African Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of African Affairs is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes24
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier16
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict14
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa14
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz14
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation13
Book Review13
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa11
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang11
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa8
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency7
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below7
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia7
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations7
Book Review6
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry6
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda6
A Companion to African Rhetoric6
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic5
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo5
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’4
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District4
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola3
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong3
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji3
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa3
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