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The Institute publishes books, research reports, research papers, briefings and meeting reports in a range of formats. Publications cover policy, research, arts, culture and local knowledge in the countries of eastern and central Africa. Research publications—books, reports and papers—are peer-reviewed. Some RVI publications are also available in French and/or Arabic. Blogs can be read here.

The RVI is a signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2001); all publications are free for download in PDF format under Creative Commons licences. Print versions of most books and reports, and digital versions in Kindle and other specialist formats, are available for sale from Amazon and other online retailers, and from selected bookstores. Proceeds from sales are allocated to the Institute's Scholarship Fund, which provides support to researchers and activists from eastern and central Africa.

The views expressed in books and reports published by the RVI are those of the authors, not the Institute.

Rift Valley Forum
Horn of Africa
What Are The Alternatives To Elections
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Over the past year, countries across the East Africa region have held elections to elect leaders at various levels. These polls have been accompanied by complaints over irregularities, violence and a general lack of credibility. In Uganda and Tanzania, disputed polls and allegations of rigging by incumbents were followed by brutal crackdowns on democratic freedoms. In Ethiopia, despite the AU’…

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Sudan Elections
East Africa
Voting For Change: Sudan Election Models-Discussion with Professor Justin Willis
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Sudan Elections
East Africa
المدونة الثانيه من مشروع انتخابات السودان- التصويت من اجل التغيير؟'-دور المجتمع المدني والاحزاب السياسية في تحقيق الديمقراطية: حوار مع بروف منزول العسل - جامعة الخرطوم
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Sudan Elections
East AfricaSudan and South Sudan
{Podcast} Voting for Change: Sudan's Elections Models - Discussion with Prof Justin Willis
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Raga Makawi, Justin Willis

 

 

 

In the first episode of the Sudan Elections podcast series 'Voting for Change', host Raga Makawi talks to Justin Willis- Professor of Modern History at Durham University - about election models adopted in Sudan's modern history, key choices available for policymakers who are involved in election design, special votes for farmers in the past, why graduates have…

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Sudan and South Sudan
Tarikh Tana (Our History) Episode 1: What makes a chief? The changing role of customary authorities
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This show is brought to you under the South Sudan National Archives Project, supported by Norway and implemented by UNESCO in partnership with RVI, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.

The first Tarikh Tana (Our History) radio show in this second series will focus on What makes a chief? The changing role of customary authorities. We will take…

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Rift Valley ForumRift Valley ReviewContested BorderlandsSudan Open ArchiveCoursesUsalama
Horn of AfricaEast AfricaSudan and South SudanGreat LakesAll Regions
Somalia's Jubaland
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On 22 February 2013, the Rift Valley Institute's Nairobi Forum hosted an event entitled ‘Somalia's Jubaland: Past, present and potential futures’. Jubaland has been one of the most heavily fought over regions of Somalia—but with its perennial river, fertile soils and the port city of Kismayo it has the potential to be one of Somalia’s most productive regions. The social bonds that bind and…

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Rift Valley ForumRift Valley ReviewSudan Open ArchiveContested BorderlandsCoursesUsalama
Horn of AfricaGreat LakesEast AfricaSudan and South SudanAll Regions
Art, literature, and reconstruction in the Horn of Africa
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The Somali Kenyan MP Yusuf Hassan was a conspicuous absence at a discussion on the role of art and literature in social reconstruction in the Horn of Africa, which took place on 10 December 2012 in Nairobi. The MP was injured by shrapnel in an explosion in his Kamukunji constituency in Eastleigh, a largely Somali community in the Kenyan capital, on 7 December. His place as chair of the event,…

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CoursesContested BorderlandsSudan Open ArchiveRift Valley ForumRift Valley ReviewUsalama
Horn of AfricaGreat LakesSudan and South SudanEast AfricaAll Regions
Kjetil Tronvoll on the RVI Horn of Africa Field Course 2010
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Kjetil Tronvoll discusses some of the flashpoints preceding war between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1998 on the Rift Valley Institute 2010 Horn of Africa course, Lamu, Kenya.

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CoursesContested BorderlandsSudan Open ArchiveRift Valley ForumRift Valley ReviewUsalama
Horn of AfricaGreat LakesHorn of AfricaSudan and South SudanAll Regions
The late Dekha Ibrahim (1964-2011) discusses the role of elders in a Somali community
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Dekha Ibrahim discusses the role of elders in a Somali community on the Rift Valley Institute's Horn of Africa Course, which took place in 2008 in Djibouti.

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Sudan and South SudanGreat LakesEast AfricaHorn of AfricaAll Regions
Jok Madut Jok at TEDxJuba
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At a Tedx talk in Juba on 13 July 2012, co-founder of the Rift Valley Institute and Executive Director of the Sudd Institute, Jok Madut Jok, spoke of the importance of culture in nation building. He emphasized the importance of national heritage to create a new South Sudanese national identity.

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