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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes23
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier20
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict16
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa14
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz13
Book Review13
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation12
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history12
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa12
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch10
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions10
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa9
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections8
A Companion to African Rhetoric7
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 exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry7
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations6
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
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo5
Book Review5
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’4
Navigating the post-donor arena in Uganda’s Gulu district4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts4
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa3
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji3
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger3
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò3
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali3
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