The Perils and Promise of Contemporary African Politics: Insights from Research

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3rd House     3rd Senate
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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

African Security: .Strives to investigate the myriad issues relating to conflict and security within and between African nations, not only from the more traditional approaches to security studies but also from more novel and innovative perspectives.

African Affairs: .Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary journal with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa.

Review of African Political Economy: .Radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change.

African Journal of Political Science: .Published by the African Association of Political Science with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa.

Africa Research Institute Blog: .Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.

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African Politics Data Sites

South African Data Archive: .Serves as a broker between a range of data providers and the research community.

Nigeria Data Portal: .Extensive macro data about Nigeria

Center for the Study of African Econ.: .Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database

Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda: .Collects and archives key national data.

African Dev. Bank Group Data Portal: .Access to information on lending projects from 1967 up to now, the dataset includes basic information such as the project title and ID, country, sector, task manager but also, financial information, results and linksD, country, sector, task manager to publicly disclosed documents.

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African Politics Articles with Replication Data

Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter-Driven Accountability in Senegal*Abhit Bhandari; *Horacio Larreguy; John Marshall