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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic19
Inxeba(The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture17
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures15
YouTube Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Space, Identity and “Realness” in Queer South African Vlogs14
Heteroerotic Failure and “Afro-queer Futurity” in Mohamed Camara’s Dakan13
Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films10
Lawful Performance and the Representational Politics of Queer African Refugees in Documentary Film10
Walking with Shadows: Jude Dibia and Olumide Makanjuola in Conversation with Lindsey Green-Simms10
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem10
Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes5
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi’s “Modern” Market5
Racial Discrimination in Uncertain Times: Covid-19, Positionality and Africans in China Studies5
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other4
Chihuahua Promises and the Notorious Economy of Fake Pets in Cameroon4
Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production4
Introduction to Campus Forms4
Cleavage: Guangzhou, Covid-19 and China–Africa Friendship Politics4
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces4
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis3
“The Fake is News”: On Popular Visual Media, Fakery and Legitimacy Contestations in Charismatic Christianity in Contemporary Ghana3
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture3
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa3
Nigerian Campus Forms3
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah3
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa3
Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique3
Fake Wax3
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare2
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities2
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana2
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi2
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–19072
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses2
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles2
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy2
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria2
The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets2
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans2
Decolonizing “China–Africa Relations”: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism2
In Defense of the False2
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”2
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University2
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media From Nigeria1
China Studies in Africa1
The Things We Now Call Fake Will in the Future Become Authentic Objects: Global African Art Markets and the Space and Time of the Fake1
Hindi Films, Bollywood, and Indian Television Serials: A History of Connection, Disconnection, and Reconnection in Tamale, Northern Ghana1
The Politics of Language in Ugandan Hip-Hop1
Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman1
Fakeness, Human-Object Fluidity and Ethnic Suspicion on the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Market1
Re-Contextualising Breakdance Aesthetics: Performance, Performativity, and Re-Enaction of Breakdancing in Uganda1
Do Fakes Exist? Trade and Consumption of Sex Enhancers in Harare's Avenues1
“Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness”: Genealogy Documentation of the Maḥas of Tuti Island and the (De)Construction of Belonging1
Rethinking Human-Centredness and Eco-Sustainability in an African Setting: Insights from Luganda Folktales1
From “Sin Street” to “Education Street”: Music, Politics and Transgression in Maputo’s Red-Light District, Mozambique (c.1960–86)1
Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?1
Ears to the Ground: Realness, Decolonial Meta-Rap, and the Language Debate in Nigerian Hip-Hop1
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices1
Lyrical Renegades: Reframing Narratives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenyan Urban Margins Through Hip-Hop1
China, Unaona Mkono Yangu Ama Una-nini?”: The Wedding Engagement between Kenya and China in theChurchill Comedy Show1
The Culture of Language in Cape Town’s Hip-Hop Community1
“Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces1
Language, Authenticity, and Hiplife Music in Accra1
Performing Respect: Contemporary Strategies and Lived Experiences in Intimate Relationships in Maputo1
Language and Hip-Hop in Africa: A Tanzanian Perspective1
Youth, Football and Everyday Lived Experience in Ajegunle, Lagos1
Faith and Governance: A Study of Mawlid in Contemporary Morocco0
Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada0
Undetermined Identity: A Diaspora Scholar in China–Africa Studies0
Créations collectives en amphi : enjeux, stratégies d’acteurs et défis esthétiques0
L’enseignement artistique et culturel dans la formation professionnelle des universités publiques au Bénin : de la marginalisation à la réintégration progressive0
Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s0
The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy0
There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities0
Cultural Pluralisms: Neo-Nollywood and Biyi Bandele’s Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba (2022)0
Roundtable on Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media0
Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa0
Food, Migration, and Place Consciousness in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late0
Pondering the Gaps: A Response0
Academic Fakes0
Contemporary Conversations: Meet the Practitioners0
African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought0
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices0
African Universities: Translating Francophone Campus Forms0
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou0
“We Dey Beg”: Visual Satirical Media Discourses on Contemporary Ghana-Sino Relations0
Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices0
Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos0
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back0
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes0
Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio0
Guiding Muslim Women in the University: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria Women’s Programmes in Northern Nigeria0
Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia0
The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia0
Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s0
Positioning Ourselves on China in Africa: An Interview with Hairong Yan*0
Re-imagining How We Want to Be Touched0
Ja Pa and Jokes in Nigerian Skits: Humour and the Imagineering of a National Dystopian Consciousness0
“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films0
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction0
Keeping Time: Prayers and Social Vitality in the Ashanti Adaε Festival0
Re-centring the Mothers of Rwanda’s Abducted “Métis” Children0
Revolutionary Mothering0
“Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community0
Textualisation of Sexual Harassment on the Cameroonian University Campus: Moone Nda’a’s La révolte de Mbazoua et autres nouvelles0
The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana0
Stereotypes and the Ambiguities of Humour in Kenya: TheChurchill Show0
Method and Antimethod: Reflecting on Keguro Macharia’s Frottage0
Wailing Women: Kenyan Prayer Warriors and the Animating Grounds of Emotions0
Nigerian University Dress Codes: Markers of Tradition, Morality and Aspiration0
Contourner la censure à l’université par l’analyse d’un texte dramatique0
Elitist and Popular Ideological Forms in Selected Nigerian Campus Novels0
A Korean American in South Africa: Some Reflections on my Experience as an “Other”0
Exploring the Language Debate in Hip-Hop in Kenya0
Radio and Music Listening Practices in Colonial Mozambique: The Goan Experience0
Circumventing Censorship on the University Campus Through the Analysis of a Dramatic Text0
The Undisciplined Campus Forms of Université Cheikh Anta Diop0
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
Performing Spiritual Solidarity: Christian Music and #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria0
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets0
fokkol graad vi jou nie” [Fuck All Degree for You]: Black Afrikaans Poets, Critical University Studies, and Transcripting the Afrikaans University0
Collective Creativity in the Lecture Hall: Key Issues, Participant Strategies and Aesthetic Challenges0
Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers0
Arts and Culture in Professional Training Programmes at Beninese State Universities: From Marginalisation to Progressive Reintegration0
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project0
Keguro Macharia: On Grinding, Grating, and Creating Friction against Kenyatta’s Figurations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity0
The Labor of the Living Dead0
The Yorùbá Concepts of Ìgbàgbọ́ and Ìmọ̀ : Understanding Human and Nonhuman Species Interactions0
When Men Become Women: Parody and Satire in Khady Touré's Film Échange Inégal: Goor Dongue0
African Studies and Sino-Africa Collaborations: Towards Our “Common Interest”0
Beyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s0
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania0
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking0
Listening for Religion in Lagos: Preliminary Reflections0
Foreign Bodies, Local Language: Voicing Foreignness in a Casablanca Dubbing Studio0
Reflecting on “Chinese” Positionality in Africa: An Encounter with Another “Other”0
From Guns and Steel to Germs: Malarial Detritus in New Sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda0
Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics0
The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus0
The Rider and the Coffee Maker: Sites and Practices of Remembrance in Contemporary Namibia0
Imagining Freedom with Keguro Macharia’s Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora0
Sound Studies from Africa0
Animating Performances: Prayers and African Popular Pleasures0
Reading Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media from Tanzania0
What Can We Learn from Africa? Teaching African Cultures in China0
Evolutions, Transformations and Trends in Kalenjin Traditional Songs0
Ethiopian Reggae Ambassadors, Rastafari, and the Promotion of Transatlantic Pan-African Solidarity0
Vernacular Verses: Language, Identity and African Hip-Hop0
Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–19920
Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop0
The Spread of New Chinese Socialist Martial Arts Films in Africa0
Street Food Discourses and the Case of the Ugandan “Rolex”0
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe0
Campus Movements and Student Revolutionaries: Imagining Haile Selassie I University in Hiwot Teffera’s MemoirTower in the Sky0
Textualisation du harcèlement sexuel dans le campus universitaire camerounais : une analyse à partir de La révolte de Mbazoua de Moone Nda’a0
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms0
Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves0
Campus and Creation in Côte d’Ivoire: Issues and Strategies for an Aesthetic of Camouflage in Zouglou0
Sonic Sensibility: Reading the Soundscape in Zimbabwean Diasporic Literary Works0
With Gratitude, Toward Freedom0
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media0
The Governor and the Everyday Woman: Reflections on Dina Ligaga’s Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media0
Animation Theory: Prayer as Popular African Performance0
Radio in Africa: Past and Present0
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