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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes20
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier18
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz13
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa13
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict13
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation12
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history12
Book Review12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions11
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa9
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi8
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections7
A Companion to African Rhetoric6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations6
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia6
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry6
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency6
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic5
Book Review5
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda4
Navigating the post-donor arena in Uganda’s Gulu district4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
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
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
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali3
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa3
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