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Our peer-reviewed researchers produce a combination of journal papers, monographs, edited collections and blog posts to disseminate findings to the widest possible audience.

The Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa is at the forefront of producing rigorous social science research and evidence-based analysis, illuminating world affairs and interrogating local circumstances

Journal papers

2024

  • Special section on '' edited by by Naomi Pendle and Tom Kirk. Global Policy. 2025. 

  • Mohamed, S; Abbashar, A; Abushama, H. (2024) Frontiers in Psychology. 
  • Wuerth, M; Storer, E; Simpson, N; Sarafian, I; Duale, S. (2024) . Critical Policy Studies.
  • Atingo, J., Allen, T., and Macdonald, A. (2024). . Journal of International Criminal Justice. 
  • Onyango, G. (2024). . The Guardian. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 

  • Ondiek, J. O., & Onyango, G. (2024). . Chapter in: Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life (ed. Catherine Early and Philip Taylor). Edward Elgar Publishing. 

  • Ngutuku, E., & Okwany, A. (2024). . Genealogy. 

  • Laing, T., & Weschler, S. (2024). . African Studies Review. 

  • Tapscott, R., & Unwin, E. (2024). . Civil Wars. 

  • Abonga, F., et al. (2024). . African Studies Review. 

  • Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Vasilyeva (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Mylan, S. (2024). . Social Science & Medicine. 

  • Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Diing, A. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Laing, N., Mylan, S., & Parker, M. (2024). Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda's response to COVID-19?. Journal of Biosocial Science. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . Politics & Policy. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . Public Integrity. 

  • Kirk, T., & Pendle, N. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Kirk, T., & Pendle, N. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Sarafian, I. (2024). . Chapter in: Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research - Lessons from a time of crisis. Bristol University Press. 

  • Macdonald, A. (2024). Uganda’s battle for the youth vote – how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine’s reach in check. The Conversation. 

  • Sarafian, I. (2024). . Chapter in: Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives: Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas. Routledge. 

  • Gay Blasco, P., Sarafian, I., & Roman, R. (2024). . Routledge. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . The Conversation. 

  • Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Vasilyeva, A. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Diing, A. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Joshi, A., et al. (2024). . Global Policy. 

  • Ngutuku, E. (2024). . Childhood. 

  • Hopwood, J., et al. (2024). . African Studies Review. 

  • Laing, N., Mylan, S., & Parker, M. (2024). Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda's response to COVID-19?. Journal of Biosocial Science. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . Politics & Policy. 

  • Onyango, G. (2024). . Public Integrity. 

  • Sarafian, I. (2024). . Chapter in: Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research - Lessons from a time of crisis. Bristol University Press. 

  • Macdonald, A. (2024). . The Conversation. 

  • Akampurira, E., & Marijnen, E. (2024). . Political Geography. 

  • Vlassenroot, K., & Muzalia Kihangu, G. (2024). . Rewriting Peace and Conflict. 

  • Ed, Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington.  (2024). Global Policy. 

2023

 

  • Okwany, A. and Ngutuku, E. (2023). UNESCO.  

  • Ngutuku, E. (2023).  Childhood Journal.  

  • Onyango, G. (2023). . Public Organization Review.  

  • Onyango, G. (2023).  Deviant Behavior.  

  • Onyango, G., et al. (2023).  Perspectives on Public Management and Governance.  

  • Onyango, G., and Ondiek O. J. (2023). . Journal of Technology in Human Services. 

  • Mohamed, S., Abbashar, A., and Abushama, H. (2023). . Frontiers in Psychology.  

  • McCrone, F. (2023).  Journal of Eastern African Studies.  

  • Rodriguez, A. (2023). . Geopolitics. 

  • Allen, T. (2023). Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 

  • Storer, E., and Torre, C. (2023). Global Policy.  

  • Ferugson, W. D. (2023).  Global Policy.  

  • Blejer, M. I. and Mohácsi, P. N. (2023).  Project Syndicate.  

  • Anderson, M. (2023). From Peace Talks to Pandemics: The Continuum of Feminist Peace Activism. Global Studies Quarterly.  

  • Luke, D., Macleod, J., Ogunkola, O. (2023). White Paper on sustainable industrialisation in Africa sets out a new approach to industrial policymaking. 

  • Mohácsi, P.N. (2023). . Project Syndicate.  

  • Aggad, F., and Luke, D. (2023). Implications for African countries of a carbon border adjustment mechanism in the EU

  • Sarafian, I., (2023).  Medical Anthropology Quarterly.  

  • Torre, C., and Storer, E. (2023).  Journal of Migration and Health.  

  • Storer, E., and Anguyo, I. (2023).  Medical Anthropology Quarterly.  

  • Dieterle, C. (2023).  African Affairs.  

  • Pailey, N. R., and Bloh, O.(2023).. African Arguments. .  

  • Manby, B. (2023).   

  • McKay, A., Ogunkola, O., and Semboja, H. (2023).  The World Economy Journal.   

  • Kirk, T. (2023).  Global Policy.  

  • Macdonald, A., Owor, A., and Tapscott, R. (2023). . Journal of Eastern African Studies.  

  • Kirk, T., Green, D., Stys, P., and Mosquera, T. (2023).  Development Policy Review.  

  • Janguan, T., Kirk, T. (2023) . Global Policy.  

  • Ngutuku, E., Emeke, O., Sibert, A. (2023). . United Nations policy briefing report.  

  • Storer, E., Torre, C. (2023)  Transcultural Psychiatry.  

  • Storer, E., Torre, C. (2023). Global Policy. 

  • Tapscott, R. (2023). . Perspectives on Politics.  

  • Vlavonou, G. (2023). . International Studies Review. 

2022

  • Abonga, F., Brown, C. (2022). Civil Wars.  

  • Brett, E.A., (2022). . World Development. 159. 

  • Di Matteo, F. (2022). . The Journal of Development Studies. 

  • Hopwood, J., O'Byrne, R. (2022). . Civil Wars.  

  • Hopwood, J. (2022). . Critical African Studies.  

  • Macdonald, A., Cooper‐Knock, S., Hopwood, J. (2022). Law and Society Review.  

  • Marijnen, E. (2022). . Security Dialogue.  

  • O'Byrne, R. (2022). . Civil Wars. 

  • Onyango, G. (2022). International Review of Sociology. 

  • Onyango, G., Ondiek, JO. (2022). . Politics & Policy. 

  • Onyango, G. (2022). . International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. 

  • Parker, M., Baluku, M., Ozunga, BE., Okello, B., Kermundu, P., Akello, G., MacGregor, H., Leach, M., Allen, T. (2022). . Social Science and Medicine.  

  • Kelecha, M. (2022). . Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement.  

  • Elder, C. (2022). Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia. African Affairs, 121 (484). 395-417. 

  • Ngutuku, E. (2022). . Ethnography and Education,17 (3). 224-40.  

  • Geiger, M., Hockenhull, J., Buller, H., Engida, Gebre.T, Jemal Kedir, M., Goshu, L., Getachew, M., Banerjee, A., Burden, F.A. & Whay, H. R. (2022). . Society and Animals. 

  • Storer, L., Anguyo, I. & Odda, A. (2022). . Civil Wars. 

  • Storer, L., Dawson, K. & Fergus, C. (2022). . Medical Anthropology, 41 (4). 387 - 403. 

  • Fergus, C.A., Ozunga, B., Okumu, N., Parker, M., Kamurari, S. & Allen, T. (2022). . BMJ Global Health, 7 (2). 

  • Richards, Paul. (2022). . Journal of Peasant Studies.  

  • Sarafian, I. (2022). . Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform. Sarafian, I. (2022). The Lancet. 

  • Storer, E., Sarafian, I., Torre, C., Vallerani, S., Franchi, E. (2022). BMJ Global 

2021

  • Blackmore, K. & Owenje, B. (2021). . Critical Arts, 35:4. 

  • Ponsiano, B., Angolere, B., Nangiro, S., Sagal, I. & Joyce Emai (2021). . Civil Wars.  

  • Barnett, T., Moyen N., et al. (2021), , Nature, 11:19962.  

  • Fergus, C.A., Storer, E., Arinaitwe, M., Kamurari, S., & Adriko M. (2021), . BMC Health Services Research. 21:1061. 

  • Geiger, M., Hockenhull, J., Buller, H., Jemal Kedir, M., Tefera Engida, G., Getachew, M., Burden, F.A. & Whay, H.R. (2021), . Animal Welfare. Animal Welfare, 30: 269-277.  

  • Ngwenya, N., Barnett, T., Groenewald, C., & Seeley, J. (2021),  Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 

  • Barnett, T., & Fournié, G. (2021), , Lancet Planetary Health. 

  • Allen, T., Atingo, J. & Parker, M. (2021). . Civil Wars.  

  • Dieterle, C. (2021). . Journal of Development Studies. 

  • Macdonald, A. & Porter, H. (2021). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

  • Blackmore, K. (2021). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

  • Caryannis, T. & Pangburn, A. (2021). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

  • O'Bryne, R. & Ogeno, C. (2021). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

  • Pendle, N. & Akoi, A.D. (2021). ‘I Kept My Gun’: . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

  • Richards, P. (2021). . Africa, (91:2). 

  • Stys, P., Muhindoa, S., N’simirea, S., Tchumisia, I., Muzuria, P., Balume, B. & Koskinen, J. (2021). . Social Networks, 68. 

2020

  • Trapido, J. & Mbu-Mputu, N. (2020). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

     

  • Kerali, R. & Macdonald, A. (2020). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4. 

     

  • Porter, H. (2020). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.  

     

  • Vlassenroot, K., Mudinga, E. & Musamba, J. (2020). . Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.  

     

  • Brett, E.A. (2020).  

     

  • Waal, A., Nouwen, S. (2020). . JISC 

     

  • Bencherif, A., Vlavonou, G. (2020).  African Identities 

     

  • Elder, C. (2020). Tenderpreneurs and the politics of (sub)contracting in Somalia: rethinking the 'political marketplace', violent conflict and impossible debt. African Affairs 

     

  • Elder, C. (2020). Technocratic assistance programmes, diaspora return to politics and the remaking of the state and ‘public authority’ in Somalia's federal system. Public Administration and Development 

     

  • Elder, C., et al. (2020). The business of state fragility: rethinking co-dependence, public authority, and power in the Somali federal state. GOVSEA (Governing Economic Hubs and Flows in Somalia's East Africa) 

     

  • Richards, P. Public authority and its demons: the Sherbro Leopard murders in Sierra Leone. 

     

  • Bencherif, A., Vlavonou, G. (2020). . African Identities 

     

  • Stys, P., et al. (2020). . Social Networks Journal 

     

  • Carayannis, T., and Weiss, T.G. (2020). . Global Policy 

     

  • Carayannis, T. (2017).  The Graduate Center 

     

  • Allen, T., Atingo, J., Atim, D., Ocitti, J., Brown, C., Torre, C., Fergus, C., Parker, M. (2020)  Journal of Refugee Studies 

     

  • Cooper-Knock, SJ., Macdonald, A. (2020).  African Affairs 

     

  • Tapscott, R. (2020).  International Affairs 

     

  • Amoah, M. (2020). . African Affairs, 1-22.  

     

  • Blackmore, K., Luthra, K., & Shieh, I. (2020) Politics of Return Impact report on engagement workshops and exhibitions, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 

     

  • Parker, M., MacGregor, H. & Akello, G. (2020). . Medical Anthropology. 

     

  • Schubert, M. (2020). . Resolve network. 

     

  • Schubert, M. (2020). . Resolve network. 

     

  • Brown, C. (2020). . London School of Economics. Mayling Birney Prize for Best Overall Performance. 

     

  • Pendle, N. (2020). . Journal of Eastern African Studies, (14:1) 43-62. 

     

  • Moro, L., Pendle, N., Robinson, A., and Tanner, L. (2020)  Localising humanitarian aid during armed conflict: learning from the histories and creativity of South Sudanese NGOs, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 

     

  • Green, D., & Kirk, T., eds. (2020),, Working Paper, Centre for Public Authority and Interantional Development. 

     

  • Lazzolino, G. (2020), , Geoforum. 

     

  • Torre, C. (2020) , The Lancet Global Health. 

     

  • Carayannis, T., & Pangburn, A. (2020) , Journal of Refugee Studies 

     

  • Allen, T., Atingo, J., Atim, D., Ocitti, J., Brown, C., Torre, C., Fergus, C., Parker, M. (2020)  Journal of Refugee Studies 

  • Macdonald, A. & Kerali, R. (2020), , Journal of Refugee Studies 

2019

  • Honwana, A. (2019), '', Kujenga Amani, Social Sciences Research Council.  

     

  • , Working Paper (1), Deconstructing Notions of Resilience, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa. 

     

  • Abonga, F., Kerali, R., Porter, R. & Tapscott, R. (2019) Naked Bodies and Collective Action: Repertoires of Protest in Uganda’s Militarised, Authoritarian Regime, Civil Wars 

     

  • Girling Frank Knowles (2019),  

     

  • Macdonald, A. (2019) , International Journal of Transitional Justice 

     

  • Torre, C. (2019)  - Costanza Torre, Politics of Return Working Papers 

     

  • Marijnen, E., Verweijen, J., et al., (2019). . Biological Conservation, (232), 66-73. 

     

  • Stys, P., Verwijen, J., Mazuri, P., Muhindo, S., Vogel, C., Koskinen & J. (2019).  Global Crime. 

     

  • Marijnen, E. & Schouten, P. (2019). . Conflict, Security & Development. (19:1) 15-34. 

     

  • Mylan, S., Torre, C., Parker, M. & Allen, T. (2019). . The Lancet. (394:10216) 2237. 

     

  • Pangburn, A. (2019).  Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network 

     

  • Carayannis, T., Weiss, H. (2019).  Foreign Affairs 

     

  • Porter, H. (2019).   Anthropology News 

  • Lipton, J. (2019).  Pregnant in the time of Ebola: women and their children 2013-2015. Springer Nature 

     

  • Vlavonou, G., (2019).  African Security 

2018

  • Brett, T. (2018), '', ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 

  • Allen, T. (2018)  

  • Macdonald, A., and Hamandishe G., (2018), , Ohio University Press 

  • Sharif, S. (2018)  

  • Mathys, G., & Buscher, K. (2018) , Journal of East African Studies 

  • Carayannis, T. (2018) , New Contexts 

  • Carayannis, T. (2018)  

  • Carayannis, T. (2018)  

  • Hilhorst, D. (2018) , Disasters 

  • Porter, H. (2018),  

  • Hopwood, J. (2018) , Disasters 

  • Macdonald, A. (2018)  

  • Macdonald, A. (2018)  

  • Mathys, G. (2018) , Journal of Eastern African Studies 

  • Pangburn, A. (2018)  

  • Porter, H. (2018)  in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 

  • Tegenbos, J., & Vlassenroot, K. (2018) , Politics of Return Working Papers 

  • Brett, E.A. (2018). Public Authority and Political Markets in Conflicted States Social Conflict, Institutional Hybridity and Developmental Transitions. CPAID, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa. 

  • Hopwood, J. (2018). . Disasters. 

  • Marijnen, E., Verweijen, J. (2018). . Antipode. December. 

  • Beresford, A., Berry, M., & Mann, L. (2018). . Democratization, 1-20. 

  • Kapidžić, D. (2018).. Peacebuilding, 6(2), 127-143. 

  • Marijnen, E. (2018). . Development and Change, 49(3): 790-814.  

  • Pendle, N. (2018). . Africa, 88(1) 99-121 

  • Carayannis, T. (2018). International Affairs 

  • O'Byrne R., Ogeno, C. (2018). Rights Initiative's Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter 

2017

  • Porter, H. Victor, L. (2017).  Journal of Eastern African Studies 

  • Carayannis, T. (2017).  African Security Review 

  • Carayannis, T. (2017) , Cahier du CERPRU 

  • Carayannis, T. (2017)  

  • Carayannis, T. (2017) , La République démocratique du Congo à l'épreuve de la décentralisation, Cahiers Africains. 

  • Carayannis, T. (2017) , Foreign Affairs 

  • Carayannis, T. (2017) , Journal du ISDR - Bukavu, RDC 

  • Jacobs, C. (2017) Cahier du CERPRU

  • Weiss, T. (2017) , International Affairs

2016

  • Carayannis, T. (2016) 

  • Carayannis, T. (2016) 

  • Carayannis, T. (2016) 

  • Macdonald, A. (2016) 

Books

  • Ngutuku, E. (2025). (Routledge).
  • Luke, D. (ed.). (2023).  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Press. 
  • Amoah, M. (2022). Public Policy and Election Administration in Africa: A Controlling or Innovative Environment within Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa (Routledge).
  • Amoah, M. (2021). Reconstructing the Nation in Africa, The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana (I.B, Tauris).
  • Porter, H. (2019). After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda (Cambridge University Press).
  • Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (I.B, Tauris). 

Policy Briefs

Trajectories of Displacement research project

 

Books and Blogs from the FLIA's Centre for Public Authority and International Development

Books

  • Allen, T. & Thomas, A. (2021).  (third ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • Tapscott, R. (2021). . Oxford University Press.
  • Carayannis, T. & Weiss, T. G. (2021). . Oxford University Press.
  • Porter, H. (2019). After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in UgandaCambridge University Press.
  • Allen, T., et al. (2019).  Lit Verlag.
  • Amoah, M. (2019). . Bloomsbury.
  • Allen, T., Macdonald, A. & Radice, H. (eds) (2018).  Routledge.

Blogs

CPAID publishes the 'Public Authority' series on the . Please follow to see the full list.

Additional blogs

  • Kaspar Hoffman (2022). Afrique XXI.