Journal Afrika Focus

Afrika Focus is an interdisciplinary journal dealing with Africa. Afrika Focus is an open access journal which is published biannually and subject to international peer-review.
 
As of January 2008 Afrika Focus is co-published by the Gents Africa Platform (GAP) and Afrika Brug, the organisation which has been publishing the journal for twenty years. Afrika Focus was first published in 1985 and replaced the AVRUG-bulletin which in 1978 replaced the Nieuwsbulletin van de Afrika-Vereniging van de Rijksuniversiteit Gent. The latter first appeared in 1972.
 
The entire archive of Afrika Focus and its predecessors is available online.

Afrika Focus is listed as a journal with peer review on the journal list of the Flemisch Academic Bibliografic Database (Vlaams Academisch Bibliografisch Bestand - VABB).

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Current issue 2012(25:2)

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Articles

Remco VAN HAUWERMEIREN

The Ogaden War: Somali women’s roles... [9]

Inge BRINKMAN

Town, village and bush: war and cultural landscapes in south-eastern Angola (1966-2002) ...[31]

Busani MPOFU

Perpetual ‘Outcasts’?: Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe ...[45]

Sariette BATIBONAK

Sorcellerie en milieu urbain amplifiée par les pentecôtismes camerounais ...[65]

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Reports

Charles BAKUNDUKIZE

Hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical investigation of a Precambrian basement aquifer in Bugesera Region (Burundi) ...[89]

Jan CHERLET

Development aid to water management in Mali: the actors, ‘global’ paradigms, and ‘local’ translations ...[94]

Katrien DE GRAEVE

“Making families”: parenting and belonging in transnational adoption in Flanders ...[100]

Karen DEL BIONDO

Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in Sub-Saharan Africa ...[109]

Amaury FRANKL

Gully development and its spatio-temporal variability since the late 19th century in the northern Ethiopian Highlands ...[121]

Kristien MICHIELSEN

HIV prevention for young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: effectiveness of interventions and areas for improvement. Evidence from Rwanda ...[132]

Rachid MOUSSADEK

Impacts de l’agriculture de conservation sur les propriétés et la productivité des vertisols du Maroc Central ...[147]

Sanctus MUSAFIRI

Airway function in healthy and chronic respiratory diseased: An observational cohort study in Rwanda ...[152]

Olubayo OLUDURO

Oil exploitation and human rights violations in Nigeria’s oil producing communities ...[160]

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