Recently published journal articles

The ASCL list of recently published journal articles is published weekly. It provides an overview of journal articles on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities published by Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Cairn, Sabinet and African Journals Online.
The articles on Portuguese history in Africa, and on African Studies in general, are selected by Pedro Pinto for AfricaBib.
For the previous list, see the archive.

Retrieved week 29 2026

Africa
ADEGORIOLU, D. 2026. The rise of Satoshi Pablo? African youth, fraud duality, and the Web3 smokescreen. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):183-201.
Keywords: African youth ; cryptocurrency ; cybercrime ; fraud ; social media ; Web3
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2629912

Africa
AINA, F. & OJO, J. S. 2026. Strategic Partnership or Strategic Expansionism? NATO’s Out-Of-Area Operations on Peacekeeping with the African Union. African Security, 19 (2):179-209.
Keywords: African Union ; mutual cooperation ; NATO ; peacekeeping operations ; strategic interests ; strategic partnership
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2587547

Africa
AMPONSAH, C. & AMO-AGYEMANG, C. 2026. Africanising Indigeneity: Decolonising Identities, Knowledges, and Resilience in the Anthropocene. African Studies, 85 (1):1-27.
Keywords: Africanisation ; Afrocentric indigenous identities ; Anthropocene ; decolonisation ; indigeneity ; resilience
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2643608

Africa
BEN, P. E. 2026. On the Moral Implications of Henry Odera Oruka’s ‘Human Minimum’ Approach to Fighting Extreme Poverty in Africa. African Studies, 85 (1):50-69.
Keywords: Africa ; human minimum ; moral obligation ; poverty ; responsibility
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2671197

Africa
BRUINDERS, S. & NII-DORTEY, M. 2026. Mapping Africa’s musical identities: perspectives from a few Anglophone countries. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):147-155.
Keywords: African musicology ; artistic research ; cartographie musicale ; décolonialité ; decoloniality ; durabilité ; musical mapping ; Musicologie africaine ; recherche artistique ; revitalisation ; sustainability
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2566064

Africa
DOBOŠ, B. 2026. An Islamic emirate in Africa? Comparing the cases of Afghanistan and Syria with Somalia and Mali. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):25-47.
Keywords: Afghanistan ; external intervention ; insurgency ; Islamism ; Mali ; Somalia ; Syria
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2673199

Africa
JOHNSTON, L. 2026. The ‘Hunan Model’: A new approach in China focused on economic development hurdles in Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):71-98.
Keywords: Angola Model ; China-Africa ; China–Africa Economic and Trade Deep Cooperation Pilot Zone ; China–Africa Economic and Trade Expo ; Hunan Model ; poverty alleviation ; trade war
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2640345

Africa
KABANDULA, A. 2026. Subsidiarity in global security governance: Lessons from the African Union. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):1-23.
Keywords: Africa ; African Union ; Global governance ; non-state actors ; peace operations ; Somalia ; subsidiarity ; United Nations
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2667144

Africa
MCCONNACHIE, B. 2026. Decolonising African musical arts education: challenges, innovations, and the case for a sustainable framework. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):235-252.
Keywords: African musical arts ; Art musicaux africains ; cartographier les identités musicales africaines ; decolonial pedagogy ; durabilité ; mapping Africa’s musical identities ; pédagogie décoloniale ; performance-based research ; recherche basée sur la performance ; revitalisation ; sustainability
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2634651

Africa
NTAKA, B. 2026. From rebellion to rule: Rebel group organisation and state-building in Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):99-122.
Keywords: Africa ; political transitions ; Rebel group organisation ; Rebellion ; state-building
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2673202

Africa
SAAKA, S. S. & SAAKA, S. A. 2026. Disinformation, security politics, and legislative outcomes in Africa. African Security Review, 35 (3):275-294.
Keywords: Africa ; digital governance ; disinformation ; legislative politics ; Securitisation ; security framing
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2590538

Africa
SMALDONE, N., KANSANGA, M. & LEDERMANN, S. 2026. Over a decade into the New Green Revolution for Africa: a systematic review of key outcomes. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):316-334.
Keywords: Africa ; ecological agriculture ; Food security ; input intensification ; New Green Revolution
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2563335

Algeria
AZZAM, R., KASMI, A. & AICHE, M. 2026. From churches to mosques: decolonising Algiers’ religious landscape. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):654-686.
Keywords: Algiers ; church/mosque conversion ; colonization ; decolonization
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2026.2648269

Algeria
KHOUMIKHAM, R. 2026. Language attitudes towards Nomadic Ouled Naïl Arabic in Algeria and perceived employability. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):761-791.
Keywords: accentism ; Algerian Arabic ; employability ; Language attitudes ; Ouled Naïl Arabic
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2026.2633614

Algeria
LAOUAR, N. 2026. Resurrecting women's voices of the Algerian Revolution in Yamina Mechakra's La Grotte éclatée. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):687-705.
Keywords: abjection ; Gothic ; monstrosity ; trauma ; uncertainty ; war ; women
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2574660

Algeria
MORTAD SERIR, I. 2026. The Postcolonial Voice in Algerian Fiction: Silent Struggles and Spoken Frictions. African Studies, 85 (1):70-87.
Keywords: Algerian writers ; Algerianity ; Arabic/French ; identity ; linguistic ambivalence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2652639

Burkina Faso
ZOMA, V. & TARPAGA, A. J. 2026. Independence day infrastructure and local development in the town of Ziniaré, Burkina Faso. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):366-377.
Keywords: 11 December ; Burkina Faso ; Infrastructure ; local development ; Ziniaré
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2552127

Ethiopia
CHEKOLE GASHIE, A. 2026. After the guns: Global lessons for reintegrating armed groups in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. African Security Review, 35 (3):313-329.
Keywords: Amhara ; DDR ; Ethiopia ; Fano armed resistance ; Regional special forces
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2603993

Ethiopia
GENET CHEKOL, Y. & DEMISSIE BESHI, T. 2026. Metekel: A geopolitical flashpoint and catalyst for non-state armed group emergence in Ethiopia. African Security Review, 35 (3):295-312.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; internal geopolitics ; Metekel ; non state armed groups
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2599127

Ethiopia
MAUPIN-BUSKIN, A. 2026. Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance: by Tom Lavers, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2024, 310p., ISBN 9780192871213. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):187-188.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2647149

Ethiopia
TESFAYE, M. G. 2026. Anthropological and historical scholarship on identities in Ethiopia: a paradigm shift? Critical African Studies, 18 (2):264-285.
Keywords: comparative ethnography ; cultural identity ; épistémologie ; epistemology ; Ethiopia ; Éthiopie ; ethnographie comparative ; fédéralisme multinational ; historiographie ; historiography ; identité culturelle ; multi-national federalism
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2648529

Ethiopia
WALSH, B. 2026. Views from the Horn of Africa: Conflict Management in Ethiopia – The Role of China and the UAE. African Security, 19 (2):240-271.
Keywords: African statebuilding ; Authoritarian Conflict Management ; China in Africa ; Ethiopia ; UAE
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2602994

Ghana
AMISSAH-ARTHUR, H. W. 2026. Of Rape, Black Women and ‘Whitened’ Pudenda: Psychosexual Identity in the Ghanaian Neo-Slave Narrative. African Studies, 85 (1):143-155.
Keywords: identity ; psychosexual ; pudenda ; sexuality ; slavery ; whitening
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2644571

Ghana
BENEBERE, P., AABEYIR, R., ABASS, K., ODAME APPIAH, D., GUODAAR, L. & KPELLE, M. 2026. Building smallholder farmers’ resilience under climate change through agroforestry practice in the northern savanna of Ghana: determinants and policy implications. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):378-400.
Keywords: agroforestry practice ; biophysical ; climate change ; determinants ; Resilience ; socio-economic
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2529492

Ghana
MENSAH, P., WRIGLEY-ASANTE, C., OTENG-ABABIO, M., ARTHUR, I. K. & AMANKWAA, E. F. 2026. Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions: tracing Ga family transformations in Accra’s urban landscape. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):295-310.
Keywords: acculturation ; Akan families ; Ga families ; Indigenous transitions ; intermarriage ; urbanisation
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2660735

Ghana
NII-DORTEY, M. 2026. Revitalising Ghana’s operatic tradition through performance-based research and artistic reconstruction: a case of ‘The Lost Fishermen’. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):156-171.
Keywords: artistic reconstruction ; endangerment ; folk opera ; mise en péril ; opéra populaire ; performance-based research ; recherche par la pratique ; reconstitution artistique ; revitalisation
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2674972

Ghana
OSEI, A. & BUKARI, G. A. 2026. Political preferences and candidate choice in party primaries in Ghana: a conjoint survey experiment. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):219-238.
Keywords: Africa ; candidate selection ; clientelism ; Ghana ; party primaries
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2651437

Ghana
SAAB, M. & BLAY, I. 2026. Perceived global warming, relationship with the surrounding, and socioeconomic status in the Ellembelle District, Ghana. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):297-315.
Keywords: Ellembelle District ; environment ; Perceived global warming ; place attachment ; socioeconomic status ; surrounding
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2509915

Kenya
MAKINDA, S. M. & TURNER, M. 2026. Language hierarchies and human rights: Kiswahili, English and (other) mother tongues in Kenyan schools. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):286-299.
Keywords: droits de l'homme ; Hiérarchies linguistiques ; human rights ; kiswahili ; langues maternelles ; Linguistic hierarchy ; mother tongues ; translangage ; translanguaging
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2648531

Kenya
MONTE, E. P. 2026. The Kenya Music Festival and the revival of Kenyan indigenous music. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):198-214.
Keywords: continuité ; continuity ; durabilité ; indigenous music ; Kenya ; Kenya Music Festival ; musique autochtone ; revitalisation ; sustainability
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2595944

Kenya
MUTAHI, P. 2026. ‘Our commitment is to the people’: volunteerism and community policing in Kaptembwo informal settlement, Kenya. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):259-274.
Keywords: community policing ; crime ; Kenya ; police ; volunteer
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2651440

Lesotho
BRUINDERS, S. 2026. Sustainability, revitalisation and repatriation: music and art in Lesotho. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):172-184.
Keywords: archival research ; art de l'argile ; clay art ; durabilité ; Lesotho ; music ; musique ; recherche archivistique ; revitalisation ; sustainability
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2575508

Libya
BEN BRAHIM, A. R. 2026. The Responsibility to Rebuild in Libya: A call for comprehensive reform amid post-intervention paralysis. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):123-148.
Keywords: humanitarian intervention ; Libya ; North Africa ; post-conflict reconstruction ; responsibility to protect ; responsibility to rebuild
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2641178

Maghreb
MACKAMAN-LOFLAND, C. K. 2026. Between colony and nation: Coopération and the long decolonisation of universities in the Maghreb, 1955–1970. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):706-738.
Keywords: cooperation ; decolonisation ; France ; Maghreb ; universities
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2611900

Malawi
DEJA, R. 2026. Kazoos, Lamellophones, and the Invention of the Sansiba: A Case Study of Instrument Revitalisation within the Malawian Creative Industries. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):185-197.
Keywords: African music ; creative industries ; industries créatives ; Malawian music ; music revitalisation ; musique africaine ; musique malawienne ; Organologie ; Organology ; Patrick Chimbewa ; revitalisation de la musique
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2553539

Mali
NDIAYE, M. & SEMPIJJA, N. 2026. Rethinking external intervention in the context of the rise of non-state armed groups as de facto authorities: The case of Mali. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):49-70.
Keywords: external military intervention ; local governance ; Mali ; Non-state armed groups ; rebel governance ; the Sahel
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2648116

Morocco
BENKACEM, I. & BOUTAHAR, Y. 2026. Documenting environmentalism and Amazigh indigeneity in Nadir Bouhmouch's Amussu (2019). The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):739-760.
Keywords: Amazigh ; Amussu ; documentary film ; environmentalism ; indigeneity ; representational sovereignty
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2026.2628562

Morocco
OUMALAL, M. E. 2026. The implicated guard: complicity and conscience in Youssef Fadel’s A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (4):792-808.
Keywords: compartmentalization ; implicated subject ; Moroccan prison literature ; transitional justice ; Years of lead ; Youssef Fadel
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2026.2670284

Nigeria
ADENUGA, G. A. 2026. Local government peacebuilding committees and the management of farmers-pastoralists conflicts in South–West Nigeria. African Security Review, 35 (3):249-260.
Keywords: Conflict management ; farmers-pastoralists conflicts ; local governments ; peace and security committees ; South–West Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2587586

Nigeria
AKÍNSÌKÙ, A. 2026. Power Dynamics: Women in New Nollywood Epics. African Studies, 85 (1):127-142.
Keywords: African feminisms ; film studies ; fringe women ; gender representations ; Nollywood ; power brokers ; sexism ; visual culture
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2655749

Nigeria
BABALOLA, O. M. 2026. The Not-I-Bird song-chant as a political allegory of leadership betrayal in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):253-263.
Keywords: allégorie politique ; Death and the King’s Horseman ; défaillance du leadership ; La Mort et l'Écuyer du roi ; leadership failure ; Not-I-Bird ; political allegory ; postcolonial theory ; théorie postcoloniale ; Wole Soyinka
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2672691

Nigeria
ENEMUWE, C. A. 2026. American Democracy Promotion in Nigeria: Strategic Approaches and the Centrality of Political Education. African Studies, 85 (1):28-49.
Keywords: civil society ; democracy ; democracy promotion ; geopolitics ; peace ; United States-Nigeria relations
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2668377

Nigeria
MARK, T. G. 2026. Rethinking postcolonial justice: Issakaba and the role of vigilante power in Nigerian cinema. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):311-329.
Keywords: hybridised justice ; postcolonial sovereignty ; ritualised violence ; state failure ; Vigilante justice
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2668487

Nigeria
NYECHE, L. & AZGIN, B. 2026. Electoral Violence and the Persistence of Competitive Authoritarianism in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 Presidential Elections. African Studies, 85 (1):109-126.
Keywords: authoritarianism ; election ; incumbent ; Nigeria ; violence ; voters
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2663146

Nigeria
OSEI-TUTU, J. A., TRUE, J. & DAVIES, S. E. 2026. The Weaponization of Sexual Violence: Boko Haram’s Quest for Control Over Territories and Women’s Bodies. African Security, 19 (2):153-178.
Keywords: Boko Haram ; feminist political economy ; northeastern Nigeria ; sexual and gender-based violence ; structural gender norms
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2587548

Nigeria
SALAWU, I. A., OWOLABI OLATUNDE, Y. & ABDULKAREEM, A. A. 2026. Family and the ballot: the impact of loved ones on women’s electoral participation during violent elections. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):239-258.
Keywords: democracy ; elections ; politics ; regression ; violence ; Women
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2651438

South Africa
KAUR, A., KUMAR, A. & VERMA, S. S. 2026. South-South cooperation on climate change: An analysis of the partnership between India and South Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 33 (1):149-171.
Keywords: climate action ; Climate cooperation ; ecological modernisation theory ; South–South cooperation ; sustainable development
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2026.2648117

South Africa
MKHIZE, N. & NEL-SANDERS, D. 2026. Roadblocks and Realities: Expert Insights into Corruption Risk Mitigation in South Africa. African Studies, 85 (1):88-108.
Keywords: anti-corruption ; corruption ; corruption risk ; good governance ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2026.2656473

Subsaharan Africa
AFFUL, S. L., BENTUM-ENNIN, I. & BONDZIE, E. A. 2026. Revisiting Drivers of Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dimension-Specific Analysis and Ranking of Determinants. African Development Review, 38 (3):e70066.
Keywords: dominance analysis ; financial development ; financial institutions ; financial markets ; PCSE ; Sub-Saharan Africa
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70066

Subsaharan Africa
MOSUNGA, G. M., MOUSSEUKNADJI, J.-C. K. & WIRAJING, M. A. K. 2026. Natural Resource Wealth and Access to Clean Cooking Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. African Development Review, 38 (3):e70064.
Keywords: access to clean cooking technologies ; natural resources wealth ; Sub Saharan Africa
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70064

Subsaharan Africa
WANDO, A. H. 2026. Children of the Soil: Parallels Between Vigilantes and Boko Haram in Hybrid Security-Governance of the Lake Chad Basin Region. African Security, 19 (2):210-239.
Keywords: Boko Haram ; Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) ; hybrid security governance ; Lake Chad Basin ; vigilante
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2598168

Tanzania
MMBAGA, N. E., MBISE, F., GOBORO, E. M., JOHN, H., JOFREY, O. J., NOELA, H., KIMARO, J. M. & NGONGOLO, K. 2026. Assessing human–wildlife interactions adjacent to protected areas in northern Tanzania. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):350-365.
Keywords: Communities adjacent PAs ; crop raiding ; problematic wild animals ; sustainable wildlife conservations
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2566173

Tunisia
NASRI, K. & BEN BRAHAM, M. 2026. Inflation at the Household Level: Evidence From Tunisia Using a Quantile Regression Model. African Development Review, 38 (3):e70068.
Keywords: heterogeneity and inequality ; household inflation ; quantile regression ; Tunisia
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70068

Uganda
MAKWA, D. D. B. 2026. Imbalu performances in sacred sites: towards a revitalisation of Bibiwoyo and Isonja through tourism in Bududa, Uganda. Critical African Studies, 18 (2):215-234.
Keywords: bibiwoyo ; Imbalu ; isonja ; revitalisation ; sacred sites ; sites sacrés ; tourism ; tourisme
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2648542

Uganda
SARAH, M., BERNARD, B., GABIRI, G., NSEREKO, M. & GUDOYI, P. M. 2026. Land use/cover categories: implications on water quality and treatment costs in river Malaba catchment, Eastern Uganda. African Geographical Review, 45 (4):335-349.
Keywords: Land use/cover categories ; river Malaba ; Uganda ; water quality ; water treatment cost
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2542803

West Africa
LARSEN, J. 2026. Infrastructure as a Lens for Studying the Effects of Regime complexity. The Case of Maritime Security Governance in the Gulf of Guinea. African Security, 19 (2):272-292.
Keywords: Counter-piracy ; infrastructure theory ; maritime security ; methodology ; regime complexity
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2612461

West Africa
ONUOHA, F., JACOBSEN, K. L., KAMAL-DEEN, A. & RASMUSSEN, A. 2026. ‘No poor person can afford a 200HP engine’: An Infrastructural Reading of Poverty-Piracy Link. African Security Review, 35 (3):233-248.
Keywords: Gulf of Guinea ; infrastructure ; maritime security ; Piracy ; poverty
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2578433

Zimbabwe
CHOTO, A. T. 2026. Organic intellectuals in Zimbabwe mass strikes of 1996 and 1997, labour forum as the origins of the MDC. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):202-218.
Keywords: labour forums ; mass strikes ; neoliberalism ; organic intellectuals ; Turning point
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2650763

Zimbabwe
MANDIKWAZA, E. & MOYO, C. 2026. Zimbabwe security sector reform in the post-Mugabe era: Continuity or discontinuity? African Security Review, 35 (3):261-274.
Keywords: army ; New Dispensation ; New Republic ; police ; reforms ; Security sector ; security sector reform ; ZANU PF
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2589307

Zimbabwe
SITHOLE, T. 2026. Pyrrhic victories: electoral authoritarianism and the hollowing of democracy in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 44 (2):275-294.
Keywords: authoritarian resilience ; economic collapse ; electoral authoritarianism ; Pyrrhic victory ; Zimbabwe, democratic erosion
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2026.2655705