This article reviews power and negotiation practices under the Al-Inqaz regime during the 2010s, based on a study of the Sudanese mining sector, which has...
This article aims to contribute to the general debate on social housing policies in cities in the Global South by expanding on the case of...
This interview, conducted by Barbara Casciarri, a researcher in Sudan for thirty years, with Abdalbasit Saeed, a Sudanese anthropologist, focuses on key moments of the...
In this interview about the Sudanese Revolution conducted by Raphaëlle Chevrillon- Guibert, Roland Marchal, a sociologist specialist of politics in Sudan, looks back on the...
The above illustration comes from a 2001 competition entitled Regards d’enfants (Children’s Views) organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote mental health. Drawn by...
The last time that Politique africaine published an issue dedicated to health was in December 1987. This special report aims to fill that thirty-plus-year gap, acknowledging the...
Performance-based Financing (PBF) has travelled extensively in Africa. The analysis of interviews with key actors and grey literature shows that its implementation in Burundi corresponds...
The works of Florence Bernault and Frank Dikötter greatly contributed to laying the foundations for research on prisons outside of Western societies from a historical...
As this special issue amply illustrates, the ethnographic study of prison life in Africa is coming of age. In this article, drawing on almost two...
By what mystery does the closest thing, the most everyday thing, become what we know least? The answer indicates the magnitude of the question: for...
Growing local and global inequality is giving rise to and helping to constitute contemporary domestic service, including in Africa. In fact, the disappearance of the...
The broad range of phenomena, instruments and domains that constitute “informality” inherently raises questions about the validity of the dichotomy between formal and informal sectors....
Créée en 1980 et publiée par l’Association des chercheurs de Politique africaine (ACPA), Politique africaine est une revue pluridisciplinaire à comité de lecture sur l’analyse du politique en Afrique.
