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The Age of Change: How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics

Zachariah Mampilly
Capsule Review

Kagame’s Revenge

Michela Wrong
Essay

Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda

Nicolas van de Walle
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The West Helped Cripple Uganda’s Democracy

Bobi Wine
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Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil

Nicolas van de Walle
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Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Combatants: A Memoir of the Bush War and the Press in Uganda

Nicolas van de Walle
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The Politics of Deforestation in Africa: Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda

Nicolas van de Walle
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Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa

Jon Temin
Snapshot

Bye-Bye, Kony?

Ledio Cakaj, Kristof Titeca
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Uganda’s Covert Censorship

Sonia Paul
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A Streetcar in Uganda

Fritz Schumann
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Avoiding Africa’s Oil Curse

Ricardo Soares De Oliveira
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Museveni’s Oil Bet

Vivian Salama
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KONY 20Never

Peter Eichstaedt
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Congo’s Sudden Calm

Jason Stearns
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KONY 2012 and the Prospects for Change

Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen, Koen Vlassenroot
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How to Help African Children At Risk

Anne C. Richard
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Obama Takes on the LRA

Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen, Koen Vlassenroot
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Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis

Gail M. Gerhart
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Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization

Gail M. Gerhart
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Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?; Hostile to Democracy: The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda

Gail M. Gerhart
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Democracy in Africa: No Time to Forsake It

Joel D. Barkan, David F. Gordon

Africa's New Bloc

Dan Connell, Frank Smyth
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Uganda Now

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
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Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
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Human Rights and Economic Power: The United States Versus Idi Amin

Richard H. Ullman
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Reporting from the Third World

Mort Rosenblum
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The Differing Faces of Africa

Lord Hailey
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Crowded Countries and Empty Spaces

Alexander M. Carr-Saunders
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Power Politics and the Peace Machinery

Hamilton Fish Armstrong
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