Directions and Provocations in
African Studies 2024
Refreshed for 2024, this article and book chapter collection explores key areas of interest and relevance in African Studies. From 30 years of democracy in South Africa, to visual archives in times of war in Sudan, youth and protest in the Gambia, and social and political genealogies of Moroccan hip hop, 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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Article | Author(s) Name | Title | Volume Year |
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Elites and economic policy in South Africa’s transition and beyond | Firoz Khan & Seeraj Mohamed | International Review of Applied Economics | Latest articles |
Laundering racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa | Mandisi Majavu | Politikon | 2023 |
The effect of crime on South Africans’ voting behaviour | Robert Nyenhuis & Thomas Isbell | Commonwealth & Comparative Politics | 2023 |
Populism and parliamentary opposition parties: the Economic Freedom Fighters party behaviour in the South African parliament | Ainara Mancebo | The Journal of Legislative Studies | 2023 |
Party Politics and Local Democracy: The ANC in South Africa’s Cape Winelands | Luvuyo Zantsi | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies | 2023 |
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The Contested Idea of South Africa | Kgabo Morifi, Malaika Mahlatsi | Negotiating meaningful citizenship in the zone of exclusion: The impact of racism on belonging in the new South Africa |
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The Dream Factory: Chinese Presence on a Nigerian University Campus | Olayinka Solomon Elusoji | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2023 |
Is Africa China’s neo-dependency in the making? | Seifudein Adem & Adamu Waziri Babagana | Third World Quarterly | 2023 |
Chinese-manufactured commodities and African agency in the democratization of consumption: the example of electronic devices in Cameroon | Ute Röschenthaler | Critical African Studies | 2023 |
Renarrating China-Africa relations: perspectives from new Chinese immigrants in Zimbabwe | Ning An | South African Geographical Journal | Latest articles |
African agency, COVID-19 and debt renegotiations with China | Mandira Bagwandeen, Christopher Edyegu & Oscar M. Otele | South African Journal of International Affairs | 2023 |
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African Constructions of China: Insights from Ghana and Kenya | Kwaku Opoku Dankwah | Introduction |
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On the empirics of microfinance institutions and local economic development in Africa | Nixon S. Chekenya | Development Southern Africa | 2023 |
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 | 2023 |
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance | James Musonda | Journal of Southern African Studies | 2023 |
Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification | Stefan Ouma et al. | Critical African Studies | 2023 |
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana | Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo | Review of International Political Economy | 2023 |
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Regional Development Poles and the Transformation of African Economies | Benaiah Yongo-Bure | Capital goods and economic transformation |
Article | Author(s) Name | Journal(s) Title | Volume Year |
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Soundtracks of citizenship: social and political genealogies of Moroccan hip hop | Zakia Salime | The Journal of North African Studies | 2024 |
Writing the polyphonic African queer future: reflections on Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater | Oluwadunni O. Talabi | Journal of the African Literature Association | 2023 |
‘Yo Dumbfucks!’: Problematising “Transgressive” White Humour and the Use of Blackface in the Artworks of South African Visual Artist Anton Kannemeyer | Sharlene Khan | Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies | 2023 |
The Boda Boda (R)age: Economies of Affection in the Motorbike Taxis of Kenya | Joyce Nyairo | English Studies in Africa | 2023 |
Seeing Sudan: visual archives in a time of war | Kylie Thomas | Safundi | 2023 |
The Insta-Gaze: investigating the endurance of stereotypes of Africa | Hilary Hungerford, Angela G. Subulwa & Debjani Chakravarty | Social & Cultural Geography | 2023 |
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa | Ebtesam M. El Shokrofy | Social Media, Censorship and Counter-Censorship of Female Performances in Morocco and Egypt |
Article | Author(s) Name | Journal Title | Volume Year |
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African Thought and Western (European) Misconception: An Afrocentric Paradigm | Mogomme Alpheus Masoga & Allucia Lulu Shokane | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies | 2023 |
The African novel and the question of communalism in African philosophy | Zeyad El Nabolsy | Safundi | 2023 |
Non-binary gender in African personhood? | Julia Huysamer & Louise du Toit | South African Journal of Philosophy | 2023 |
The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies | Ebbah Dube | South African Journal of Philosophy | 2023 |
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African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge | Peter Aloysius Ikhane | African Epistemology: Knowledge Ontologised |
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Vital Atmospherics: Sonic City-Making in Africa | Joella Bitter | Journal of African Cultural Studies | 2023 |
The premise of a participatory management of urban space. Neighborhood associations: Commitment, militancy and challenge the case of the city of Batna, Algeria | Ammar Saidani, Mahdi Kalla & Karima Bendib | Cogent Social Sciences | 2023 |
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town | Duane Jethro & Mahoati Arthur Lehloenya | Anthropology Southern Africa | 2023 |
De l’ancrage d’une ville africaine : Abidjan, la mondialisation et le colonialisme tardif en Côte d’Ivoire | Abou B. Bamba | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2023 |
Street naming and political identity in the postcolonial African city: A social sustainability framework | Eric Yankson | Journal of Urban Affairs | 2023 |
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Sustainable Urban Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Risk and Resilience | Llewellyn Leonard, Regis Musavengane, and Pius Siakwah | Urban risk and tourism in Africa: An overview |
Articles | Author(s) Name | Journal(s) Title | Volume Year |
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ChatGPT use in universities in South Africa through a socio-technical lens | Kudzayi Savious Tarisayi | Cogent Education | 2024 |
Beyond authoritarianism and liberal democracy: understanding China’s artificial intelligence impact in Africa | Bibo Lin | Information, Communication & Society | Latest Articles |
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for decolonising education in South Africa through the development of indigenous languages | Burgert Senekal & Susan Brokensha | South African Journal of African Languages | 2023 |
Harnessing AI for business development: a review of drivers and challenges in Africa | Joseph Amankwah-Amoah & Yingfa Lu | Production Planning & Control | 2023 |
Book Title | Chapter Author(s) | Chapter |
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AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective | Susan Brokensha, Eduan Kotzé, Burgert A. Senekal | (Mis)perceptions of AI in Africa: Metaphors, myths, and realities |
Articles | Author(s) Name | Journal(s) Title | Volume Year |
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Unintended consequences of climate change adaptation: African case studies and typologies on pitfalls and windfalls | Verena Helen van Zyl-Bulitta et al. | Development Southern Africa | 2024 |
Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’: Grassroots women’s responses to changing environments in southern Africa | Dorah Marema & Coleen Vogel | Agenda | 2023 |
Elite summits amplify Africa’s climate catastrophes | Patrick Bond | The Journal of Peasant Studies | Latest articles |
Tourism and climate change in Africa: informing sector responses | K. Dube et al. | Journal of Sustainable Tourism | 2023 |
Impact of climate change on output and inflation in Africa’s largest economies | Jamilu Iliyasu, Suleiman O. Mamman & Umar Abdullahi Ahmed | Climate and Development | 2023 |
Book Title | Chapter Author(s) | Chapter |
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Climate Action in Southern Africa: Implications for Climate Justice and Just Transition | Philani Moyo, Thabo Ndlovu, Thokozani P. Moyo, Treda Mukuhlani, Elinah Nciizah, Tendai Nciizah, Adornis D. Nciizah, Thapelo Ramalefane, Stanley O. Ehiane, France Maphosa, Gracsious Maviza, Sipho F. Mamba | Climate Action Policies, Strategies and Programming in Southern Africa: Missed Opportunities for Climate Justice |
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Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa | Danford Zirugo and Admire Mare | Assessing Twitter’s Revolutionary Potential in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter |
Articles | Author(s) Name | Journal(s) Title | Volume Year |
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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 | 2023 |
‘What is gender to you?’: An Africana Womanist take on perceptions of gender reality on women’s agency among a rural Malawian Community | Mtisunge Isabel Kamlongera & Alinane Kamlongera Katenga-Kaunda | Gender and Education | 2023 |
Talking back: linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop | Paul Ayodele Onanuga & Ayobami Olajumoke Onanuga | Journal of Contemporary African Studies | Latest articles |
Global rise in gender-based violence against women and girls during COVID-19 lockdown: An insight from Africa | Linus Oluchukwu Akudolu et al. | Cogent Arts & Humanities | 2023 |
Mobile phones and rural women in South Asia and Africa: a systematic review | Tanusree Paul & Sudeshna Dutta | Gender, Technology and Development | 2023 |
Book Title | Chapter Author(s) | Chapter |
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Gender-Responsive Governance in Sierra Leone: The Transitions and Logic of Inequality | John Idriss Lahai | Politics, Electoral Violence, and Gender Inequality |
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The Routledge Handbook of African Demography | Mark A. Aviisah, Hinke H. Haisma, Tobias C. Vogt | Intergenerational Family Support and the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Book Title | Chapter Author(s) | Chapter |
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Conflict Management and Resolution in South Sudan | Loice Alusala and Nelson Alusala | The Missing Link in Negotiating an End to The South Sudan Conflict |
Articles | Author(s) Name | Journal(s) Title | Volume Year |
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Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector | Tom Tom | Journal of Youth Studies | 2023 |
Digital media, popular culture and social activism amongst urban youth in Nigeria | Chizoba Imoka | Critical African Studies | 2023 |
Youth in West and Central Africa: quests for inclusion and the future of governance | Jaimie Bleck,Trevor Lwere & Boukary Sangaré | Canadian Journal of African Studies | 2023 |
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa | Hasina Banu Ebrahim | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal | 2023 |
Book Title | Chapter Author(s) | Chapter |
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Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship | Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Workneh Yadete | Youth movements and political protest: Opportunities and limitations of Ethiopia’s Qeerroo movement in affecting transformative change |
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