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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Queer Worldmaking in Wanuri Kahiu’s FilmRafiki	15
Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter	14
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic	14
YouTube Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Space, Identity and “Realness” in Queer South African Vlogs	13
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures	13
Heteroerotic Failure and “Afro-queer Futurity” in Mohamed Camara’s Dakan	12
Inxeba(The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture	11
Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films	10
Lawful Performance and the Representational Politics of Queer African Refugees in Documentary Film	10
Walking with Shadows: Jude Dibia and Olumide Makanjuola in Conversation with Lindsey Green-Simms	10
“Ytnahaw ga’!”: Algeria’s Cultural Revolution and the Role of Language in the Early Stages of the Spring 2019 Hirak	10
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem	8
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi’s “Modern” Market	5
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces	4
Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production	4
Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes	4
Racial Discrimination in Uncertain Times: Covid-19, Positionality and Africans in China Studies	4
“I Thought She Was Ordinary, I Only Saw Her Body”: Sex and Celebrity Advocacy in Nigerian Popular Culture	4
Túndé Kèlání and the Art of Being Yorùbá	3
Fake Wax	3
Road Called Vagina: African Womanist Detours of Túndé Kèlání's The Narrow Path	3
Cleavage: Guangzhou, Covid-19 and China–Africa Friendship Politics	3
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses	2
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa	2
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis	2

Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah	2
Chihuahua Promises and the Notorious Economy of Fake Pets in Cameroon	2
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare	2
Weaving Black ‘Hairstory’ through Emma Dabiri’s Don’t Touch My Hair	2
Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique	2
The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets	2
Nollywood Cinema’s Character of Recurrence	2
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other	2
In Defense of the False	2
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”	2
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture	2
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907	2
China Studies in Africa	1
Decolonizing “China–Africa Relations”: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism	1
Kèlání and the Question of Sovereign Cinema	1
Túndé Kèlání, Global Cinema and Philosophical Engagements	1
Introduction to Campus Forms	1
“The Fake is News”: On Popular Visual Media, Fakery and Legitimacy Contestations in Charismatic Christianity in Contemporary Ghana	1
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda	1
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop	1
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues	1
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales	1
“Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces	1
The Things We Now Call Fake Will in the Future Become Authentic Objects: Global African Art Markets and the Space and Time of the Fake	1
Performing Respect: Contemporary Strategies and Lived Experiences in Intimate Relationships in Maputo	1
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria	1
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi	1
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices	1
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria	1
“China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in the Churchill Comedy Show	1
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities	1
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa	1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?	1
Nigerian Campus Forms	1
Minor Cinema and Conviviality: Túndé Kèlání’s Film Worlds in Comparison	1
Fakeness, Human-Object Fluidity and Ethnic Suspicion on the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Market	1
Yorùbá Ẹ Ronú: Tradition, Youth and Cultural Citizenship in Túndé Kèlání’s Films	1
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections	0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities	0
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)	0
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy	0
Reflecting on “Chinese” Positionality in Africa: An Encounter with Another “Other”	0
Revolutionary Mothering	0
Roundtable on Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media	0
Weaving Through the Tresses: A Review of Emma Dabiri’s Don’t Touch My Hair	0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana	0
The Rider and the Coffee Maker: Sites and Practices of Remembrance in Contemporary Namibia	0
Pondering the Gaps: A Response	0
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans	0
Positioning Ourselves on China in Africa: An Interview with Hairong Yan*	0

Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project	0
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky	0
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back	0
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles	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
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets	0
Re-imagining How We Want to Be Touched	0
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria	0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia	0
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging	0
The Governor and the Everyday Woman: Reflections on Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media	0
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)	0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children	0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s	0
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration	0
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania	0
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue	0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show	0
Youth, Football and Everyday Lived Experience in Ajegunle, Lagos	0
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda	0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking	0
Hindi Films, Bollywood, and Indian Television Serials: A History of Connection, Disconnection, and Reconnection in Tamale, Northern Ghana	0
What Can We Learn from Africa? Teaching African Cultures in China	0
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels	0
A Korean American in South Africa: Some Reflections on my Experience as an “Other”	0
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves	0
Objects of Study: A Response to Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri	0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992	0
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman	0
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers	0
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms	0
“fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University	0
“We Dey Beg”: Visual Satirical Media Discourses on Contemporary Ghana-Sino Relations	0
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio	0
Keguro Macharia: On Grinding, Grating, and Creating Friction against Kenyatta’s Figurations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity	0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions	0
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought	0
Sound Studies from Africa	0
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra	0
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus	0
Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works	0
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy	0
Method and Antimethod: Reflecting on Keguro Macharia’s Frottage	0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films	0
Imagining Freedom with Keguro Macharia’s Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora	0
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University	0
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s	0
Undetermined Identity: A Diaspora Scholar in China–Africa Studies	0
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media from Tanzania	0
Academic Fakes	0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs	0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio	0
Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia	0
African Studies and Sino-Africa Collaborations: Towards Our “Common Interest”	0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience	0
The Labor of the Living Dead	0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa	0
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana	0
What Happens When a Music Video Goes Viral? Gastrocomedy and Prosumer Recreations of Timaya’s I Can’t Kill Myself	0
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s	0
With Gratitude, Toward Freedom	0
Beyond Black Beauty Politics: A Review of Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri	0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present	0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa	0