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- Improving Evidence and Relevance at the Same Time
  by Neil A. Lewis Jr.
- Nós por Nós: How Community Organizations are Reinventing Democracy in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
  by Anjuli Fahlberg, Cristiane Martins, Joiceane Eugenia Lopes, Ana Claudia Araujo, Lidiane Santos, Sophia Costa and Guilherme Baratho
- “An Assault on Democracy”: The Effects of Voter ID Laws on Immigrant-Serving Organizations
  by Hajar Yazdiha and Blanca A. Ramirez
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- The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
  by Dheepa Sundaram
- Sacred space and the (post)secular state
  by Anna Bigelow
- Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
  by Shaheen
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- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Building a Transformative Network: How APN Is Bridging the Gap between African Scholars
  by Mohammed Masbah
- Supporting the Dissemination of My Research to Diverse Audiences
  by Tapiwa Madimu
- Bridging Humanities and Social Science Research in Africa: My APN Experience
  by Eve Nabulya
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Review of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Cynthia Alexandre-Brutus·

February 9, 2017

Quotation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun offers a heart-wrenching account of the Biafran War (1967-1970), beautifully wrapped in…

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The South Sudan Peace Deal and Prospects for Peacebuilding

Kenneth Omeje·

Nicodemus Minde·

November 4, 2015

"Post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction present a complex challenge to any nascent state emerging from war. In South Sudan, negotiated tradeoffs…

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