Rethinking African Literature
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literary Prizes, Writers’ Organisations and Canon Formation in Africa | Doseline Kiguru | African Studies | 2016 |
| Thematic Milestones and Literary Explorations of Black Existentiality in Black Literaure | Psalms Chinaka | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2017 |
| The writer as social thinker | Wale Adebanwi | Journal of Contemporary African Studies | 2014 |
| Writing (as) Africans - French Fiction Between Empathy and Orientalism | Oana Panaite | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2016 |
| ‘To See Us As We See Ourselves’: John Tengo Jabavu and the Politics of the Black Periodical | Khwezi Mkhize | Journal of Southern African Studies | 2018 |
Africa's Digital Futures
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do African Digital Natives Wear Glass Skirts? | Teju Cole | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2017 |
| Africa and the Digital Savior Complex | Bhakti Shringarpure | Journal of African Cultural Studies | Latest Articles |
| Digital media, territory, and diaspora: the shape-shifting spaces of Eritrean politics | Victoria Bernal | Journal of African Cultural Studies | Latest Articles |
| Speaking for the dead: testimonies, witnesses and the representations of Gukurahundi atrocities in new media | Mphathisi Ndlovu | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2018 |
| Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age | Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen & George Karekwaivanane | Journal of Eastern African Studies | 2019 |
| "“Who are you?”: representation, identification, and self-definition in Black Panther" | Anthony Michael D’Agostino | Safundi | 2019 |
| The future is digital: an introduction to African digital arts | Lizelle Bischoff | Critical African Studies | 2017 |
Radical Change in Africa
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| ‘We paid a heavy price for hosting them’: Villagers and Freedom Fighters in Mgagao, Tanzania | Arrigo Pallotti | South African Historical Journal | 2018 |
| Nationalism and Internationalism in the Liberation Struggle in Mozambique: The Role of the FRELIMO’s Solidarity Network in Italy | Corrado Tornimbeni | South African Historical Journal | 2018 |
| Debate section: Connections 2: Roape Workshop in Dar es Salaam, 16–17 April 2018 | Janet Bujra et al | Review of African Political Economy | 2018 |
| The rush for land in Africa: Resource grabbing or green revolution? | Ward Anseeuw | South African Journal of International Affairs | 2013 |
| Migration, African migrants, and the world: towards a radical political economy | Franklin Obeng-Odoom | African Identities | 2016 |
New Narratives for the African Diaspora
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 'Outsider Within': counter-narratives of the 'New' African diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) | Shane A McCoy | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2017 |
| The African second generation in the United States – identity and transnationalism: an introduction | Kassahun Kebede | African and Black Diaspora | 2019 |
| The politics of Afropolitanism | Amatoritsero Ede | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2016 |
| Thinking Africa + the diaspora differently: theories, practices, imaginaries | Harry Garuba | Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies | 2011 |
The African Middle Class
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Middle-) Class analysis in Africa: does it work? | Roger Southall | Review of African Political Economy | 2018 |
| The Evolution of the Middle Class During Nearly Two Decades of Democracy in South Africa | Hennie Kotzè & Carlos García-Rivero | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies | 2018 |
| The uneasy boundary work of ‘coconuts’ and ‘black diamonds’: middle-class labelling in post-apartheid South Africa | Lieve de Coninck | Critical African Studies | 2018 |
| What middle class? The shifting and dynamic nature of class position | Grace Khunou | Development Southern Africa | 2015 |
| Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class | Deborah James | Anthropology Southern Africa | 2017 |
Gender in Africa
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards African-centred theories of masculinity | Sakhumzi Mfecane | Social Dynamics | 2018 |
| Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa | Lynda Gichanda Spencer, Dina Ligaga & Grace A Musila | Agenda | 2018 |
| The emergent middle class in contemporary South Africa: Examining and comparing rival approaches | Ronelle Burger, Cindy Lee Steenekamp, Servaas van der Berg & Asmus Zoch | Development Southern Africa | 2015 |
| Sexuality and gender politics in Mozambique: Rethinking gender in Africa | Susanne M. Klausen | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2012 |
| Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa | Heidi Hudson | Peacebuilding | 2016 |
Recentering African Perspectives
| Article Title | Author(s) | Journal Title | Volume Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 'science' of superiority: Africa and scholarly colonial assumptions | Steven Friedman | Journal of Contemporary African Studies | 2018 |
| What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising | Isaac Odoom & Nathan Andrew | Third World Quarterly | 2017 |
| Decolonising Universities in South Africa: Rigged Spaces? | Cheryl Hendricks | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies | 2018 |
| The future of African Studies: what we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our research | Insa Nolte | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2019 |
| Confronting the Colonial Library: Teaching Political Studies Amidst Calls for a Decolonised Curriculum | Sally Matthews | Politikon | 2018 |