Miles Larmer

The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction

Journal of Southern African Studies · 2023-05-04 · 13 citations

African Studies emerged from a collaborative research partnership on resource nationalism in southern Africa in the 21st century.This research sought to understand the opportunities and constraints on implementing and sustaining resource nationalist initiatives in the mining sectors of three countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.The contributors to this Special Issue examine aspects of resource nationalism in these three countries' mining s…

Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election

Journal of Southern African Studies · 2023-05-04 · 6 citations

This article examines the failure of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government to secure the electoral support of Copperbelt mine communities in the 2021 Zambian election, despite its implementation of ‘resource nationalist’ policies. These policies, which ended foreign ownership of two of Zambia’s leading mine companies, were ostensibly designed to appeal to Copperbelt residents in general, and mineworkers in particular, who had since the mid 2000s expressed growing discontent at the failure o…

Borders and Urbanisation in Colonial Africa

2026-05-07

Borders in Africa have had a complex relationship with urbanisation. Colonial states generally encouraged urban growth away from borders, but border regions sometimes became the centre of social and economic activities that spurred urbanisation, often outside the effective control of state authorities. While colonial borders sometimes divided urban centres with common ethnic and socio-economic identities, they also provided important bases for urban agglomerations with specialised functions and…

Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa

The Round Table · 2026-01-22

<i>Suturing the city: Living together in Congo’s urban worlds</i> , by Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji

Journal of Urban Affairs · 2026-02-06