African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of African Studies is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reviewed, Revised, Rejected15
Silent Agents of Nationalist Struggle? Women of Mozambique, Fighting a War Within a War10
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework9
Staying a ‘Real Man’: Sexual Performance Concerns and Alternative Masculinities Among Young Men in Urban Tanzania5
Home, Diaspora and Beyond: Exploring Notions of Belonging Among Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa5
Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya5
‘Then … Horror! Horror!': Laughter, Terror and Rebellion in the Unpublished Plays of H.I.E. Dhlomo4
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani?3
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique3
Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township2
Healing the Nation: Christian Missionaries, Colonial Healthcare and Disease Prevention in Northern Rhodesia 1924-19602
The Fluidity of Patriarchy: Kinship, Tradition and the Prevention of Gendered Violence in Lugbaraland, Uganda2
Masculinity, Carceral Discipline and the Gang Life2
Harassments, Assaults and Murders: The Travails of Ghana’s Libertarian Press2
Rereading Burying SM as a ‘Social Reproduction Text’2
Citizenship Attitudes and Social Inequality Among Moroccan University Students2
Sincere Intimacy, Genre and Heterotopology of a Confessional Public2
The Politics of the Penis: Post-Apartheid Zulu Nationalism and Martial Masculinity, ca 1999 to 20181
‘Take my Child and May She Love You’: ‘Opting In’ to Orphan Status in Central Kenya, 1860 to present1
Catching the Disc: Panopticism, Surveillance and Punishment as a Pedagogical Tool in the Acquisition of Colonial Languages in Post-Colonial Schooling1
Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders1
Guns, Truncheons and the Virus: An Analysis of Liberation War Ideology in the Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Zimbabwe1
The Exclusion of Ubuntu from South Africa’s Constitution: Implications for Pan-Africanism and Violent ‘Xenophobia’1
Foreigners in the South African Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis1
They are Just for Making Nyángá : Ethnosemiotic Significance of Waist Beads Among Young Women in Nigeria1
‘Such a Thing Does Not Have a Name in his Country’: Entanglements of Diaspora and ‘Home’ Homes in the Zimbabwean Short Story of Crisis1
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit1
Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ Speech: Mobilising Psycho-Political Resources for Political Reconstitution of Post-Apartheid South Africa1
Bleeding from One Generation to the Next: The Media and the Constructions of Gukurahundi Postmemories by University Students in Zimbabwe1
Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings1
The Discourse of Secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone1
Violence and African Philosophy: Beyond Reaction and Mimicry1
Space and Trading among Herbal Medicine Practitioners along the Nigeria-Niger Corridor1
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop1
The Structural Violence of Imperial Trusteeship in Postcolonial Governmentality1
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies0
Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World0
Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs0
Revision as Reflection: On Writing from the Global South0
A Critical Consideration of the Effects of Violence in Fanon0
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra’s Open-Air Markets0
The Labyrinth of State Intervention in Communal Conflict in Africa: Ghana’s Maiden Official State-Led Efforts in Resolving the Bawku Conflict0
‘We're now the Walking Dead’: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Social Activism0
The Ghost of Gulamo Nabi: The 1983 Case that Fractured the Façade of Multiracial Unity in Mozambican Socialism0
In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres0
Through the Camera’s Eye: Gukurahundi Genocide, Sexual Violence and Collective Trauma in Zimbabwe0
‘A Song is Not Just a Song’: Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa’s AIDS Crisis0
Debilitating Research: Scholarship of the Obvious and Epistemic Trauma0
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive0
Constructing the Symbolic Agendas of Political and Structural Transformation with the Discourse of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa0
‘Defiance Within Compliance’: Statehood Without Secession in Mzimba, Malawi0
Rising from the Ashes of Cultural Devastation0
Institutional Prosperity: No Money, No Church, No Fellowship in South Africa? Migrant Women’s Relationships in a Context of Lack at Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church0
Good for Elections but not for Government: Zongos and the Politics of Exclusion in Ghana0
Neoliberal Leveraging of the Colonial Imagination: A Global South Reading of Tobacco Ads in Africa0
Sex, Lives and Videotape: The Transhistoricity of an Itinerant Visual Archive0
Ubuntu and Violence0
Making Ends Meet: Experiences of Older Women Heading Households in Rural Domboshava, Zimbabwe0
Folktales for Environmental Conservation: From Oral Traditions to Ecological Wisdom0
Malaria and the Subsistence Crisis in Northeast Shewa, Ethiopia, in the 20th Century0
Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy0
Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room0
Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives0
Big Tsek: Joburg’s Private Surveillance Network and our Public Deficit0
Permissive Space and Policing Practices in Mathare and Kaptembwo, Kenya0
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
Communal Land and Belonging Among Foreign Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe0
Black Diasporic Subjectivity and Lacanian Lack of Home: A Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah0
The Promise of Belatedness for Africa-Based Scholarship0
Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi0
Twentieth-Century South African Women’s Memoir as Historiography0
(Un)doing Gender: The Ethnographic Significance of Mbube Dirge0
Undisciplining Methodologies: Or, Recalling African Subjects from the Shadows of African Cinema Archives0
Exporting the Dance Traditions: Innovative Agency, Artistic Imaginaries and Transnational Commodification of Indigenous Ugandan Dances in the Chinese Marketplace0
The Providence of Review and Writing through Revision0
Winston Field and the Decolonisation of ‘British Central Africa’: Crossing Racial Divides with Kamuzu Banda and Beyond, 1957-640
Blaming the Other: Migrancy and Populism in Contemporary South Africa0
The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy0
Benefit Versus Risk Deliberations on Revisions, Corrections or Rejections of Manuscript Submissions: Reflections of an African Woman Scholar in Audiology0
Decolonising the Cultural Landscape: Preserving Historical Statues in Tshwane, South Africa0
‘C’était bien à l’Époque’: Work and Leisure among Retrenched Mineworkers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo0
Colonialism and Customary Land Tenure in Africa: Portuguese Representations and Policies During the 19th and 20th Centuries0
Power and Identity Formation through Materialisation of Iconic Architecture in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review0
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