Journal of African Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African Cultural 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University11
Slavery and Resistance in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice6
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda5
Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective5
Performing Spiritual Solidarity: Christian Music and #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria5
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus5
“Mama Majuto”: A Reflection on Playing Mzungu in Tanzanian Video Films5
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky4
Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture4
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back4
Notes on the Text, Context and the Cultural Politics of Reading Taiwo Shango4
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra3
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s3
Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text3
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda3
“That Name Has Lost Our Culture”: National Arts Competitions and Cultural Dispossession – The Tsutsube in Botswana3
“Back to Sender”: Pentecostal Prayer Forms and Language Dynamics in Nigeria’s Contemporary World3
“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community3
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s3
Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou3
Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a3
Taiwo Shango : The German Context2
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes2
Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners2
Nigerian Campus Forms2
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy2
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves2
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria2
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films2
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)2
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers2
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections2
Enlivening Prayers: Aesthetic and Function in the Supplicatory Odes of Shaykh Abū Bakr Atiƙu (Kano, Nigeria, d. 1974)2
Masculine Aesthetics and Food Ascetics: An Autobiographical Exploration of Fitness Religion in Cape Town2
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue2
Sound Studies from Africa2
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe2
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou2
Prayer 24/7: The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Prayer City and Urban Invigoration in Nigeria2
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)2
Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late1
From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988)1
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms1
Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria1
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Regenerates1
Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles1
Street Food Discourses and the Case of the Ugandan “Rolex”1
Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop1
Arts and Culture in Professional Training Programmes at Beninese State Universities: From Marginalisation to Progressive Reintegration1
Wailing Women: Kenyan Prayer Warriors and the Animating Grounds of Emotions1
Highlife’s “Alluring Effect” and the “Hey-ba-ba-re-bop”: The Rise of the “Scrap Bands”, “Hot Numbers” and a Changing Colonial Aesthetic1
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?1
Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures1
Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya1
Creative Expression and Political Resistance among Young Urban Congolese1
Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop1
Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos1
Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival1
The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community1
Playing with the State: Strategies of Hustling and Redistribution in the Equatoguinean Popular Music Economy1
Manufacturing Techno-Optimism: A Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Media’s Role in Legitimising the CBEX Crypto Scam1
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration1
African Universities: Translating Francophone Campus Forms1
Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges1
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman1
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media1
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio1
“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University1
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