Review of African Political Economy

Volume 40, Issue 135
01 March 2013
Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE)
ROAPE Publisher

Table of contents

Neither war nor peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): profiting and coping amid violence and disorder1
Making use of the past: the Rwandophone question and the ‘Balkanisation of the Congo’13
Beyond minerals: broadening ‘economies of violence’ in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo32
‘You say rape, I say hospitals. But whose voice is louder?’ Health, aid and decision-making in the Democratic Republic of Congo51
Military business and the business of the military in the Kivus67
Effective responses: Protestants, Catholics and the provision of health care in the post-war Kivus83
From devastation to mobilisation: the Muslim community's involvement in social welfare in post-conflict DRC98
God and Caesar in the Democratic Republic of Congo: negotiating church–state relations through the management of school fees in Kinshasa's Catholic schools116
Looking beyond reform failure in the Democratic Republic of Congo132
Uncertainty and powerlessness in Congo 2012141
The Sicomines agreement revisited: prudent Chinese banks and risk-taking Chinese companies152
The trouble with the Congo: local violence and the failure of international peacebuilding163
Political economy of media transformation in South Africa168
Chocolate nations: living and dying for cocoa in West Africa170
Getting Somalia wrong? Faith, war and hope in a shattered state172
Political culture and nationalism in Malawi: building Kwacha174