Journal of African Cultural Studies

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University25
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus16
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices7
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania7
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture6
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda6
Slavery and Resistance in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice5
Performing Spiritual Solidarity: Christian Music and #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria4
Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective4
“Mama Majuto”: A Reflection on Playing Mzungu in Tanzanian Video Films4
Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture4
The Things We Now Call Fake Will in the Future Become Authentic Objects: Global African Art Markets and the Space and Time of the Fake3
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets3
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra3
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky3
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare3
The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets3
“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community3
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales3
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities3
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back3
With Gratitude, Toward Freedom3
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s2
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s2
“Back to Sender”: Pentecostal Prayer Forms and Language Dynamics in Nigeria’s Contemporary World2
Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text2
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda2
Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou2
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves2
Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a2
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria2
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria2
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)2
Academic Fakes1
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought1
The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community1
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration1
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou1
Enlivening Prayers: Aesthetic and Function in the Supplicatory Odes of Shaykh Abū Bakr Atiƙu (Kano, Nigeria, d. 1974)1
Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films1
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans1
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue1
“Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces1
Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique1
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers1
African Universities: Translating Francophone Campus Forms1
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms1
Prayer 24/7: The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Prayer City and Urban Invigoration in Nigeria1
Nigerian Campus Forms1
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media from Tanzania1
Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria1
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes1
Sound Studies from Africa1
Method and Antimethod: Reflecting on Keguro Macharia’s Frottage1
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)1
“The Fake is News”: On Popular Visual Media, Fakery and Legitimacy Contestations in Charismatic Christianity in Contemporary Ghana1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?1
Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures1
From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988)1
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy1
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections1
Imagining Freedom with Keguro Macharia’s Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora1
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe1
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah1
Chihuahua Promises and the Notorious Economy of Fake Pets in Cameroon1
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis1
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria1
Masculine Aesthetics and Food Ascetics: An Autobiographical Exploration of Fitness Religion in Cape Town1
Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners1
The Undisciplined Campus Forms of Université Cheikh Anta Diop0
Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges0
Contourner la censure à l’université par l’analyse d’un texte dramatique0
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio0
Roundtable on Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs0
Youth, Football and Everyday Lived Experience in Ajegunle, Lagos0
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces0
A “Meat-Hungry” People: Nutrition Science and the Colonial Discovery of Animal-Protein Malnutrition in Nigeria0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s0
Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada0
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media0
Indian Delights : Re-reading Cookbooks and Recipes among South African Indian Women0
Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–19920
Arts and Culture in Professional Training Programmes at Beninese State Universities: From Marginalisation to Progressive Reintegration0
L’enseignement artistique et culturel dans la formation professionnelle des universités publiques au Bénin : de la marginalisation à la réintégration progressive0
The Labor of the Living Dead0
Fake Wax0
Re-imagining How We Want to Be Touched0
The Burma Campaign from an African Perspective: The 1944 World War II Travelogue of Sgt. F. S. Arkhurst of the Royal West African Frontier Forces0
Fakeness, Human-Object Fluidity and Ethnic Suspicion on the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Market0
Performing Respect: Contemporary Strategies and Lived Experiences in Intimate Relationships in Maputo0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present0
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy0
Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience0
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa0
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem0
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses0
The Politics of Language in Ugandan Hip-Hop0
The Governor and the Everyday Woman: Reflections on Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana0
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles0
Playing with Difference: Oyibo Lip-Sync Performances of Nigerian Popular Culture on TikTok0
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio0
Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works0
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop0
Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking0
Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop0
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic0
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman0
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–19070
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia0
Ears to the Ground: Realness, Decolonial Meta-Rap, and the Language Debate in Nigerian Hip-Hop0
Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities0
Introduction to Campus Forms0
Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan0
In Defense of the False0
Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics0
Keguro Macharia: On Grinding, Grating, and Creating Friction against Kenyatta’s Figurations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity0
Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles0
The Rider and the Coffee Maker: Sites and Practices of Remembrance in Contemporary Namibia0
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging0
Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films0
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project0
Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production0
Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival0
Revolutionary Mothering0
Animation Theory: Prayer as Popular African Performance0
fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University0
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa0
Ja Pa and Jokes in Nigerian Skits: Humour and the Imagineering of a National Dystopian Consciousness0
Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show0
China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in theChurchill Comedy Show0
Street Food Discourses and the Case of the Ugandan “Rolex”0
Re-reading Africa Through Food: Introduction0
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa0
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi’s “Modern” Market0
Faith and Governance: A Study of Mawlid in Contemporary Morocco0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions0
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices0
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction0
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices0
Pondering the Gaps: A Response0
Créations collectives en amphi : enjeux, stratégies d’acteurs et défis esthétiques0
Wailing Women: Kenyan Prayer Warriors and the Animating Grounds of Emotions0
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi0
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity0
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Regenerates0
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues0
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