Journal of African Cultural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 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
Re-membering the Postcolonial Musical Audience with Indigenous Soundscapes:Mbeyu NjijaMusic-Video Documentary in Tanzania7
Landscapes of Distant Suffering: Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of “Harmful” Cultural Practices7
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
Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture4
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
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities3
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back3
With Gratitude, Toward Freedom3
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
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
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
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
Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe1
Imagining Freedom with Keguro Macharia’s Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora1
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
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
Enlivening Prayers: Aesthetic and Function in the Supplicatory Odes of Shaykh Abū Bakr Atiƙu (Kano, Nigeria, d. 1974)1
Campus et création en Côte d’Ivoire : enjeux et stratégies d’une esthétique du camouflage dans le zouglou1
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
Les universités africaines francophones : le campus sous toutes ses formes1
Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria1
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
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