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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes18
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier16
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire13
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa12
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions11
Book Review11
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa10
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history10
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa9
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections9
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia8
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency7
A Companion to African Rhetoric6
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry6
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below5
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)5
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo5
Book Review5
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda4
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts3
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger3
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò3
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia3
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