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Brazilian Journal of African Studies

The Brazilian Journal of African Studies is a biannual publication, in digital and printed format, dedicated to the research, reflection and propagation of studies on African themes. BJAS releases unpiblished scientific papers that emphasize International Relations, Organizations of Integration, Security and Defense, Political Systems, History, Geography, Economic Development, Social Structures and Currents of Thought. BJAS is essentially academic, linked to the Brazilian Centre for African Studies (CEBRAFRICA) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). The Journal has as target audience researches, professors and students interested in the specificities of the African continent and its international insertion. Alongside such perspective, the Journal intends to expand the debate about the Brazilian projection world widely, the Brazilian cooperation efforts (including in the Defense field) with the African countries in the South Atlantic perimeter and the construction of a regional identity in face of a scenario of geopolitical transformations.
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• September 01, 2025 Emerging Challenges and Opportu-Nities in Humanitarian Assistance in Mozambique: A Case Study from Cabo Delgados
  By: Fátima Chimarizeni Papelo
• September 01, 2025 Situation Analysis of the Chissano Government: Domestic Transitions and Economic Pragmatism in Mozam-Bique (1986–2004)
  By: Ercilio Neves Brandao Langa
• September 01, 2025 The Evolution of Un Peace Operations from a Human Security Perspective: The Dilemma in the Issue of Western Sahara
  By: Guilherme Moreira Dias, José Maria Sydow de Barros, Túlio Pires Barboza
• September 01, 2025 Contemporary Terrorism: A Theoretical Perspective
  By: Yoslán Silverio González
• September 01, 2025 Asia’s Growing Global Influence: A Study of India’s Africa Policy
  By: Hamdy A. Hassan
• March 26, 2024 Resurgence of Military Coups in Africa: Can the African Union and Regional Organizations Defend and Consolidate Democracy?
  By: Joshua O. Bolarinwa
• March 26, 2024 The Future of Japan-Africa Cooperation: TICAD
  By: Habib Badawi
• March 26, 2024 Atlantism Under Maintenance: A Review of the Brazil-Cape Verde Partnership During the Dilma Rousseff Administrations (2011–2016)
  By: Tatiana Raquel Reis Silva, Leandro Chaves Batista
• March 26, 2024 Government, State, and National Wars in Africa
  By: Nathaly Silva Xavier Schütz, Hernán Olmedo González
• March 26, 2024 Skimming the East African Community Regional Force in the Kivu: Another Test Case of ‘African Solutions to African Problems’
  By: Jean-Marie Kasonga Mbombo
• December 13, 2022 Why Military Coups Are Back in Africa
  By: Enoch Ndem Okon
• December 13, 2022 Boko Haram Insurgency and Forced Displacement in North-East Nigeria: An Assessment of State Management Strategies
  By: Luqman Saka, Ousman M. Bojang
• December 13, 2022 Latent Politics in South Africa: The Fall of Apartheid and the Personality Factor
  By: Vadim Kurillo, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
• December 13, 2022 Through Armed Struggle: Colonial Occupation, National Liberation War and Independence in Mozambique
  By: José Alejandro Sebastian Barrios Díaz
• December 13, 2022 Coercion and Violence in German Labor Conscription in Cameroon, 1880s-1914
  By: Henry Kam Kah, Emmanuel E. Kengo
• July 27, 2022 The Civil-Military Relationship: From Theory to Practice in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
  By: Guilherme de Araujo Grigoli
• July 27, 2022 Corruption, Underdevelopment and the Masses in Africa
  By: Ibrahim Bangura, Temitope Oriola, Henry Mbawa
• July 27, 2022 Neoextractivism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola: Between Neoliberal Globalization, Regional Trends and Local Particularities
  By: David Mouzo Williams
• July 27, 2022 China-Africa in the Context of BRI-B3W
  By: Li Anshan
• July 27, 2022 Learning From Each Other: The Belt and Road Initiative and the Infrastructure Policy in Africa
  By: Mamoudou Gazibo
• December 31, 2021 Nation Branding in International Relations: The Case of Nigeria
  By: Bruna Coelho Jaeger, Izabela Mota Bastos
• December 31, 2021 Concepts and Historiographic Debate from the Autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797)
  By: Artur José Renda Vitorino, Gisele Maria Beloto
• December 31, 2021 Exchange Over Troubled Waters: The Anioma and the War-Time Trade with Biafra, 1967–1970
  By: Odigwe A. Nwaokocha
• December 31, 2021 Colonial Rule in Nigeria: The Auchi Kingdom Encounter with the British Colonialists and the Impacts
  By: Yakubu Suleiman
• December 31, 2021 Nigeria’s Role in the Expulsion/Withdrawal of South Africa from the Commonwealth of Nations
  By: Joshua Olusegun Bolarinwa, James Adewunmi Falode
• August 27, 2021 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in Mozambique: The First Post-Independence Government – Samora Machel (1975–1986)
  By: Ercilio Neves Brandao Langa
• August 27, 2021 Democracy in Africa: The Outstanding Case of Somaliland
  By: Pio Penna Filho, Henrique Oliveira da Motta
• August 27, 2021 The Ramaphosa Administration and the Return to South Africa’s Protagonism: Trends and Challenges to Foreign Policy
  By: Anselmo Otavio
• August 27, 2021 The Development of Post-Apartheid South Africa in Light of the Institutionalist Perspective: A Critical Review
  By: João Paulo Davi Constantino, Robson Dias da Silva, Georges Flexor
• August 27, 2021 Regional Inequality and the Persistence of Poverty in Mozambique, Explained from the Perspective of the Vicious Circle of Poverty
  By: Gilberto Libânio, Castigo José Castigo
• December 01, 2020 “OME SA OME” AND “MWALA SA MWALA”1 : GENDER VIOLENCE IN THE EXPERIENCES OF SANTOMESE WOMEN
  By: Rossana Maria Marinho Albuquerque, Vanda Lopes Camblé
• December 01, 2020 POST-NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR COMMUNITY RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES IN (ANIOMA) WESTERN IGBOLAND, 1970-1991
  By: Daniel Olisa Iweze, Uchenna Anyanwu
• December 01, 2020 PROTECTION REGIME FOR ASYLUM APPLICANTS AND REFUGEES IN LAW 10/15 OF JUNE 17, LAW ON THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM AND THE REFUGEE STATUS IN ANGOLA
  By: Avelino Chico
• December 01, 2020 The web of legal pluralism and traditional authorities in Mozambique
  By: Jorge João Muchacona
• December 01, 2020 Leadership and decision making processes in Mozambique: governance of Samora Machel - 1975/1986
  By: António Hama Thay
• December 01, 2020 Debating land in Africa: an analysis of the impacts of colonialism and neoliberalism in Guinea-Bissau's agrarian transition
  By: Rubilson Velho Delcano
• December 01, 2020 Western Sahara: history, U.N acting and foreign interests
  By: José Maria Sydow de Barros
• December 01, 2020 The Horn of Africa and the refugee field in Dadaab in Kenya
  By: Juliana Tomiko Ribeiro Aizaw
• December 01, 2020 An analysis of optimal devolved government size for growth: Armey curve in Kenya
  By: Naftaly Mose
• December 01, 2020 Cuba's medical experience in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution against Covid-​19
  By: Yoslan Silverio González
• December 01, 2020 Erratic Behaviour of the United Nations and Global Governance in. Africa: The State as a Smokescreen for World Security
  By: Agbo Uchechukwu Johnson, Nsemba Edward Lenshie, Ndukwe Onyinyechi Kelechi
• June 30, 2020 Socio-Spatial and Ethnic-Racial Segregation in Megacities, Large Cities and Global Cities in Africa
  By: Fabio Macedo Velame, Thiago Augusto Ferreira da Costa
• June 30, 2020 Representations of Power in Mayombe: “Men Will Be Prisoners of the Structures They Will Have Created”
  By: Carolina Bezerra Machado
• June 30, 2020 African Union: Mbeki’s South Africa Policy for Africa
  By: Luiza Bizzo Affonso, Vitor Ferreira Lengruber
• June 30, 2020 Elections and Democratic Deficits in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: A Commentary
  By: Al-Chukwuma Okoli, Chigozie Joseph Nebeife, Markus Arum Izang
• June 30, 2020 Trust in Political Power and Government Institutions in Mozambique: 2014-2018
  By: Kátia Sara Henriques Xavier Zeca
• June 30, 2020 The Influence of Diplomacy on Controversies: A Comparative Study Between Diplomatic Mediation and Armed Conflict
  By: Cícero Ricci Cavini
• June 30, 2020 The Dominance of Terrorism: Aspects of the Socio-Political Challenges in Post-Independence West AfricA: Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali
  By: Osiomheyalo O. Idaewor
• June 30, 2020 Main Trends of Terrorism in Africa Towards 2025
  By: Yoslán Silverio González
• June 30, 2020 African Marxist Military Regimes, Rise and Fall: Internal Conditioners and International Dimensions
  By: Paulo Fagundes Visentini
• June 30, 2020 Brazil-Africa Relations: From the Slave Nexus to the Construction of Strategic Partnerships
  By: Analúcia Danilevicz Pereira
• December 31, 2019 Vigilante Groups and Policing in a Democratizing NigeriA: Navigating the Context and Issues
  By: Adeniyi S. Basiru, Olusesan A. Osunkoya
• December 31, 2019 Between Domestic and Global Politics: The Determinants of Eritrea’s Successful Secession
  By: Albano Agostinho Troco
• December 31, 2019 South Africa: A New Dawn?
  By: Vladimir Shubin
• December 31, 2019 The Migration Flows in South Africa and Its Impacts on Southern Africa (1960-2000)
  By: Pedro Brites, Yuri Debrai Padilha
• December 31, 2019 Mining Policy and Socio-Cultural and Sustainable Integration of the Resettled in Cateme-Mozambique: 2009-2017
  By: Cremildo de Abreu Coutinho
• December 31, 2019 Uses, Reuses and Abuses: Crossing “Borders” and “Luso-Africanities” in the Historiographies of Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau for the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries
  By: Alec Ichiro Ito
• December 31, 2019 The Ambiguity Towards Portugal’s African Colonies (1953-1985): Defining Aspects of Brazil’s African Policy
  By: Kamilla Raquel Rizzi, Patrick Bueno
• December 31, 2019 Economy of the Third World and Search for Greener Pastures in the Desert: Focus on Nigeria and Her Neighbours
  By: Emmanuel Osewe Akubor
• December 31, 2019 Of Marauders and Brigands: Scoping the Threat of Rural Banditry in Nigeria’s North West
  By: Al-Chukwuma Okoli, Anthony Chinedu Ugwu
• December 31, 2019 Agostinho Neto University: An Analysis of Context and Process of Scientific Work Production
  By: Paulo Conceição João Faria
• June 30, 2019 Argentina and the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (Zopacas)
  By: Gladys Lechini
• June 30, 2019 Good Governance and Accountability: An Assessment of the Media’s Role in Achieving Transparency in the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria
  By: Aondover Eric Mcsughter
• June 30, 2019 Remembering the Massacre of Civilians in Aniomaland During the Nigerian Civil War
  By: Odigwe A. Nwaokocha
• June 30, 2019 Justice for the Rich, Judgement for the Poor: ‘Elite Immunity’, Rampant Impunity and the Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria
  By: Mike Opeyemi Omilusi
• June 30, 2019 Afrocentrism and Regional Leadership: An Approach to the Identity of Nigerian Foreign Policy
  By: Carla Maria Morasso
• June 30, 2019 Post-Authoritarian Nigeria: Democratizing Under Pervasive Corruption
  By: Adeniyi S. Basiru, Olusesan A. Osunkoya
• June 30, 2019 South-South Cooperation and Technological Development in Defense: The Case of the Missile a-Darter
  By: Tiago de Bortoli, Rafaella Pelliccioli
• June 30, 2019 From the Tripartite Agreement (1988) to the Peace Agreement in 2002: The Peace Process in Angola
  By: Anselmo de Oliveira Rodrigues, Eduardo Xavier Ferreira Glaser Migon
• June 30, 2019 Political Breakdown in South Sudan: United Nations and a New Challenge to Human Security (2014 - 2018)
  By: Daniel Mendes Aguiar Santos
• June 30, 2019 Thabo Mbeki as African Pantheon: Claiming the 21st Century for Global Africa
  By: Chris Landsberg
• December 31, 2018 Seasonal Migrants, Poverty Alleviation and Contract Sex in the Cocoa Producing Centers in the Littoral Quadrant of Cameroon: A Diagnostic Socio-Anthropological Study in the Post Colonial Era
  By: Martin Sango Ndeh
• December 31, 2018 ‘Land Bandits’ or ‘Land Grabbers’: Fulani Herdsmen and Local Farmers Incessant Bloody Clashes in Nigeria
  By: Seun Bamidele
• December 31, 2018 The Role of Multinational Oil Corporations (Mnocs) in Nigeria: More Exploitation Equals Less Development of Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region
  By: Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi
• December 31, 2018 Chinese Investment and Its Implications for Nigeria’s Economic Security
  By: Shiitu Adewole Raji, Adenike Ogunrinu
• December 31, 2018 Gender Equality or Inequality in Africa? African Feminist Thinking
  By: Ineildes Calheiro, Eduardo David Oliveira
• June 30, 2018 Cultural Diversity in the Cameroon Higher Education Policy Definition: A Historical Appraisal
  By: Hyasinth Ami Nyoh
• June 30, 2018 Dual Colonialism and the Formation of the National State: The South African Case
  By: Maximilian Dante Barone Bullerjahn
• June 30, 2018 Post-Conflict Peace-Building in a Contested International Border: The Nigeria-Cameroon Border Conflict Settlement and Matters Arising
  By: Kenneth Chukwuemeka Nwoko
• December 31, 2017 Mainstreaming Corruption Poverty and Development in Nigeria
  By: Jolaade Omede, Arinze Ngwube
• December 31, 2017 Opportunities and Challenges for Mozambique From the Indian Expansion in Africa
  By: Hetalben Haribhai Patel
• December 31, 2017 The Dynamics of Africa in World Affairs: From Afro-Pessimism to Afro-Optimism?
  By: Sharkdam Wapmuk, Oluwatooni Akinkwotu
• June 30, 2017 Iran-Africa Relations: Opportunities and Prospects for Iran
  By: Fátima Chimarizeni
• June 30, 2017 From Mandela to Zuma: The Importance of the Southern Atlantic Region for South Africa’s Foreign Policy
  By: Anselmo Otavio
• June 30, 2017 Brexit, the EU and Strategic Uncertainties: Short, Medium and Long Term Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
  By: Yoslán Silverio González
• December 31, 2016 African Studies in China in the 21st Century: A Historiographical Survey
  By: Li Anshan
• December 31, 2016 Democratization Processes and Political Competition in 1990’s Africa: The Cases of Mozambique and Zambia
  By: Fidel Terenciano, Maria Do Socorro Souza Braga, Carlos Augusto da Silva Souza
• December 31, 2016 Sustainability Issues in the Cameroon Banana Supply Chain
  By: Kingsly Awang Ollong
• June 30, 2016 Revolutions and International Relations: The African Case
  By: Paulo Fagundes Visentini
• June 30, 2016 Regional Integration in West Africa (1960-2015): Balance and Perspectives
  By: Mamadou Alpha Diallo
• June 30, 2016 The Gulf of GuineA: The Future African Persian Gulf?
  By: Yoslán Silverio González