Publications (selection)

Editor of the scholarly journal Africa Spectrum from 1991 to 2009 

(ISI journal impact factor: 0.9000, 2015)

 Kohnert, Dirk - Web of Science (Clarivate) - 111 citations, h-index: 21 April 2022 --- Scopus/Mendeley: 151 citations (April 2022); Google Scholar: 1,542 citations.

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• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): ‘Enlightened’ West African dictatorships challenged by state capture ? Insights from Benin, Togo and Senegal. MPRA WP, No. 114934
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): Machine ethics and African identities: Perspectives of artificial intelligence in Africa. SSRN-WPS, No. 4163096
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): The impact of the energy-induced EU recession on Sub-Saharan Africa. MPRA WP No. 114051
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): The impact of Islamist terrorism on Africa's informal economy: Kenya, compared with Ghana and Senegal. SSOAR, SSRN-WPS, No. 4145928

• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): One-way ticket to Rwanda ? : Boris Johnson's cruel refugee tactic meets Kagame's shady immigration handling. academia.edu,  
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): Will Putin's Ukraine war provoke famine and upheaval in Africa?, academia.edu
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): The impact of Russian presence in Africa. MPRA paper, No. 112564  
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): African migrants plight in China: Afrophobia impedes China's race for Africa's resources and markets. MPRA_paper_111346
• Kohnert, Dirk (2022): French domination of markets in Francophone Africa: Post-colonialism at its finest? MPRA_paper_112024
• Kohnert, Dirk (2021) : Brexit and CANZUK : expectations versus realities. BLOG, UK-in-a-Changing-Europe

• Kohnert, Dirk (2020) : The impact of Brexit on francophone Africa. Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), vol. 46, issue 162, January 2020, DOI : 10.1080/03056244.2019.1696292
• Kohnert, Dirk & Laurence Marfaing (2019): Les élections présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal ou la lente ascension des nouvelles générations. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaine, forthcoming
• Kohnert, Dirk (2018): More equitable British post-Brexit Africa relations: doomed to fail?, Africa Spectrum, vol. 53., No. 2,
• Kohnert, Dirk (2018): Trump's tariff’s impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency. Review of African Political Economy, 2018, vol. 45, No. 157
• Kohnert, Dirk (2017): Togo: Political and Socio-Economic Development (2015- 2017). MPRA-RePEc-paper
• Kohnert, Dirk (2017): Togo [2016]. In: Abbink/Elischer/Melber/Mehler (eds.), Africa Yearbook Volume 13 – Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2016. Leiden & Boston: Brill
• Kohnert, Dirk (2016): Chinese And African Migrant Entrepreneur’s Articulation Shaped By African Agency. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, vol. 38 2016.2: 156-166 

• Kohnert, Dirk (2015): Donor’s double talk undermines African agency - Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo. Conference Paper, APAD-Conference, Cotonou

• Kohnert, Dirk (2015):Togo: recent political and economic development. MPRA-WP

• Kohnert, Dirk (2015): Horse Trading on EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements. Review of African Political Economy, 41 (2015) 142: 141-147

• Kohnert, Dirk (2014): African Agency and EU- African Economic Partnership Agreements. Review Article.Africa Spectrum, 49 (2014) 3: 149-155

• Kohnert, Dirk (2014): Afrikas TTIP? Weshalb die EPAs in der jetzigen Form verhindert werden müssen [Africa's TTIP. Why EPAs in its present form should be prevented]. ipg-journal, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, 4 June 2014
  
• Kohnert, Dirk (2013): Togo. In: Africa Yearbook Volume 9 – Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara 2012. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2013: 195-202
• (2011): Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America. In: LeMeur, Pierre-Yves / Schareika, Nik / Spies, Eva (eds.)(2010): Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk. Köppe: Köln: Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 28
• 2011: Togo: Thorny transitions and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery, in: Saine, Abdoulaye/ N ’Diaye, Boubacar/ Houngnikpoet, Mathurin (eds.) (2011): Elections and democratization in West Africa 1990 – 2009. Trenton: Africa World Press (AWP), 2011: 179-210 (full text, draft, 2007)
• 2010: Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants’ Cultures of Innovation, GIGA Working Paper No 140, July 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2010: Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”? The Case of Guinea-Bissau, GIGA Working Paper No 123, February 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2010 (with Heinz Jockers, Paul Nugent): The Successful Ghana Election of 2008: A Convenient Myth?, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 48 (2010) 1, pp. 95-115 (full article); revised and updated version of: GIGA Working Paper " The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s Elections Revisited", September 2009, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2009: EU-Africa economic relations: Continuing dominance, traded for aid? In: Bello, V./Gebrewold, B. (Hg.), A Global Security Triangle. European, African and Asian Interaction, Routledge/GARNET series: Europe in the World, London / New York: Routledge, S. 111-136, (view inside the book); pre-published: GIGA Working Paper " A Global Security Triangle. European, African and Asian Interaction", July 2008, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2009: Togo, in: Melber/Mehler/Walraven (eds.), Africa Yearbook 2008 – Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara. Leiden & Boston: Brill

• 2009: New Nationalism and Development in Africa, in: Africa Spectrum, Vol.: 44 (2009) 1, GIGA, Hamburg, pp. 111-123 (abstract & full text)

• 2009: EU-Africa economic relations: Continuing dominance, traded for aid, in: Bello, V. and Gebrewold, B. (eds.): A Global Security Triangle. European, African and Asian Interaction. London / New York: Routledge (View inside the book).

• 2008: Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung, in: Sociologus, vol. 58 (2008) (pre-publication)

• 2008: Neuer Nationalismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit in Afrika. GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 7/2008, Hamburg: GIGA (Full article)

• 2007: On the Renaissance of African Modes of Thought - The Example of the Belief in Magic and Witchcraft. In: Schmidt, Burghart / Schulte, Rolf (eds.): "Witchcraft in Modern Africa: Witches, witch-hunts and magical imaginaries". Hamburg: Dokumentation & Buch (DOBU),  2007: 39-61 (abstract and full article)

• 2007: On the Articulation of Witchcraft and Modes of Production among the Nupe, Northern Nigeria In: Schmidt, Burghart / Schulte, Rolf (eds.): Witchcraft in Modern Africa: Witches, witch-hunts and magical imaginaries". Hamburg: Dokumentation & Buch (DOBU), 2007: 62-94 (abstract and full article)

• 2007: Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in Benin and Haiti. In: Schuerkens, Ulrike (ed.) (2007): "Globalization and transformations of local socio-economic practices. Oxford, Routledge, 2008: 151-173 (View inside the book)

• 2007: African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions; GIGA Working Paper No 49, May 2007 (Abstract & full article), also edit as: ‘Crisis Region Western Africa- The cradle of African migration to Europe’, in: Gebrewold, Belachew (ed.): Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire, pp. 37-55

• 2006: Afrikanische Migranten vor der "Festung Europa, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 12/2006, Hamburg: GIGA (Volltext)

• 2006: Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America. GIGA Working Paper No 25, July 2006 (Abstract & full article)

• 2005: On the relevance of rational economic reasoning under African conditions Monetary Unions - Dominated by the North? The CFA-Zone and the CMA., in: Fritz, Barbara/Metzger, Martina (2005): New Issues in Regional Monetary Coordination - Understanding North-South and South-South Arrangements, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: 177-187 (Abstract)

• 2005: Togo - Ein Lehrstück fehlgeschlagener Demokratisierung. Afrika im Blickpunkt (AIB), Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, Nr. 1, Juni 2005

• 2005: Die UEMOA und die CFA-Zone. Eine neue Kooperations-Kultur im frankophonen Afrika?, in: Nabers, Dirk/Ufen Andreas (eds.): Regionale Integration - Neue Dynamiken in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Schriften des Deutschen Übersee-Instituts, Nr. 65, Hamburg, DÜI: 115-136

• 2004: Election Observation in Nigeria and Madagascar: Diplomatic vs Technocratic Bias.  Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), 31 (2004) 99: 83-101 (Abstract)

• 2003: Witchcraft and transnational social spaces: witchcraft violence, reconciliation and development in South Africa's transition process, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 41, Nr. 2: 217-245 (Full text)

• 2003: with Preuss, Hans J.: NGO-work under changed conditions - Country concepts of DWHH-German Agro Action. Development and Change, 30.2003:10: 380-382
• 1992: with Preuss, Hans-Joachim A. / Sauer, Peter (Hrsg.) (1992): Perspektiven zielorientierter Projektplanung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.  / Perspectives of Object Orientated Planning in Development Co-operation  (German Edition). IfO-Studien zur Entwicklungsforschung N° 22, Weltforum, Köln, 1992, 260 S.
• 1982: Klassenbildung im ländlichen Nigeria. Das Beispiel der Savannenbauern im Nupeland / Class formation in rural Nigeria - The case of savanna peasants in Nupeland, Northern Nigeria (in German, with extensive English summary). (view inside the book) Arbeiten aus dem Institut für Afrika-Kunde N° 42, Hamburg