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H-Diplo JOURNAL WATCH, a to I H-Diplo Journal and Periodical Review Third Quarter 2015 20 July 2015 [jw] H-Diplo JOURNAL WATCH, A to I H-Diplo Journal and Periodical Review Third Quarter 2015 20 July 2015 Compiled by Erin Black, University of Toronto African Affairs, Vol.114, No. 456 (July 2015) http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol114/issue456/ . “Rejecting Rights: Vigilantism and violence in post-apartheid South Africa,” by Nicholas Rush Smith, 341- . “Ethnicity, intra-elite differentiation and political stability in Kenya,” by Biniam E. Bedasso, 361- . “The political economy of grand corruption in Tanzania,” by Hazel S. Gray, 382- . The political economy of property tax in Africa: Explaining reform outcomes in Sierra Leone,” by Samuel S. 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