March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented governance as a way to address complex public…
Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of…
War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting…
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to…