African Studies

Refreshed for 2025, this article and book chapter collection explores key areas of interest and relevance in African Studies. From stand-up comedy in Kenya post-COVID 19 to digital archive projects in South Africa, urban crime in the Lagos traffic, and electoral democracy in Sudan, the highlighted articles and book chapters traverse disciplines and themes. Browse these contributions to investigate new perspectives on Africa: its cultures, economies, politics, challenges, and opportunities.

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“The Dam Wall Broke”: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Method Analysis of Writing on the First Decade of Democracy in the South African Art World	Leandra Koenig-Visagie	Critical Arts
Deadly Journeys: Thabo Jijana’s Nobody’s Business, the Minibus Taxi Industry, and the Racial Politics of Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa	Marzia Milazzo	English Studies in Africa
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	Andries du Toit	Journal of Southern African Studies

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Instruments of China’s Foreign Policy Towards South Africa: An Afro-Decolonial Critique	Dominic Maphaka & Makhura Benjamin Rapanyane	International Journal of African Renaissance Studies – Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
New Delhi’s engagement with Africa: Seeking geopolitical alignment	Shubhrajeet Konwer	South African Journal of International Affairs
The limits of the ‘no limits’ Russian-Chinese partnership: The case of Africa	Benjamin Kurylo	South African Journal of International Affairs
Comparing the South African and Brazilian student uprisings (2015–2016): Similarities, Circulations, and Distance	Josh Platzky Miller	South African Review of Sociology
Information Disorder and Civil Unrest. Russian Weaponization of Social Media Platforms in Mali and Burkina Faso – 2020–2022.	Felipe Pathé Duarte	African Security

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A Sovereign Wealth Fund as an alternative driver of growth and development in Botswana	Emmanuel Kopang Botlhale	Critical African Studies
On the empirics of microfinance institutions and local economic development in Africa	Nixon S. Chekenya	Development Southern Africa
The African Continental Free Trade Area and informal cross border trade: implications on socio-economic development in Africa	Inocent Moyo	Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Beyond traditional models: a focus on alternate pathways for managing Africa’s sovereign debt	Ifeanyichukwu Azuka Aniyie	Politikon
Counting women? Gendered sustainability and inclusivity for an ocean accounting framework	Joleen Steyn Kotze & Narnia Bohler-Muller	Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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Exporting the Dance Traditions: Innovative Agency, Artistic Imaginaries and Transnational Commodification of Indigenous Ugandan Dances in the Chinese Marketplace	Alfdaniels Mabingo	African Studies
Who controls literature? Black writers and white alpha-editors in Hispanophone African literature	Iñaki Tofiño	Journal of the African literature Association
Towards a New Poetics of Comedic Performance in Kenya Following COVID-19	Anne Lanoi Keton & Denis Waswa Barasa	Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
Students’ Perceived Language Competence and Attitudes Towards Multilingualism at a South African University	David Lasagabaster, Christa van der Walt	Language Matters
“We Evangelists Are Creative”: Yoruba Pentecostals’ Music-Making on Prayer Mountains in Nigeria	Toyin Samuel Ajose	Muziki

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World cities of the global south: the West African city as an international actor	Dafe Oputu	African Identities
Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics	Felix Oludare Ajiola	Journal of African Cultural Studies
Youth, Associational Life and Civic Engagement in Northern Cameroon: Association des Jeunes Élèves et Étudiants de la Faada	Baskouda S. K. Shelley	Journal of African Cultural Studies
“The unwavering bond”: examining the sense of place in Harare’s informal urban neighbourhoods	Elmond Bandauk, Godwin Arku, Abraham R. Matamanda, Akosua Boahemaa Asare & Thelma Akyea	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Bringing heart and vulnerability to urban storytelling: a conversation with Tanya Zack on Wake Up, This is Joburg	Caroline Wanjiku Kihato & Tanya Zack	Safundi

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On the Tech Trek and Industrial Revolutions: Unravelling the Impact of Generative AI on Public Relations Praxis in Africa	Noel Nutsugah & Bright Senanu	Journal of Public Relations Research
Artificial intelligence and forensic mental health in Africa: a narrative review	A. Ogunwale, A. Smith, O. Fakorede & A. O. Ogunlesi	International Review of Psychiatry
Decolonising the Internet in Africa: A Policy Perspective	Ufuoma Akpojivi	Communicatio – South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework	Gregory Gondwe	Digital Journalism
Use of Language By generative AI Tools in Mathematical Problem Solving: The Case of ChatGPT	Wajeeh Daher & Faaiz Gierdien	African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

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Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’: Grassroots women’s responses to changing environments in southern Africa	Dorah Marema & Coleen Vogel	Agenda
‘Bahari Imekufa, The Sea is Dead’: Local Perceptions of Ocean Health and Ocean Wealth among Fishers on the Kenyan Coast	Jacky Kosgei	Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
Women’s coping and adaptation strategies to climate change: a case of the Dodoma Region	Okey Costantine, Japhet Ringo	South African Geographical Journal
Redefining Our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction	Jimin Kang	Wasafiri
Climate change and human economic misery in West Africa: evidence from a tail-dependence model	Jamilu Iliyasu & Suleiman O. Mamman	Climate and Development

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Conflict, Displacement and Overlapping Vulnerabilities: Understanding Risk Factors for Gender Based Violence Among Displaced Women in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	Jocelyn Kelly,Morgan Holmes, Niamh Gibbons, Amani Matabaro Tom & Maarten Voors	The Journal of Development Studies

Learning on the edge: Impacts of banditry on education and strategic options for resilience in northwest Nigeria	Oluwole Ojewale	African Security Review
Theorizing Afrophobia Beyond Apartheid: Conflict Cultures in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9	Addamms Mututa	Critical Arts
Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia	Yalemget Abebe & Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta	Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Les formes indisciplinées du campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop	Ruth Bush & Bacary Sarr	Journal of African Cultural Studies
The quest for social justice through ICT access and inclusion for rural schools and communities: The South African case of Urglobal	Luleka Mkuzo & Ivan Govender	African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
Effective bilingual education in Francophone West Africa: constraints and possibilities	Mary-Claire Ball, Jasodhara Bhattacharya, Hui Zhao, Hermann Akpé, Stephanie Brogno & Kaja K. Jasińska	International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
New beginnings: The right to equality and early childhood care and education	Sandra Fredman, Georgina Donati & Sara Naicker	South African Journal on Human Rights
Teaching Sustainability in Science Education: Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Perceptions of the Role of Indigenous Knowledge	Yalemget Abebe & Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta	African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

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Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa	Janell Le Roux &Toks Dele Oyedemi	African Studies
Social gender inequality and the gender gap in the classroom: evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa	Sayaka Usui, Benjamin K. Blevins & Keisuke Kawata	Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Gender assignment in Datooga nouns	Kuria Michael Mdoe	South African Journal of African Languages
Ke mosali oa Mosotho: reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho	Neo Mohlabane	Social Dynamics
Acts of gender activism in Stephen Chifunyise’s selected plays	Dorica Mhako Mutonhodza	South African Theatre Journal

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UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola	Ana Lúcia Sá & Olivio Kilumbo	Journal of Southern African Studies
Ethnic diversity and electoral democracy in Sudan before and after the Arab spring	Nadia Abdel Hamid El Dakroury	The Journal of North African Studies
Rethinking the State in Africa: Perceptions of Nigerians on State Formation, State-Building, and a Negotiated Social Contract in the Nigerian Case	Christopher Isike & Olusola Olasupo	International Journal of African Renaissance Studies – Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
Media and Politics of Representation: A Critical Decolonial Analysis of the Protests Against Addis Ababa’s Integrated Master Plan	Geremew Chala Teresa & Blessed Ngwenyab	African Journalism Studies
Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome	Denis Galava & Karuti Kanyinga	Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Residents’ perceptions of sustainable heritage tourism development in a rural municipality	Madiseng M. Phori, Uwe P. Hermann & Leanne Grobbelaar	Development Southern Africa
Land use practices and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo: dynamics of traditional authority and resistance	Tobias Tseer, Kasim Salifu & Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh	Third World Quarterly
Frontiers of fortune: mobilising land, water, and collective identity for watermelon production in Southeastern Morocco	Jamie Fico	The Journal of North African Studies
Increasing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa during times of volatile prices and a changing climate	Jacob Ricker-Gilbert	Agrekon
Culture, politics and material landscaping as strategies of belonging: the case of ex-farm workers of foreign origin in Bushu communal areas, Zimbabwe	Patience Chadambuka & Kirk Helliker	Canadian Journal of African Studies

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