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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Low Season11
The Discourse of Secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone10
‘Take my Child and May She Love You’: ‘Opting In’ to Orphan Status in Central Kenya, 1860 to present9
They are Just for Making Nyángá : Ethnosemiotic Significance of Waist Beads Among Young Women in Nigeria7
Traditional Authorities and Spatial Planning in Urban Burkina Faso: Exploring the Roles and Land Value Capture by Moose Chieftaincies in Ouagadougou6
The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy6
Silent Agents of Nationalist Struggle? Women of Mozambique, Fighting a War Within a War5
Reviewed, Revised, Rejected4
Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ Speech: Mobilising Psycho-Political Resources for Political Reconstitution of Post-Apartheid South Africa4
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies4
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop3
Big Tsek: Joburg’s Private Surveillance Network and our Public Deficit3
Staying a ‘Real Man’: Sexual Performance Concerns and Alternative Masculinities Among Young Men in Urban Tanzania3
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework3
‘I Cannot Stand up to my Chief nor the State’: Reflections on Development-Induced Housing Mobility in Pro-Poor Housing Systems in Tamale, Ghana3
Local Governance and Traditional Authority in the Kingdom of Eswatini: The EvolvingTinkhundlaRegime3
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa3
Benefit Versus Risk Deliberations on Revisions, Corrections or Rejections of Manuscript Submissions: Reflections of an African Woman Scholar in Audiology2
Catching the Disc: Panopticism, Surveillance and Punishment as a Pedagogical Tool in the Acquisition of Colonial Languages in Post-Colonial Schooling2
(Un)doing Gender: The Ethnographic Significance of Mbube Dirge2
Traditional Authorities in African Cities: Setting the Scene2
‘Then … Horror! Horror!': Laughter, Terror and Rebellion in the Unpublished Plays of H.I.E. Dhlomo1
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique1
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani?1
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive1
Communal Land and Belonging Among Foreign Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe1
Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya1
‘Such a Thing Does Not Have a Name in his Country’: Entanglements of Diaspora and ‘Home’ Homes in the Zimbabwean Short Story of Crisis1
Blaming the Other: Migrancy and Populism in Contemporary South Africa1
Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township1
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra’s Open-Air Markets1
‘We're now the Walking Dead’: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Social Activism1
In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres1
Malaria and the Subsistence Crisis in Northeast Shewa, Ethiopia, in the 20th Century1
Navigating Traditional and Modern Institutions in City Governance: The Role of Chieftaincy in Spatial Planning in Tamale, Ghana1
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit1
Decolonising the Cultural Landscape: Preserving Historical Statues in Tshwane, South Africa1
Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders0
Black Diasporic Subjectivity and Lacanian Lack of Home: A Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah0
Citizenship Attitudes and Social Inequality Among Moroccan University Students0
Revision as Reflection: On Writing from the Global South0
Permissive Space and Policing Practices in Mathare and Kaptembwo, Kenya0
Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs0
Debilitating Research: Scholarship of the Obvious and Epistemic Trauma0
‘C’était bien à l’Époque’: Work and Leisure among Retrenched Mineworkers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo0
The Consolidation Of ‘Traditional Villages’ In Pikine, Senegal: Negotiating Legitimacy, Control and Access to Peri-Urban Land0
Twentieth-Century South African Women’s Memoir as Historiography0
The Causes of Blood Feud in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia0
Rereading Burying SM as a ‘Social Reproduction Text’0
Sincere Intimacy, Genre and Heterotopology of a Confessional Public0
Undisciplining Methodologies: Or, Recalling African Subjects from the Shadows of African Cinema Archives0
Sex, Lives and Videotape: The Transhistoricity of an Itinerant Visual Archive0
Reading the Place and Role of Endogenous Governance Structures in Modernist Physical Planning: The Case of theBogosiand theKgotlain Botswana0
The 2019 Vilakazi Prize Report0
Making Ends Meet: Experiences of Older Women Heading Households in Rural Domboshava, Zimbabwe0
Guns, Truncheons and the Virus: An Analysis of Liberation War Ideology in the Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Zimbabwe0
Bleeding from One Generation to the Next: The Media and the Constructions of Gukurahundi Postmemories by University Students in Zimbabwe0
The Promise of Belatedness for Africa-Based Scholarship0
Neoliberal Leveraging of the Colonial Imagination: A Global South Reading of Tobacco Ads in Africa0
Exporting the Dance Traditions: Innovative Agency, Artistic Imaginaries and Transnational Commodification of Indigenous Ugandan Dances in the Chinese Marketplace0
Colonialism and Customary Land Tenure in Africa: Portuguese Representations and Policies During the 19th and 20th Centuries0
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
Constructing the Symbolic Agendas of Political and Structural Transformation with the Discourse of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa0
#African Time: Making the Future Legible0
Power and Identity Formation through Materialisation of Iconic Architecture in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review0
The Providence of Review and Writing through Revision0
A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Traditional Authority in Urban Development in South Africa and Eswatini0
Harassments, Assaults and Murders: The Travails of Ghana’s Libertarian Press0
‘A Song is Not Just a Song’: Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa’s AIDS Crisis0
The Fluidity of Patriarchy: Kinship, Tradition and the Prevention of Gendered Violence in Lugbaraland, Uganda0
Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi0
Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World0
Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives0
The Ghost of Gulamo Nabi: The 1983 Case that Fractured the Façade of Multiracial Unity in Mozambican Socialism0
Foreigners in the South African Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis0
The Politics of the Penis: Post-Apartheid Zulu Nationalism and Martial Masculinity, ca 1999 to 20180
Good for Elections but not for Government: Zongos and the Politics of Exclusion in Ghana0
Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy0
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