

 Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes



Tanzania

 Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier



Uganda

 Angelo Izama



Southern Africa

 David Sebudubudu



Angola

 Jon Schubert



Botswana

 David Sebudubudu



Eswatini

 Marisha Ramdeen



Lesotho

 Roger Southall



Madagascar

 Richard R. Marcus



Malawi

 George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri



Mauritius

 Roukaya Kasenally



Mozambique

 Joseph Hanlon



Namibia

 Henning Melber



South Africa

 Sanusha Naidu



Zambia

 Edalina Rodrigues Sanches



Zimbabwe

 Amin Y. Kamete

About the Author

Albert K. Awedoba, (FGA) Ph.D. (1985) in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, is Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. His research interests include health issues, ethnographic study of reproductive health and family planning (Ga-Accra); understanding the Kasena of Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso through their oral literature genres; Kasem grammar and phonology; chieftaincy, governance and development; understanding gift exchange and corruption in Ghana; Northern Ghanaian conflicts and response mechanisms; primary school education in Ghana. He is a founding member of the Pan African Anthropological Association of which he was President (2004-5).

Benedikt Kamski, Ph.D. (2017) in Political Science, University of Freiburg, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and political analyst based in Addis Ababa. His research focus is on Ethiopia’s development model, hydro-agricultural development, and politico-economic dynamics across the Horn of Africa. He is a founding member of the Omo-Turkana Research Network.

Andreas Mehler, Ph.D. (1993) in Political Science, University of Hamburg, is Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. He has published extensively on democratisation processes and violent conflicts in West and Central Africa. He is the initiator and currently President of the executive council of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

David Sebudubudu, Ph.D. (2002) in Political Science, University of Leeds, is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Botswana. His research interests are in civil society, the state and democracy, political corruption, ethics and accountability, African politics, debates about development and the wider political economy, and has published widely in these areas.