African Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of African Affairs is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Climate Security and Climate Justice: Recognizing Context in the Sahel . Tor A. Benjaminsen20
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier19
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance , by Alexandra O. Zeitz18
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa17
CHALLENGERS IN A PANDEMIC: COVID-19 STATES OF EXCEPTION, OPPOSITION PARTIES, AND OUTCOMES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA16
Book Review16
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation13
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang11
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions11
The 2024 Botswana elections and the demise of the Botswana Democratic Party9
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa8
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch7
Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations , Abiodun Williams7
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi7
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa7
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below6
HOW CONSTITUENCY GATEKEEPERS SHAPE PARLIAMENTARY BEHAVIOUR IN GHANA6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations6
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia6
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency6
Cultural Cohesion in Regional Organizations: Equatorial Guinea, the Cplp, and its Death Penalty Abolition5
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry5
A Companion to African Rhetoric5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo4
The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
Book Review4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda4
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda4
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts3
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer3
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