OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic	16
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures	15
Queer Worldmaking in Wanuri Kahiu’s FilmRafiki	15
Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter	14
YouTube Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Space, Identity and “Realness” in Queer South African Vlogs	14
Heteroerotic Failure and “Afro-queer Futurity” in Mohamed Camara’s Dakan	13
Inxeba(The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture	12
Walking with Shadows: Jude Dibia and Olumide Makanjuola in Conversation with Lindsey Green-Simms	10
“Ytnahaw ga’!”: Algeria’s Cultural Revolution and the Role of Language in the Early Stages of the Spring 2019 Hirak	10
Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films	10
Lawful Performance and the Representational Politics of Queer African Refugees in Documentary Film	10
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem	9
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi’s “Modern” Market	5
Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production	4
“I Thought She Was Ordinary, I Only Saw Her Body”: Sex and Celebrity Advocacy in Nigerian Popular Culture	4
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces	4
Racial Discrimination in Uncertain Times: Covid-19, Positionality and Africans in China Studies	4
Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes	4
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other	3
Cleavage: Guangzhou, Covid-19 and China–Africa Friendship Politics	3
Túndé Kèlání and the Art of Being Yorùbá	3
Fake Wax	3
Road Called Vagina: African Womanist Detours of Túndé Kèlání's The Narrow Path	3
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa	2
“The Fake is News”: On Popular Visual Media, Fakery and Legitimacy Contestations in Charismatic Christianity in Contemporary Ghana	2

Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah	2
Chihuahua Promises and the Notorious Economy of Fake Pets in Cameroon	2
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities	2
In Defense of the False	2
Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique	2
The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets	2
Nollywood Cinema’s Character of Recurrence	2
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans	2
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare	2
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis	2
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”	2
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture	2
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907	2
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses	2
“China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in the Churchill Comedy Show	1
Decolonizing “China–Africa Relations”: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism	1
Kèlání and the Question of Sovereign Cinema	1
Túndé Kèlání, Global Cinema and Philosophical Engagements	1
Nigerian Campus Forms	1
Minor Cinema and Conviviality: Túndé Kèlání’s Film Worlds in Comparison	1
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda	1
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria	1
China Studies in Africa	1
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa	1
The Things We Now Call Fake Will in the Future Become Authentic Objects: Global African Art Markets and the Space and Time of the Fake	1
Performing Respect: Contemporary Strategies and Lived Experiences in Intimate Relationships in Maputo	1
Introduction to Campus Forms	1
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi	1
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices	1
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues	1
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales	1
“Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces	1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?	1
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman	1
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria	1
Fakeness, Human-Object Fluidity and Ethnic Suspicion on the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Market	1
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop	1
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy	0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio	0
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania	0
Imagining Freedom with Keguro Macharia’s Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora	0
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s	0
Youth, Football and Everyday Lived Experience in Ajegunle, Lagos	0
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction	0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking	0
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels	0
Academic Fakes	0
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back	0
What Can We Learn from Africa? Teaching African Cultures in China	0
African Studies and Sino-Africa Collaborations: Towards Our “Common Interest”	0

Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia	0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience	0
The Burma Campaign from an African Perspective: The 1944 World War II Travelogue of Sgt. F. S. Arkhurst of the Royal West African Frontier Forces	0
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets	0
Re-imagining How We Want to Be Touched	0
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria	0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions	0
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging	0
Sound Studies from Africa	0
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra	0
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections	0
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue	0
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus	0
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy	0
Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works	0
Method and Antimethod: Reflecting on Keguro Macharia’s Frottage	0
Roundtable on Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media	0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana	0
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University	0
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media from Tanzania	0
Undetermined Identity: A Diaspora Scholar in China–Africa Studies	0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s	0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs	0
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers	0
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity	0
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky	0
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms	0
“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University	0
“We Dey Beg”: Visual Satirical Media Discourses on Contemporary Ghana-Sino Relations	0
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s	0
Keguro Macharia: On Grinding, Grating, and Creating Friction against Kenyatta’s Figurations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity	0
The Governor and the Everyday Woman: Reflections on Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media	0
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles	0
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)	0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa	0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present	0
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration	0
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project	0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities	0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show	0
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda	0
Reflecting on “Chinese” Positionality in Africa: An Encounter with Another “Other”	0
Hindi Films, Bollywood, and Indian Television Serials: A History of Connection, Disconnection, and Reconnection in Tamale, Northern Ghana	0
Revolutionary Mothering	0
Pondering the Gaps: A Response	0
The Rider and the Coffee Maker: Sites and Practices of Remembrance in Contemporary Namibia	0
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media	0
A Korean American in South Africa: Some Reflections on my Experience as an “Other”	0
Positioning Ourselves on China in Africa: An Interview with Hairong Yan*	0
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves	0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992	0
The Labor of the Living Dead	0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa	0
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana	0
What Happens When a Music Video Goes Viral? Gastrocomedy and Prosumer Recreations of Timaya’s I Can’t Kill Myself	0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia	0
With Gratitude, Toward Freedom	0
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio	0
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought	0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children	0
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)	0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films	0