CONTENTS
Editorial
1 On filling voids
Reginald Cline-Cole and Leo Zeilig
Articles
7 Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu
Pnina Werbner
25 Between feminism and unionism: the struggle for socio-economic dignity of working-class women in pre- and post-uprising Tunisia
Loes Debuysere
44 The struggles of precarious youth in Tunisia: the case of the Kerkennah movement
Lorenzo Feltrin
64 Delinking, food sovereignty, and populist agronomy: notes on an intellectual history of the peasant path in the global South
Max Ajl
Debate Special Issue: Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt: debating Gramsci on Tahrir
85 Introduction: revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt
Cemal Burak Tansel and Brecht De Smet
91 Behind every Caesar a new one? Reflections on revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt in response to Gramsci on Tahrir
Anne Alexander and Sameh Naguib
104 Again on the revolutionary subject: problematising class and subalternity in Gramsci on Tahrir
Roberto Roccu
115 Passive revolutions and the dynamics of social change in the peripheries
Cemal Burak Tansel
125 Critical interventions in debates on the Arab revolutions: centring class
Sara Salem
135 Rejoinder: reading Tahrir in Gramsci
Brecht De Smet
Briefing
146 Afro-euphoria: is Ghana’s economy an exception to the growth paradox?
Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo
Debates
158 Capitalism in Africa: mutating capitalist relations and social formations
Horman Chitonge
168 The Russian Revolution and the development challenge – Part II: the Russian Revolution and the mantra of developmentalism
Arndt Hopfmann
Book review
176 Taken for a ride: grounding neoliberalism, precarious labour and public transport in an African metropolis, by Matteo Rizzo
Reviewed by Bill Freund
Volume 45 Number 156 June 2018
Issue Editor: Peter Lawrence
Editorial
181 The state: the executive committee of global capitalism?
Peter Lawrence and Leo Zeilig
Articles
186 From colonisation to globalisation: a history of state capture by the tobacco industry in Malawi
Julia Smith and Kelley Lee
203 South African business nanny state: the case of the automotive industrial policy post-apartheid, 1995–2010
David Masondo
223 Capital accumulation and capital controls in South Africa: a class perspective
Ilias Alami
250 Navigating ‘taxation’ on the Congo River: the interplay of legitimation and ‘officialisation’
Maria Eriksson Baaz, Ola Olsson and Judith Verweijen
Debate Special Issue
267 Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa: ROAPE/Third World Network-Africa Connections workshop, held in Accra, Ghana, 13–14 November 2017
Raymond Bush, Yao Graham and Leo Zeilig
Debate
335 Ifeoma Okoye: socialist-feminist political horizons in Nigerian literature
Adam Mayer
Briefing
345 Rentierism and security privatisation in the Nigerian petroleum industry: assessment of oil pipeline surveillance and protection contracts
Raymond Adibe, Ejikeme Nwagwu and Okorie Albert
354 Inheriting power: Somaliland’s political institutions and the 2017 presidential election
Aleksi Ylönen
Book review
363 Burkina Faso: a history of power, protest and revolution, by Ernest Harsch
Reviewed by Bettina Engels
Volume 45 Number 157 September 2018
Issue in tribute to Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Editorial
365 In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Hannah Cross and Leo Zeilig
Articles
378 The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa: nascent organisational responses of community health workers
Mondli Hlatshwayo
393 The land–water nexus: a critical perspective from South Africa
Michela Marcatelli
408 The Rwandan agrarian and land sector modernisation: confronting macro performance with lived experiences on the ground
An Ansoms, Giuseppe Cioffo, Neil Dawson, Sam Desiere, Chris Huggins, Margot Leegwater, Jude Murison, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Johanna Treidl and Julie Van Damme
432 From terrorism to talakawa: explaining party turnover in Nigeria's 2015 elections
A. Carl LeVan, Matthew T. Page and Yoonbin Ha
Debates
451 Trump's tariff impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency
Dirk Kohnert
467 (Middle-) Class analysis in Africa: does it work?
Roger Southall
Briefings
478 The dominance of foreign capital and its impact on indigenous technology development in the production of liquefied natural gas in Nigeria
Okorie Albert
491 Sino-Angolan agricultural cooperation: still not reaping rewards for the Angolan agricultural sector
Leon Parker and Elsje Fourie
501 The rise of oligarchy in Ethiopia: the case of wealth creation since 1991
Tefera Negash Gebregziabher and Wil Hout
Book review
511 Dedan Kimathi on trial: colonial justice and popular memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion, edited by Julie MacArthur
Living with Nkrumahism: nation, state, and pan-Africanism in Ghana, by Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Reviewed by Matthew Quest
Volume 45 Number 158 December 2018
Issue Editor: Alfred Zack-Williams
Editorial
515 The state and accumulation in Africa
Alfred Zack-Williams
Articles
522 Indirect rule redux: the political economy of diamond mining and its relation to the Ebola outbreak in Kono District, Sierra Leone
Raphael Frankfurter, Mara Kardas-Nelson, Adia Benton, Mohamed Bailor Barrie, Yusupha Dibba, Paul Farmer and Eugene T. Richardson
541 ‘Goats eat where they are tied up’: illicit and habitual corruption in Mozambique
Inge Tvedten and Rachi Picardo
558 The role of multinational oil corporations (MNOCs) in Nigeria: more exploitation equals less development of oil-rich Niger Delta region
Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi
574 Negotiating statist neoliberalism: the political economy of post-revolution Egypt
Heba Khalil and Brian Dill
592 State monopoly of telecommunications in Ethiopia: origins, debates, and the way forward
Téwodros W. Workneh
Debate Special Issue
609 Connections 2: ROAPE Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16–17 April 2018
Janet Bujra, Jacqueline Mgumia, Leo Zeilig, Issa Shivji, Matt Swagler, Arndt Hopfmann, Tunde Zack-Williams, Amber Murrey, Gacheke Gachihi, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Chambi Chachage and Marjorie Mbilinyi
Briefing
678 Populism in Southern Africa under liberation movements as governments
Henning Melber
Book review
687 Christopher Clapham, The Horn of Africa: state formation and decayAlex de Waal, The real politics of the Horn of Africa: money, war and the business of power
Habtom Yohannes
Volume index
Author index, Volume 45, 2018
Adibe, Raymond, 345
Ajl, Max, 64
Akolgo, Isaac Abotebuno, 146
Alami, Ilias, 223
Albert, Okorie, 345, 478
Alexander, Anne, 91
Ansoms, An, 408
Baaz, Maria Eriksson, 250
Barrie, Mohamed Bailor, 522
Benton, Adia, 522
Bisoka, Aymar Nyenyezi, 408
Bujra, Janet, 609
Bush, Raymond, 267
Carl LeVan, A., 432
Chachage, Chambi, 609
Chitonge, Horman, 158
Cioffo, Giuseppe, 408
Cline-Cole, Reginald, 1
Cross, Hannah, 365
Dawson, Neil, 408
De Smet, Brecht, 85, 135
Debuysere, Loes, 25
Desiere, Sam, 408
Dibba, Yusupha, 522
Dill, Brian, 574
Engels, Bettina, 363
Farmer, Paul, 522
Feltrin, Lorenzo, 44
Fourie, Elsje, 491
Frankfurter, Raphael, 522
Freund, Bill, 176
Gachihi, Gacheke, 609
Gebregziabher, Tefera Negash, 501
Graham, Yao, 267
Ha, Yoonbin, 432
Hlatshwayo, Mondli, 378
Hopfmann, Arndt, 168, 609
Hout, Wil, 501
Huggins, Chris, 408
Kardas-Nelson, Mara, 522
Khalil, Heba, 574
Kohnert, Dirk, 451
Lawrence, Peter, 181
Lee, Kelley, 186
Leegwater, Margot, 408
Marcatelli, Michela, 393
Masondo, David, 203
Mayer, Adam, 335
Mbilinyi, Marjorie, 609
Melber, Henning, 678
Mgumia, Jacqueline, 609
Murison, Jude, 408
Murrey, Amber, 609
Naguib, Sameh, 91
Nwagwu, Ejikeme, 345
Nyamsenda, Sabatho, 609
Olsson, Ola, 250
Oluwaniyi, Oluwatoyin O., 558
Page, Matthew T., 432
Parker, Leon, 491
Picardo, Rachi, 541
Quest, Matthew, 511
Richardson, Eugene T., 522
Roccu, Roberto, 104
Salem, Sara, 125
Shivji, Issa, 609
Smith, Julia, 186
Southall, Roger, 467
Swagler, Matt, 609
Tansel, Cemal Burak, 85, 115
Treidl, Johanna, 408
Tvedten, Inge, 541
Van Damme, Julie, 408
Verweijen, Judith, 250
Werbner, Pnina, 7
Workneh, Téwodros W., 592
Ylönen, Aleksi, 354
Yohannes, Habtom, 687
Zack-Williams, Alfred, 515
Zack-Williams, Tunde, 609
Zeilig, Leo, 1, 181, 267, 365, 609