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Past horrors, present struggles: the role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

We examined the role of stigma (manifest in discrimination as well as lower levels of community and family acceptance) in the relationship between war-related experiences and psychosocial adjustment (depression, anxiety, hostility and adaptive behaviors).

West Africa Hub

2010

How African civil wars hibernate: the warring communities of the Senegal / Guinea Bissau borderlands in the face of the Casamance forgotten civil war and the Bissau-Guinean state failure

This article focuses on the issue of how civil wars survive (post) conflict resolution and reconstruction policies at the edges of states through the local dynamics of cross-border areas.

West Africa Hub

Flexibility in return, reconstruction and livelihoods in displaced villages in Casamance, Senegal

The paper argues that livelihoods research in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath can contribute to geographical understandings of flexibility. Such settings paradoxically demand greater flexibility from economic actors while imposing new and sometimes severe constraints on them to…

West Africa Hub

2009

Corruption, NGOs, and development in Nigeria

This article examines corruption in Nigeria’s development sector, particularly in the vastly growing arena of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Grounded in ethnographic case studies, the analysis explores why local NGOs in Nigeria have proliferated so widely, what they do in…

West Africa Hub

2010

Corruption and “culture” in anthropology and in Nigeria

This article examines the publication and reception of a book about corruption in Nigeria as a form of ethnographic evidence that is useful to interrogate the fraught relationship between the concepts of culture and corruption. The evidence points to multiple…

West Africa Hub

2018

Research paper

Darfur refugees in Egypt: Suffering out of the spotlight

This paper describes the conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Egypt in recent history.

Central and East Africa Hub

2016

Report

Sudanese refugees in Chad: Passing the baton to no one

This Refugees International report describes the conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Chad in recent history.

Central and East Africa Hub

2017

Research paper

Political economy of violence against women in Sudan

An analysis of the main socio-economic, political and cultural factors contributing to the emergence and perpetuation of violence against women, especially in conflict-prone areas.

Central and East Africa Hub

2018

Research paper

Sudan: A political marketplace framework analysis

This paper provides a succinct analysis of Sudan as a political marketplace, offering a framework for analysing the Sudanese predicament so as to understand the implications of different courses of action.

Central and East Africa Hub

2019

Report

Assessment of communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan

An assessment of response-wide communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) work with the affected population in Sudan.

Central and East Africa Hub

2021