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 32 2026

Africa
AWOH, E. L. 2026. Beyond the state’s reach: legal pluralism, conflict and hybrid governance in Africa’s peripheries. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):245-267.
Keywords: autorités traditionnelles ; conflict ; conflit ; gouvernance hybride ; hybrid governance ; Legal pluralism ; legitimacy ; légitimité ; Pluralisme juridique ; traditional authority
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2635975

Africa
MULUGETA, D. 2026. Bringing Pan-Africanism Back in as an Analytical Category. African Affairs, 125 (498):1-29.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/1/8512174

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
BAÏZOUMI WAMBAE, S. & HUANG, A. 2026. Making medical history in the Lake Chad Basin: field constraints, methodological challenges, and research opportunities. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):467-480.
Keywords: bassin du lac Tchad ; éthique de la recherche ; fieldwork ; Histoire de la médecine ; Lake Chad Basin ; Medical history ; positionality ; positionnalité ; research ethics ; travail de terrain
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2666052

Africa
WESTCOTT, N. 2026. The Second Trump Administration’s Policy on Africa. African Affairs, 125 (499):341-368.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/341/8704472

Africa
XIE, J. & ZHONG, Q. 2026. The Spread of Chinese Socialist Films in Africa, 1956–65. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 38 (2):171-187.
Keywords: ：社会主义中国电影；非洲传播；电影节；冷战外交；全球南方 ; Chinese socialist films ; Cold War diplomacy ; dissemination in Africa ; film festivals ; global south
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2026.2673513

Angola
HÖRING, J. D. S. & RIBEIRO, J. F. 2026. The Emergence of a Third Liberation Movement in Angola: The Founding History of UNITA, 1964–1966. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):91-113.
Keywords: Angola ; anti-colonial struggle ; Jonas Savimbi ; liberation war ; MPLA ; nationalism ; UNITA ; UPA/FNLA
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2679344

Angola
VALENTIM, C. S. 2026. Fish and Chiefs: African Popular Culture and Colonial Power in Northeastern Rural Angola. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 38 (2):135-153.
Keywords: African popular culture ; Angola ; Cokwe folk music ; colonização portuguesa ; cultura popular africana ; música folclórica Cokwe ; poder ; Portuguese colonial rule ; power
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2026.2673502

Angola
VASCONCELOS, P. A. 2026. Sowing the Empire: Eucalyptus in Angola, c.1875–1975. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):65-89.
Keywords: Angola ; Benguela Railway ; Benguela Railway Company (CCFB) ; colonialism ; environmental history ; eucalyptus ; forestry ; Lobito Corridor ; pulp industry
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2702241

Botswana
TUMEDISO, B. 2026. The 2024 Botswana Elections and the Demise of the Botswana Democratic Party. African Affairs, 125 (499):323-339.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/323/8499740

Cabo Verde
SASSA, E. V., PESTANA, N. & ORRE, A. 2026. Local government in São Miguel, Cape Verde. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):397-420.
Keywords: administration locale ; assemblée municipale ; conseil municipal ; Democracy ; démocratie ; local council ; local government ; municipal assembly ; São Miguel
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2674903

Cameroon
LASKY, J. & LETSA, N. W. 2026. Legacies of Violence from the Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC) Conflict: Grievance and Opposition in Cameroon. African Affairs, 125 (499):287-321.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/287/8700590

Equatorial Guinea
BIVENS, R. T. 2025. Cultural Cohesion in Regional Organizations: Equatorial Guinea, the Cplp, and its Death Penalty Abolition. African Affairs, 124 (497):449-467.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/449/8444759

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
HAUSTEIN, J., ØSTEBØ, T., IDRIS, A. K. & MALARA, D. M. 2026. Introduction: religion and politics in post-EPRDF Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):313-333.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2682036

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
ØSTEBØ, T. & TESFAYE, Y. A. 2026. Ownership, nativism, and conflict: the case of the 2020 violence in Shashemene. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):353-372.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; ethnicity ; nativism ; Oromo ; religion ; Shashemene ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2683240

Ethiopia
TESFAYE, Y. A., GEDIF, F. & HAUSTEIN, J. 2026. Reframing religious conflict in Gondar: land, public visibility, and the politics of difference. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):373-392.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; Gondar ; inter-religious relations ; Islam ; Orthodox Christianity ; Religious coexistence ; religious competitions
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2682045

Ethiopia
HAUSTEIN, J., TESFAYE, Y. A. & GEDIF, F. 2026. Weaponising suspicion: allegations of ‘extremism’ as driver of religious conflict in Mota. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):334-352.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; Ethiopian Orthodox Church ; extremism ; Islam ; Mota ; religion
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2682040

Ethiopia
KIDANE, S. 2025. From Rhetoric to Reality: The Role of Political Framing in Shaping Understanding and Behaviour During the Tigray Conflict. African Affairs, 124 (497):469-498.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/469/8527824

Ghana
ANDERSON, E. A. B. 2026. Cyberfeminism, religious rhetoric, and patriarchy: cyberfeminists’ approaches to tackling Christian scriptural texts and praxis in Ghana. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):313-332.
Keywords: Christian patriarchy ; Cyberféminisme ghanéen ; Efe Plange ; évangile de la soumission ; Ghanaian cyberfeminism ; patriarcat chrétien ; Pepper Dem Ministries (PDM) ; submission gospel
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2669670

Ghana
ACHEAMPONG, M. 2026. How Constituency Gatekeepers Shape Parliamentary Behaviour in Ghana. African Affairs, 125 (498):99-133.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/99/8650675

Ghana
ASANTE, L. A. 2026. “Invisible frontline”: informal workers and pandemic inequalities in Ghanaian cities. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):333-354.
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic ; Ghanaian cities ; informal workers ; Invisible frontline ; marchés urbains ; pandémie de COVID-19 ; Première ligne invisible ; travailleurs du secteur informel ; urban markets ; villes ghanéennes
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2671298

Ghana
DINYE, R. D., AKPONZELE, R. & SARPONG, C. K. 2026. Land fragmentation and sustainable land governance in Ghana. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):269-290.
Keywords: customary land tenure ; défaillances de gouvernance ; exclusion fondée sur le genre et des jeunes ; formalisation foncière ; Fragmentation foncière ; gender and youth exclusion ; governance failures ; land formalisation ; Land fragmentation ; régimes fonciers coutumiers
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2631480

Ghana
TSEER, T., AKURUGU, C. A. & DE PAUL KANWETUU, V. 2026. Women’s agency in traditional governance: an analysis of two Ghanaian case studies. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):291-312.
Keywords: autonomie des femmes ; chefferie ; chieftaincy ; dispute resolution ; gendered decision-making ; gouvernance traditionnelle ; prise de décision fondée sur le genre ; règlement des différends ; traditional governance ; women’s agency
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2643202

Kenya
ALLNOCH, J. & KUPPENS, L. 2026. “A chokehold position”: ethnic voting among Kenyan university students in times of “hustler populism”. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):355-372.
Keywords: comportement électoral ; Ethnic voting ; ethnicité ; ethnicity ; étudiants universitaires ; hustler populism ; Kenya ; populisme des débrouillards ; university students ; Vote ethnique ; voting behaviour
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2648253

Kenya
KASKINEN, M. 2026. Disillusionment and queer feminist utopias in Kenyan digital counterpublics. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):189-207.
Keywords: anti-feminist backlash ; disillusionment ; Feminist activism ; filter bubbles ; Kenya ; queer utopias ; social media
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2671453

Kenya
JILI, B. 2026. Pedagogies of Digital Sovereignty: The Un/Making of Dependency Through Technical Education in Kenya. African Affairs, 125 (498):31-65.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/31/8586658

Kenya
SAYAN, R. C., BELLWOOD-HOWARD, I., WESONGA, J., THOMPSON, J., LIAMBILA, R. N., WAIRIMU, E. W. & HESS, T. 2026. A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):208-233.
Keywords: drought ; environmental justice ; Equitable resilience ; Kenya ; smallholder farmers
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2654840

Kenya
KOCHORE, H. H. 2026. Ritual topography, time reckoning, and overlapping chronologies: Boran Oromo jila gadamojji rites of passage in colonial and contemporary Kenya (c. 1930–2020). Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):234-262.
Keywords: Boran Oromo ; jila gadamojji ; northern Kenya ; overlapping chronologies ; political time ; Ritual topography
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2680723

Lesotho
MATHEOLANE, R. 2025. Students and Supervisors’ Perceptions on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Master’s Dissertations at a Higher Education Institution in Lesotho. Africa Education Review, 21 (6):98-113.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI) ; dissertations ; master’s students ; supervisees ; supervisors ; unethical use of AI
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2026.2628113

Mali
DE BRUIJN, M. & SANGARÉ, B. 2026. The Smartphone Connects in Violent Conflicts: An Ethnographic Study of Mali’s New War Ecology. African Affairs, 125 (499):229-254.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/229/8654436

Mauritius
RAMTOHUL, R. 2026. The Incorporation of Diversity in the Constitution of Mauritius: A Case of Identities Frozen in Time. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):7-25.
Keywords: constitution ; constitutional design ; diversity ; electoral boundaries ; identity ; Mauritius
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2689801

Morocco
BENHARROUSSE, R. 2026. Lharba as Politics of Escape: Necropolitics, Digital Discourse and Moroccan Youth Migration. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 38 (2):207-233.
Keywords: culture ; digital discourse ; Lharba ; migration ; Morocco ; necropolitics
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2026.2665724

Mozambique
MATTIOLI, C. 2026. Extractivist Mega-Projects in Mozambique: Dispossession, Politicisation and Resistance in Moatize and Cabo Delgado. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):45-63.
Keywords: dispossession ; extractivist mega-projects ; infrastructural harm ; Mozambique ; politicisation ; resistance
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2685465

Mozambique
SITOE, R. 2026. Mobilising Youth into Violent Extremism in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique: A Timeline Analysis of Push and Pull Factors, 2010–2024. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):27-44.
Keywords: Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jamâa (ASWJ) ; al-Shabaab ; Cabo Delgado ; mobilisation ; northern Mozambique ; push and pull approach ; violent extremism ; youth
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2696753

Mozambique
WETZEL, J. M. 2025. From the Soviet Komsomol to the Battlefields of Mozambican Liberation: Transnational Ideas and the Question of the Frelimo Youth League, 1963–1969. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):759-776.
Keywords: Cold War ; Frelimo ; Komsomol ; liberation war ; Mozambique ; transnationalism ; youth
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2670944

Namibia
HOGAN, M. R. 2026. ‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’: Subnationalism and the Growth and Evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in South West Africa, 1921–1924. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):115-133.
Keywords: Garveyism ; Namibia ; resistance ; subnationalism ; Universal Negro Improvement Association
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2670878

Niger
COOPER, B. M. 2026. The Delicacy of Dreams in Colonial Niger: Ponty Students Do Their Homework c. 1945. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 38 (2):154-170.
Keywords: Auto-ethnography ; dream interpretation ; education ; French West Africa ; gender
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2026.2660640

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
AYANTAYO, J., OGUNSOLA, B. & AKINTOLA, A. 2026. Media Representation of Cultural Responses to Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts in South West Nigeria. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):148-166.
Keywords: culture ; farmers ; herders ; herdsmen-farmers conflicts ; media
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2679748

Nigeria
ALIMI, S. 2025. Between Economic Exploitation and Economic Nationalism: European Exporting Firms and African Merchants in the Cocoa Pool Crisis of 1937–1938 in Nigeria. African Historical Review, 56 (1):51-67.
Keywords: cocoa pool ; economic exploitation ; economic nationalism ; European oligopoly ; the Great Depression
https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2025.2509394

Nigeria
EKAH, J. A. & OKPALAEKE, P. C. 2025. Challenging “Demon Superstition”: The Queen’s Bounty and Colonial Campaigns Against Triplet Killings in Onitsha Province, 1939–1956. African Historical Review, 56 (1):68-88.
Keywords: colonial authorities ; demon superstition ; infanticide ; Onitsha Province ; Queen’s Bounty ; Southeastern Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2025.2455792

Nigeria
ADESINA, O., MENDES BORGES, A., CARDOSO, C. & GREEN, T. 2025. The Covid-19 Pandemic Response and the New Era of Austerity in Africa. African Affairs, 124 (497):499-530.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/499/8466566

Nigeria
ITODO, U. F. 2025. Integrating Historical Knowledge with Modern Strategies: Addressing Malaria in the Context of Climate Change and Medical Diplomacy in Northern Nigeria, 1940 to 2020. African Historical Review, 56 (1):1-30.
Keywords: Anopheles gambiae ; climate change ; malaria ; malaria parasite ; medical diplomacy ; mosquito control ; Northern Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2025.2531623

Nigeria
OLADEJO, A. O. & DASTILE, N. P. 2025. Of Materialism and Anomie: A Revisiting of the Yoruba People’s Omoluabi Ethos. African Historical Review, 56 (1):31-50.
Keywords: culture ; decoloniality/decolonisation ; economy ; Yoruba
https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2025.2531619

Senegal
LIM, S. 2025. Balancing Acts: Gender Parity Law and Cultural Boundaries in Senegal. African Affairs, 124 (497):421-447.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/421/8472967

Somaliland
HOEHNE, M. V. & NORMAN, J. 2026. The Paradox of Progress: Foreign Investments, Kinship, State-Building, and Conflict in Somaliland. African Affairs, 125 (498):67-98.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/67/8658856

South Africa
BAO, P. & MA, J. 2026. Enregistrement in the Media: The Curated Paths of Lekker and Ubuntu. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):126-147.
Keywords: corpus linguistics ; language contact ; lexical innovation ; post-apartheid South Africa ; semantic change ; sociolinguistics
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2669049

South Africa
WHANG, P. 2026. Fighting from the Nebulous Space of Exile: The Lesotho Liberation Army and its Impact and Legacy on Lesotho’s Political State. Journal of Southern African Studies, 52 (1):135-151.
Keywords: armed struggle ; elections ; exile ; Lesotho ; political violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2676482

South Africa
DLAMINI, T., DLAMINI, S. & MARAIS, E. 2026. The Impact of Lecturers’ Language Histories on Translanguaging Practices at a South African University. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):105-125.
Keywords: cultural-historical activity theory ; Indigenous languages ; language histories ; lecturer attitudes ; multilingual pedagogies ; socio- cultural theory ; translanguaging
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2679742

South Africa
ZUMANI, N. & SOMLATA, Z. 2026. The Linguistic Repertoires of Xhosa-Speaking People in TikTok Videos. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):85-104.
Keywords: linguistic bondages ; linguistic liberty ; linguistic repertoires ; multilingualism ; translanguaging
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2631468

South Africa
CROUS, B. & BERGEMANN, K. 2026. Marks of difference, marks of meaning: branding, scarification and the “Liberated African” register at the Cape Colony, 1843–51. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):421-440.
Keywords: Africains à nouveau capturés ; branding ; Cape Colony ; Colonie du Cap ; emancipation ; émancipation ; esclavage ; Liberated African register ; marquage ; recaptured Africans ; Registre des Africains affranchis ; scarification ; slavery
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2649887

South Africa
ROBERTSON, M. 2026. Mourning and Haunting in Remembering, Resistance, and a Reimagining of South African Queer Black Life. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 38 (2):234-249.
Keywords: futurity ; Gothic ; haunting ; queer grief ; religion ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2026.2663884

South Africa
STAPHORST, L. 2026. On the Limits of Linguistic Citizenship: Kaaps Language Activism, Afrikaans Taalbulle, and the Legacy of Afrikaner Nationalism. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):3-24.
Keywords: Africanisation ; Afrikaans ; Afrikaner nationalism ; Coloured nationalism ; decolonisation ; Kaaps ; language activism ; linguistic citizenship ; South African language politics ; southern theory
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2671259

South Africa
MARCO-GRACIA, F. J., CARMEN PÉREZ-ARTÉS, M. & ROMMELSPACHER, A. 2026. Racial disparities in human capital: Numeracy in South Africa, 1850–1980. Economic History of Developing Regions, 41 (2):93-124.
Keywords: discrimination ; human capital ; I24 ; I25 ; N37 ; N97 ; numeracy ; race ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2026.2653523

South Africa
SMITH, L. & PRETORIUS, E. 2026. To Be or Not to Be Extraposed: An Extraposition Profile of Paarl-Kaaps. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):50-84.
Keywords: Afrikaans ; constituent weight ; extraposition ; information structure ; Kaaps ; post-verbal placement ; prosodic focus
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2631467

South Africa
THORNTON, L. 2026. Women and Kaaps. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):25-49.
Keywords: Afrikaans ; Kaaps ; kombuistaal ; language maintenance ; women
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2025.2590607

South Africa
SCHMAHMANN, B. 2025. Addressing a Difficult History: Representations of Sarah Baartman by Three South African Artists. Critical Arts, 39 (6):97-118.
Keywords: Exhibit: Ex Africa ; Penny Siopis ; Saartjie Baartman ; Sarah Baartman ; Senzeni and Sarah ; Senzeni Marasela ; Theodora ; Willie Bester
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2438131

South Africa
BOUGAARD & BRONNER, I. E. 2025. “Awe, Masekinders!”: Kullid Identities from Eden Park, Johannesburg in the Work of Bougaard. Critical Arts, 39 (6):77-96.
Keywords: “Coloured” identity ; childhood games ; installation art ; Kullid identity ; papermaking ; printmaking ; South African artist ; strategic essentialism ; visual sovereignty
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2402928

South Africa
VERBUYST, R. & ELLIS, W. 2025. Grappling with Refusal, Self-representation, and Visual Sovereignty at the Knoflokskraal Khoisan “Reclaim”. Critical Arts, 39 (6):142-157.
Keywords: agency ; indigeneity ; Knoflokskraal ; land occupations ; refusal ; Visual sovereignty
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2434593

South Africa
PEARCE, J. 2025. ‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the War against UNITA. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):919-939.
Keywords: African National Congress (ANC) ; Angola ; Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) ; Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) ; Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2644715

South Africa
STAPHORST, L. 2025. On the Seeable Limits of Decolonial and Indigenous Scholarship: Conceptualising Ondeursigbaarheid as Critical Analytic Through Reference to the |xam, the Bleek and Lloyd Archive, and Bushman Studies. Critical Arts, 39 (6):40-63.
Keywords: |xam ; archive ; Bushman studies ; critique ; Decolonial scholarship ; indigeneity ; interdisciplinarity ; visual sovereignty
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2430473

South Africa
BUTHELEZI, J. 2025. A Phenomenological Exploration of Tertiary Sport Activities for Students with Non-Normative Gender Expressions in Three South African Institutions. Africa Education Review, 21 (6):46-71.
Keywords: (hetero)cisnormative ; governmentality ; non-normative gender expressions ; poetic inquiry ; sport activities
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2026.2646512

South Africa
LISSONI, A. 2025. Reading is the Weapon: Books and the Making of MK as a Political Army. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):825-851.
Keywords: book history ; Dawn ; liberation armies ; liberation struggles ; military camps ; military culture ; MK ; political education ; reading
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2656105

South Africa
TOMASELLI, K. G. & GRANT, J. 2025. San, Sovereignty and the Unpredictability of Messy Fieldwork. Critical Arts, 39 (6):7-24.
Keywords: ‡Khomani ; Bushmen ; indigenous ; Ju/’hoansi ; Kalahari ; methodology ; Namibia ; Representation ; San ; South Africa ; Visual anthropology
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2487618

South Africa
CHIRIKURE, T., SIBANDA, D., NDLOVU, B. P., NARRAINSAWMY, V., MUDALY, R., NAROD, F. B. & MOODLEY, M. P. 2025. STEM Student Teachers’ Learning Preferences in South Africa and Mauritius: A Comparative Quantitative Study. Africa Education Review, 21 (6):22-45.
Keywords: active learning ; interdisciplinary teaching ; learning preferences ; STEM education ; student teachers
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2026.2641499 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2026.2641499

Southern Africa
HOLMES, C. E. 2026. Challengers in a Pandemic: Covid-19 States of Exception, Opposition Parties, and Outcomes in Southern Africa. African Affairs, 125 (499):197-227.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/197/8650674

Southern Africa
ALEXANDER, J., MCGREGOR, J. & PEARCE, J. 2025. Liberation Armies’ Imagined Futures in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):747-757.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2671566

Southern Africa
NTOMBELA, N. P. 2025. ‘You have to know why you breathe’: Women’s Intellectual Work in the Southern African Liberation Struggle Women’s Sections. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):853-871.
Keywords: African women’s organisation ; exile ; gender ; intellectual history ; liberation ; women combatants ; women’s section
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2668845

Subsaharan Africa
CHANIE, A. A. 2026. Governance and policy responses to corruption: a political comparative study of Botswana and Mauritius. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):373-395.
Keywords: Anti-corruption ; Botswana ; comparative case study ; democratic governance ; étude de cas comparative ; gouvernance démocratique ; Lutte contre la corruption ; Maurice ; Mauritius
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2653592

Subsaharan Africa
TITECA, K. 2025. Kony 2025: the Survival of the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Car–Sudan–DRC Borderlands. African Affairs, 124 (497):561-578.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/561/8407383

Sudan
WILCOCK, C. A. 2026. Straight Outta Khartoum: Displaced Music Scenes and the Art of Politics in Sudan. African Affairs, 125 (498):135-170.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/135/8696184

Tanzania
RICHEY, L. A. & JOHN, R. W. 2026. Business Helping in Crisis: Tourism’s Response to Covid-19 in Tanzania as Everyday Humanitarianism. African Affairs, 125 (499):255-286.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/499/255/8700053

Tanzania
MÖLLERS, S., MANGESHO, P., MWINGIRA, V., SEIF, M., SCHMIDT, A., STEINKAMPF, L. & KISINZA, W. 2026. The Karl Braun Collection and the role of the Amani Institute during the German colonial period in Tanzania. A German-Tanzanian research project. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):263-291.
Keywords: botany ; Colonial history ; Germany ; international cooperation ; museum collection ; provenance research ; Tanzania
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2682678

Tanzania
ŻBIK, S. 2026. Omani Arab aspirations, national representation, and political tensions in the Zanzibarisation of the colonial administration, 1947–1963. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):292-312.
Keywords: Arabs ; British ; colonialism ; public administration ; Zanzibar
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2670061

Tanzania
NYANTO, S. S. & BECKER, F. M. 2025. Muscat in Rural Tanzania: Omani Arabs, Identity, and Citizenship in Post-Slavery Tanzania, 1920s–1960s. African Historical Review, 56 (1):89-116.
Keywords: citizenship ; identity ; Omani Arabs ; post-slavery Tanzania
https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2025.2455784

Uganda
IBANDA, J., GUMA, P. K. & ALFDANIELS, M. 2026. Bibanda video halls in Uganda: between vernacular transcreation and cinematic reworlding. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):168-188.
Keywords: Bibanda video halls ; cinematic reworlding ; film translation ; informal economies ; Uganda ; veejays ; vernacular transcreation
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2662697

Uganda
KASFIR, N. 2026. Leftovers for legacy: why rebel governance contributed so little to Uganda’s post-insurgent state. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 20 (2):147-167.
Keywords: corruption ; democratisation ; Legacy ; National Resistance Army ; National Resistance Movement ; rebel governance ; Uganda
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2651488

Uganda
IDAHOSA, P. 2026. Revisioning the tribe and nation in Uganda: Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, by Mahmood Mamdani, Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2025. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):481-489.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2684134

Uganda
GOLDRING, E. & TAPSCOTT, R. 2026. Succession in Uganda: What do Ugandans Think of Muhoozi Kainerugaba? African Affairs, 125 (498):171-191.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/125/498/171/8586274

Uganda
MEYERSON, S. 2025. Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda. African Affairs, 124 (497):531-559.
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/124/497/531/8497477

Zimbabwe
MBWIRIRE, J. 2026. A critical opinion on democratic electoral processes in Zimbabwe. African Security Review, 35 (3):330-336.
Keywords: democracy ; elections ; electoral manipulation ; hybrid regimes ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2025.2591759

Zimbabwe
GOTOSA, K. & MATENDE, T. 2026. An Exploration of the Marginalisation of Tshwao Through Postcolonial Policy. Language Matters, 57 (1-2):167-189.
Keywords: Khoisan languages ; language planning ; linguistic diversity ; marginalisation ; minority languages ; Tshwao (Tjwao)
https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2026.2687450

Zimbabwe
MPOFU, S. 2026. Visual art and rethinking the future in anthropogenic climate change debates: a case of Bulawayo artists in Zimbabwe. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 60 (2):441-466.
Keywords: anthropique ; anthropogenic ; arts visuels ; Changement climatique ; Climate change ; found objects ; objets trouvés ; trash/rubbish theory ; visual art
https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2026.2669155

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
MAZARIRE, G. C. 2025. Accounting for ZANU’s Ghana-Trained Insurgents in Rhodesia, 1964–1979. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):801-823.
Keywords: Birmingham Campaign for Justice in Zimbabwe ; Gwelo prison ; insurgents ; Kwame Nkrumah ; Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Liberation Committee ; Simon Bene ; Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2668299

Zimbabwe
MCGREGOR, J., ALEXANDER, J. & HADEBE, M. H. 2025. Liberation Armies, Women Soldiers and Martial Masculinity: Gender and Training in the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA). Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):873-898.
Keywords: gender ; liberation army ; martial masculinity ; military history ; women soldiers ; ZAPU ; ZPRA
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2667115

Zimbabwe
MUNGUAMBE, C. 2025. Liberation Movements and Battlefield Solidarity: Frelimo and ZANU Soldiers Fighting Side by Side in Rhodesia. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):899-917.
Keywords: battlefield solidarity ; FPLM ; Frelimo ; ideology ; liberation struggle ; military training ; ZANLA ; ZANU
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2655519

Zimbabwe
ALEXANDER, J. 2025. Youth Dreams, State Repression and Military Mobility: Tracing the Origins of ZAPU’s Liberation Army. Journal of Southern African Studies, 51 (6):777-800.
Keywords: guerrilla war ; liberation army ; nationalism ; revolutionary dreams ; sabotage ; soldiers ; students ; youth ; ZAPU ; Zimbabwe ; ZPRA
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2026.2660520