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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Climate Security and Climate Justice: Recognizing Context in the Sahel . Tor A. Benjaminsen20
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier19
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance , by Alexandra O. Zeitz18
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa17
Book Review16
CHALLENGERS IN A PANDEMIC: COVID-19 STATES OF EXCEPTION, OPPOSITION PARTIES, AND OUTCOMES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA16
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation13
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions11
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang11
The 2024 Botswana elections and the demise of the Botswana Democratic Party9
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa8
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi7
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa7
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch7
Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations , Abiodun Williams7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency6
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below6
HOW CONSTITUENCY GATEKEEPERS SHAPE PARLIAMENTARY BEHAVIOUR IN GHANA6
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
A Companion to African Rhetoric5
Cultural Cohesion in Regional Organizations: Equatorial Guinea, the Cplp, and its Death Penalty Abolition5
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry5
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda4
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda4
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District4
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo4
The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
Book Review4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer3
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts3
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’3
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