Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional
justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are …

This article privileges the grounded geographies of the war on terror, focusing on those who
grapple with its everyday policing powers. Informed by ethnographic research in the cities of …

Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their
churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the …

This article analyses how concerns about youth and violence intersect with the politics of
managing religious coexistence in the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi. During extensive …

Names: Lynch, Gabrielle, editor.| VonDoepp, Peter, 1967–editor, author. Title: Routledge
handbook of democratization in Africa/edited by Gabrielle Lynch and Peter VonDoepp …

This article deals with a very visible form of Islamic missionary work in Kenya: the public
comparison of the Bible and the Qur'an. The argumentative structure of these public debates …

This article explores how Muslim-led civil society organizations (CSOs) implement programs
to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) in Malindi, Kenya, while adapting these programs to …

This article stages a comparative analysis of Muslim politics in coastal Kenya and Tanzania
between 2010 and 2023. We explore parallels, discontinuities, and entanglements between …

The numerous killings of non-Muslims by Muslim jihadi groups in Kenya, have fuelled ethno-
religious tensions manifested in hatred and anger against the entire Muslim community …

Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no
consensus as to who was responsible. In this book Joseph Kasule seeks to explain this by …