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Papers

(The median citation count of Africa Spectrum is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana	81
The Corona Virus and Migration Governance in South Africa: Business As Usual?	25
Rethinking African Studies: Four Challenges and the Case for Comparative African Studies	11
Political Vigilante Groups in Ghana: Violence or Democracy?	11
Punching above Weight: How the African Union Commission Exercises Agency in Politics	10
Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa	9
African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality	8
Exploring Africa's Agency in International Politics	7
Rethinking African Futures after COVID-19	7
Presidential Term Limits and Regime Types: When Do Leaders Respect Constitutional Norms?	6
Measuring the Middle Class in Africa – Income Versus Assets Approach	6
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino–Angolan Relationship	6
Remittance Houses and Transnational Citizenship: Mapping Eritrea’s Diaspora–State Relationships	6
Process Tracing the Term Limit Struggle in Malawi: The Role of International Democracy Promotion in Muluzi’s Bid for a Third Term	6
Endogenous Obstacles to Development in Global Value Chains: Insights From the Oil and Gas Sector	5
Participatory Media Cultures: Virality, Humour, and Online Political Contestations in Kenya	5
African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons	5
Cooperation and Conflict at the Horn of Africa: A New Regional Bloc Between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia and Its Consequences for Eastern Africa	5
Patronage, Repression, and Co-Optation: Bobi Wine and the Political Economy of Activist Musicians in Uganda	4
Eritrea’s Chosen Trauma and the Legacy of the Martyrs: The Impact of Postmemory on Political Identity Formation of Second-Generation Diaspora Eritreans	4
The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation	4
The Ghetto President and Presidential Challenger in Uganda	4
Citizenship, Indigeneity, and the Experiences of 1.5- and Second-Generation Fulani Herders in Ghana	4
From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace	3

Transnational Lived Citizenship – The Case of the Eritrean Diaspora	3
Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan	3
Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks	3
“Special Circumstances” and the Politics of Climate Vulnerability: African Agency in the UN Climate Change Negotiations	3
Dear German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production?	3
Africa's Middle Classes	3
Between Tradition and Modernity: Customary Structures as Agents in Local Governance in Ghana	3
Voters’ Perceptions of Gender Differences in Vote Buying: The Case of Tanzania	3
The Resurgence of Religious and Ethnic Identities among Eritrean Refugees: A Response to the Government’s Nationalist Ideology	3
Presidential Tenure and Constitutional Provisions: Recent Evidence from Central Africa	2
Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry	2
Beyond Toxic Masculinity: Reading and Writing Men in Post-Apartheid Namibia	2
“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs	2
Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Exams: Education Policy and Politics in Burundi from the Independent Republics to the Civil War (1966–1993)	2
The Winning Party Platform: Voter Perceptions of Party Positions and Voting in Urban Africa	1
Afropolitan Masculinity: Forgeries of Wife-Owning Husbands in West Africa, 1850s–1950s	1
Gatekeeping Through Music: A Case of the Patriotic Front in Zambia	1
Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements	1
African Agency in Practice: Acquiring Agency and Institutional Change in the West African Health Organisation	1
Dynamics of Everyday Life within Municipal Administrations in Francophone and Anglophone Africa	1
Masculinity, Morality, and the State in Northern Kenya: The Case of Baringo County's Il Chamus	1
Book Review: Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia	1
Patriarchal Anxieties and Masculine Sexual Privilege in Contemporary Urban Mali	1
The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda	1
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town	1
Understanding African Agency in Peace and Security: Tanzania’s Implementation of “Non-Indifference” in Somalia	1
Aid and Governance: Impact of Chinese Aid on the Evaluation of Government Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa	1