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 02 2026
Archive
Africa
ABAY MENGISTU, A. 2025. Navigating sovereignty concerns and geopolitical tensions in the ratification of the Malabo Protocol. African Security Review, 34 (4):391-404.
Keywords: African court of justice and human rights (ACJHR) ; Geopolitical tensions ; Malabo Protocol ; Political dynamics ; Ratification ; Sovereignty concerns
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2517593
Africa
ASSIBEY, G. B., CHISIN, A. V. & CHMELA-JONES, K. A. 2025. Re-echoing Afro socio-environmental sustainability philosophies: the purview of Ubuntu re-imagined through Adinkra symbols. African Identities, 23 (4):1116-1129.
Keywords: Adinkra symbols ; indigenous philosophies ; Ubuntu
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2388195
Africa
FINNERAN, N. & SARPONG, J. 2025. Entangled roots. Heritage and identity in the African ‘mesa-diasporas’: community case studies for the 2020s. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):516-533.
Keywords: African diasporas ; Garifuna ; heritage ; Krio ; Sierra Leone ; St Vincent
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517450 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517450
Africa
IROULO, L. C. 2025. Against all odds: why the African Union still talks it out. Politikon, 52 (2):145-164.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2518708
Africa
MELKON, J., SALGADO, B. A. & PUTTER, D. 2025. Network-centric US military intelligence strategy for Africa's evolving geopolitical landscape. African Security Review, 34 (4):420-435.
Keywords: Africa ; Military intelligence ; network-centric ; United States
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2528706 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10246029.2025.2528706
Africa
MUYEBA, S. & KABANDULA, A. 2025. Incremental change or transformation? Changes in US foreign policy towards Africa since 2001. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):422-440.
Keywords: Africa ; incremental change ; militarisation ; transformation ; US foreign policy
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2568383
Africa
NTLOEDIBE, F. N. 2025. Unmasking the Western canon: decolonization of the curriculum as an epistemological balance of knowledge systems. African Identities, 23 (4):1485-1501.
Keywords: African knowledge system ; border thinking ; curriculum decolonisation ; democracy ; epistemological balance ; Western canon
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2444992 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14725843.2024.2444992
Africa
OBI, C. & ANDREWS, N. 2025. Rebalancing Securitization and Militarization in Africa? Understanding Emerging Patterns and Dynamics in an Era of Shifting Global Geopolitics. African Security, 18 (4):313-319.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2594225 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19392206.2025.2594225
Africa
OGUNDIRAN, A. 2025. Commentary: Africa — one colonialism or many? Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):560-566.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2520108
Africa
OJO, J. S. & AINA, F. 2025. Pillorying Expansion Over Invasion: Africa’s New Neutralism, Politics of non-Alignment, and the Global (re)balancing of Power from the Russian-Ukrainian War. African Security, 18 (4):345-375.
Keywords: Africa ; neutrality ; non-alignment ; Russia-Ukraine war ; strategic interests ; United Nations resolution
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2531318 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19392206.2025.2531318
Africa
TALLARITA, M. C. 2025. From Lomé to Samoa: partnership as a normative concept in Africa-EU postcolonial relations. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):406-421.
Keywords: Africa-EU relations ; coloniality ; development cooperation ; North-South relations ; Partnership
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2550467
Algeria
BENANTAR, A. 2025. Question migratoire en Algérie : sécuritisation et criminalisation. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):589-612.
Keywords: Algeria ; Algérie ; menace ; migration ; sécurité ; sécuritisation ; securitization ; security ; threat
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2484181
Benin
BIO BONÉ, B., BACO, M. N., EGAH, J. & ZARAGOZA CHRISTIANI, J. 2025. Models of Social Cohesion for Managing Conflicts over Agro-Pastoral Resources: The Case of North Benin. African Security, 18 (4):450-477.
Keywords: Agro-pastoral resources ; farmers-herders conflicts ; models ; northern Benin ; social cohesion
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2556370
Burkina Faso
AGBO, M. & ZABSONRÉ, A. 2025. Is Promoting Mobile Money Usage Consistent With Restricting Access to Phone Communication?: An Analysis of Direct and Indirect Network Effects in Mobile Money Adoption in Burkina Faso. South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):357-373.
Keywords: Burkina Faso ; direct network effects ; financial ; FinScope ; indirect network effects ; mobile money ; multivariate probit
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70001
Burundi
COSTERS, T. 2025. Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962). Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):187-206.
Keywords: Burundi ; colonial history ; East Africa ; intoxicants ; social history
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2602360 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17531055.2025.2602360
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DE RESENDE SILVA, J. M. 2025. The contribution of the Special Forces Task Force to the protection of civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):371-394.
Keywords: Africa ; Democratic Republic of the Congo ; MONUSCO ; protection of civilians ; Special Forces Task Force ; United Nations special operations
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2555872
East Africa
TEMBO, N. M. 2025. Guilty on the innocent side: evil subjectivity in two eastern african child soldier memoirs. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):83-96.
Keywords: African child soldier memoirs ; childhood innocence ; evil subjectivity ; guilt
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2469997
East Africa
YENJELA, W. 2025. The other woman in East African poetics. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):456-472.
Keywords: co-épouse ; co-wife ; East Africa ; l'autre femme ; le womanisme ; poetics ; poétique est-africaine ; polygamie ; polygamy ; the other woman
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2540265
Egypt
MANSOUR, S. M. A., MOHAMED, R., SHONGWE, M., RASLAN, E., CORDIE, A., ABDALLAH, M., HELAL, S. O., AIAD, K. E., GHONEIM, S., ELSHIRBENY, M. K., AHMED, M. G. & SOLIMAN, S. 2025. Assessment of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and knowledge gaps among healthcare providers in Egypt. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):184-196.
Keywords: discrimination ; health care providers ; HIV/AIDS prevention ; KAP study ; stigma
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2577374
Egypt
SMITH, S. T. 2025. Imperial expansions, quotidian interactions and the ebb and flow of power and influence between Kush and Egypt. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):343-371.
Keywords: Ancient Egypt ; colonialism ; cultural entanglement ; Kushites ; Middle Kingdom ; Nubia ; power
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517456 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517456
Eritrea
GEBREZGABHER, S. H. 2025. Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):263-282.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2575677
Eswatini
SIMELANE, T. P., OKONJI, E. F. & VAN WYK, B. E. 2025. Determinants of viral suppression among young people living with HIV and on antiretroviral therapy in Eswatini: A cross-sectional study. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):162-170.
Keywords: adherence ; differentiated service delivery ; fast-track ; interventions ; retention
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2566144 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/16085906.2025.2566144
Ethiopia
ALEHEGN, D., RAMASAMY, K. & ENGIDA, B. 2025. Community policing and public participation in Addis Ababa: A qualitative analysis of local engagement dynamics. African Security Review, 34 (4):374-390.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2510259
Ethiopia
AYALEW DESSIE, W. 2025. Political crisis in Ethiopia since 2018: Revealing its sources and the quest for reconciliation. African Security Review, 34 (4):342-351.
Keywords: controversial state ; Ethiopia ; ethnic federalism ; nation building ; political crisis ; poor political leadership
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2499048
Ethiopia
GONZÁLEZ-RUIBAL, A. 2025. Colonies and colonialism in the Horn of Africa: from the first millennium BC to the nineteenth century. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):372-393.
Keywords: Ethiopian empire ; Gonga kingdoms ; Sabaeans ; Turco-Egyptian empire
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2510762 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2510762
Ethiopia
HASSEN, M. A., GOLGA, D. N., MEKURIA, Y. S. & ABDULAH, B. A. 2025. Institutional Challenges and Faculty Engagements: Freshman Programme Implementation in Haramaya and Dire Dawa Universities. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):176-204.
Keywords: Faculty engagement ; freshman challenges ; freshman programme ; staff commitments ; universities
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2579711
Ethiopia
PHILLIPS, J. & TRIBE, T. 2025. Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):394-421.
Keywords: Christianity ; colonialism ; Egypt ; Ethiopia ; Nubia
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2529113
Ethiopia
ROUTHIAU, M. 2025. Adadi Maryam: a new perspective about the southernmost rock-cut church in the Ethiopian Highlands. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (4):673-692.
Keywords: Awaš ; Ethiopia ; medieval societies ; Middle Ages ; rock-cut church ; stratigraphy
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517959
General
AMIRUDDIN, M. Z. B., SUHANDI, A., SAMSUDIN, A., COŞTU, B. & KANIAWATI, I. 2025. Perspectives Future Research in Conceptual Change for Science Education: Systematic Literature Review. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):1-41.
Keywords: alternative conception ; assessment tools ; conceptual change ; science education ; student outcomes
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2503146
General
CANHAM, H. K. & SEEDAT, M. 2025. Coordinates of black planetary studies. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):259-275.
Keywords: Anthropocene ; Anthropocène ; black geographies ; black planetary studies ; études planétaires noires ; géographies noires ; multi-espèces ; multispecies ; zones d'abandon ; zones of abandonment
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2553546 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2553546
General
GOSDEN, C. 2025. Commentary: confronting different forms of power. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):556-559.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2516929 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2516929
General
KHOZA, S. B. 2025. Curriculum vision as a tool to the rescue of Prof M: a life history study. African Identities, 23 (4):1228-1260.
Keywords: Curriculum vision ; identity ; objective reality ; personal ; professional ; societal
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2397510
General
MUCHABAIWA, L., BIRUNGI, C., SOBERS, M. & AZCONA, J. A. 2025. Universal Health Service Coverage under threat? A study of the effects of PEPFAR HIV funding on UHC. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):87-96.
Keywords: efficiency ; foreign aid ; HIV/AIDS ; PEPFAR ; universal health coverage
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2577377
General
OLAITAN, Z. M. 2025. Re-imagining feminist thought from the prism of decoloniality: towards a decolonial relational feminism. Politikon, 52 (2):180-197.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2518710
General
WILLIAMS, K. 2025. Migrant Remittances and Financial Development: Are SIDS Different? South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):433-451.
Keywords: developing countries ; financial development ; migrant remittances ; SIDS
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70005
Ghana
ANKYIAH, F. 2025. Symbols of a new nation: Ghanaian artists’ expression of cultural identity after independence. African Identities, 23 (4):1273-1285.
Keywords: artistic expression ; Atta Kwami ; Ghanaian art ; Kane Kwei ; Saka Acquaye ; Symbolic motifs ; visual discourse analysis
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2399676
Ghana
BJARNESEN, M. & BJARNESEN, J. 2025. Brothers in Arms? Vigilantism and Ambivalent State Responses in West Africa. African Security, 18 (4):399-422.
Keywords: Burkina Faso ; Ghana ; hybrid security governance ; Liberia ; Vigilantism ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2515301 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19392206.2025.2515301
Ghana
FARIHAN KABORE, M., NGMENKPIEO, F. & AFRIYIE, Y. 2025. Evaluating Junior High School Teachers’ Integration of Computer-Based Instruction into Social Studies Teaching in the Wa Municipality, Ghana. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):96-122.
Keywords: computer-based interaction ; hedonic value ; social studies teachers ; structural equation model ; technology integration
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2570143
Ghana
INUSAH, H. 2025. Rethinking AI ethics through an Akan ontology: advancing an ethics of becoming for sustainable AI. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):457-474.
Keywords: AI ethics ; AI for sustainability ; Akan ontology ; durabilité de l’IA ; ethics of becoming ; éthique de l’IA ; éthique du devenir ; IA pour la durabilité ; Ontologie akan ; sustainability of AI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2524342
Ghana
KWARKYE, T. G. 2025. “We know what we are doing”: the politics and trends in artificial intelligence policies in Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):437-455.
Keywords: Africa ; Afrique ; AI policymaking ; Élaboration des politiques en matière d’IA ; Ghana ; politics ; politique ; Rwanda ; technologie ; technology
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2456619 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00083968.2025.2456619
Ghana
OSEI FORDJOUR, N. K., MOHAMMED, I. & KUWORNU, A. Y. 2025. Uncivil Discourses, Online Comments and Politics: A Case Study of Discussions Surrounding Ghana’s Lithium Deal. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):40-58.
Keywords: Ghana ; Ghanaweb ; lithium deal ; online commentary ; uncivil discourse
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2548779
Ghana
TWENEBOAH, S. 2025. The manipulation of spiritual capital in Ghanaian political discourse and its implications. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):440-455.
Keywords: capital spirituel ; development ; développement ; Ghana ; manipulation ; politics ; politique ; religion ; spiritual capital
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2470629
Kenya
BOENDER, N. 2025. The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):226-245.
Keywords: pensions ; Social security ; Tom Mboya ; trade unions ; welfare state
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2597638 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17531055.2025.2597638
Kenya
DI MATTEO, F. 2025. When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):326-346.
Keywords: aid ; brokerage ; community ; Conservation ; pastoralism ; politics
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2575691
Kenya
JOSEPH KANYUA, M. & BETT, H. 2025. Coordination and governance bottlenecks to smallholder vegetable producers’ capacity for supermarkets supply in Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):283-304.
Keywords: contractual relations ; institutions ; marketing arrangements ; Transaction costs ; value addition ; value chain
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2579332
Kenya
PETEK-SARGEANT, N. 2025. The Turkwel settlement at Oltioki in Baringo: exploring cultural variation in the terminal Pastoral Neolithic of Kenya. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (4):632-672.
Keywords: anthropogenic glades ; East Africa ; Kenya ; Pastoral Neolithic ; pastoralism ; Turkwel tradition
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2520652 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2520652
Kenya
WAIGANJO, K., ODOTE, C. & KABIRA, N. 2025. ‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):305-325.
Keywords: Devolution ; formality ; governance ; informality ; intergovernmental relations
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2594271
Lesotho
HALL, L. 2025. “Friend[s] of the heart”: reconsidering “queer” archives, ambivalence and untranslatability in texts from Lesotho. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):1-20.
Keywords: ambivalence ; Eddie Ombagi ; Lesotho ; LGBTQI+ ; queer ; untranslatability
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580709 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580709
Lesotho
LETSIE, T. & MATLOSA, K. 2025. The Causes and Impact of Famo Music Gang Violence in Lesotho. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):331-347.
Keywords: conflict ; famo music ; instability ; Lesotho ; Mafeteng ; murder ; peace ; Ribaneng ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2577536
Madagascar
BÜDEL, M. 2025. Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):309-329.
Keywords: cultural history ; jazz ; Madagascar ; musical anthropology ; musical practice ; postcoloniality ; social history
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2562732
Malawi
NOSKE-TURNER, J., TACCHI, J., MAGALASI, M. & WONG, J. 2025. Communication for Localisation: “Making” the Paralympics Malawian. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):59-80.
Keywords: communication for development ; communication for social change ; communicative ecologies ; disability ; localisation ; Malawi ; para sport ; Paralympics
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2580004 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02500167.2025.2580004
Mauritius
COUACAUD, L. 2025. Natives or creoles? How Mauritius’s former slave population became ‘Creoles’ in the minds of British colonial officials. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):297-314.
Keywords: autochtones ; categorisation ; catégorisation ; Colonialisme européen ; creoles ; créoles ; discours ; discourses ; European colonialism ; natives ; race
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2556439
Morocco
MATTI, J. 2025. Driving Industrialization in Africa? The Impact of Industrial Policy on Moroccan Industry. South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):452-464.
Keywords: economic growth ; industrial policy ; industry ; synthetic control
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70006
Morocco
SIRES, J. P. & LINARES MATÁS, G. J. 2025. “Those who were bound together”: illuminating Almoravid imperial entanglements. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):422-442.
Keywords: African archaeology ; Almoravid empire ; Islamic archaeology ; museum collections ; western Mediterranean
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2513184 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2513184
Morocco
SODQI, M., BEN MOUSSA, A., DELABRE, R., BARRAKAD, R., TEYSSIER, L. S., KHODABOCUS, N., FATHI, S., DIALLO, F., MONVOISIN, P., DEMBELE, B. K., TREEBHOOBUN, A., LAAZIZ, N., OUARSAS, L., CASTRO, D. R. & KARKOURI, M. 2025. Access to PrEP for cis and transgender women: Developing and implementing a community-based intervention adapted to populations exposed to HIV in Mali, Morocco, and Mauritius. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):128-141.
Keywords: community-based research ; gender inequality ; Mali ; Mauritius ; Morocco ; PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis)
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2555202
Mozambique
BUCHANAN-CLARKE, S., MOFFAT, C. & FEIJÓ, J. 2025. Exploring the impact of conflict on cross-border links and community resilience in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):351-370.
Keywords: border security ; community resilience ; conflict resolution ; Mozambique ; peacebuilding ; regional security
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2549755
Mozambique
FRANCO, A. C. S. & BERNARDINO, L. M. B. 2025. The contribution of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy to a peace enforcement partnership in Mozambique. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):329-350.
Keywords: Africa ; Common Security and Defence Policy ; Counterterrorism ; European Union ; military training ; Mozambique ; Peace enforcement
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2548777
Mozambique
LUIS, S. 2025. Attitudes towards Portuguese, Indigenous Languages, and Code-Switching in Mozambique: A Matched-Guise Study. Language Matters, 56 (3):25-45.
Keywords: code- switching ; indigenous languages ; language attitudes ; matched-guise technique ; Mozambique ; standard language
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2552474
Namibia
PAULI, J. 2025. Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):369-384.
Keywords: kinship ; middle class ; Namibia ; narratives ; upward mobility ; weddings
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2569174 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057070.2025.2569174
Nigeria
ABOH, R., ONI, F. J. & UWEN, G. S. O. 2025. Framing and stereotyping of two frontline presidential candidates in Nigeria’s 2019 general election: evidence from Nairaland virtual community. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):517-535.
Keywords: Atiku ; Buhari ; élections de 2019 au Nigéria ; injure/étiquetage abusif ; metaphorisation ; métaphorisation ; Nairaland ; name-calling/abusive labelling ; Nigeria’s 2019 election
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2462775
Nigeria
ABUBAKAR LAWAN, A. & HENTTONEN, P. 2025. Leveraging records management to enhance governance: insights from anti-corruption practitioners. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):441-455.
Keywords: accountability forums ; anti-corruption practitioners ; corruption ; good governance ; records management
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2581308 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589001.2025.2581308
Nigeria
ACHINIVU, C. 2025. Understanding digital authoritarianism in Africa: the case of Nigeria. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):390-405.
Keywords: Africa ; China ; Digital authoritarianism ; Nigeria ; norm diffusion
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2548785
Nigeria
ADENIYI, E. 2025. “This Kind Life, E Tire Me”: Nigerian Music Industry, Afro-Depression Genre and Phenomenality in Omah Lay’s, MohBad’s Selected Songs. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):101-130.
Keywords: Afrobeats ; Kanye West ; Majek Fashek ; mental health problem in Nigeria ; MohBad ; Omah Lay
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2559631
Nigeria
AGUNYAI, S. C. & PHAGO, K. 2025. The unsustainability of humanitarian aid in internally displaced people (IDP) camps in Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (4):1334-1353.
Keywords: Aid ; camps ; displaced persons ; humanitarian ; IDPs
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2422886
Nigeria
AKANDE, A., ROBBIN, A. & OKESOLA, S. 2025. Aspects of Digital Multilingualism in Twenty-First Century Retail Banking in Nigeria. Language Matters, 56 (3):71-87.
Keywords: automated teller machine ; banking sector ; Indigenous languages ; multilingualism ; Nigerian Pidgin
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2590019
Nigeria
AMADI, L. & UGWU, C. 2025. State fragility and armed banditry in North Central Nigeria: Greed or grievance? African Security Review, 34 (4):405-419.
Keywords: armed banditry ; fragility ; greed ; grievance ; Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2524169
Nigeria
AMAEFULA, R. C. 2025. Refusing myths and stereotypes of Africans on TikTok. African Identities, 23 (4):1261-1272.
Keywords: Africa ; humor ; Myth ; performance ; TikTok ; women
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2399662
Nigeria
AMODU, A. D. 2025. Screens of the gay dream: film as motivation for migration among queer Nigerians. African Identities, 23 (4):1030-1046.
Keywords: Film ; LGBTQ+ ; migration ; Nigeria ; queerness
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2406214
Nigeria
ARUOTURE, E. O. & OBOSI, A. C. 2025. Psychosocial predictors and gender differences in the mental well-being of adolescents living with HIV in Ibadan, Nigeria. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):107-119.
Keywords: adolescent ; depression ; HIV ; mental well-being ; personality traits ; social support
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2589741
Nigeria
COOK, C. R. 2025. A Writer Is His Cause: An Examination of American and British Press Coverage of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):81-100.
Keywords: environment ; Nigeria ; Ogoni ; oil ; Saro-Wiwa ; The Guardian ; The New York Times ; The Times of London ; The Washington Post
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2550464
Nigeria
DIECK, L. 2025. Law and livability: interrogating discourses on queer Nigerian asylum seekers and the German asylum law. African Identities, 23 (4):1083-1098.
Keywords: asylum ; law ; migrants ; Nigeria ; queer
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2442635 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14725843.2024.2442635
Nigeria
LENSHIE, N. E., UGWUEZE, M. I., MIAPYEN, B. S. & EZEIBE, C. 2025. Community-based organisations and counter violent extremism in North-East Nigeria. African Security Review, 34 (4):436-451.
Keywords: Community-based organisations (CBOs) ; countering violent extremism (CVE) ; donors ; external resources
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2534394
Nigeria
NWOKO, K. C. 2025. Graveyards, epitaphs, and burial traditions in colonial Lagos, 1861–1960. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):475-495.
Keywords: conflits culturels ; cultural conflicts ; culture populaire ; Indigenous burial practices ; popular culture ; post-colonialism ; post-colonialisme ; Pratiques funéraires indigènes ; Yoruba
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2024.2446766
Nigeria
OKADIGWE, M. N. 2025. Between exclusion and escape: necropolitics, biopolitics, and queer narratives in Nollywood films. African Identities, 23 (4):1047-1065.
Keywords: biopolitics ; internal migration ; necropolitics ; Nollywood films ; queer ; representation
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2025.2501794
Nigeria
OLAMIDE SOWALE, A. 2025. Fulani herder-farmer identity conflict in West Africa with a particular focus on security implications for Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (4):1208-1227.
Keywords: Fulani ; herder-farmer conflict ; Identity conflict ; Nigeria ; security ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2396502
Nigeria
OMOTOSO, F. & ALOKAN, B. 2025. Assessing community participation in anti-human trafficking in Edo State, Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (4):1389-1414.
Keywords: Anti-human trafficking ; community participation ; Nigeria ; partnership
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2427151
Nigeria
ONANUGA, P. A. 2025. A journey worth taking: language and migration narratives in Nigerian queer X (Twitter) discourse. African Identities, 23 (4):1066-1082.
Keywords: Identity ; language ; migration ; Nigeria ; queer ; Twitter
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2385494
Nigeria
OPONE, P. O. & OMOSOR, F. O. 2025. Ethno-religious factors in Buhari’s administration: a historical appraisal and suggestions for national integration. African Identities, 23 (4):1317-1333.
Keywords: Buhari’s administration ; ethno-religious ; historical appraisal ; national integration ; Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2415610
Nigeria
ORHERO, M. I. & NWOKE, C. 2025. Theorizing the hypeman in Nigerian popular culture: poetics, performance, and the e-fraud economy. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):497-516.
Keywords: capitalism ; capitalisme ; chant des louanges ; consommation ; consumption ; cyberfraud ; fraude informatique ; Hypeman ; performance ; postcolonial ; praise-singing ; représentation
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2462217
Nigeria
OSISANWO, A. & ALUGBIN, M. 2025. Pentecostal voices and discourse perspectives to LGBTQ+ narratives in Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (4):1099-1115.
Keywords: LGBTQ narratives ; news reports ; Nigeria ; pentecostal pastors ; voices
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2427177 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14725843.2024.2427177
Nigeria
SANI, H. M. 2025. Television series, identity of contemporary Muslim women and socio-cultural contestations: the case of Arewa 24’s ‘Mata A Yau’ (contemporary women). African Identities, 23 (4):1185-1207.
Keywords: contemporary Muslim women ; socio-cultural contestations: Arewa 24’s ‘Mata A Yau’ (contemporary women) ; Television series
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2395947
Nigeria
SUNDAY, A. B. & CHUKWU, M. O. 2025. Thematic representations of economy and environment in Nigerian newspapers’ reports of pipeline vandalism. African Identities, 23 (4):1286-1300.
Keywords: economic loss ; environmental loss ; pipeline vandalism ; Thematic representations
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2415584
Nigeria
TENUCHE, M. & ALIU, M. 2025. Perspectives of respondents in Anyigba town on the impediments to the underrepresentation of Kogi State women in elective positions following Nigeria’s 2023 democratic elections. African Identities, 23 (4):1354-1372.
Keywords: Democracy ; elections ; Kogi state ; politics ; women
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2422892
Nigeria
UBAH, M. C. K., EZEH, B., EZEIFE, A. L., SMITH-SHAW, P. J., MUOJEKE, S., ANOZIE, D. U., IFEDIORAH, E. F., ONYEMECHALU, S. J. & DARAOJIMBA, K. C. 2025. A multivocal case study of decoloniality in archaeological exploration in Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria (1938–2024). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):534-555.
Keywords: community archaeology ; decolonial heritage ; Igbo-Ukwu ; indigenous archaeology ; Nigeria ; public archaeology
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517469
Nigeria
UCHENDU, E. & OKPALAEKE, P. C. 2025. COVID-19 pandemic in the Niger Delta: the Akwa Ibom State experience. African Identities, 23 (4):1415-1438.
Keywords: Akwa Ibom State ; COVID-19 ; Niger Delta ; Nigeria ; politics of palliatives rendering
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2427154
Northeast Africa
TAYE, S. 2025. An Investigation into Some Orthographic Challenges in Afan Oromo: The Case of Digraphs. Language Matters, 56 (3):128-149.
Keywords: Afan ; diacritics ; digraphs ; Oromo ; orthography ; writing
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2571124
Portuguese-speaking Africa
MOLEDO, A. 2025. Weakening the Enemy by Targeting Its Alliances: Revolutionary Public Diplomacy and the Making of Solidarity with the Liberation of Lusophone Africa in the United Kingdom. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):15-34.
Keywords: activism ; Anti-colonialism ; development ; diplomacy ; solidarity
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2559904 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02582473.2025.2559904
Rwanda
JONSSON, M., KAMANZI, C., KWIZERA, P. A. & NIYONSENGA, J. C. 2025. Adverse Weather Shocks and Monetary Policy in Rwanda. South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):387-404.
Keywords: inflation ; monetary policy ; price indices ; relative prices ; weather shocks
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70003
Rwanda
NCUBE, F. 2025. Doing research among exiled Rwandan army deserters: a reflexive narrative. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):97-116.
Keywords: Army deserter ; exile ; fear ; hypervigilance ; moving ethnography
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2593069
Sahel
BENCHERIF, A., FROWD, P., GOYET, G., COMPAORÉ, N., JOURDE, C. & CHARBONNEAU, B. 2025. La polycrise au Sahel : observations, perspectives et actions. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):613-627.
Keywords: crises ; discours ; discourse ; interventions ; polycrise ; polycrisis ; Sahel
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2473330
Sahel
BILLY, A. 2025. A Critique of the U.S. Global War on Terror in the Sahel. African Security, 18 (4):376-398.
Keywords: Counterterrorism ; GWoT ; macro-securitization ; Sahel ; U.S.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2552094
Senegal
CANÓS-DONNAY, S. & BALDE, T. 2025. Kings, warriors and shifting towns: the struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–1960. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):443-459.
Keywords: colonialism ; Fulaadu ; Kaabu ; Kolda ; Senegal ; Upper Casamance
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2510759
Senegal
DOUNY, L. & SAWADOGO, S. 2025. The colonial tree: encountering the vegetal legacy of French colonialism in the Mouhoun Region, Burkina Faso. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):495-515.
Keywords: African mahogany trees (Khaya senegalensis) ; Burkina Faso ; more-than-colonial heritage ; reappropriation process ; twentieth century ; twenty-first century
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2510761 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2510761
Somalia
KLUIJVER, R. 2025. Al Shabaab governance: illiberal modernization? Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):567-588.
Keywords: Al Shabaab ; clans somaliens ; gouvernance rebelle ; illiberal modernization ; modernisation illibérale ; Rebel governance ; Somali clans ; Somalia ; Somalie
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2512722
South Africa
BROOKS, H. 2025. South Africa’s protest architecture: foundations, scaffolding and pillars of collective action. Politikon, 52 (2):212-232.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2586859 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589346.2025.2586859
South Africa
CANHAM, H. K. 2025. Black women’s filicidal rage in zones of impoverishment. African Identities, 23 (4):1130-1145.
Keywords: Black women ; deformative method ; filicide ; freedom ; rage ; refusal
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2394180 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14725843.2024.2394180
South Africa
CHIKANE, R. 2025. Expanding the concept of large-scale co-ordinated unrest in South Africa's protest repertoires. Politikon, 52 (2):233-259.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2588037 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589346.2025.2588037
South Africa
CROUS, B. 2025. ‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):407-425.
Keywords: apprenticeship ; British Empire ; Cape Colony ; Free Black ; freedom ; liberated Africans ; recaptured Africans ; slave trade
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2570567 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057070.2025.2570567
South Africa
DESAI, A. 2025. The politics of economics in South Africa, 1990–1994: the case of the Macroeconomic Research Group. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):363-377.
Keywords: Intellectuals ; MERG ; nationalisation, radical reform
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2552052 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589001.2025.2552052
South Africa
FOSTER, S. 2025. Employment Transitions, Informal Sector Heterogeneity and Recovery From Recessions. South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):405-432.
Keywords: employment transitions ; informal employment ; recession ; South Africa
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70004 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70004
South Africa
GANI, F. & VAN DEN BERG, G. 2025. Evaluating An Online Programme Review Process in Open Distance Learning: A Case Study Using the CIPP Model. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):79-95.
Keywords: input ; output ; process ; programme review ; quality assurance ; quality standards
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2547618 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2547618
South Africa
HAYES, G. P. & VENTER, C. J. 2025. Willingness to Pay for Travel Time Savings on Public Transport: Past Practice, New Evidence and Implications for Policy. South African Journal of Economics, 93 (4):374-386.
Keywords: multinomial logit model (MNL) ; random parameter model (RPL) ; trip utility ; value of travel time (VTT) ; willingness-to-pay (WTP)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70002 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70002
South Africa
HOBBS, P. 2025. Surviving Swedish exceptionalism: Allina Ndebele’s wedding tapestry, 1963. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):57-82.
Keywords: exceptionalism ; philanthropy ; Rorke’s Drift ; Sweden ; tapestry ; Umpumulo
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2593054 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02533952.2025.2593054
South Africa
MAJIKIJELA, L. 2025. The visual storytelling of marginal black identities in While You Weren’t Looking and Inxeba (The Wound). Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):553-565.
Keywords: black queer representation ; espace ; film queer ; heterotopia ; hétérotopie ; queer film ; représentation des Noirs queer ; space ; Transgressive vulnerability ; Vulnérabilité transgressive
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2487160 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00083968.2025.2487160
South Africa
MARINGIRA, G. 2025. When ex-combatants return to violent communities: continuities of military identities among Azania People’s Liberation army in South Africa. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):334-349.
Keywords: anciens combattants ; ex-combatants ; guerre ; identité militaire ; military identity ; transition ; violence ; war
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2543338 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2543338
South Africa
MBAMBO, K. 2025. Online learning at a South African University: early career academic experiences. African Identities, 23 (4):1373-1388.
Keywords: E-learning ; early-career academics (ECAs) ; experiences ; TPACK ; university
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2424332
South Africa
MNWANA, S. & SISHUTA, B. 2025. On patience and the burden of waiting: ‘Water cuts’ and local experiences in Makhanda, South Africa. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):350-367.
Keywords: crise de l'eau ; impatience ; Patience ; patience par nécessité ; poids de l'attente
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2521608 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2521608
South Africa
MORRELL, R. 2025. Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):385-405.
Keywords: academic publishing ; apartheid ; feminism ; knowledge production ; progressive community ; Southern theory ; the Durban moment ; universities
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2556623 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057070.2025.2556623
South Africa
MOTTIAR, S. 2025. South Africa’s protest tactics: evolution and expansion. Politikon, 52 (2):198-211.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2487321 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589346.2025.2487321
South Africa
MTOMBENI, B. & SHOBA, M. 2025. Queen Nandi ka Bhebhe: the forgotten mother of the Zulu nation. African Identities, 23 (4):1473-1484.
Keywords: colonial ; precolonial ; Queen Nandi ; Shaka ; women ; Zulu Kingdom
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2442632 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14725843.2024.2442632
South Africa
MUJAKACHI, M. P. 2025. Unpacking the Makhadzi metaphor in No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):21-36.
Keywords: Madonsela ; makhadzi ; public protector ; south african biography ; women’s biography
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580705 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580705
South Africa
MUSHWANA, W. 2025. The disruption of the white spatial imaginary in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow. Politikon, 52 (2):127-144.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2529109 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589346.2025.2529109
South Africa
NCUBE, F. 2025. Journeys to exile: experiences of Rwandan army deserters in South Africa. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):368-383.
Keywords: army deserters ; déserteurs de l'armée ; exil ; exile ; journey ; navigation sociale ; parcours ; social navigation ; surveillance
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2575492 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2575492
South Africa
NENDAUNI, L. 2025. “The Thing Is, We Are Now Expected to Think Like Business Managers”: Academics’ Perceptions of Corporate Practices in a South African University. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):42-58.
Keywords: academic freedom ; corporatisation ; higher education ; neoliberalism ; professional identity
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2532415
South Africa
NZIMANDE, E. & MOROPA, K. 2025. Power Relations in the 1951 and 2017 English Translations of Insila kaShaka. Language Matters, 56 (3):88-108.
Keywords: cultural translation ; hegemonic languages ; isiZulu ; marginalised language ; postcolonial translation ; source text-oriented ; target text-oriented
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2557267 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10228195.2025.2557267
South Africa
PIETERSE, J. 2025. Campus Radio in the Capital City: A Brief History of Radio Tuks (c.1976 to 1996). Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):349-368.
Keywords: apartheid ; campus radio ; modernity ; Radio Tuks ; South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2564565 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057070.2025.2564565
South Africa
PINTO DE ALMEIDA, F. 2025. History and its aftermath: an interview with Premesh Lalu. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):147-163.
Keywords: critique ; historiography ; History ; postcolonial thought ; subaltern studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2588089
South Africa
POINTER, R. 2025. Collective action frames provide limited political leverage for two community-based organisations in Johannesburg. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):37-56.
Keywords: Collective action frames ; community-based organisations ; crime and grime ; poverty frame ; rights frame ; xenophobia
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2588084
South Africa
POTSANE, P., DOWNING, C. & NDAYIZIGAMIYE, P. 2025. Factors driving pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among students at six Gauteng province universities: An application of Pender’s Health Promotion Model. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):171-183.
Keywords: behaviour change ; HIV prevention ; interventions ; Pender’s Health Promotion Model ; PrEP uptake ; youth-friendly
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2573985 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/16085906.2025.2573985
South Africa
PRUDENCE NDIMANDE, N. 2025. University in the rural: juxtaposing being and becoming a Black university in South Africa. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):384-402.
Keywords: apartheid ; Black university ; comprehensive ; étudiants ; inclusif ; périphérie ; periphery ; students ; université noire
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2495006 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2495006
South Africa
SHENKOYA, T. 2025. Factors Crucial for Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education: A Case Analysis of the United Kingdom and South Africa. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):59-78.
Keywords: government ; higher education ; research ; sustainable development ; technology
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2534023
South Africa
SHULA, M. & HEYSTEK, J. 2025. Servant Leadership for Improved Quality Education in Rural Contexts: A Perspective Through Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):123-147.
Keywords: common vision ; community building ; ecological systems theory ; empathy ; quality education ; relationships ; rural context ; servant leadership
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2578017 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2578017
South Africa
SMIT, A. 2025. “Cast away” at Home: Exoticising the Local on Survivor South Africa Immunity Island. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):1-17.
Keywords: colonial discourse ; reality TV ; South African reality TV ; South African TV ; Survivor ; television studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2522651 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02500167.2025.2522651
South Africa
SOER, E. 2025. From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (3):427-448.
Keywords: economic policy ; globalisation ; imagined futures ; neoliberalism ; South Africa ; transition
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2025.2584736 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057070.2025.2584736
South Africa
VAN DIJK, H. G., FOURIE, H. S. & MALAN, L. P. 2025. Assessment of Primary School Learners’ Pedestrian Behaviour Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A Cohort Study. Africa Education Review, 21 (2):148-175.
Keywords: pedestrian behaviour ; road safety education ; theory of planned behaviour ; vulnerable road users
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2578359 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2578359
South Africa
VAN NIEKERK, R. 2025. Democratic abandonment and the realpolitik of economic and social policy-making: lessons from the Macro-Economic Research Group in the South African transition. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):378-389.
Keywords: accountability ; ANC elite ; MERG ; Social policy ; United Democratic Front
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2316335 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589001.2024.2316335
South Africa
VILJOEN, A. 2025. Device-Switching and Internet Access: Enablers of Television Viewing During Load Shedding in Gauteng. Communicatio, 51 (1-2):18-39.
Keywords: COVID-19 ; DStv ; load shedding ; Netflix ; OTT TV ; power outage ; solar power ; television ; UPS
https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2025.2570538
South Africa
WALTERS, H. 2025. Thinking with Indifference: a scene among skeletons. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):134-146.
Keywords: coloniality ; Indifference ; place ; space ; spectre ; Stellenbosch
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2593084 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02533952.2025.2593084
South Africa
XEKETWANA, S. & ANTHONISSEN, C. 2025. Linguistic Marginalisation and Multilingual Policy Gaps: African Language Speakers’ University Experiences Explored. Language Matters, 56 (3):3-24.
Keywords: higher education language policy ; language conflict ; minority language students ; multilingualism ; South African languages ; student voices
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2545782 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10228195.2025.2545782
Southern Africa
BACHMANN, K. 2025. The Spider in Hitler’s South African Web: Luitpold Werz’s Attempts to Create a Fifth Column in South Africa and Topple Jan Smuts’ Government – and His Astonishing Career in Post-War Germany. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):87-106.
Keywords: denazification ; diplomacy ; espionage ; Luitpold Werz ; Mozambique ; Nazi movements ; postwar Germany ; World War II
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2571965
Southern Africa
CHANDO, A. 2025. Of ghosts and haunting: postcolonial urbanisms in Southern Africa. Social Dynamics, 51 (1):117-133.
Keywords: Failed urbanism ; ghosts ; hauntology ; urban dystopia ; We Need New Names ; Welcome to our Hillbrow
https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580707 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02533952.2025.2580707
Southern Africa
HOUSER, M. 2025. The Evolution of an Anti-Colonialist: Goler T. Butcher and Legal-Professional Activism against Portuguese Colonialism in Africa. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):35-49.
Keywords: Angola ; apartheid ; law ; Mozambique ; United States
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2575282
Southern Africa
JENTZSCH, C. 2025. ‘The War Broke Out and I Broke Down’: Expectations and Aspirations in Forging Solidarity between Dutch Activists and Southern African Liberation Leaders. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):69-86.
Keywords: Angola ; FRELIMO ; liberation movements ; Mozambique ; Mozambique Institute ; MPLA ; Solidarity ; southern Africa ; The Netherlands
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2581038
Southern Africa
KOKE, H. E. & MASIKINYE, S. 2025. The Federation, Fiscus, and Failure: The Fiscal Commissions in the Central African Federation, 1952–1963. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):107-125.
Keywords: expenditure ; federation ; Fiscal commissions ; fiscal structure ; revenue
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2574933 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02582473.2025.2574933
Southern Africa
MAGANGA, A. T. & TEMBO, C. 2025. Typification of democracy in ancient Shona society: a paremiological perspective. African Identities, 23 (4):1170-1184.
Keywords: Democracy ; leadership ; living heritage ; nommo ; paremiology ; sankofa
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2395942
Southern Africa
MAGANGA, A. T. & TEMBO, C. 2025. Explicating selected post-independence Shona novelists’ perspectives on business management. African Identities, 23 (4):1459-1472.
Keywords: Afrocentricity ; business management ; dis-agency ; leadership ; Shona novel
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2440087
Southern Africa
RUTING, T. S. 2025. Organising Global Activism against Portuguese Colonialism: The Conferences of Driebergen, Schaloen, and Santpoort, 1970–1973. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):50-68.
Keywords: Frelimo ; liberation movements ; MPLA ; PAIGC ; Solidarity ; southern Africa ; the Netherlands ; Western Europe
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2546024
Southern Africa
SAUNDERS, C. 2025. Reflections 50 Years after the Initial South African Invasion of Angola. South African Historical Journal, 77 (1):126-133.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2569784
Southern Africa
SEBEELO, T. B. 2025. Former presidents in Zambia and Botswana: leaving office but staying in power? Politikon, 52 (2):165-179.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2025.2518842 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589346.2025.2518842
Southern Africa
SHIRINDZI, L. 2025. The Impact of Language Contact on Terminology Development and Orthography in Xitsonga. Language Matters, 56 (3):109-127.
Keywords: language contact ; language purity ; lexeme ; orthography ; terminology
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2566823 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10228195.2025.2566823
Subsaharan Africa
AMENORVI, C. R. & DIABA, K. D. 2025. Hahaha! Unmasking sexual humour in some Ghanaian and Nigerian YouTube comedy skits. African Identities, 23 (4):1146-1169.
Keywords: Comedy skits ; humour studies ; sexual humour ; social media ; social stereotyping ; YouTube videos
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2394643
Subsaharan Africa
CARBONE, G. & PELLEGATA, A. 2025. Better Days to Come? Military Coups, Economic Growth, and the Restoration of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. African Security, 18 (4):320-344.
Keywords: Africa ; coups d’état ; democracy ; economic growth ; elections
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2559215
Subsaharan Africa
EKE, S. 2025. The neoliberal and nationalist normative contestation on migration in Africa: Insights from Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):421-444.
Keywords: Africa ; anti-immigrant sentiments ; Migration ; nationalism ; neoliberalism
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2558782 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10220461.2025.2558782
Subsaharan Africa
GÓMEZ-ÁLVARO, G. & CARO-CARRETERO, R. 2025. Analysis of migratory movements from the perspective of push factors: A comparative study of West Africa and East Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):395-420.
Keywords: armed conflict ; climate change ; East Africa ; food insecurity ; Migration ; poverty ; push factors ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2563217
Subsaharan Africa
MPHIDI, A. J. & PHEIFFER, D. C. 2025. Is South Africa a disability friendly country? A brief criminal justice system perspective and comparison to Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. African Security Review, 34 (4):452-478.
Keywords: accommodations ; barriers ; criminal justice system ; Disability-friendly ; inclusivity
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2539719 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10246029.2025.2539719
Subsaharan Africa
MUZUMBUKILWA, T. W., MANIMANI, R. G., VAGIRI, R. V. & NLOOTO, M. 2025. A comparative analysis of compliance with HIV/AIDS clinical care indicators and treatment outcomes: A case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):142-161.
Keywords: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ; compliance ; human immunodeficiency virus ; quality indicators ; treatment outcome
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2562859
Subsaharan Africa
NYAMEKYE, E., UWEN, G. S. & ANANI, G. 2025. Identity Construction and Its Influence on Language Shift among Ghanaian and Nigerian Bi/Multilinguals. Language Matters, 56 (3):46-70.
Keywords: bi/multilingualism ; identity construction ; Indigenous languages ; language and identity ; language maintenance ; language shift
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2586533
Sudan
ELAMIN, N. E. A. 2025. Analysing the impact of the Sudan armed conflict (2023) on export and import dynamics. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (3):305-327.
Keywords: Africa ; economic vulnerability ; International trade ; Sudan war ; supply chain disruption ; trade disruptions
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2550609
Sudan
NASSR, A. 2025. Terminal Neolithic archaeology in northern Butana, central Sudan, as seen from the site of NB4. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (4):612-631.
Keywords: Butana ; late prehistory ; radiocarbon ; Shaheinab ; Sudan ; Terminal Neolithic
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2521205
Tanzania
ABDUL, R., DUFFEL, L. V., MARTELLI, G., JOEL, E. N., MISESEMO, J. Z., RINKE DE WIT, T. F., MFINANGA, S., POZNIAK, A. & HERMANS, S. 2025. Feasibility, challenges, and lessons learned in implementing antiretroviral adherence club models in Northern Tanzania. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):97-106.
Keywords: adherence clubs ; ART ; CHW ; community health workers ; HIV ; Tanzania
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2577800
Tanzania
MARSHALL, J. K. 2025. Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):246-262.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2587508
Tanzania
MASELE, F. 2025. Reconstructing the 1891 Lugalo battlefield in Iringa Region, Tanzania: survey and analysis of German Mauser rifle and Maxim gun cartridge casings. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (4):577-611.
Keywords: Battlefield archaeology ; German colonialism ; Hehe ; Lugalo ; Mauser and Maxim cartridge casings ; Tanzania
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2526974
Tanzania
OSEI BONSU, V., BREITKREUZ, R. & KALER, A. 2025. Drivers and dimensions of economic abuse against women in rural Tanzania. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (3):537-552.
Keywords: Abus économique ; Economic abuse ; gender norms ; normes de genre ; qualitative research ; recherche qualitative ; rural ; Tanzania ; Tanzanie
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2486318
Uganda
NSEREKO, G. M., MUSANJE, K., KOBUSINGYE, L. K. & BALUKU, M. M. 2025. The mediating effect of individual beliefs between self-testing knowledge and HIV self-testing use. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):120-127.
Keywords: HIV prevention ; HIV self-testing ; HIV self-testing knowledge ; HIV self-testing use ; individual beliefs ; unskilled workers
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2548211
Uganda
OJOK, B. & BAINES, E. 2025. Research as witnessing: on wer, living archives and knowing war. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):403-418.
Keywords: epistemic justice ; justice épistémique ; méthodologie et guerre ; methodology and conflict ; nord de l’Ouganda ; northern Uganda ; political violence ; violence politique
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2579583
Uganda
SEGAWA, I., BAKEERA-KITAKA, S., ORIOKOT, L., SSEBAMBULIDDE, K., MUWONGE, T. R., OJIAMBO, K. O. & MUJUGIRA, A. 2025. Correlates of HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis uptake among female university students in Uganda. African Journal of AIDS Research, 24 (3-4):197-204.
Keywords: female ; post-exposure prophylaxis ; pre-exposure prophylaxis ; students ; universities
https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2025.2555200
Uganda
SSEWANYANA, R. & MCEWAN, C. 2025. COVID-19 in the context of HIV/AIDS: creative practice and community self-help in Kampala. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):419-439.
Keywords: Covid-19 ; creative practice ; gender-based violence ; HIV/AIDS ; Uganda ; youth
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2547494 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2547494
West Africa
CRUTCHER, M., GUEYE, M. & SARATHI, A. 2025. Developing a new theoretical model for West African maritime archaeology. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):315-333.
Keywords: Africana critical theory ; Afrique occidentale ; archaeological theory ; archéologie maritime ; archéologie nautique ; archéologie sous-marine ; maritime archaeology ; nautical archaeology ; théorie archéologique ; théorie critique Africana ; underwater archaeology ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2470638
West Africa
OTTOH-AGEDE, B. S. & IGONO, J. 2025. Violence and narrative representation of women’s experiences in Sefi Atta’s Swallow and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. African Identities, 23 (4):1439-1458.
Keywords: male-on-female violence ; sex and marriage ; subversion ; transnational mobility ; Women’s vulnerability
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2427155
West Africa
WALTHER, O. J., RADIL, S. M. & THURSTON, A. 2025. Political violence and transport infrastructure in West Africa. African Security Review, 34 (4):352-373.
Keywords: armed conflict ; political violence ; terrorism ; transport infrastructure ; West Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2502017
Zambia
CARMODY, P. & HAMPWAYE, G. 2025. Post-Peak China in Africa? Insights from Zambia. Critical African Studies, 17 (3):276-296.
Keywords: Africa ; Afrique ; China ; Chine ; économie politique mondiale ; geoeconomics ; géoéconomie ; geopolitics ; géopolitique ; global political economy ; Zambia ; Zambie
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2025.2484522 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2025.2484522
Zambia
SIMUNGALA, G. & BANDA, F. 2025. The social semiotics of Mambwe clan names and praises. African Identities, 23 (4):1301-1316.
Keywords: clan ; Mambwe ; names ; praise ; semiotic assemblages ; Social semiotics
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2415594
Zimbabwe
CHIRIKURE, S. & MUKWENDE, T. 2025. Colonialism from within versus colonialism from outside: the archaeology of nineteenth century Nguni expansion and British colonialism in southwestern Zimbabwe. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):460-476.
Keywords: Colonialism ; materiality ; Nguni expansion ; resistance ; settlement ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517448 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517448
Zimbabwe
MUDENDA, T. 2025. Grassroots activism and former marginalised indigenous language revitalisation: the case of Tonga in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (3):456-472.
Keywords: decolonisation ; Grassroots activism ; linguistic diversity ; minority language revitalisation ; Tonga language
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2581316
Zimbabwe
MUKWENDE, T., CLACK, T. & CHIRIKURE, S. 2025. (Post-)colonialism as ideology and power’s grip on material culture: the Shangani Battle Site/Pupu Memorial in Zimbabwe. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 60 (3):477-494.
Keywords: Anglo-Ndebele War ; colonialism ; ideology ; memorials ; monuments ; power ; Shangani Battle site
https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2517455
Zimbabwe
NDAWANA, E. 2025. Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe. African Security, 18 (4):423-449.
Keywords: Authoritarianism ; human security ; militarization ; political security ; ZANU-PF ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2025.2511349 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19392206.2025.2511349
Zimbabwe
PATTENDEN, H. 2025. The public political ideologies of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–1980. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (2):207-225.
Keywords: ideology ; Rhodesia ; ZANU ; ZAPU ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2587509
Posted on 21 June 2018, last modified on 6 January 2026