The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of migration. But their effect can also be felt in migrant categories and identities and in the perceptions of migrants in the societies through which they transit or the communities which they have left behind. By placing the problem of border con...

Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and...

Comment la recherche de sciences sociales en et sur l’Afrique a-t-elle évolué durant les quatre dernières décennies ? Quelles sont les lignes et les fractures épistémologiques qui se dessinent aujourd’hui ? Quel sens cela a-t-il de continuer à promouvoir des études africaines dans les universités ? Qui y parle d’Afrique, et à qui ? Ce sont ces questions qui traversent ce double numéro, conçu à l’occasion des 40 ans de Politique africaine. La création de la revue avait marqué un engagement ...

How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today? Which point of view should we adopt to grasp the diversity of what is happening on the ground and in the day-to-day reality of power relations and social practices? To what extent do structural determinants articulate with individual practices and political imaginaries? In answer to these questions, Looking for the Political in Africa provides a captivating, multifaceted portrait of the many ways in which power re...