Journal of Modern African Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Modern African Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller & John C. Yoder London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 316. $160.00 (hbk).18
MOA volume 60 issue 4 Cover and Front matter17
Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World edited by Valeria Fargion & Mamoudou Gazibo Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. Pp. 304. $155 (hbk).14
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana13
The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvii + 260.13
Citizenship as Political Lens: Laws, Loss, and Lived Experiences of Belonging in Africa - Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging by Bronwen Manby Oxford: Hart, 2018. Pp. 416. $130 (hbk) $79.45 (p12
Memories of Africa: home and abroad in the United States by Toyin Falola Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. 256. $99.00 (hbk), $30.00 (pbk); https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781410
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition9
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)9
The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi8
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica and Afroasia by Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 301. $35.00 (hbk).6
Good Governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by Portia Roelofs Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix+335. US$99.99 (hbk).6
MOA volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Compounding the peasant struggles: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers’ adaptation to climate change5
Divided by the Word: colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities by Jochen S. Arndt Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45 (hbk).5
Researching Africa and the offshore world5
Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections5
When the cross-border remittance system fails: the impact of COVID-19 regulations on the food provision and access for cross-border migrant households in north-western Zimbabwe4
The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $95 (hbk).4
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.4
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity4
Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).4
Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa by Peer Schouten Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.4
MOA volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
African Military Politics in the Sahel. Regional Organizations and International Politics by Katharina P. W. Döring Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 265 pp., 85£ (hb), ISBN: 97810094
Conflict at the Edge of the African State. The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland by Lindsay Scorgie Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.4
Sacrificing environmental degradation and conflict risks for economic development: public attitudes to LAPSSET in Turkana County, Kenya3
Women and Power in Africa: aspiring, campaigning, and governing by Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 248 + xiiipp. Hardback, $98. 93
Mugabe's Legacy: coups, conspiracies, and the conceits of power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore London: Hurst, 2023. Pp. 304. £22 (pb). ISBN: 9781787387713.3
Yearning and Refusal: an ethnography of female fertility management in Niamey, Niger by Hadiza Moussa Edited by Alice J. Kang and Barbara Cooper. Trans Natalie Kammerer. Oxford: Oxford University Pres3
Between the ghetto and the establishment: Bobi Wine, Uganda’s NUP and the challenges of movement-to-party transition in an electoral autocracy2
Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime2
Africa's Urban Youth: challenging marginalisation, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus & Megan Hershey Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 202. UK£25.99 (paper2
Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by Nathanael J. Homewood. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp. viii + 281. Paperback. ISBN: 2
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge2
Embodied Engineering: gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth century Mali by Laura Ann Twagira Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 344. $64.00 (hbk).2
Insurgent Nations: Rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan by Paula Cristina Roque. London: Hurst & Company, 2024. Pp. xv+372. £22 (sbk). ISBN: 9781787389434.2
MOA volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
MOA volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
State Fragility, Business, and Economic Performance An Ethiopian perspective by Belay Seyoum Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xiv + 465. €152.59 (hbk), €117.69 (e-book). doi: https://doi.org/10.1002
Congo's Dancers: women and work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. xiii+201. US$79.95 (hbk).2
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: how the state shapes private governance by Shelby Grossman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 200. $77 (hbk).1
Theorizing in Comparative Politics: democratization in Africa by Goran Hyden Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii+186. £25.99 (pbk).1
The Scare State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland by Noah L. Nathan Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xv + 313 pp. $145.00 (hardback) $34.95 (ebook). 978 1 009 2611
Legitimising regimes and legalising self-defence groups: the case of Burkina Faso's VDPs1
‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone1
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel Marie Niehuus. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. Pp. 201. $ 26.95 (pb)1
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies1
Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin: Christian and Muslim Students Navigating Authoritarianism and Laïcité, 1970–2023 by Frédérick Madore Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii + 259. €79.99 1
Africa's liberation generation1
Political trust and informal traders in African cities1
MOA volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 284. $28.95 (Pb), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/97814780598201
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide by Marie-Eve Desrosiers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii-386. US$ (hbk).1
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta1
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