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This research article seeks to understand how the cultural context of tuberculosis (TB) care in Ukraine influences healthcare workers’ perception of their patients and the choices they make in offering TB treatment. Specifically, we aim to explore heal…

This Research Article deploys the frameworks of moral injury and moral agency to explore the experiences of veteran men who completed group therapy for military sexual trauma (MST). The article analyses ethnographically how veteran men with MST experie…

Despite national and international laws and conventions legislating against girl-child marriage, the practice continues in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper adopts a qualitative method (in-depth interviews) to investigate causes and challenges associated …

The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statem…

While the interest and search for identity through genealogy or family history is not new, the increased mediatization, access, and range of vehicles through which one can engage and learn are. What are the effects of this mediatization of identity and…

Old and recent migration studies have demonstrated the ubiquity of fear in acts, processes, and beliefs defining and characterizing various forms of human mobilities, particularly those involving transnational and transoceanic displacements. While much…

This article examines the agency of youth in Alavanyo and Nkonya, and how they navigate the social, economic, and political difficulties of life in the context of an ongoing land conflict dating back to the early 1900s. In Ghana, because land is the ba…

In Ghana, the collision between the local reality of witchcraft and human rights sensibilities is manifested in local discourses and debates concerning the so-called “witch camps”. The recent killing of an elderly woman, Akua Denteh, accused of witchcr…

Tiv associative constructions and prepositional phrases are characterized by what was originally a noun class agreement enclitic that has degenerated in some morphosyntactic contexts to a grammatical tone that remains invariant in noun class agreement….

With its first issue appearing in the spring of 1992, the Nordic Journal of African Studies recently reached its 30-year publication milestone. In celebration of the journal’s history, and looking forward to its future, we offer this brief collection o…