POLS 283: African Politics and Literature (HC): Background

Literature reviews are a particularly useful resource when doing research.  They address the issues involved in a particular question and the debates among scholars.  They map out the intellectual terrain succinctly and give you the major landmarks in terms of key authors and significant titles for greater understanding.

Check here for literature reviews devoted in whole or part to issues related to your topic:

Annual Review of Political Science        

Examples from other Annual Review titles include include:

• The Institutional Origins of Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa.   Annual Review of Political Science  (2009)  
• The Legislative Dismantling of a Colonial and an Apartheid State    Annual Review of Law and Social Science  (2011)
• Of Waves and Ripples: Democracy and Political Change in Africa in the 1990s.   Annual Review of Political Science (2002)
• Social Scientific Inquiry into Genocide and Mass Killing.  Annual Review of Sociology  (2013)

Chimamanda Adichie on the cover of Ms magazine, 2014 

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