OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of African Cultural 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University	6
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus	5
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania	5
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices	5
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda	4
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture	4
“Mama Majuto”: A Reflection on Playing Mzungu in Tanzanian Video Films	4
Slavery and Resistance in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice	4
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back	3
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra	3
Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture	3
Notes on the Text, Context and the Cultural Politics of Reading Taiwo Shango	3
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky	3
Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective	3
“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community	3
Performing Spiritual Solidarity: Christian Music and #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria	3
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities	2
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s	2
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s	2
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria	2
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria	2
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales	2
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda	2
“Back to Sender”: Pentecostal Prayer Forms and Language Dynamics in Nigeria’s Contemporary World	2
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)	2

Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text	2
Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a	2
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare	2
Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou	2
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves	2
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis	2
Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges	1
Wailing Women: Kenyan Prayer Warriors and the Animating Grounds of Emotions	1
Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late	1
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms	1
From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988)	1
Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique	1
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe	1
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films	1
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)	1
Nigerian Campus Forms	1
Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria	1
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Regenerates	1
Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures	1
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought	1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?	1
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue	1
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections	1
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou	1
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah	1
Sound Studies from Africa	1
Taiwo Shango : The German Context	1
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes	1
Prayer 24/7: The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Prayer City and Urban Invigoration in Nigeria	1
Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles	1
African Universities: Translating Francophone Campus Forms	1
The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community	1
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy	1
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers	1
Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners	1
Enlivening Prayers: Aesthetic and Function in the Supplicatory Odes of Shaykh Abū Bakr Atiƙu (Kano, Nigeria, d. 1974)	1
Masculine Aesthetics and Food Ascetics: An Autobiographical Exploration of Fitness Religion in Cape Town	1
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans	1
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration	1
The Undisciplined Campus Forms of Université Cheikh Anta Diop	0
Faith and Governance: A Study of Mawlid in Contemporary Morocco	0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs	0
Playing with Difference: Oyibo Lip-Sync Performances of Nigerian Popular Culture on TikTok	0
“ Àgbà(lagbà) ló mò’dí eéta ”: Playing Dangerously as an Everyday Art in Taiwo Shango (1965)	0
The Burma Campaign from an African Perspective: The 1944 World War II Travelogue of Sgt. F. S. Arkhurst of the Royal West African Frontier Forces	0
Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada	0
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana	0
Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics	0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children	0
The Politics of Language in Ugandan Hip-Hop	0

Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works	0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio	0
Indian Delights : Re-reading Cookbooks and Recipes among South African Indian Women	0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films	0
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio	0
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman	0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking	0
Contourner la censure à l’université par l’analyse d’un texte dramatique	0
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy	0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992	0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present	0
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907	0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa	0
The Dilemma of an Elite Postcolonial Woman: Dr Oju in Taiwo Shango	0
History on Stage and Screen: A Voyage through Documents Related to Taiwo Shango and Death and the King’s Horseman	0
Créations collectives en amphi : enjeux, stratégies d’acteurs et défis esthétiques	0
The Metamorphosis of Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba in Klaus Stephan's Taiwo Shango	0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa	0
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices	0
Animation Theory: Prayer as Popular African Performance	0
The Worlds around Taiwo Shango	0
A “Meat-Hungry” People: Nutrition Science and the Colonial Discovery of Animal-Protein Malnutrition in Nigeria	0
Youth, Football and Everyday Lived Experience in Ajegunle, Lagos	0
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels	0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience	0
Ja Pa and Jokes in Nigerian Skits: Humour and the Imagineering of a National Dystopian Consciousness	0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions	0
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues	0
“China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in theChurchill Comedy Show	0
Arts and Culture in Professional Training Programmes at Beninese State Universities: From Marginalisation to Progressive Reintegration	0
Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya	0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana	0
Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop	0
The Rider and the Coffee Maker: Sites and Practices of Remembrance in Contemporary Namibia	0
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project	0
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa	0
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi	0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities	0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s	0
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging	0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia	0
Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop	0
Music of Taiwo Shango : Narrativity, Archive, and Postcolonial Resonances	0
Ears to the Ground: Realness, Decolonial Meta-Rap, and the Language Debate in Nigerian Hip-Hop	0
The Labor of the Living Dead	0
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity	0
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices	0
Introduction to Campus Forms	0
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop	0
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction	0
Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia	0
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”	0
Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan	0
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses	0
Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival	0
Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos	0
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media	0
Revolutionary Mothering	0
“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University	0
Yorùbá Perception of Ṣọ̀pọ̀ná (Smallpox), Colonial Medical Interventions and Taiwo Shango	0
L’enseignement artistique et culturel dans la formation professionnelle des universités publiques au Bénin : de la marginalisation à la réintégration progressive	0
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles	0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show	0
Re-reading Africa Through Food: Introduction	0
Street Food Discourses and the Case of the Ugandan “Rolex”	0