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Publications

Below you will find a selection of books, journal articles and other publications published by the Sahel Research Group.

Books
Articles and book chapters
Other publications

Books

YearTitle
2023Urbanisation and Conflicts in North and West Africa
edited by Marie Trémolières, Olivier J. Walther and Steven M. Radil
OECD Publishing, 2023
2022Borders and Conflicts in North and West Africa
edited by Marie Trémolières, Olivier J. Walther and Steven M. Radil
OECD Publishing, 2022.
2021The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel
edited by Leonardo A. Villalón
Oxford University Press, 2021.
2021Salafism and Political Order in Africa
by Sebastian Elischer
Cambridge University Press, 2021.
2021Conflict Networks in North and West Africa
edited by Marie Trémolières, Olivier J. Walther and Steven M. Radil
OECD Publishing, 2021.
2021L’analyse du risque politique
edited by Adib Bencherif and Frédéric Mérand
PUM, 2021.
2020
Entre le Savoir et le Culte: Activisme et mouvements religieux dans les universités du Sahel
edited by Leonardo Villalón and Mamadou Bodian
Amalion Publishing, 2020.
2020book coverDemocratic Struggle, Institutional Reform and State Resilience in The African Sahel
edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and Rahmane Idrissa
Lexington Books, 2020.
2020The Geography of Conflict in North and West Africa
edited by Marie Trémolières, Olivier J. Walther and Steven M. Radil
OECD Publishing, 2020.
2018African Border Disorders. Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations
edited by Olivier J. Walther and William F.S. Miles
Routledge, 2018.
2016Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
edited by Benjamin Soares and Adeline Masquelier
University of New Mexico Press & SAR Press, 2016.
2013Political Parties in Africa. Ethnicity and Party Formation
by Sebastian Elischer
Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2013African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives
edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy
Indiana University Press, 2013.
2012Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing
edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane and Stacey A. Langwick
Indiana University Press, 2012.
2009The Languages of Urban Africa
edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin
A&C Black, 2009.
1995Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal
by Leonardo A. Villalón
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
2005
The Fate of Africa’s Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions
edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and Peter Von Doepp
Indiana University Press, 2005.

Articles and book chapters

2023 |2022 |2021 |2020 |2019 |2018 |2007-2016

2023

  • Prieto Curiel R, Walther O, Davies E. 2023. Detecting trends and shocks in terrorist activities. PLoS ONE 18(9).
  • Radil S, Walther O, Dorward N, Pflaum M. 2023. Urban-rural geographies of political violence in North and West Africa. Africa Security 16(2-3): 199-222.
  • Adou B. 2023. Mauritania. In Alidu SM et al. (eds) Africa Yearbook. Leiden: Brill, 136-143.
  • Villalón L. 2023. The Politics of Democratization and the State of the State in the Sahel. In Harbeson J. (ed.) Africa in World Politics: Sustaining Reform in a Turbulent World Order. New York: Routledge (chapter 10).
  • Elischer S, Hoyle J. 2023. Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct. Contemporary Politics (online).
  • Walther O, Radil S, Russell D, Trémolières M. 2023. Introducing the Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator of political violence. Terrorism and Political Violence 35(3): 533-552.

2022

  • Villalón L. 2022. The political roots of fragility in the G5 Sahel countries: State institutions and the politics of democracy and security. In Carbone G, Casola C (eds) 10 years of Instability in the Sahel. Regional Dynamics and External Interventions. Milan: ISPI.
  • Villalón L, Branco da Silva I. 2022. Reflections on research ethics in complex contexts: Navigating politics, pragmatics, and positionality. In Freire F (ed.) State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara. London: I. B. Tauris.
  • Mc Laughlin F.  2022. Senegal: Urban Wolof then and now.  In Kerswill P, Wiese H. (eds)  Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South.  New York, Routledge: 47-63.
  • McOmber C, McNamara K, McKune S. 2022. Community concept drawing: A participatory visual method for incorporating local knowledge into conceptualization. Field Methods 34(2), 163–180.
  • Serra R, Ludgate N, Fiorillo Dowhaniuk K, McKune SL, Russo S. 2022. Beyond the gender of the livestock holder: Learnings from intersectional analyses of PPR vaccine value chains in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda. Animals 12(3), 241.
  • Elischer S, Lawrance BN. 2022. Reassessing Africa’s new post-coup landscape. African Studies Review, 65(1): 1-7.
  • Radil S, Irmisher I, Walther O. 2022. Contextualizing the relationship between borderlands and political violence: A dynamic space-time analysis in West and North Africa. Journal of Borderlands Studies 37(2): 253-271.
  • Walther O. 2022. Trade and security in African borderlands – An introduction. Journal of Borderlands Studies 37(2): 229-234.

2021

  • Walther O, Radil S, Russell D. 2021. Mapping the changing structure of conflict in North and West Africa. African Security 14(3): 211-238.
  • Skillicorn D, Walther O, Leuprecht C. Zheng Q. 2021. The diffusion and permeability of political violence in North and West Africa. Terrorism and Political Violence 33(5): 1032-1054.
  • Sow A. 2021. Military parade in Mali: Understanding Malian politics through spectacle. The Journal of Modern African Studies 58(2): 219-235.
  • Madore F. 2021. ‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017–2018). The Journal of Modern African Studies 59(2): 197-217.
  • McKune S, Serra R, Touré A. 2021. Gender and intersectional analysis of livestock vaccine value chains in Kaffrine, Senegal. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0252045.
  • McOmber C, McNamara, K, Ryley T, McKune S. 2021. Investigating the Conceptual Plurality of Empowerment in Food Security Research. Sustainability 13(6): 3166.
  • Stark H, Omer A, Wereme N’Diaye A, Sapp AC, Moore EV, McKune SL. 2021. The Un Oeuf study: Design, methods and baseline data from a cluster randomised controlled trial to increase child egg consumption in Burkina Faso. Maternal & Child Nutrition 17(1), e13069.

2020

  • McKune, S., Lane, J., Austin-Datta, R., Ouma, E., Flax, V., Williams, R., Moore, E., Jacobs, M., and Turk, J. (2020). Increasing animal source food consumption: Recommendations for making livestock research and programming more nutrition sensitive. Global Food Security 26, 100430.
  • McKune S. Stark H, Sapp A, Yang Y, Slanzi C, Moore C, Omer A, Wereme N’Diaye, A. 2020. Behavior change, egg consumption, and child nutrition: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics 146 (6): e2020007930.
  • Bencherif A, Vlavonou G. 2020. Reflexive tension: An auto-ethnographic journey through international relations discipline in Western academic training. African Identities: 1-20.
  • Bencherif A. et al. 2020. Lethal violence in civil war: Trends and micro-dynamics of violence in the Northern Mali conflict (2012-2015). Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: 1-23.
  • Madore F. 2020. Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso. Africa 90(3): 625–646.
  • Madore F. 2020. Imams, Islamic preachers, and public space in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) since the 1990s: Toward new intergenerational relationships and a Muslim public sphere. In Acquah LJ, Falola T. (eds) Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa. Durham: Carolina Academic Press: 183–213.
  • Prieto Curiel R, Walther O, O’Clery C. 2020. Uncovering the internal structure of Boko Haram through its mobility patterns. Applied Network Science 5(28): 1-23.
  • Valerio V, Walther O, Eilittä M, Cissé B, Muneepeerakul R, Kiker G. 2020. Network analysis of regional livestock trade in West Africa. PLOS ONE 15(5): 1-15.
  • Bencherif A. 2020. From resilience to fragmentation: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Jihadist group modularity. Terrorism and Political Violence 32(1): 100-118.
  • Walther O, Leuprecht C, Skillicorn D. 2020. Political fragmentation and alliances among armed non-state actors in North and Western Africa (1997-2014). Terrorism and Political Violence 32(1): 167-186.

2019

  • Pflaum, M. 2019. Book review of Hanson, S. 2019. Horn, Sahel, and Rift: Fault-lines of the African Jihad. African Studies Quarterly 19(1).
  • Elischer S. 2019. Governing the faithful: state management of Salafi activity in the francophone Sahel. Comparative Politics 51(2): 99-218.
  • Adesogan AT, Havelaar AH, McKune SL, Eilittä M, Dahl GE. 2019. Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters. Global Food Security, 100325.
  • Walther, O, Dambo L, Koné M, Van Eupen M. 2019. Mapping travel time to assess accessibility in West Africa: The role of borders, checkpoints and road conditions. Journal of Transport Geography 82: 1-11.
  • Madore F, Audet Gosselin L. 2019. Le religieux sur Internet et dans les NTIC au Burkina Faso. In Degorce A, Kibora LO, Langewiesche K (eds) Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso. Dakar: Amalion: 269-296.
  • Bencherif A. 2019. Pour une (re-)lecture des rébellions touarègues au Mali: mémoires et représentations dans l’assemblage politique touareg. Canadian Journal of African Studies 195-214.
  • Bencherif A. 2019. Récits du conflit entre les Ifoghas et les Imghad. (Re-)positionnement, grammaire de la parenté et compétition entre élites politiques touarègues. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines 234(2): 427-451.
  • Elischer S. 2019. The Sahel: Regional Politics and Dynamics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (read).
  • Walther O, Tenikue M, Trémolières M. 2019. Economic performance, gender and social networks in West African food systems. World Development 124: 1-14.

2018

  • McKune S, Poulsen L, Russo S, Devereux T, Faas S, McOmber C, Ryley T. 2018. Reaching the end goal: Do interventions to improve climate information services lead to greater food security? Climate Risk Management 22: 22-41.
  • Elischer S, Mueller L. 2018. Niger falls back off track. African Affairs 118 (471), 392–406.
  • Bodian M, Kelly CL. 2018. Senegalese Foreign Policy: Leadership Through Soft Power from Senghor to Sall. In Warner J, Shaw T M. (eds) African Foreign Policies in International Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan: 327-351.
  • Walther O. 2018. Regional integration, in Binns T, Lynch K, Nel E (eds) The Routledge Handbook of African Development. London, Routledge: 286-299.

2007-2016

  • Camara EHMS, Bodian M. 2016. Islam in the academic sphere in Senegal: the case of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD). Contemporary Islam 10: 379-398.
  • Bogaards M, Elischer S. 2016. Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited. Comparative Governance and Politics 10(1): 5-18.
  • Soares B. 2016. Reflections on Muslim-Christian encounters in West Africa. Africa 86(4): 273-297.
  • Kuépié M, Tenikue M, Walther O. 2016. Social networks and small businesses performance in West African border regions. Oxford Development Studies 44(2): 202-219.
  • Soares B. 2016. New Muslim Public Figures in West Africa. In Launay R. (ed.) Writing Boards and Blackboards: Islamic Education in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 268-284.
  • Elischer S. 2015. Autocratic legacies and state management of Islamic activism in Niger. African Affairs 114(457): 577-597.
  • McKune S, Borresen E, Young A, Ryley T, Russo S, Camara A.D, Coleman M, Ryan E. 2015. Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security. Global Food Security 6: 1-8.
  • McLaughlin F. 2015. Linguistic warscapes of northern Mali. Linguistic Landscape 1(3): 213-242.
  • Villalón LA. 2015. Cautious democrats: Religious actors and democratization processes in Senegal. Politics and Religion 8(2): 305-333.
  • Walther O, Christopoulos D. 2015. Islamic terrorism and the Malian rebellion. Terrorism and Political Violence 27(3): 497-519.
  • Walther O. 2015. Business, brokers and borders: The structure of West African trade networks. Journal of Development Studies 51(5): 603-620.
  • Walther O, Howard A, Retaillé D. 2015. West African spatial patterns of economic activities. African Studies 74(3): 346-365.
  • Serra R. 2014. Cotton sector reform in Mali: explaining the puzzles. Journal of Modern African Studies 52(3): 379-402.
  • Theriault V, Serra R. 2014. Institutional environment and technical efficiency: a stochastic frontier analysis of cotton producers in West Africa. Journal of Agricultural Economics 65(2): 383-405.
  • Soares B. 2014. The historiography of Islam in West Africa: an anthropologist’s view. Journal of African History 55(1): 27-36.
  • Walther O. 2014. Trade networks in West Africa: A social network approach. Journal of Modern African Studies 52(2): 179-203.
  • McKune S, Silva J. 2013. Pastoralists under pressure: Double exposure to economic and environmental change in Niger. Journal of Development Studies 49(12): 1711-1727.
  • Elischer S. 2012. Measuring and comparing party ideology in nonindustrialized societies: Taking party manifesto research to Africa. Democratization 19(4): 642-667.
  • McLaughlin F. 2011. Youssou N’Dour’s Sant Yàlla/Egypt: A musical experiment in Sufi modernity. Popular Music 30(1): 71-87.
  • Serra R. 2011. The promises of a new social capital agenda. Journal of Development Studies 47(8): 1109-1127.
  • Soares B. 2011. Family Law Reform in Mali: Contentious Debates and Elusive Outcomes. In Badran M. (ed.) Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press: 263-290.
  • Villalón LA. 2010. From argument to negotiation: Constructing democracy in African Muslim contexts. Comparative Politics 42(4): 375-393.
  • Soares B. 2010 ‘Rasta Sufis’ and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali. In Herrera L, Bayat A. (eds) Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 241-257.
  • Serra R. 2009. Child fostering in Africa: When labor and schooling motives may coexist. Journal of Development Economics 88(1): 157-170.
  • McLaughlin F. 2008. The ascent of Wolof as an urban vernacular and national lingua franca. In Vigouroux C.B, Mufwene S.S. (eds) Globalization and language vitality: Perspectives from Africa. London: Continuum: 142-170.
  • Soares B. 2007. Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa. African Affairs 106: 319-326.

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