Volume 30, June 2011

Special Issue
Political Violence and Armed Conflict in Africa: People, Places, Processes, Effects

Introduction: Political Violence and Armed Conflict in Africa............................................................5
Kevin M. DeJesus

Victims of Discourse: Mobilizing Narratives of Fear and Insecurity in
Post-Conflict South Sudan--The Case of Jonglei State...................................................................15
Ann Laudati

The Gender Politics of Firewood in Kiryandong Refugee Settelment in Uganda..........................................................................................................................................33
Deborah Mulumba

State and Stateless Violence in Somalia..........................................................................................47
Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh

Research Articles

Landfill Site Selection by Integrating Geographical Information Systems and
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study of Freetown, Dierra Leone.....................................67
Yakubah Bah and Rodney G. Tsiko

Why Africa's Cities Matter...........................................................................................................101
Garth Myers

Book Reviews

Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering, by Graham Harrison.........................107 Reviewed by Barry Riddell

Across the Atlantic: African Immigrants in the United States Diaspara,
by Emmanuel Yewah and Dimeji Togunde...................................................................................111
Reviewed by Apollos Nwauwa

Call for Papers............................................................................................................................113