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Papers

(The median citation count of Africa Spectrum is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt	18
State Capacity and Elite Enrichment in Uganda's Northeastern Periphery	14
Assessing the Implications of Agricultural Mechanisation for Customary Land Tenure Relations in the Transitional Zone, Ghana	14
Book Review: Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by by Paice Edward	12
Book Review: Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design by Boone, Catherine BooneCatherine (2024), Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: R	10
Community Awareness and Restitution of Isanzu Ancestors’ Human Remains from the University of Göttingen Collections to Mkalama District, Tanzania	10
Gatekeeping Through Music: A Case of the Patriotic Front in Zambia	10
Exploring Africa's Agency in International Politics	9
Book Review: Necropolitics. Theory in Forms, by Achille Mbembe, Duke University Press, 2019	7
Struggles over Resource Access in Rural Tanzania: Claiming for Recognition in a Community-Based Forest Conservation Intervention	6
African Agency in Practice: Acquiring Agency and Institutional Change in the West African Health Organisation	5
Anatomy of a Border: Contradictory Discourses on Othering and Mobilities on the Ghana–Togo Border?	5
African Renaissance, Afrotopia, Afropolitanism, and Afrofuturism: Comparing Conceptual Properties of Four African Futures	5
Against Climate Aid Colonialism: The Case for Climate Reparations and South-South Solidarity	4
Introduction: Studying Work Regulation Processes Beyond the Formal/Informal Divide	4
Book Review: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa	4
The Complexities of Regulating Traders’ Activity: The Case of Small Traders in Ouagadougou's Rood Woko Market (Burkina Faso)	4
Book Review: Nomades de Mauritanie by Himpan, Brigitte, and Diane Himpan-Sabatier	4
The Winning Party Platform: Voter Perceptions of Party Positions and Voting in Urban Africa	3
Book Review: Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nyabola, Nanjala Nyabola, Nanjala (2020), Travelling While Black: Essays Ins	3
African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons	3
Book Review: Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria	2
Extra-Regional Return Migration to Africa: A Systematic Literature Review	2
Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas	2
“Special Circumstances” and the Politics of Climate Vulnerability: African Agency in the UN Climate Change Negotiations	2

Non-Electoral Executive Turnover and Low-Capacity Democracy in Southern Africa	2
Nigerian Electoral Black Market: Where Do Party Switchers Go and Why Does It Matter?	2
Divine Mandates and Political Realities: Exploring Power, Religion, and Transition in The Gambia	2
Politics at Play: TikTok and Digital Persuasion in Zimbabwe's 2023 General Elections	2
Governing Labour Relations Despite the Law: The Routine of Labour Inspection (Dakar)	1
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino–Angolan Relationship	1
Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Exams: Education Policy and Politics in Burundi from the Independent Republics to the Civil War (1966–1993)	1
International Aid and Its Role in Shaping Agriculture Policy Narratives in Ghana	1
Change is the Only Constant in Life	1
Dear German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production?	1
Masculinity, Morality, and the State in Northern Kenya: The Case of Baringo County's Il Chamus	1
Back in Youth: Social Unbecoming in the Study of West African Masculinities	1
Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa	1
The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity?	1
Aid and Governance: Impact of Chinese Aid on the Evaluation of Government Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan	1
Amidst Clinical Dissonance: Offensive Agency as a Survival Strategy in Plural Southeastern Nigeria	1
RETRACTED: Book Review: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Gomez, Michael	1
Understanding African Agency in Peace and Security: Tanzania’s Implementation of “Non-Indifference” in Somalia	1
Africa's Emergent Tech Sector: Characteristics and Development Implications	0
A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe	0
Quality, Access, and Voice in African Studies Publishing: Smoothing the Path to Bigger Changes	0
Book Review: Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic by Vlavonou, Gino	0
Book Review: Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia	0
The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda	0
African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality	0
Africa's Middle Classes	0
“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs	0
Memory-Making in an Urban Park: Colonial and Contemporary Uses of Kumase’s Jackson Park	0
Book Review: Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa by Morelle, Marie, Frédéric Le Marcis, and Julia Hornberger (eds)	0
Book Review: The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development by Wang, Yuan	0
Rethinking Regulation beyond the Normative Threshold: Mechanisms of Control and Access to the Central Market of Kinshasa	0
Punching above Weight: How the African Union Commission Exercises Agency in Politics	0
Beyond Toxic Masculinity: Reading and Writing Men in Post-Apartheid Namibia	0
Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana	0
The Aftermath – What Future for African Studies (in Europe?). A View From Behind the Scenes of ECAS9	0
Baleinières’ Riverine Environment and the Materiality of Transport Regulation on Congo's Inland Waterways	0
Book Review: Hexerei in Nigeria zwischen Christentum, Islam und traditionellen Praktiken. Globale Verflechtungen und lokale Positionierungen bei den Yoruba by Judith Bachmann	0
Whither “African Economics” Imaginaries? Eleven Precepts on Its (Im)possibility	0
Book Review: Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic	0
West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain	0
Do Hegemonic-Party Regimes Reward or Punish Voters? A Tale of Distributive Politics in Tanzania	0
Changing the Rules: Institutions, Party Systems, and the Frequency of Constitutional Amendments in Africa	0
Patriarchal Anxieties and Masculine Sexual Privilege in Contemporary Urban Mali	0
Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry	0
Homegrown Internationalism? Challenging Epistemic Dialogue in Africa's Development Cooperation	0
Book Review: International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire by Bah, Abu Bakarr and Emmanuel N	0
Civilian Agency and Service Provision Under Rebel Rule: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire	0
Systematic Review of Gender and Humanitarian Situations Across Africa	0
Book Review: Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains by Frei, Regina, Sherwat Ibrahim, and Temidayo Akenroye	0

Patronage, Repression, and Co-Optation: Bobi Wine and the Political Economy of Activist Musicians in Uganda	0
From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace	0
Book Review: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam KingKenneth and Meera Venkatachalam (eds) (2021),	0
Book Review: Women in Solitary: Inside South Africa's Female Resistance to Apartheid by Naidoo, Shanthini	0
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory: Beyond the Binary of the West Versus Africa	0
Afropolitan Masculinity: Forgeries of Wife-Owning Husbands in West Africa, 1850s–1950s	0
Family Support and Migration in Nigeria	0
Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements	0
Out of the West: An Essay on Racism in Contemporary Africa	0
Marriage and Memories of the Slave Trade Among the Ejaghams of Cameroon's Cross River Region	0
Book Review: Risiko und HIV/Aids in Botswana. Leben in der Pandemie by Astrid Bochow	0
Dwelling in Drifting: Kenya–China Life Writing Feipiao	0
Book Review: Disability is not Inability: A Quest for Inclusion and Participation of People with Disability by James N. Amanze, and Fidelis Nkomazana AmanzeJames N., and	0
Transnational Chinese Beautyscapes: Ghetto Glamour and Fake Beauty in Abidjan	0
Decolonial Dilemmas: The Deception of a “Global Knowledge Commonwealth” and the Tragedian Entrapment of an African Scholar	0
Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974	0
Book Review: Africa Since Decolonization. The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent by Welz, Martin	0
Retraction Notice	0
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town	0
“Status,” Inter-Normativity, and Socio-Professional Differentiation among Construction Workers in Douala, Cameroon	0
Book Review: Nigeria and World War II, Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict by Korieh, Chima J.	0
Book Review: Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development	0
Book Review: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation by Jörg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco	0