Journal of Modern African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Modern African Studies 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.)
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Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World edited by Valeria Fargion & Mamoudou Gazibo Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. Pp. 304. $155 (hbk).17
Professor Ian Taylor, 1969–2021: An Appreciation12
Revolutionary populism and democracy in Ghana11
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Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller & John C. Yoder London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 316. $160.00 (hbk).8
The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvii + 260.8
Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone8
Citizenship as Political Lens: Laws, Loss, and Lived Experiences of Belonging in Africa - Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging by Bronwen Manby Oxford: Hart, 2018. Pp. 416. $130 (hbk) $79.45 (p7
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition7
Externalising migration control in Niger: the humanitarian–security nexus and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)7
Memories of Africa: home and abroad in the United States by Toyin Falola Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Pp. 256. $99.00 (hbk), $30.00 (pbk); https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/978146
Good Governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by Portia Roelofs Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix+335. US$99.99 (hbk).6
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Explaining the (local) ethnic census: subnational variation in ethnic politics in Kenyan elections5
Corporate land acquisitions at the intersection of lineage and patronage networks in Cameroon5
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The waxing and waning of ethnic boundaries: violence, peace and the ubwoko in Burundi5
Divided by the Word: colonial encounters and the remaking of Zulu and Xhosa identities by Jochen S. Arndt Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 346. $45 (hbk).4
Arbitrary States: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda by Rebecca Tapscott Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $100 (hbk).4
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity3
Lagos in life: placing cities in lived experience3
Researching Africa and the offshore world3
African Military Politics in the Sahel. Regional Organizations and International Politics by Katharina P. W. Döring Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 265 pp., 85£ (hb), ISBN: 97810093
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Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk). – ERRATUM2
Women and Power in Africa: aspiring, campaigning, and governing by Leonardo R. Arriola, Martha C. Johnson, and Melanie L. Phillips Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 248 + xiiipp. Hardback, $98. 92
Domination Through Law: the internationalization of legal norms in postcolonial Africa by Mohamed Sesay Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226.2
Regional citizenship regimes from within: unpacking divergent perceptions of the ECOWAS citizenship regime2
Conflict at the Edge of the African State. The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland by Lindsay Scorgie Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.2
Recycled rhetoric: examining continuities in political rhetoric as a resilience strategy in pre-independence and post-genocide Rwanda2
Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa by Peer Schouten Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.2
The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $95 (hbk).2
Regime Threats and State Solutions: bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya by Mai Hassan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. Price: $105 (hbk).2
Sacrificing environmental degradation and conflict risks for economic development: public attitudes to LAPSSET in Turkana County, Kenya2
The legislature as political control: change and continuity in Cameroon's National Assembly (1973–2019)1
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Congo's Dancers: women and work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. xiii+201. US$79.95 (hbk).1
The Scare State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland by Noah L. Nathan Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xv + 313 pp. $145.00 (hardback) $34.95 (ebook). 978 1 009 2611
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel Marie Niehuus. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. Pp. 201. $ 26.95 (pb)1
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Mugabe's Legacy: coups, conspiracies, and the conceits of power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore London: Hurst, 2023. Pp. 304. £22 (pb). ISBN: 9781787387713.1
Africa's Urban Youth: challenging marginalisation, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus & Megan Hershey Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 202. UK£25.99 (paper1
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: how the state shapes private governance by Shelby Grossman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 200. $77 (hbk).1
Political party ideology in Zambia: comparing the PF and the UPND on social welfare policies1
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge1
Political trust and informal traders in African cities1
Embodied Engineering: gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth century Mali by Laura Ann Twagira Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 344. $64.00 (hbk).1
‘Land back to the people or not?’ The variable pathways of civic mobilisation against land grabs in rural Sierra Leone1
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Crashed Realities? Gender Dynamics in Nigerian Pentecostalism by Itohan Mercy Idumwonyi Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 241. EUR 121.90 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-54570-0.0
Senghor's Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology by David Tonghou Ngong Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023. Pp. 176. $59.99 (pb), ISBN 9781481317795.0
Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies0
Kwame Nkrumah: visions of liberation by Jeffrey S. Ahlman Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $16.95 (pbk).0
Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral conflicts: a conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya0
The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: ecumenism, feminism, and communal practice by Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. x+232. US$65 (hbk).0
Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa by Stephanie Diepeveen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $110 (hbk).0
‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown0
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries0
The Ideological Scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945–1966 by Frank Gerits Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp xi + 304. US$64.95 0
Historical Dictionary of Niger (Fifth Edition) by Rahmane Idrissa. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 642. $140 (hbk), $133 (eBook).0
‘Assuming our place in the concert of nations’: Burundi as imagined in Pierre Nkurunziza's political speeches0
When do women win in legally plural systems? Evidence from Ghana and Senegal0
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign0
Renting in the informal city: the role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa0
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Financing political parties in Africa: the case of Zimbabwe0
Children of the Soil: the power of built form in urban Madagascar by Tasha Rijke-Epstein Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. xi + 347. $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 978-1-4780-2529-00
The role of secondary school teachers in shaping a political culture of ethnicity and ethnic favouritism: the case of Kenya0
Multiethnic Democracy: the logic of elections and policymaking in Kenya by Jeremy Horowitz Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. $85 (hbk)0
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Legitimising regimes and legalising self-defence groups: the case of Burkina Faso's VDPs0
Nigeria and World War II, by Chima J. Korieh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 310 pp, £29.66.0
Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta edited by Joanne B. Eicher Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 330. $30 (pbk)0
Historical Dictionary of Togo edited by Jennifer C. Seely and Samuel Decalo Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th edition, 2021. Pp. 467. $180 (hbk).0
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania by Hansjörg Dilger Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 226. $99.99 (hbk).0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow Oxford: OUP, 2022. Ppviii + 352. £75.00 (hbk).0
Tensions in Sino-African labour relations: the view from the Karuma hydroelectric dam in Uganda0
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania0
Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Every Authority in Tanzania by Kathy Dodworth Cambridge University Press, 2022.0
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo0
Military parade in Mali: understanding Malian politics through spectacle0
From dependence to conviviality: unaccompanied youth and host communities at the Zimbabwean–South African borderland0
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria by Olufemi Vaughan Madison-Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 289. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 97802993445420
Overcoming the Oppressors: White and Black in Southern Africa by Robert I. Rotberg Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 418. US$43.99.0
Dress Cultures in Zambia: interwoven histories, global exchanges, and everyday life by Karen T. Hansen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 210; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009350310.0
Conservancies, rainfall anomalies and communal violence: subnational evidence from East Africa0
Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali0
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Powerful Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare Devices by Abimbola A. Adelakun London: Rutgers University Press, 2023. Pp. 194. $125 (hbk) $34.95 (pbk).0
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Between international norms and land politics: the role of translocal actors in Kenyan arenas of land policy reform0
The political economy of urban party switching in African elections: Evidence from Zambia0
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy0
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. Martin Plaut & Sarah Vaughan: Hurst, 2023. 392 pages. $34.95 (pbk).0
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: literature, philosophy, and Nigerian world by Nimi Wariboko New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. Ix + 193. ISBN 978-1-5013-9807-00
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The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929 By Adam Mohr Baylor University Press, 20230
Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice0
Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918: a genealogy of colonial religion by Jörg Haustein Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. Pp. xvi + 435. $99 (e-book), $129 (hb0
Residual Governance: how South Africa foretells planetary futures by Gabrielle Hecht Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp.288. $27.95 (pb). doi: 10.1215/97814780272630
We are not Starving: the struggle for food sovereignty in Ghana by Joeva Sean Rock0
Understanding Modern Nigeria: ethnicity, democracy, and development by Toyin Falola Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 672. £74.99 (hbk).0
Street Sounds: listening to everyday life in modern Egypt by Ziad Fahmy Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $90 (hbk), $28 (pbk).0
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Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia0
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Woodbridge: James Currey, 2022. Pp. 2700
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The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel by Leonardo A. Villalón Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 832. $165.00 (hbk).0
Shari‘a, Inshallah: finding God in Somali legal politics by Mark Fathi Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 391. £26.99 (pbk).0
Africa's liberation generation0
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A tax by any other name? Conceptions of taxation and implications for research0
Inventing traditional authority: Lhomwe chiefs in Malawi0
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana0
The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya by Ambreena Manji. London: James Currey, 2020. Pp. 224.0
Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta0
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: family, religion and the state by Ludovic Lado. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2023, Pp. xii+161.0
Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence0
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Against Decolonization: taking African agency seriously0
Media influence on public policy in Kenya0
Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline0
Failure to launch? The lack of populist attitudinal activation in the 2019 South African elections0
‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017–2018)0
Business elites and the political economy of philanthropy in West and Central Africa0
Russia's return to Africa: a comparative study of Egypt, Algeria and Morocco0
Political nomadism and the Jihadist ‘Safe Haven’ in northern Mali: an entry point through Tuareg relational political dynamics0
Africa on the cusp of natality – from Afropessimism to African becoming A Review of Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr's edited volumes: To Write the Africa World (Polity Press, 2023a) and The 0
Development studies meet Pierre Bourdieu: the case of Chinese Private FDI in Zambia0
‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’0
Judge, landlord, broker, watchman: assessing variation in chiefly duties and authority in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands0
Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya0
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‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks0
A party with China: political party affiliation and perceptions of China in African countries0
Apartheid's Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence by Faeeza Ballim, Athens, Ohio 45701: Ohio University Press, 2023. Pp. 159.0
France's Wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa by Nathaniel K. Powell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $99.99 (hbk).0
China's Relations with Africa: a new era of strategic engagement by D. H. Shinn and J. Eisenman New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 251. £23.39; https://doi.org/10.7312/shin20
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites' role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya0
The costs and values of life in South Sudan's militarised charcoal economy0
Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration0
Party ideology in Nigeria's Four Republics: a case of right-wing convergence0
The Work of Repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa by Thomas Cousins Fordham University Press, 2023.0
Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa by Laura German Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 331, ISBN: 9780472075331. doi: 10.3998/mpub.120
The Security Arena in Africa: local order-making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan by Tim Glawion Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $99.99 (hbk).0
A Tapestry of African Histories: with longer times and wider geopolitics edited by Nicholas K. Githuku Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 408. $125 (hbk).0
Constraining Dictatorship: from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes by Anne Meng Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 278. $105 (hbk).0
Liberation in theory and in practice: Ethiopia and its political modernities - Laying the Past to Rest by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe London: Hurst, 2019. Pp. 355. - East Africa after Liberation by Jon0
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How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa0
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose: the East African Community and the ‘new developmentalism’0
Populist parties shifting the political discourse? A case study of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa0
When decentralisation undermines representation: ethnic exclusion and state ownership in DR Congo's new provinces0
Political Leadership in Africa: leaders and development south of the Sahara by Giovanni Carbone & Alessandro Pellegata Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 386. $99.99 (hbk).0
Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo0
Voting for war, to secure peace: weaponising the Tigray 2020 election in Ethiopia0
The Infrastructural South: techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization by Jonathan Silver Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. 330. 6 × 9 in, 54 b&w illus; https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpres0
Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana0
Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999–2023 edited by Wale Adebanwi. USA: James Currey, 2023, 464 pp. £90.76 (hardback). ISBN: 9781847013514.0
‘The memory of persecution is in our blood’: documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement0
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University0
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Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide by Marie-Eve Desrosiers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii-386. US$ (hbk).0
‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone0
Push, pull and push-back to land certification: regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire0
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania–ADDENDUM0
Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 322. $89.99 (hbk) $29.99 (pbk).0
Why Africans tolerate income inequality0
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Trade Makes States. Governing the Greater Somali Economy by Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat London: Hurst, 2023. ISBN 978-1-78738-705-8. Price: £22.0
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2024. $34.95 (pb).0
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Belonging, Identity and Conflict in the Central African Republic by Gino Vlavonou Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 256, $88.95 (hb), ISBN 9780299345709.0
Commissions of inquiry and pathways to accountability in Plateau State, Nigeria0
Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age by Ndubueze L. Mbah. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 296.0
Revolutionary legality and the Burkinabè insurrection0
Women seeking justice: claims-making in lower courts in Benin0
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Undoing Coups: the African Union and post-coup intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt London: Zed Books, 2020. Pp. 296. $95 (hbk).0
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