Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African Media 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience24
Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic21
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots13
Art, social media and religious discourse in Nigeria: Unpacking Okonkwo’s Facebook challenge illustrations10
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance and Paradox, Emeka Umejei (2020)10
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction9
Borrowing lenses from the West: Analysis of an African media representation of western nations7
From COVID-19 to COVID-666: Quasi-religious mentality and ideologies in Nigerian coronavirus pandemic discourse7
COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media7
Status of women in the Ghanaian media: Are women conscious of their own inequalities?6
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi6
Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices6
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe6
Perception and practice of the watchdog role among journalists in Nigeria5
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation5
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process4
Reporting on the shadow pandemic in Nigeria: An analysis of five media organizations’ coverage of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives4
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation4
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public relations roles: Perspectives of Malawian practitioners3
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative3
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-193
Welket Bungué, a Balanta griot in transit3
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa3
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies3
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic3
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media3
In Nigeria, it is all about entertainment: A functional analysis of the 2019 presidential campaign commercials of APC and PDP3
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria2
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions2
Use of Senegalese music to raise coronavirus awareness on social media2
Attitudes of the audience towards media messages on face mask use regarding the COVID-19 pandemic: From compliance to slacking2
Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology2
Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities2
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation and the coronavirus: A burgeoning of post-truth in the social media2
Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship, Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2022)2
Political participation and the social media network of young Nigerians2
Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics2
Media representation of China in the time of pandemic: A comparative study of Kenyan and Ethiopian media2
An evaluation of constructive journalism in Zimbabwe: A case study of The Herald’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic1
Linguistic and communication exclusion in COVID-19 awareness campaigns in Malawi1
Beyond western Afro-pessimism: The African narrative in African and non-western countries1
Is Koro indeed our man? Exploring the intertextual role of humour in the Twitter age1
Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs1
The ethics of the everyday: Mauritian morning talk radio as a space for democratic engagement1
Popular music and political contestations in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Winky D’s and Jah Prayzah’s music1
Social media, socialization and discursive politics1
New media and re-bargaining patriarchy in Kenyan families1
Infobotting COVID-19: A case study of Ask Nameesa in Egypt1
Exploring media representation of Oromo and Amhara protests: A decolonial perspective1
Social media, fake news and fake COVID-19 cures in Nigeria1
Religion, authority and denunciation in the paradigm of mediatization: The case of the Congolese diaspora of the Salvation Army1
Is we they? A cross-cultural study of responses to COVID-19 updates in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda1
Investigative journalism and anti-corruption: Public perception on Anas’s approach in Ghana1
Cross-cultural adaptation issues and strategies: A study of Nigerian students in China1
Upsetting the gender imbalance in African popular music: The example of Diepreye Osi of the Ịjọ (Ijaw) of Nigeria1
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