Africa Yearbook Volume 15
Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2018
Series: - Africa Yearbook, Volume: 15
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.
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Victor Adetula, Ph.D. (1996) in Political Economy and Development Studies, University of Jos, is Head of Research, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), and Professor of International Relations & Development Studies at the University of Jos (Nigeria). He was previously Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala (2013), Head Division of Africa and African Integration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria (2012), Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011), and Director of the Centre for Development Studies, University of Jos (1998-2001).
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).
Henning Melber, Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science, University of Bremen, is Director emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Fellow of The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State. He has published extensively on Southern Africa and in particular Namibia. He is currently the President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).
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).
Henning Melber, Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science, University of Bremen, is Director emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Fellow of The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State. He has published extensively on Southern Africa and in particular Namibia. He is currently the President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).
'We, in this present Journal of Oriental and African Studies, have been reviewing the Yearbook since its very beginnings, [...]. In all these years, the Yearbook has matured and has lived up to the expectations of its inceptors – but most importantly, it has managed to become the living reflection of Africa itself, it has managed to become a unique tool of analysis and information for all the developments in the Dark Continent.
[...] Every Yearbook is at the same time typical of all the other yearbooks and distinct. This has to do with the political and economic developments of the continent’s countries themselves – for example, 2018 was a significant year in African history, as “for the first time for more than a decade, not a single violent or unconstitutional overthrow of the government was recorded”. At the same time, the 2018 Yearbook records all the usual (but also some new) challenges and problems: reactions against the Chinese economic intrusion, internal conflicts, terrorism, desertification and climate change, bending of democratic rules, extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure, corruption, epidemics, but also some faint signs of hope (regional interconnection, infrastructural cooperation, development).
[...] The Yearbook fulfils its mission, as usual, in the best possible way. But at the same time, the Yearbook is something much more than a “simple” yearbook: it is Africa’s ongoing adventure recorder, its novel and its travelogue.
Sotiris S. Livas, in Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 30 (2021), pp 519-520
[...] Every Yearbook is at the same time typical of all the other yearbooks and distinct. This has to do with the political and economic developments of the continent’s countries themselves – for example, 2018 was a significant year in African history, as “for the first time for more than a decade, not a single violent or unconstitutional overthrow of the government was recorded”. At the same time, the 2018 Yearbook records all the usual (but also some new) challenges and problems: reactions against the Chinese economic intrusion, internal conflicts, terrorism, desertification and climate change, bending of democratic rules, extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure, corruption, epidemics, but also some faint signs of hope (regional interconnection, infrastructural cooperation, development).
[...] The Yearbook fulfils its mission, as usual, in the best possible way. But at the same time, the Yearbook is something much more than a “simple” yearbook: it is Africa’s ongoing adventure recorder, its novel and its travelogue.
Sotiris S. Livas, in Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 30 (2021), pp 519-520
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2018)
List of Authors
Sub-Saharan Africa
Victor Adetula, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber
African-European Relations
Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer
West Africa
Victor Adetula
Benin
Alexander Stroh
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
Franzisca Zanker
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
Tomas van Acker
Comoros
Simon Massey
Djibouti
Nicole Hirt
Eritrea
Nicole Hirt
Ethiopia
Jon Abbink
Kenya
Nanjala Nyabola
Rwanda
Margot Leegwater
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
Anna Reuss
Southern Africa
Henning Melber
Angola
Jon Schubert
Botswana
David Sebudubudu
Eswatini
Marisha Ramdeen
Lesotho
Roger Southall
Madagascar
Richard R. Marcus
Malawi
George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri
Mauritius
Sheila Bunwaree
Mozambique
Joseph Hanlon
Namibia
Henning Melber
South Africa
Sanusha Naidu
Zambia
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
Zimbabwe
Amin Y. Kamete
List of Abbreviations
Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2018)
List of Authors
Sub-Saharan Africa
Victor Adetula, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber
African-European Relations
Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer
West Africa
Victor Adetula
Benin
Alexander Stroh
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
Franzisca Zanker
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
Tomas van Acker
Comoros
Simon Massey
Djibouti
Nicole Hirt
Eritrea
Nicole Hirt
Ethiopia
Jon Abbink
Kenya
Nanjala Nyabola
Rwanda
Margot Leegwater
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
Anna Reuss
Southern Africa
Henning Melber
Angola
Jon Schubert
Botswana
David Sebudubudu
Eswatini
Marisha Ramdeen
Lesotho
Roger Southall
Madagascar
Richard R. Marcus
Malawi
George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri
Mauritius
Sheila Bunwaree
Mozambique
Joseph Hanlon
Namibia
Henning Melber
South Africa
Sanusha Naidu
Zambia
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
Zimbabwe
Amin Y. Kamete
Students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.