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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of African Cultural 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University	10
“Mama Majuto”: A Reflection on Playing Mzungu in Tanzanian Video Films	5
Slavery and Resistance in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice	5
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus	5
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda	5
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky	4
Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture	4
Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective	4
Performing Spiritual Solidarity: Christian Music and #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria	4
Notes on the Text, Context and the Cultural Politics of Reading Taiwo Shango	4
“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community	3
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales	3
“That Name Has Lost Our Culture”: National Arts Competitions and Cultural Dispossession – The Tsutsube in Botswana	3
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra	3
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare	3
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s	3
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back	3
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities	3
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda	3
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s	3
Masculine Aesthetics and Food Ascetics: An Autobiographical Exploration of Fitness Religion in Cape Town	2
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes	2
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)	2
Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text	2
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis	2

Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)	2
Sound Studies from Africa	2
Taiwo Shango : The German Context	2
Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a	2
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves	2
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria	2
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue	2
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films	2
Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou	2
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria	2
“Back to Sender”: Pentecostal Prayer Forms and Language Dynamics in Nigeria’s Contemporary World	2
Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners	1
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought	1
African Universities: Translating Francophone Campus Forms	1
“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University	1
Arts and Culture in Professional Training Programmes at Beninese State Universities: From Marginalisation to Progressive Reintegration	1
Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles	1
Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures	1
Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria	1
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration	1
Nigerian Campus Forms	1
Enlivening Prayers: Aesthetic and Function in the Supplicatory Odes of Shaykh Abū Bakr Atiƙu (Kano, Nigeria, d. 1974)	1
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections	1
From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988)	1
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman	1
Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival	1
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Regenerates	1
Wailing Women: Kenyan Prayer Warriors and the Animating Grounds of Emotions	1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?	1
Prayer 24/7: The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Prayer City and Urban Invigoration in Nigeria	1
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers	1
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe	1
Highlife’s “Alluring Effect” and the “Hey-ba-ba-re-bop”: The Rise of the “Scrap Bands”, “Hot Numbers” and a Changing Colonial Aesthetic	1
The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community	1
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio	1
Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos	1
Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late	1
Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges	1
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms	1
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy	1
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou	1
Creative Expression and Political Resistance among Young Urban Congolese	0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana	0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa	0
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”	0
Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya	0
Revolutionary Mothering	0
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging	0
Re-reading Africa Through Food: Introduction	0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia	0

Music of Taiwo Shango : Narrativity, Archive, and Postcolonial Resonances	0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show	0
Animation Theory: Prayer as Popular African Performance	0
A “Meat-Hungry” People: Nutrition Science and the Colonial Discovery of Animal-Protein Malnutrition in Nigeria	0
The Worlds around Taiwo Shango	0
Ja Pa and Jokes in Nigerian Skits: Humour and the Imagineering of a National Dystopian Consciousness	0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience	0
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana	0
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses	0
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels	0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children	0
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices	0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities	0
Indian Delights : Re-reading Cookbooks and Recipes among South African Indian Women	0
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project	0
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa	0
The Politics of Language in Ugandan Hip-Hop	0
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles	0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present	0
Street Food Discourses and the Case of the Ugandan “Rolex”	0
History on Stage and Screen: A Voyage through Documents Related to Taiwo Shango and Death and the King’s Horseman	0
Yorùbá Perception of Ṣọ̀pọ̀ná (Smallpox), Colonial Medical Interventions and Taiwo Shango	0
Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan	0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions	0
The Metamorphosis of Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba in Klaus Stephan's Taiwo Shango	0
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices	0
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity	0
Introduction to Campus Forms	0
L’enseignement artistique et culturel dans la formation professionnelle des universités publiques au Bénin : de la marginalisation à la réintégration progressive	0
Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada	0
Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia	0
“Befitting Burial”, or Conviviality in the Work of Mourning	0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films	0
Créations collectives en amphi : enjeux, stratégies d’acteurs et défis esthétiques	0
Playing with Difference: Oyibo Lip-Sync Performances of Nigerian Popular Culture on TikTok	0
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction	0
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907	0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s	0
Contourner la censure à l’université par l’analyse d’un texte dramatique	0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992	0
Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works	0
Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop	0
The Dilemma of an Elite Postcolonial Woman: Dr Oju in Taiwo Shango	0
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media	0
Faith and Governance: A Study of Mawlid in Contemporary Morocco	0
The Undisciplined Campus Forms of Université Cheikh Anta Diop	0
Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop	0
Explicating Ohún Ìgboro : A Yoruba Agentive Device for Rapid Social Mobility	0
The Labor of the Living Dead	0
“ Àgbà(lagbà) ló mò’dí eéta ”: Playing Dangerously as an Everyday Art in Taiwo Shango (1965)	0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio	0
Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics	0
Ears to the Ground: Realness, Decolonial Meta-Rap, and the Language Debate in Nigerian Hip-Hop	0
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues	0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs	0
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop	0
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy	0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa	0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking	0