Africa

Papers
(The TQCC of Africa 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Peer Schouten, Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £64.99 – 978 1 108 49401 4; pb £22.99 – 978 1 108 71381 8). 2022, 299 pp.12
AFR volume 93 issue 4 Cover and Back matter11
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya10
Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024,10
Nomi Dave, The Revolution’s Echoes, Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$89 – 978 0 226 65446 1; pb US$30 – 978 0 226 65463 8). 2019, 195 pp. - Adri10
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Response by the author - James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$95 – 978 0 226 77435 0; pb US$33 – 978
From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic7
Precarity as infrastructure: displacement, everyday governance and the ordinary politics of waiting in Benue State, Nigeria6
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation6
Pandemic masculinity: urban low-income men and the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria6
José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £50 – 978 1 108 83823 8; pb £25.99 – 96
Kundai Manamere, Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2585 5; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2586 2). 20255
Introduction: the social life of music files4
Amy Niang, The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty. London: Rowman and Littlefield (hb US$138/£106 – 978 1 78660 652 5; pb US$47/£36 – 978 1 78660 653 2). 20184
Maria Abranches, Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 80073 372 5). 2022, 192 pp.4
Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$119.95 – 978 1 4780 1059 3; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 1171 2). 2021, xiii + 4164
China Scherz, George Mpanga and Sarah Namirembe, Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City. Oakland CA: University of California Press (pb $34.95/£30 – 978 0 520 39679 1). 2024, 156 pp4
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Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville4
A response to reviews of the book José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century4
Sarah G. Phillips, When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$36.95 – 978 1 5017 4715 1). 2020, 256 pp.4
Juliette Leeb-du Toit, Ruth Simbao and Ross Anthony (eds), Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (pb ZAR 600/US$80 – 978 1 774
Daniel E. Agbiboa, They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £75 – 978 0 19 886154 6). 2022, 288 pp.4
Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya3
Ironies of accomplishment: negative aspiration, economic resentment and the myth of the middle class on Nairobi’s new urban outskirts3
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique3
Mariusz Lukasiewicz, Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View from the Stock Exchange. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 031 51946 8; pb £109.99 – 978 3 031 51949 9)3
Cheikh Anta Babou, The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2437 7; pb US$36.95 – 978 0 8214 2467 4). 2021, xvii + 318 pp.3
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Uroš Kovač, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 927 3). 2022, 220 pp.3
Downward social mobility among young Ghanaian digital entrepreneurs: navigating family expectations and digital start-up dreams3
Annalena Kolloch, Faire la magistrature au Bénin: Careers, Self-Images and Independence of the Beninese Judiciary (1894–2016). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (pb €59.80 – 978 3 89645 847 6). 2022, 248 3
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Controlling the narratives: three generations of Zarma genealogists and historian-griots from Niger confronting recording and digitization3
Discrimination and social identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria3
‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos3
Karine Ginisty, Services Urbains et Justice Spatiale à Maputo (Urban Services and Spatial Justice in Maputo). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre (hb €23 – 978 2 84016 379 4). 2021, 354 pp2
Jennifer Hart, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 253 06932 0; pb US$45 – 978 2
Giulia Paoletti , Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960. Princeton NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press (hb US$60/£50 – 978 0 691 24601 7). 2024, 230 pp.2
Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s2
Remapping the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in postcolonial Nigeria2
Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya and Barbara S. Isaacman, Elusive Histories: Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900–1980. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2574 9; pb 2
AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Jimi Solanke: popular music and Yoruba folk traditions2
Jumoke Verissimo and James Yékú (eds), Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: An #EndSARS Anthology. Ibadan: Noirledge (pb US$9.99 – 978 9 7858 7469 3). 2022, 110 pp.2
White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali2
Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri and Idris Salim El-Hassan (eds), In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution. Space and Place, Volume 20. Ne2
Areej ElSayary and Abdulrasheed Olowoselu (eds), Overcoming Challenges in Online Learning: Perspectives from Asia and Africa. London: Routledge (hb £100 – 978 1 032 37867 1). 2023, 196 pp.2
Kwame Edwin Otu, Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana. Oakland CA: University of California Press (pb US$34.95/£30 – 978 0 520 38185 8)2
Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press (hb US$130 – 978 1 5017 7200 9; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 50171
Patience Mususa, There Used to Be Order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia consolidated copper mines. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press (hb US$75 – 978 0 472 07499 1
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$107.95 – 978 1 4780 2659 4; pb US$28.95 – 978 1 4780 3083 6). 2024, 284 pp.1
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Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria1
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$117.95 – 978 1 4780 2038 7; pb US$31.95 – 978 1 4780 251
Jordanna Matlon, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University Press (hb US$125 – 978 1 5017 6286 4; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 5017 621
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda1
Unforgotten shadows: exploring the dynamics of Biafra agitation in south-east Nigeria1
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa1
Mis/trust and political competition in post-devolution Gusiiland, south-west Kenya: an ethnography of electoral patronage1
(Mal)adaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta1
Mariana P. Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £85 – 978 1 3165 1150 3; pb £26.99 – 978 1 00901
Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 2530 6798 2; pb U1
“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs1
George Paul Meiu, Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$99 – 978 0 226 83056 8; pb US$27.50 – 978 0 226 83058 2). 2023, 239 pp.1
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$104.95 – 978 1 4780 2028 8; pb US$27.95 – 978 1 4780 2494 1). 2023, ix + 2691
Jack Taylor , African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb £85 – 978 1 64825 091 0). 2024, 209 pp.1
Competition as participation: the collective struggle for a proper job1
Sebabatso C. Manoeli, Sudan’s ‘Southern Problem’: Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961–1991. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £64.99 – 978 3 030 28770 2; pb £44.99 – 978 3 030 28773 3). 2019, 1
Ignatius Chukwumah (ed.), Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £130 – 978 0 3677 7624 4). 2022, 310 pp.1
Touching scenes: African–Indian intimacy imagined in the contested Ahmadiyya Muslim mission1
Jeff D. Grischow and Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy (eds), Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Challenges, and Change. Woodbridge: James C1
Myles Osborne, Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 8214 2617 3; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2618 0). 2023, 348 pp.1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy1
David J. Mattingly, Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press (hb US$44.95 – 978 0 4721 3345 1). 2023, 744 pp.1
José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £50 – 978 1 108 83823 8; pb £25.99 – 91
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Admire Mseba, Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 8214 2588 6; pb US$34.95 – 978 0 8214 2589 3). 2024, 224 pp.1
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Erik Bähre, Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £22.99 – 978 1 78699 858 3), 2020, 216 pp.1
Reconstructing the future: taking ownership of copyright in Africa1
African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development1
Transits of objects and people: traces of histories that connect the Africana Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds1
Shane Lynn, Ireland’s Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War. New York NY: New York University Press (hb US$35 – 978 1 4798 3560 7). 2025, 352 pp.1
Kwaku Opoku Dankwah, African Constructions of China: Insights from Ghana and Kenya. London: Routledge (hb £155 – 978 1 0326 1353 6; pb £45.99 – 978 1 0326 1354 3). 2023/25, 218 pp.1
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham NC: Duke University Press (hb US$107.95 – 978 1 4780 0361 8; pb US$29.95 – 978 1 4780 0394 6). 2019, 360 pp.1
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