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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes18
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier16
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire13
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa12
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions11
Book Review11
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa10
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history10
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa9
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections9
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia8
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 industry6
A Companion to African Rhetoric6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo5
Book Review5
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below5
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)5
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda4
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts3
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
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia3
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