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.

Retrieved week 45 2025

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Africa
MUGUMBATE, R. & BOATENG, E. B. 2025. Voices of change: exploring decolonisation in African higher education through social media text mining. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):340-361.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2548781

Africa
MULUGETA, D. 2025. Continental pan-Africanism: the first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):223-240.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2024.2443407

Africa
NGUEGANG, F., NULAMBEH, N. A. & KAMDOUM, G. C. M. 2025. Attracting and Securing Foreign Direct Investment Inflows Amidst Global Uncertainty: Does Financial Development Matter in Africa? African Development Review, 37 (4):e70038.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.70038

Algeria
EDMEIER, D. 2025. Colonial Algeria's ‘Spanish problem’ 1939–1942: the case of Abbé José Manresa. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1100-1125.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2483748

Algeria
MURPHY, L. 2025. A visual battleground with multiple fronts: World War II propaganda in French Algeria. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1126-1157.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2483735

Algeria
TAL, Y. 2025. Anti-Semitism, class resentment, and everyday violence in colonial Constantine under Vichy rule. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1077-1099.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2500479

East Africa
BAH, M. & NYANTAKYI, E. B. 2025. Financial Constraints and Exports: Firm‐Level Evidence From Kenya and Tanzania. African Development Review, 37 (4):e70037.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.70037

East Africa
MUCUUTHI, R. N. 2025. Assessment and paths to reforms of the military in the countries in East Africa. African Security Review, 34 (3):262-275.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2025.2463921

Ethiopia
BITEW, B., SEID, M. & AMARE, S. 2025. The impact of the colonial thesis on state-society relations in Ethiopia. African Security Review, 34 (3):245-261.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2025.2458244

Ethiopia
SAKA, A. L. 2025. Unveiling the symbolic significance of 'Odaa' ( 'ficus sycamorus' ) among the Oromo: the consensuses and contestations. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):276-291.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2534935

Ethiopia
SHODDO, G. H. & MOHAMUED, E. A. 2025. Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of charcoal production: the case of Dolo Ado refugee camps in Liben Zone, Somali Regional State, southeastern Ethiopia. African Geographical Review, 44 (7):700-719.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2483256

Ethiopia
TEMESGEN, K. A. 2025. Ethiopia’s quest for a ‘professional’ police force: A dream deferred? African Security Review, 34 (3):276-293.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2025.2466619

Ethiopia
TERFA, J. T., WOLDEGIORGIS, M. M. & ALDAJANI, I. M. 2025. Major national issues and need for national consensus: their implications for sustainable peace in Ethiopia. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):322-339.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2534949

Ghana
ALHASSAN ADUM-ATTA, R. & MUSTAPHA, A. B. 2025. Festive foods and the nuances of religious coexistence in Madina. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):173-188.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2025.2540262

Ghana
ALIMO, P. K., MINLAH, M. K., SANFUL, B., NUTAKOR, F., LARTEY-YOUNG, G. & AGEN-DAVIS, L. 2025. Investigating the housing and transportation burden in a Ghanaian city. African Geographical Review, 44 (7):649-660.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2024.2424380

Ghana
TSIKUDO, K. A. 2025. Creative destruction, Pentecostalism, and the Spectacle of Ghana’s National Cathedral. African Geographical Review, 44 (7):619-633.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2463352

Kenya
MıSıRLı, H. 2025. Sustainable normalisation in Kenya-Somalia relations: a role for Kenyan Somalis? Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):306-321.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2534947

Malawi
KALUMBI, J. B. 2025. Evaluating the implementation of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Mwanza district hospital, Malawi. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (1-2):37-43.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2025.2524032

Malawi
MATOLA, B. W., MAPAHLA, L. & NYASULU, J. C. Y. 2025. Malawi’s progress towards UNAIDS 95-95-95 fast-track targets: who is lagging? African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (1-2):30-36.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2025.2477090

Mali
CIACCIO, M. D., YEBEDIE, M., COULIBALY, K., DONDBZANGA, D., TRAORÉ, D., CISSÉ, M., DEMBÉLÉ, B., ROUANE, L., DELABRE, R. M., SIMÕES, D., CASTRO, D. R. & SAGAON-TEYSSIER, L. 2025. The added value of community-based organisations in retaining people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the continuum of care in Mali. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (1-2):19-29.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2024.2434023

Morocco
BATES, S. 2025. Blackness and the double bind of representation in Tahar Ben Jelloun's 'Le Mariage de Plaisir'. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):878-909.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2492111

Morocco
BOUSSAGUI, Y. & EL KIRAT EL ALLAME, Y. 2025. Students’ attitudes towards Amazigh language teaching in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):946-967.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469043

Morocco
CHEMLAL, S. & MECHRAFI, F. Z. 2025. Rhythms of coexistence: on Jewish-Muslim musical interactions in Driss Mrini’s 'Aïda' (2015). The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):910-926.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2497935

Morocco
COHEN, Y. & TORTEL, E. 2025. Delegation and control: France and the transit of Moroccan Jews (1948-1954). The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):853-877.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2492110

Morocco
MKINSI, M. 2025. Morocco’s multicultural turn: diversity, domestic politics and the quest for soft power. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):927-945.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469045

Morocco
OHANA, M. A. 2025. 'I was asked by a clever gentile': a Jewish-Muslim polemic in Morocco in the early modern period. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):832-852.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2024.2449326

Morocco
SONNEVELD, N. & ALAMI MERROUNI, S. 2025. Citizenship and grievability in migration: policies and practices surrounding death and burial of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):990-1018.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2470399

Mozambique
CORREIA, E. & DELGADO HENRIQUES, C. 2025. Indoor thermal comfort in informal settlements: a case study of Mafalala, Maputo. African Geographical Review, 44 (6):558-580.
Keywords: adaptive comfort model ; Indoor thermal comfort ; informal settlements ; Maputo ; physiological equivalent temperature
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2520775 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2025.2520775

Mozambique
DOMINGUES DA SILVA, D. B. 2025. The Ethnic Distribution of the Enslaved Population of Southern Mozambique following the Mfecane: An Analysis of the Registers of Slaves and Libertos of Lourenço Marques (Delagoa Bay), 1856–1874. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):199-213.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2549614

Namibia
JOHN, H. C. & MBENZI, P. A. 2025. The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):275-304.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2548087

Namibia
NYAMAI, D. N., DIETRICH, C., DIETSCH, L. C., MOTITSCHKE, L. M. & WIENAND, L. 2025. Mapping mobility in Namibia’s secondary cities informal settlements: a case study of rehoboth. African Geographical Review, 44 (6):543-557.
Keywords: Informal settlements ; mobility ; Namibia ; participatory mapping
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2403610

Nigeria
ADEAKIN, I. & AGBOOLA, T. 2025. Climate change and Fulani herdsmen violent conflict in Nigeria: rethinking the present crisis from an ecofeminism perspective. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):292-305.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2534942

Nigeria
ADEBARA, T. M. 2025. Planning and designing for culture: towards lively public open spaces in Nigeria. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):238-255.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2496717

Nigeria
OGUNWUMI, T. & IHINEGBU, C. 2025. Last-mile household preparedness for future disasters: a study of flooding in Kogi State, Nigeria. African Geographical Review, 44 (7):661-680.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2476498

Nigeria
THOMPSON, O. O., ADEMOLA, E. O., ADAMS, I. A. & IDRIS, R. T. 2025. Neo-Oduduwa separatist agitations, State repression and insecurity in southwest Nigeria. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):219-237.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2495567

Northern Africa
BADRAN, S. & TURNBULL, B. 2025. The nexus between authoritarian consolidation and feminism in Tunisia and Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (5):968-989.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469046

Northern Africa
STENNER, D. 2025. The Second World War and North Africa. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1058-1076.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2477325

Rwanda
DIJKSTRA, G., MUNYEHIRWE, A. & TER HORST, K. 2025. Lessons from supporting ‘access to justice’ in Rwanda. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):256-275.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2534934

Rwanda
YURCO, K. & CLAY, N. 2025. Cultivating care in ‘hidden places’: sweet potatoes, gender, and resistance in Rwanda. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):159-172.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2025.2470636

South Africa
ARNOLD, K. A., LE ROUX, A., SMIT, J. L. & MANS, G. G. 2025. Settlement-level economic performance as a factor influencing working-age population migration in South Africa. African Geographical Review, 44 (6):598-616.
Keywords: Economic performance ; GVA ; migration ; population change ; settlements ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2431807 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2024.2431807

South Africa
BOSTON, M. L. 2025. Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in 'Drum' Magazine, 1957–1964. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):175-198.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2508589

South Africa
CHAPMAN, M. 2025. Interpreting Literature in Post-apartheid South Africa: Edges and Centres. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):176-185.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523691

South Africa
CRANKSHAW, O. 2025. Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–2021. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):235-255.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2552005

South Africa
CROUAN-VÉRON, P. 2025. Past and Present in Craig Higginson’s The Ghost of Sam Webster : Of the Importance of Historical Novels and Landscapes to Achieve Reconciliation in South Africa. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):158-165.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523685

South Africa
DEMIR, D. D. & MOREILLON, O. 2025. Writing South Africa into the World: Contemporary Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature as World- and Postcolonial Literature. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):186-195.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523692

South Africa
DUBE, S. 2025. Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):215-234.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2559545

South Africa
EASTMAN, M. & FEINBERG, H. M. 2025. ‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):149-174.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2543679

South Africa
EKELAND, M. G. 2025. Dreamers or schemers? Fears of “town capture” in a rural South African township. Anthropology Southern Africa, 48 (1):15-28.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23323256.2025.2524628

South Africa
FEURLE, G. 2025. Lewis Nkosi and Ilse Losa in Exile: Constructing Home in Language. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):128-135.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523678

South Africa
FULELA, B. 2025. Between the Location of Desire and Enjoyment of the Drive: Post-apartheid Durban in Sifiso Mzobe’s 'Young Blood'. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):166-175.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523688

South Africa
GRAHAM, L. V. 2025. Lewis Nkosi and the Politics of PEN. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):144-153.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523680

South Africa
GUNNER, L. 2025. Lewis Nkosi and the Politics of Voice. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):136-143.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523679

South Africa
HENRICO, S. & ELS, S. 2025. Cyber Attacks in South Africa: Geopolitical and legal implications. African Security Review, 34 (3):312-336.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2025.2489352

South Africa
KRUGER, G., BORGHT, E. A. J. G. V. D., TEIJEMA, M. T., ELSLAND, S. L. V., MÜNNINGHOFF, S. L. E. & FURTH, M. T. V. 2025. HIV stigma in faith communities in South Africa: A cross-sectional study. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (1-2):53-66.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2025.2523295

South Africa
MAFAME, T. & HORN, A. 2025. Placemaking for inclusive public spaces in South African townships: a community-led approach. African Geographical Review, 44 (6):581-597.
Keywords: global south ; Placemaking ; public spaces ; Southern planning theory ; Townships
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2446237

South Africa
MCEWAN, C., DAYA, S. & HUGHES, A. 2025. Food, memory, and changing framings of sustainable consumption in Johannesburg. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):119-137.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2024.2445168

South Africa
MNGADI, S. 2025. Future Anterior: Some Reflections on Genealogies of the Future in Black South African Literature and Scholarship. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):196-206.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523693

South Africa
PAWLICKI, M. 2025. Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s 'Small Circle of Beings' and 'The Guardian'. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (2):257-273.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2025.2548663

South Africa
ROSS, E. & WYNBERG, R. 2025. ‘Living bread between the mountains’: an exploration of contemporary foodway changes in the Cederberg mountains of South Africa. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):138-158.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2024.2444444

South Africa
RUBIN, J. D. 2025. “No blood on their hands”?: The structured incoherence of the apartheid state and its violence. Anthropology Southern Africa, 48 (1):1-14.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23323256.2025.2510622

South Africa
STEFFEN, T. 2025. Lewis Nkosi at the University of Basel, 2001–2009. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37 (2):154-157.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2523684

South Africa
THEKISO, M. & ISIKE, C. 2025. Measuring the perceptions of senior officers of the South African National Defence Force towards terrorism in South Africa: Implications for security sector reform. African Security Review, 34 (3):294-311.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2025.2468259

Southern Africa
WHITE, H. 2025. Articulations of kinship and capital in Southern African anthropology: revisiting Wolpe and his critics. Anthropology Southern Africa, 48 (1):29-41.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23323256.2025.2555191

Subsaharan Africa
BENDOMA, M., KOGUEDA, F. B. A. & BASSONGUI, N. 2025. Réexamen de la Relation Exportations Intra‐Continentales et Investissements Directs Étrangers: l'Effet Des Corridors Terrestres Partagés en Afrique Subsaharienne. African Development Review, 37 (4):e70036.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.70036

Subsaharan Africa
ONYEKWERE, S. C. & CHIKHUNGU, L. C. 2025. ODA and HDI nexus in sub-Saharan Africa pre- and post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC): new evidence from the ECOWAS region. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):175-198.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2474424

Tanzania
KAHIMBA, J. & MALUKA, S. O. 2025. Moving out from the river banks: some areas of contestation between traditional irrigation practices and formal water institutions in Tanzania. African Geographical Review, 44 (7):634-648.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2476497

Tunisia
DEMERDASH, N. & GHARBI, S. 2025. Rebuilding for modern living: architectural typologies and reconstruction in postwar Tunisia. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1183-1216.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2475219

Tunisia
FRANCIS, W. J. 2025. Tunisian Jewish chronicles of Vichy rule and Nazi occupation. The Journal of North African Studies, 30 (6):1158-1182.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2025.2483756

Tunisia
KAROLAK, M., HUSSAIN, M. & MARIR, F. 2025. Web mining and democracy: the assessment of the Tunisian online activism ten years after the uprising. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (2):199-218.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589001.2025.2474435

West Africa
BAYALE, N., TCHALA, K. K. E., NAGOU, M., TAMBOURA, H., OURO‐KOURA, W. & NAPO, S. 2025. Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Banks' Performance: Evidence From WAEMU Countries. African Development Review, 37 (4):e70033.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.70033

West Africa
YEBOAH, E. 2025. Economic Growth in ECOWAS: Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics of Domestic Investment, Trade Openness, Inflation, and Infrastructure Access. African Development Review, 37 (4):e70035.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8268.70035

Zimbabwe
NYAMBI, O. 2025. Visuality, sick bodies, and the politics of the healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe. Critical African Studies, 17 (2):241-257.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2024.2443416

Zimbabwe
TARAMUSI, I., STOVER, J., GLAUBIUS, R., APOLLO, T., NCUBE, G., MUGURUNGI, O., SITHOLE, N., BANSI-MATHARU, L., SMITH, J., PHILLIPS, A., CAMBIANO, V., CITRON, D. T., BERSHTEYN, A., TEN BRINK, D., MARTIN-HUGHES, R., PICKLES, M., REVILL, P., MPOFU, A., IMAI-EATON, J., MAKURUMIDZE, R. & RUSAKANIKO, S. 2025. HIV incidence and prevalence projections for Zimbabwe: Findings from five mathematical models. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (1-2):44-52.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2025.2518936