Journal of Modern African Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Modern African Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Africa's liberation generation17
Ghana's petroleum industry: expectations, frustrations and anger in coastal communities13
People who run African affairs: staffing and recruitment in the African Union Commission10
A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone8
Intimate crimes: heroin and the rise of amaphara in South Africa8
Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: the experience of A2 resettlement farms7
Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies7
How people appraise their government: corruption perception of police and political legitimacy in Africa6
Researching Africa and the offshore world6
‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’6
Unravelling the adoption of youth quotas in African hybrid regimes: evidence from Morocco6
The Pentecostal prosperity gospel in Nigeria: paradoxes of corruption and inequality6
Recite the last bylaw: chiefs and child marriage reform in Malawi6
Big Man or Boogey Man? The concept of the Big Man in political science6
Financing political parties in Africa: the case of Zimbabwe5
South African Afrophobia in local and continental contexts5
Anticipatory tribalism: accusatory politics in the ‘New Gambia’5
Corruption and the impact of law enforcement: insights from a mixed-methods study in Malawi4
Populist parties shifting the political discourse? A case study of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa4
Commissions of inquiry and pathways to accountability in Plateau State, Nigeria4
Why Africans tolerate income inequality3
Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana3
Telling ruins: the afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in Lake Victoria, Tanzania3
Push, pull and push-back to land certification: regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire3
Building one's own house: power and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration3
Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign3
Russia's return to Africa: a comparative study of Egypt, Algeria and Morocco3
Lagos in life: placing cities in lived experience2
Locked in, logged out: pandemic and ride-hailing in South Africa and Kenya2
Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali2
Keeping Ebola at bay: public authority and ceremonial competence in rural Sierra Leone2
Recycled rhetoric: examining continuities in political rhetoric as a resilience strategy in pre-independence and post-genocide Rwanda2
Taxation in Namibia: an everyday political practice without deliberation and influence2
‘A Game of Pain’: youth marginalisation and the gangs of Freetown2
Migration aspirations from a youth perspective: focus groups with returnees and youth in Mali2
Why do different cultures form and persist? Learning from the case of Makerere University1
Somalia's evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity1
Post-conflict initiatives and the exclusion of conflict-affected young people in northern Uganda1
The figure of the abducted Acholi girl: nation-building, gender, and children born into the LRA in Uganda1
‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks1
Ethnic favouritism in Kenyan education reconsidered: when a picture is worth more than a thousand regressions1
Mediating bureaucrats: embedded economic action in the Mozambican sugar industry1
‘This democracy is killing us’: perceptions of rights and democracy in the South African Police Service1
Presence through absence? Understanding the role of capital in the African Human Rights Action Plan1
Practices of development assistance and climate change mitigation in reshaping the Mozambican REDD+ strategy1
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).1
When decentralisation undermines representation: ethnic exclusion and state ownership in DR Congo's new provinces1
Corporate land acquisitions at the intersection of lineage and patronage networks in Cameroon1
Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition1
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
The pitfalls of power sharing in a new democracy: the case of the National Party in South Africa1
Actors, bricolage, and translation in education policy: a case study from Ghana1
Media influence on public policy in Kenya1
The politics of the Hajj organisation in Senegal: security, legitimation and clientelism1
Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy1
‘Good Muslim, bad Muslim’ in Togo: religious minority identity construction amid a sociopolitical crisis (2017–2018)1
Economic signals of ethnicity and voting in Africa: analysis of the correlation between agricultural subsectors and ethnicity in Kenya1
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