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Editorial Note9
Victor Ojakorotu

Assessment of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown and Problems of Security Agents’ Brutality in Southeastern Nigeria11
Ugwu Chukwuka E, Ikeanyibe, Okechukwu Marcellus, Izueke Edwin and Paulinus I. Attama

From Colonial to Apartheid Transition: Social and Economic Impact of South Africa’s Marginalised Population through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic 37
Daniel N. Mlambo and Freedom Gwala

Public Diplomacy and South Africa’s Response to Xenophobia59
Toyin Cotties Adetiba

Nehemiah’s Leadership Model and the Discourse on Ethnic Conflicts in Post-war Nigeria81
Collins Ikenna Ugwu, Nkechi G. Onah, P. Okechukwu Agbo, J. Tochukwu Omenma, Felicia O. Okwueze, Paulinus E. Ezeme, Jude C. Ani, John Chidubem Nwaogaidu, Maureen N. Onyejegbu, Chukwunonyelum C. Anih, Chikodi Onyegiri and Kingsley Ugwuanyi

Polemics of Knowledge in South Africa: Some of the Key Issues Avoided by Critics 103
Kgothatso B. Shai and Mbay Vunza

Party-Switching in a Distributive State: Towards a Meta-Narrative on the Nigerian Experience 117
Bernard Ugochukwu Nwosu, Peter Oluchukwu Mbah and Chijioke Kelechi Iwuamadi

Network Governance Approach for Improved Participatory Budgeting and Socio-economic Development in the City of Ekurhuleni, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa 141
JJ Patience and D Nel-Sanders

Land Expropriation without Compensation in a Former Settler Colony: A Polemic Discourse 163
Joseph Mudau

Financialised Agrarian Primitive Accumulation in Zimbabwe 185
David Mhlanga and Emmanuel Ndhlovu

‘Step-wise Migration’: The Case of West African Immigrants in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 209
Gerelene Jagganath and Shanta Balgobind Singh

A Review of the Operationalisation of Special Economic Zones in Zimbabwe 227
Luckson Mukorera, Hardlife Zvoushe and Dominique E. Uwizeyimana

Re-engineering and Modernising Civil Service Training for Effective Service Delivery in Zimbabwe Based on a Study Sponsored by the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) 253
Hardson Kwandayi

Democratic Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on the Fourth Republic of Ghana277
Kwasi Amakye-Boateng, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Henry Tettey Yartey and Joseph Oti Frimpong