Introduction The study of refugees has shifted from maintaining the customary homogenization of refugees, including the equation of flight with helplessness, to recognizing their agency. Yet relapses still occur, which perhaps indicates…
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Special Issue: "Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections"
Editorial: Special Issue on Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections
by Edmore ChitukutukuIn Zimbabwe, election disputes continue unabated. As in previous elections, critics dispute the elections held on August 23, 2023, highlighting serious electoral fraud and intimidation of rural voters, opposition political parties, local election monitors, and observers. These disputes cast aspersions on the credibility of the election outcome. They also raise questions about the legitimacy of […]
February 15, 2024
Special Issue: "Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections"
Policing and the Credibility of the 2023 Elections in Zimbabwe
by Edmore ChitukutukuMany observers described Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonized elections to elect the president, the legislators, and local authority representatives as flawed, and the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa disputed the election outcome. The Southern African Development Community Election Observer Mission (SEOM) concluded in its report that some aspects of the […]
February 15, 2024
Special Issue: "Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections"
Electoral Disinformation during the Disputed 2023 Elections in Zimbabwe
February 15, 2024
Contemporary electoral contests are now synonymous with increased production, distribution, and consumption of false and misleading narratives about candidates, political parties, electoral management bodies, the voting processes, and the announcement of winners…
February 15, 2024
Special Issue: "Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections"
Traditional Leaders as Ruling Party Accomplices: A Reflection on Zimbabwe’s 2023 Elections
by Tracey MuradzikwaOn August 23, 2023, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faced off in a highly tense electoral contest. Most regional and international electoral observers, such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) electoral observation mission[i] and the European Union electoral observation mission, described the […]
February 15, 2024
Special Issue: "Zimbabwe’s Democracy at the Crossroads: An Analysis of the 2023 Elections"
Zimbabwe’s Disputed Elections and the SADC Observer Mission
by Simbarashe GukurumeThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) has long played a pivotal role in observing elections in Zimbabwe and other SADC member states. However, a notable departure from past practice occurred during Zimbabwe’s most recent elections, in August 2023, when the SADC observer mission issued an unprecedented preliminary report that was both negative and critical in […]
February 15, 2024
interview
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumnus, Solomon Danga
February 7, 2024
Dr. Solomon Danga is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Family and Society at the University of the Western Cape. In April 2023, he was…
February 7, 2024
interview
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumnus, Graham Oluteyo Amakanji
by Next Generation Social SciencesGraham Oluteyo Amakanji is a Lecturer at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology (MMUST), Kenya. He is an early career scholar and a recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program’s 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Research and 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Completion […]
January 8, 2024
interview
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Rosette Sifa Vuninga
by Next Generation Social SciencesDr. Rosette Sifa Vuninga is a National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Historical Studies Department, South Africa. In 2023, she successfully completed her PhD and graduated from the University of the Western Cape’s Department of Historical Studies. She is also a Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) […]
December 13, 2023
Essays
“Extractive Enchantment:” Unveiling the Dynamics of Resource Governance in Mozambique
October 24, 2023
In June 2016, during an ethnographic research trip to Limbué, an administrative post in the Lugela district in Mozambique, I had an interesting conversation with the commercial motorcycle operator assigned to me…
October 24, 2023
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