African Political Sociology
type: channel
description: African Political Sociology is a peer‑reviewed scholarly journal published under the Pan‑African Research Journals (PARJ) platform, advancing African‑centred and global research.
language: en
publication name: African Political Sociology
items: Thinking the Fragile State Otherwise: Fanon, Nkrumah, Nyerere, and African Theories of Post-Conflict State Formation
items: Predatory Peace and the Oil-Rent State
items: Predatory Peace and the Oil-Rent State: Elite Bargaining and the Reproduction of Organised Violence in South Sudan, 2005-2023
items: WhatsApp and Political Disinformation in African Electoral Campaigns
items: Women's Suffrage Histories in Africa
items: Freedom of Information Laws and Their Implementation in East Africa
items: The Role of NGOs in Local Governance
items: Social Media Regulation and Political Expression in East African States
items: Gramsci's Hegemony and African Politics
items: The Role of First Ladies in African Politics
items: British Colonial Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
items: Electoral Systems Design and Political Outcomes in Africa
items: Postcards from the Periphery
items: Memory, Trauma, and Political Identity in Post-Conflict African Societies
items: Cross-Border Cattle Raiding and State Responses
items: Drone Warfare and U.S. Counterterrorism in Africa
items: The Ethics of Foreign Intervention
items: Participatory Planning and Community Development in South Sudanese Counties
items: Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration
items: Money in Politics
items: Anti-Corruption Agencies in East Africa
items: Men and Masculinities in African Peacebuilding
items: Rebel Governance and Social Services

Thinking the Fragile State Otherwise: Fanon, Nkrumah, Nyerere, and African Theories of Post-Conflict State Formation
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description: Thinking the Fragile State Otherwise: Fanon, Nkrumah, Nyerere, and African Theories of Post-Conflict State Formation examines the dominance of liberal peacebuilding vocabularies that obscure African intellectual resources for understanding authority, violence, and reconstruction. Centering South Sudan without treating it as exceptional, the study situates the case within broader debates in post-colonial theory, African political thought, and critical international relations. It develops the concept of African-centred post-conflict statecraft to explain how formal norms, institutional design, and struggles over authority are configured through distinct intellectual traditions. Drawing on intellectual history and textual analysis of African political thought; critical engagement with liberal peacebuilding theory from an African perspective; and application of these frameworks to South Sudan’s post-conflict governance, the study advances three linked propositions. First, decolonization thought can be re-read as a critique of state formation rather than a completed historical moment. Second, African socialist and anti-colonial traditions provide alternative design vocabularies for political order. Third, African political thought reshapes how fragile-state dynamics are interpreted and addressed. The analysis addresses the central question of what analytical resources Fanon’s account of decolonization offers for understanding governance pathologies in post-independence African states. It shows that institutions, narratives, and policy frameworks function as political instruments rather than neutral containers, revealing the limits of externally derived statebuilding models. The study concludes that reform efforts fail when they treat fragility as a technical deficit rather t
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: African political thought
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subject: Fanon
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subject: Nkrumah
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subject: Nyerere
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subject: post-colonial
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subject: liberal peacebuilding critique
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subject: state formation
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creator: Associate Professor of Politics
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 African Political Sociology
date: 2026-04-22
publication date: 2026-04-22
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19691019

Predatory Peace and the Oil-Rent State
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description: This article develops predatory peace as an analytical lens for understanding the predatory peace: oil rents, elite bargaining, and the reproduction of organised violence in south sudan, 2005–2023. It argues that peace agreements in resource-dependent fragile states frequently redistribute access to rents rather than transform the political economy of violence, allowing wartime coalitions to mutate into peacetime revenue cartels. Drawing on process tracing across three peace agreement cycles; elite interview data with former ministers, splm-io commanders, and oil sector officials; budget execution analysis of nilepet revenue data; comparison with angola (post-2002) and chad as rentier post-conflict cases., the paper links the theoretical debates identified in rentier state theory (mahdavy; beblawi; luciani) intersected with political settlements analysis (khan; di john & putzel) and war economies literature (keen; collier & hoeffler). proposes the concept of the 'predatory peace' peace agreements as rent-redistribution frameworks rather than conflict-termination instruments. to a comparative and historically grounded reading of South Sudan and the related cases assembled in the research design. The article advances three core claims. First, oil revenue in South Sudan operated as the principal medium through which elite bargains were negotiated, broken, and renegotiated, making fiscal distribution inseparable from military realignment. Second, Nilepet, off-budget revenue channels, and patron-specific financing tied domestic coalition management to external sponsors in ways that deepened rather than reduced factional competition. Third, stabilization is unlikely without fiscal transparency, escrow-type revenue controls, and peace agreement design that treats macro-fiscal
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
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subject: political settlements
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subject: oil revenue governance
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subject: South Sudan
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 AJSoA-PoliticalSoc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2023-12-22
publication date: 2023-12-22
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19589251
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
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subject: political settlements
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subject: oil revenue governance
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subject: South Sudan
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date: 2023-05-16
publication date: 2023-05-16
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
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subject: political settlements
  topic: keywords
subject: oil revenue governance
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subject: South Sudan
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date: 2023-10-11
publication date: 2023-10-11
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
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subject: political settlements
  topic: keywords
subject: oil revenue governance
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subject: South Sudan
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date: 2023-04-08
publication date: 2023-04-08

Predatory Peace and the Oil-Rent State: Elite Bargaining and the Reproduction of Organised Violence in South Sudan, 2005-2023
type: item
description: This article develops predatory peace as an analytical lens for understanding the predatory peace: oil rents, elite bargaining, and the reproduction of organised violence in south sudan, 2005–2023. It argues that peace agreements in resource-dependent fragile states frequently redistribute access to rents rather than transform the political economy of violence, allowing wartime coalitions to mutate into peacetime revenue cartels. Drawing on process tracing across three peace agreement cycles; elite interview data with former ministers, splm-io commanders, and oil sector officials; budget execution analysis of nilepet revenue data; comparison with angola (post-2002) and chad as rentier post-conflict cases., the paper links the theoretical debates identified in rentier state theory (mahdavy; beblawi; luciani) intersected with political settlements analysis (khan; di john & putzel) and war economies literature (keen; collier & hoeffler). proposes the concept of the 'predatory peace' peace agreements as rent-redistribution frameworks rather than conflict-termination instruments. to a comparative and historically grounded reading of South Sudan and the related cases assembled in the research design. The article advances three core claims. First, oil revenue in South Sudan operated as the principal medium through which elite bargains were negotiated, broken, and renegotiated, making fiscal distribution inseparable from military realignment. Second, Nilepet, off-budget revenue channels, and patron-specific financing tied domestic coalition management to external sponsors in ways that deepened rather than reduced factional competition. Third, stabilization is unlikely without fiscal transparency, escrow-type revenue controls, and peace agreement design that treats macro-fiscal
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
  topic: keywords
subject: political settlements
  topic: keywords
subject: oil revenue governance
  topic: keywords
subject: South Sudan
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 African Political Sociology
date: 2026-04-13
publication date: 2026-04-13
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19541761

WhatsApp and Political Disinformation in African Electoral Campaigns
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description: This article examines WhatsApp and Political Disinformation in African Electoral Campaigns: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry with a focused emphasis on Nigeria within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a survey research article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: African Electoral Campaigns
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subject: Political Disinformation
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subject: African Electoral
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subject: Electoral Campaigns
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subject: Mixed-Methods Inquiry
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subject: WhatsApp
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-10-13
publication date: 2025-10-13
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19552341
description: This article examines WhatsApp and Political Disinformation in African Electoral Campaigns: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry with a focused emphasis on Malawi within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a policy analysis article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: African Electoral Campaigns
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Disinformation
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subject: African Electoral
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subject: Electoral Campaigns
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subject: Mixed-Methods Inquiry
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subject: WhatsApp
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2022-12-09
publication date: 2022-12-09
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19540856

Women's Suffrage Histories in Africa
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description: This article examines Women's Suffrage Histories in Africa: Formal Rights and Substantive Exclusion: Accountability, Transparency, and Reform with a focused emphasis on Guinea-Bissau within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a commentary that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Women s Suffrage
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subject: s Suffrage Histories
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subject: Africa Formal Rights
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subject: Substantive Exclusion Accountability
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subject: Exclusion Accountability Transparency
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subject: Women s
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-10-10
publication date: 2024-10-10
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19551905
description: This article examines Women's Suffrage Histories in Africa: Formal Rights and Substantive Exclusion: Accountability, Transparency, and Reform with a focused emphasis on Eswatini within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Women s Suffrage
  topic: keywords
subject: s Suffrage Histories
  topic: keywords
subject: Africa Formal Rights
  topic: keywords
subject: Substantive Exclusion Accountability
  topic: keywords
subject: Exclusion Accountability Transparency
  topic: keywords
subject: Women s
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2022-05-09
publication date: 2022-05-09
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19540665

Freedom of Information Laws and Their Implementation in East Africa
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description: This article examines Freedom of Information Laws and Their Implementation in East Africa: Evidence from South Sudan with a focused emphasis on South Sudan within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a working paper that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: East Africa Evidence
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subject: Information Laws
  topic: keywords
subject: Their Implementation
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subject: East Africa
  topic: keywords
subject: Africa Evidence
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subject: South Sudan
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2021-01-09
publication date: 2021-01-09
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19549829

The Role of NGOs in Local Governance
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description: This article examines The Role of NGOs in Local Governance: Substitution, Complementarity, and Accountability: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa with a focused emphasis on Ethiopia within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a ethnographic study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Local Governance Substitution
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subject: Governance Substitution Complementarity
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subject: Local Governance
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subject: Governance Substitution
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subject: Substitution Complementarity
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subject: Accountability Lessons
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-09-18
publication date: 2025-09-18
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19549618

Social Media Regulation and Political Expression in East African States
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description: This article examines Social Media Regulation and Political Expression in East African States with a focused emphasis on Zambia within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a policy analysis article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social Media Regulation
  topic: keywords
subject: East African States
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Media
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subject: Media Regulation
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Expression
  topic: keywords
subject: East African
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2026-09-27
publication date: 2026-09-27
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19549295

Gramsci's Hegemony and African Politics
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description: This article examines Gramsci's Hegemony and African Politics: Consent, Coercion, and Counter-Hegemonic Movements: The Role of Civil Society with a focused emphasis on Burkina Faso within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a theoretical framework article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gramsci s Hegemony
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subject: African Politics Consent
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subject: Politics Consent Coercion
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subject: Gramsci s
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subject: s Hegemony
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subject: African Politics
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2026-02-10
publication date: 2026-02-10
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19548855

The Role of First Ladies in African Politics
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description: This article examines The Role of First Ladies in African Politics: Soft Power, Influence, and Informal Authority: Implications for Regional Integration with a focused emphasis on Tanzania within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: African Politics Soft
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subject: Politics Soft Power
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subject: Soft Power Influence
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subject: Informal Authority Implications
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subject: First Ladies
  topic: keywords
subject: African Politics
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2026-10-02
publication date: 2026-10-02
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19548841

British Colonial Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
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description: This article examines British Colonial Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: Legacy and Continuity: Institutional Dimensions and Reform Pathways with a focused emphasis on Egypt within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: British Colonial Administration
  topic: keywords
subject: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Legacy
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subject: Continuity Institutional Dimensions
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subject: British Colonial
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subject: Colonial Administration
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subject: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2023-03-25
publication date: 2023-03-25
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19545731

Electoral Systems Design and Political Outcomes in Africa
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description: This article examines Electoral Systems Design and Political Outcomes in Africa: Proportionality, Accountability, and Inclusion: Institutional Capacity and Political Will with a focused emphasis on Uganda within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a theoretical framework article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Electoral Systems Design
  topic: keywords
subject: Africa Proportionality Accountability
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subject: Inclusion Institutional Capacity
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subject: Electoral Systems
  topic: keywords
subject: Systems Design
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Outcomes
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-09-07
publication date: 2025-09-07
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19545530

Postcards from the Periphery
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description: This article examines Postcards from the Periphery: Governance in Remote and Border Counties: Perspectives from Eastern Africa with a focused emphasis on Central African Republic within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a commentary that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Border Counties Perspectives
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subject: Periphery Governance
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subject: Border Counties
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subject: Counties Perspectives
  topic: keywords
subject: Eastern Africa
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subject: Postcards
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2022-12-08
publication date: 2022-12-08
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19545385

Memory, Trauma, and Political Identity in Post-Conflict African Societies
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description: This article examines Memory, Trauma, and Political Identity in Post-Conflict African Societies: An African Union Perspective with a focused emphasis on Malawi within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a mixed methods study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Post-Conflict African Societies
  topic: keywords
subject: African Union Perspective
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subject: Memory Trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Post-Conflict African
  topic: keywords
subject: African Societies
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2023-06-19
publication date: 2023-06-19
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19544946

Cross-Border Cattle Raiding and State Responses
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description: This article examines Cross-Border Cattle Raiding and State Responses: Jonglei, Murle, and Inter-Communal Violence: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Analysis with a focused emphasis on Uganda within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Cross-Border Cattle Raiding
  topic: keywords
subject: State Responses Jonglei
  topic: keywords
subject: Responses Jonglei Murle
  topic: keywords
subject: Inter-Communal Violence Theoretical
  topic: keywords
subject: Violence Theoretical Framework
  topic: keywords
subject: Cross-Border Cattle
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon (Ph.D)
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-06-06
publication date: 2024-06-06
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19544793
description: This article examines Cross-Border Cattle Raiding and State Responses: Jonglei, Murle, and Inter-Communal Violence: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Analysis with a focused emphasis on Zambia within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a mixed methods study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Cross-Border Cattle Raiding
  topic: keywords
subject: State Responses Jonglei
  topic: keywords
subject: Responses Jonglei Murle
  topic: keywords
subject: Inter-Communal Violence Theoretical
  topic: keywords
subject: Violence Theoretical Framework
  topic: keywords
subject: Cross-Border Cattle
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-03-13
publication date: 2025-03-13
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19518758

Drone Warfare and U.S. Counterterrorism in Africa
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description: This article examines Drone Warfare and U.S. Counterterrorism in Africa: Effectiveness, Blowback, and Legal Controversy: International Norms, Local Realities with a focused emphasis on Morocco within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a policy analysis article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: U S Counterterrorism
  topic: keywords
subject: Africa Effectiveness Blowback
  topic: keywords
subject: Legal Controversy International
  topic: keywords
subject: Controversy International Norms
  topic: keywords
subject: International Norms Local
  topic: keywords
subject: Norms Local Realities
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-12-13
publication date: 2024-12-13
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19544519

The Ethics of Foreign Intervention
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description: This article examines The Ethics of Foreign Intervention: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Political Responsibility: Decolonial Reflections with a focused emphasis on Mali within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a policy brief that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Foreign Intervention Sovereignty
  topic: keywords
subject: Intervention Sovereignty Human
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subject: Sovereignty Human Rights
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Responsibility Decolonial
  topic: keywords
subject: Responsibility Decolonial Reflections
  topic: keywords
subject: Foreign Intervention
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-06-16
publication date: 2025-06-16
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19544421

Predatory Peace and the Oil-Rent State: Elite Bargaining and the Reproduction of Organised Violence in South Sudan, 2005-2023
type: item
description: This article develops predatory peace as an analytical lens for understanding the predatory peace: oil rents, elite bargaining, and the reproduction of organised violence in south sudan, 2005–2023. It argues that peace agreements in resource-dependent fragile states frequently redistribute access to rents rather than transform the political economy of violence, allowing wartime coalitions to mutate into peacetime revenue cartels. Drawing on process tracing across three peace agreement cycles; elite interview data with former ministers, splm-io commanders, and oil sector officials; budget execution analysis of nilepet revenue data; comparison with angola (post-2002) and chad as rentier post-conflict cases., the paper links the theoretical debates identified in rentier state theory (mahdavy; beblawi; luciani) intersected with political settlements analysis (khan; di john & putzel) and war economies literature (keen; collier & hoeffler). proposes the concept of the 'predatory peace' peace agreements as rent-redistribution frameworks rather than conflict-termination instruments. to a comparative and historically grounded reading of South Sudan and the related cases assembled in the research design. The article advances three core claims. First, oil revenue in South Sudan operated as the principal medium through which elite bargains were negotiated, broken, and renegotiated, making fiscal distribution inseparable from military realignment. Second, Nilepet, off-budget revenue channels, and patron-specific financing tied domestic coalition management to external sponsors in ways that deepened rather than reduced factional competition. Third, stabilization is unlikely without fiscal transparency, escrow-type revenue controls, and peace agreement design that treats macro-fiscal
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rentier state
  topic: keywords
subject: predatory peace
  topic: keywords
subject: political settlements
  topic: keywords
subject: oil revenue governance
  topic: keywords
subject: South Sudan
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 African Political Sociology
date: 2026-04-12
publication date: 2026-04-12
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19541761

Participatory Planning and Community Development in South Sudanese Counties
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description: This article examines Participatory Planning and Community Development in South Sudanese Counties: The Role of Civil Society with a focused emphasis on Kenya within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a theoretical framework article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: South Sudanese Counties
  topic: keywords
subject: Participatory Planning
  topic: keywords
subject: Community Development
  topic: keywords
subject: South Sudanese
  topic: keywords
subject: Sudanese Counties
  topic: keywords
subject: Civil Society
  topic: keywords
creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-07-06
publication date: 2024-07-06
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19542537

Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration
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description: This article examines Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration: Implementation Failures and Security Setbacks with a focused emphasis on Senegal within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a mixed methods study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Reintegration Implementation Failures
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subject: Disarmament Demobilisation
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subject: Reintegration Implementation
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subject: Implementation Failures
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subject: Security Setbacks
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subject: Disarmament
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2023-08-23
publication date: 2023-08-23
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19542345

Money in Politics
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description: This article examines Money in Politics: Campaign Finance Regulation and Enforcement in East Africa: A Feminist Political Economy Approach with a focused emphasis on Ghana within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a ethnographic study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
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subject: Politics Campaign Finance
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subject: Campaign Finance Regulation
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subject: Feminist Political Economy
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subject: Political Economy Approach
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subject: Politics Campaign
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subject: Campaign Finance
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2022-10-25
publication date: 2022-10-25
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19542188

Anti-Corruption Agencies in East Africa
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description: This article examines Anti-Corruption Agencies in East Africa: Independence, Effectiveness, and Political Interference: Multi-Level Governance Perspectives with a focused emphasis on Côte d'Ivoire within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a comparative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: East Africa Independence
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subject: Africa Independence Effectiveness
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subject: Political Interference Multi-Level
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subject: Interference Multi-Level Governance
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subject: Multi-Level Governance Perspectives
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subject: Anti-Corruption Agencies
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2023-06-01
publication date: 2023-06-01
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19538370

Men and Masculinities in African Peacebuilding
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description: This article examines Men and Masculinities in African Peacebuilding: Engaging Male Actors in Gender Equality: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa with a focused emphasis on Ethiopia within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a comparative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: African Peacebuilding Engaging
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subject: Peacebuilding Engaging Male
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subject: Engaging Male Actors
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subject: Gender Equality Lessons
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subject: African Peacebuilding
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subject: Peacebuilding Engaging
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19537859

Rebel Governance and Social Services
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description: This article examines Rebel Governance and Social Services: How Non-State Armed Groups Build Legitimacy: Political Economy Dimensions with a focused emphasis on Seychelles within the field of Sociology. It is structured as a theoretical framework article that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most relevant institutional, policy, or theoretical dynamics for the African context and closes with a practical conclusion linked to the core argument.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social Services How
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subject: Services How Non-State
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subject: How Non-State Armed
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subject: Non-State Armed Groups
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subject: Armed Groups Build
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subject: Groups Build Legitimacy
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creator: Abraham Kuol Nyuon
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-04-15
publication date: 2024-04-15
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19529008