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Africa

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Basic Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Founded in: 1928
Homepage: https://www.cambridge.org/core...
Twitter: @AfricaIai
Association: International African Institute
Category: Area Studies
Rank:
• 25 / 78 in Area Studies (Web of Science 2019)

Authors per paper:
     Average: 1
     Median: 2
References per paper:
     Average: 44
     Median: 43

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Latest papers
15
Jan
2021
‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Rhythms of the unemployed: making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.
Africa
15
Jan
2021
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya
Africa
15
Jan
2021
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Reviews of books: debating the ‘hustle’ - Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$115 – 978 1 501 73512 7; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 501 73626 1). 2019, 264 pp.
Africa
15
Jan
2021
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Caught in The Act of Living: socialities, history and positionality in an ethnography of Addis Ababa's street life – a response
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.
Africa
15
Jan
2021
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu
Africa
15
Jan
2021
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Response by the author
Africa
15
Jan
2021
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction
Africa
15
Jan
2021
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.
Africa

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 81
Introduction: student activism in an era of decolonization
Africa2019-01-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 25
The political life of the dead Lumumba: Cold War histories and the Congolese student left
Africa2019-01-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 21
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique
Africa2020-08-04

Altmetric Attention Score: 20
‘Shama will not dance’: University of Khartoum politics, 1964–69
Africa2019-01-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 18
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction
Africa2021-01-15

Altmetric Attention Score: 16
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu
Africa2021-01-15

Altmetric Attention Score: 16
Mobile identities: photography, smartphones and aspirations in urban Nigeria
Africa2019-05-14

Altmetric Attention Score: 13
Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint
Africa2020-05-21

Altmetric Attention Score: 12
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi
Africa2021-01-15

Altmetric Attention Score: 12
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana
Africa2020-08-04

Altmetric Attention Score: 10
Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso
Africa2020-05-21

Altmetric Attention Score: 10
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Cambridge: Polity (hb £45 – 978 1 509 52335 1; pb £14.99 – 978 1 509 52336 8). 2018, v + 151 pp.
Africa2021-01-15

Altmetric Attention Score: 10
Creating a ‘monster’: the National Youth Service pre-university training programme, student activism and the Kenyan state, 1978–90
Africa2019-01-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Chris Huggins, Agricultural Reform in Rwanda: authoritarianism, markets and zones of governance. London: Zed Books (hb £65 – 978 1 78699 000 6). 2017, 214 pp.
Africa2018-11-07

Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Holly Porter, After Rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 316 84129 7). 2017, xii + 255 pp.
Africa2019-07-16

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Cited median publication year:
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