African Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of African Affairs is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes25
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier17
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa14
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict14
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz14
Book Review13
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation12
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang12
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa11
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch9
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations7
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency7
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa7
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi7
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo6
A Companion to African Rhetoric6
Book Review6
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below6
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry6
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic5
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda5
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong4
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present4
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer4
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali4
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger4
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts4
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