The emergence of criminal groups—“armed bandits” in the local parlance—in northwest geopolitical zone has compounded security conundrums Nigeria. dominant explanation for ongoing banditry draws on “ungoverned spaces” theoretical framework to contend that phenomenon is a by-product state’s abject failure monopolize violence over its territory. part state impose order territory leaves much room l...

Baird, T. D., J. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241

the paper is concerning preliminary survey of qaradaq region of eastern azerbaijan in view of ecological, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives. the region under study is poor in fertile soil, underpopulated settlements and nomadic ubas being its dominant landscape. indeed, archaeological investigations show the lack of considerable archaeological records up to the iron age. the main sub...

Land use is intensifying in southern Kajiado District, Kenya. In the 1960s and 1970s, land used communally by Maasai was divided into group ranches with title held collectively by ranch members. Some ranches have since been divided into parcels owned by individual members. Other sources of land use intensification include human population growth and immigration, more intensive livestock managem...

Introduction Eastern Africa has long been renowned for its highly specialised pastoralists (Gulliver, 1955; Herskovits, 1926; Hollis, 1905; Spencer, 1965). However, it is only in more recent years that recognition has grown of the extent and accomplishments of the region’s ‘specialist’ agriculturalists, as evidenced by the growing body of literature on Eastern African ‘islands of intensive agri...