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 10 2026

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Subsaharan Africa
ADEOSUN, O. A. 2026. Taxes, Inclusive Growth, and Spatial Effect. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70044.
Keywords: Africa ; inclusive growth ; neighbors ; spatial effects ; taxes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70044 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70044

Africa
ADENIYI, E. 2026. Towards the systematisation of African ways of knowing: neocolonial hegemony, theory development and cognitive imperialism in African studies. African Identities, 24 (1):133-150.
Keywords: African Studies Center Leiden ; illocutionary acts ; Nelson Mandela ; Ọmọlúwàbí/Ubuntu ; the Yorùbá
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2345325

Africa
AYINUOLA, O. A. 2026. Lexicalisation of discourse strategies in the national anthems of selected African states. African Identities, 24 (1):170-189.
Keywords: discourse strategies ; Discourse-Historical approach ; Lexicalisation ; national anthems ; Systemic Functional Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2365639

Africa
DE CASTRO, A., MAYER, A., GAONA-PRIETO, R. & BAÑARES-MARTIN, C. 2026. Exporting security to Africa at its most volatile: the GAR-SI Sahel project and the role of Spain’s Guardia Civil in rebuilding Sahelian security. African Identities, 24 (1):31-48.
Keywords: African security ; GAR-SI ; Guardia Civil ; Sahel
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2324109

Africa
EMEKA, E. T. 2026. Interactive Effects of Anti-Globalization Dynamics and Environmental Degradation on Africa's Productive Capacity. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70047.
Keywords: Africa ; anti-globalization ; environmental degradation ; productive capacity
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70047 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70047

Africa
ILIYASU, J., MAMMAN, S. O. & NADARAJAH, S. 2026. Analysis of Contemporary Issues in Disproportionate Access to Finance and Women-to-Women Empowerment in Africa: An Application of Causal Mediation and Bayesian Model Averaging. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70046.
Keywords: Africa ; Bayesian model averaging ; causal mediation ; entrepreneurship ; gender gap ; women empowerment
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70046 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70046

Africa
ALLSOBROOK, C. 2025. The Structural Violence of Imperial Trusteeship in Postcolonial Governmentality. African Studies, 84 (3):208-227.
Keywords: biopower ; disciplinary power ; necropolitics ; postcolonial governmentality ; structural violence ; trusteeship
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2536036

Africa
BEYATE, A. 2025. Soft Power Strategy in Russian Foreign Policy Towards Africa. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):144-166.
Keywords: Africa ; cultural diplomacy ; foreign policy ; international relations ; media influence ; Russia ; soft power
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2590436

Africa
CASSATELLA, A. 2025. Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings. African Studies, 84 (3):274-288.
Keywords: Africa ; agency ; Fanon ; mental illness ; psychiatry ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2522813

Africa
CHIROZVA, L. & DZINESA, G. A. 2025. Law of the Sea in Africa: Political Myopia and Inquisitiveness of Landlocked States. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):126-143.
Keywords: Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy (AIMS) ; African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) ; landlocked states ; Law of the sea ; political myopia ; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2590441

Africa
GICHURU, E. N. & RUKOOKO, A. B. 2025. Reimagining Scholarly Research Evaluation in the Global South through Africana Critical Theory. Critical Arts, 39 (5):206-211.
Keywords: Africana critical theory ; bibliometrics ; epistemic justice ; Global South ; scholarly publishing
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2571791

Africa
HOFMEYR, B. 2025. A Critical Consideration of the Effects of Violence in Fanon. African Studies, 84 (3):242-255.
Keywords: Africa ; agency ; decolonisation ; Fanon ; Feraoun ; French-Algerian War ; revolution ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2537311

Africa
KASAIJA, P. A. 2025. Reflecting on the 2023 African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):579-606.
Keywords: African agency ; African peace mission ; African union ; Russian federation ; Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2606770

Africa
MATOLINO, B. 2025. Ubuntu and Violence. African Studies, 84 (3):177-190.
Keywords: Africa ; postcolony ; ubuntu ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2537886

Africa
NKWE, S. 2025. Crossing Borders: Climate Change and the Policy Implications for Regional Security Cooperation in Africa. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):3-22.
Keywords: Africa ; climate change ; climate security ; conflict ; regional cooperation ; regional institutions
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2511643

Africa
SANNI, J. S. 2025. Violence and African Philosophy: Beyond Reaction and Mimicry. African Studies, 84 (3):228-241.
Keywords: African ; legitimacy ; mimicry ; philosophy ; reaction ; violence
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2530996

Africa
SITHOLE, T. 2025. An Invitation Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Charlotte Maxeke. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):46-60.
Keywords: colonialism ; Du Bois ; liberation ; Maxeke ; Pan-Africanism
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2551655

Africa
ZHANG, H., ZHANG, Y. & KONG, X. 2025. Soft Power as Cultural Referencing: Making Sense of Startimes’ Export of Hello Mr. Right to Africa. Critical Arts, 39 (5):51-67.
Keywords: cultural referencing ; de-westernisation ; Hello Mr. Right ; soft power ; StarTimes ; television formats
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2487946

Congo (Brazzaville)
DAGA, M. 2025. Creative Expression and Political Resistance among Young Urban Congolese. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):546-561.
Keywords: artistic freedom ; Brazzaville ; Censorship ; Congo ; political repression
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2585256

Ethiopia
GOSHU, T., REGASSA, A. & KORF, B. 2025. Contested development, entangled governmentalities and the politics of pastoralism in the Upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):535-555.
Keywords: development ; Ethiopia ; Irrigation ; pastoralism ; politics
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2619814

Ethiopia
LIYEW, D. M. 2025. Ethiopia’s national dialogue derailed: a critical review of legitimacy, inclusion, and process. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):532-548.
Keywords: Ethiopia ; National dialogue ; political context ; process factor ; transition
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2595933

Ethiopia
SMITH, L. & MICHAEL, B. 2025. Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):601-619.
Keywords: Eritrea ; Ethiopia ; ethnicity ; meaningful citizenship ; national identity, national dialogue ; Tigray War
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2613195

Ghana
AGERGAARD, J., MØLLER-JENSEN, L., ANDREASEN, M. H., YIRAN, G. & OTENG-ABABIO, M. 2026. Unpacking the drivers and effects of localized flooding in Glefe (Accra) and residents’ autonomous adaptation strategies. African Geographical Review, 45 (1):37-51.
Keywords: Glefe, Accra ; independent adaptation ; Localized flooding ; risk accumulation
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2447803 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2024.2447803

Ghana
AMO-AGYEMANG, C. 2026. Ghana’s demand for restitution of material artifacts: a decolonial reflection. African Identities, 24 (1):49-69.
Keywords: artifacts ; Asante people ; Decolonization ; materiality ; restitution
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2324112

Ghana
ANKRAH, D., TAKYI, S. A., BILIYITORB LIWUR, S. & AMPONSAH, O. 2026. Urban sprawl, urban form, and urban land use pattern: examining urban planning response to the causes and effects of urban sprawl in Kumasi, Ghana. African Geographical Review, 45 (1):79-93.
Keywords: Kumasi ; urban form ; urban land use pattern ; urban planning ; Urban sprawl
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2391777 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2024.2391777

Ghana
TWUMASI, S., TAKYI, P. O. & AMANOR, K. 2026. Productivity Growth and Convergence: A System GMM Regression Analysis of Listed Firms on Ghana Stock Market. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70007.
Keywords: convergence ; decomposition ; Ghana ; productivity growth ; stock market
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70007 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70007

Ghana
VERCILLO, S., SANO, Y. & FRAYNE, B. 2026. Gender disparities in rural livelihood diversification and household food insecurity in northern Ghana. African Geographical Review, 45 (1):22-36.
Keywords: food security ; Gender ; Ghana ; intra-household ; livelihood diversification ; sub-Saharan Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2478420 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2025.2478420

Ghana
ABUBAKARI, H. 2025. Folktales for Environmental Conservation: From Oral Traditions to Ecological Wisdom. African Studies, 84 (1-2):68-87.
Keywords: climate change ; cultural philosophy ; ecological deities ; Kusaal ; Mabia languages
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2523518 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2523518

Ghana
BONYE, S. Z., AASOGLENANG, T. A. & DAPILAH, F. 2025. Building on synergies: harnessing Indigenous worldviews for customary land governance in North-western Ghana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):490-513.
Keywords: customary authorities ; Indigenous worldview ; land governance ; Spirituality ; synergies ; tradition
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2595924

Kenya
IHEMBE, M. A., ASHINDORBE, K., ONWUZURUIGBO, I. & ALUMONA, I. M. 2026. Understanding the 2022 Kenyan presidential election outcome: insights from Key’s critical elections theory. African Identities, 24 (1):190-212.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2365643

Kenya
CAISTOR-PARKER, I. 2025. The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):663-692.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2613471

Kenya
DROZ, Y. 2025. Les heurs et malheurs du mariage femme-femme en pays kikuyu, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):641-662.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2610843

Kenya
MAINA, C. T. 2025. Locating Kenya's emergency detention camps: place, memory, and the afterlives of colonial violence. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):711-733.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2613196

Kenya
MIYONGA, R. 2025. Old wounds: embodying the Mau Mau war in post-colonial Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):693-710.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2026.2613472

Kenya
MWAMBARI, D. & SEFA-NYARKO, C. 2025. Citizenship dilemma: how second-generation Rwandan migrants navigate life challenges in post-colonial Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):556-578.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2611662

Malawi
NKHOMA, B., TAMBULASI, R., BANDA, H. & MPHANDE, C. 2025. Change without transformation: experiences with the implementation of agricultural extension delivery policy in Malawi, 2000–2020. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):473-489.
Keywords: agricultural extension ; demand-driven ; Malawi ; pluralism ; political economy
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2595923

Morocco
AGUDAL, J. & ELHAMDOUNI, O. 2026. The negotiated uses of the household category in the resettlement policies for slum dwellers in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):133-159.
Keywords: bureaucratisation of kinship ties ; constraints ; debureaucratisation of kinship ties ; Household ; resettlement ; right-holder status
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2581295

Morocco
FADIL, A. & DIB, S. 2026. Barriers to girls’ education in rural Berber villages: the role of an NGO in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):83-104.
Keywords: barriers ; Berber villages ; Girl’s education ; Illiteracy ; NGO intervantion
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469073

Morocco
FICO, J. 2026. Frontiers of fortune: mobilising land, water, and collective identity for watermelon production in Southeastern Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):10-33.
Keywords: export ; Green Morocco Plan ; greening the desert ; rural livelihoods ; water scarcity ; Watermelon
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2024.2404952

Morocco
JEFFERY, L., AZDEM, M., ZIOU ZIOU, A. & BACHELET, S. 2026. Vulnerability workers: vulnerability and precarity in Morocco's migration welfare sector. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):61-82.
Keywords: Aid ; Migration ; Morocco ; Precarity ; Vulnerability ; Welfare
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469053

Morocco
KIM, Y. R. 2026. When Morocco meets Korea: an interview with Ji Yong Chung on translating Driss Chraïbi’s Le passé simple 70 years later. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):1-9.
Keywords: Driss Chraïbi ; literary translation ; Maghreb ; South Korea
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2589969

Morocco
SIMOUR, L. 2026. Drifts of difference: Moroccan roots, European routes and the reconstruction of the migration dream in ṭalyān. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):105-132.
Keywords: identity ; Italian dream ; migration ; Morocco ; postcolonialism ; Shaʿbi music
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2547061

Morocco
YASSNI, Y. 2026. Fortress Morocco: gated communities, urban fear, social polarisation and the privatisations of security. The Journal of North African Studies, 31 (1):34-60.
Keywords: commodification ; Gated communities ; security privatisation ; urban exclusion ; urban fear ; urban polarisation
https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2025.2469038

Nigeria
OLAWALE, F. E., HOOI, K. Y. & BALAKRISHNAN, K. S. 2026. ‘From divided past to cohesive future’: a reflection on the reconciliatory mechanisms of (Yoruba) traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Nigeria. African Identities, 24 (1):3-18.
Keywords: reconciliation process ; ritual practices and conflict resolution approaches ; Traditional conflict resolution mechanisms ; Yoruba traditional institutional system
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2323525

Nigeria
OMOTUYI, S. 2026. Oil smuggling, borderland and border management in Nigeria. African Identities, 24 (1):95-113.
Keywords: Border governance ; borderland ; Nigerian security agency ; oil smuggling ; trans-border crime
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2331515

Nigeria
OSISANWO, A. & AGUNBIADE, M. 2026. Beyond academic discourse: practs of humour in departmental chatrooms of selected Federal University students in Southwest Nigeria. African Identities, 24 (1):114-132.
Keywords: Departmental chatroom ; humour strategy ; humour techniques ; pragmatic acts ; Southwest Nigeria ; university students
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2339842

Nigeria
ADE, M. 2025. Slavery and Resistance in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):531-545.
Keywords: Hegemonic masculinity ; human rights ; neoslavery ; novel ; objectification
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2476742

Nigeria
EKECHI, J. O. 2025. “Back to Sender”: Pentecostal Prayer Forms and Language Dynamics in Nigeria’s Contemporary World. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):513-530.
Keywords: Enemy ; language and communication ; Pentecostalism ; social interaction ; socio-cultural context ; warfare prayers
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2476741

Nigeria
IWILADE, A. 2025. Masculinity, Carceral Discipline and the Gang Life. African Studies, 84 (1-2):88-105.
Keywords: carceral discipline ; gangs ; masculinity ; Nigeria ; self-narration
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2515829 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2515829

Nigeria
OJURI, A. & AKANLE, O. 2025. International Migration and Support Systems of Left-Behind Spouses in Ibadan, Nigeria. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):23-45.
Keywords: Ibadan ; international migration ; Nigeria ; support systems
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2566647

Nigeria
ORJI, B. E. 2025. Ọkụmkpọ́ Masquerade as Theatre Performance in Akpoha-Afikpo Cross River Igbo Area of Southeastern Nigeria. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):478-496.
Keywords: Akpoha-Afikpo Ọkụmkpọ́ masquerade ; mbipụtá ẻmérémé na ntụcha ngosi ẻmérémé ; mọnṅwù Ọkụmkpọ́ Akpoha-Afikpo ; nchụàjà, nkwago ejijé ; performance analysis ; play production ; rituals ; theatre
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2449892

Rwanda
NORRIDGE, Z. & MBOYA, R. A. 2025. “Sweet Like Honey”: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):413-435.
Keywords: Abasigajwe Inyuma n’Amateka ; Abatwa ; African photography ; amashusho mbarankuru ; Historically Marginalised People ; participatory photography ; Rwanda ; Twa ; ubufotozi mu bufatikanye ; Ubufotozi nyafurika ; visual storytelling
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2381719

Sierra Leone
MUCI, L. V. 2025. From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988). Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):497-512.
Keywords: cultural nation building ; dance ; Dans ; global South ; globεl Sawt ; Kɔlchɔral neshɔn-bildin ; Pan-Africanism ; Pan-Afrikanizm ; political solidarity ; Pɔlitikal sɔlidariti ; Siera Liɔn ; Sierra Leone
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2476056

Somalia
LAKEY, E. 2025. Contested issues in Somali history and historiography. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):549-564.
Keywords: African history ; contested history ; historiography ; Somali history ; Somalia
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2605436

South Afrca
MHANDU, J. 2025. Structuration Theory and Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrant Women in the Informal Sector in Durban, South Africa. Critical Arts, 39 (5):32-50.
Keywords: COVID-19 ; informal sector ; lockdown ; relief programmes ; social and physical distance ; undocumented Zimbabwean migrant women
https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2480105

South Africa
CASALE, D. 2026. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Reflections on Gender. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70008.
Keywords: efficiency ; equity ; feminist economics ; gender diversity
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70008 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70008

South Africa
MPISI, A. & ALEXANDER, G. 2026. Reflections on racism levelled against Black learners at Historically White South African schools. African Identities, 24 (1):151-169.
Keywords: Black Lives Matter ; Historically White schools ; Racism
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2345339

South Africa
RIEDEL, N. & ZINKE, I. 2026. On the Redistributive Impact of the Personal Income Tax: Evidence From South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70013.
Keywords: personal income tax ; Pfähler decomposition ; redistribution ; South Africa ; tax expenditures
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70013 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70013

South Africa
SNOWBALL, J. D. & KRAMM, N. 2026. Forty Years of the SAJE: A Bibliometric Analysis. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70012.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70012 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70012

South Africa
SONNEKUS, T. 2026. Alternative Books in black and white: race and homoeroticism in South African male nude photography from the apartheid period. African Identities, 24 (1):70-94.
Keywords: Apartheid South Africa ; censorship ; homoeroticism ; male nude photography ; queer archives and markets ; race and representation
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2331492

South Africa
TANTOH, H. B., MCKAY, T. J. M. & LLEWELLYN, L. 2026. A gender-inclusive approach to enhancing food security through the circular economy in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Geographical Review, 45 (1):1-21.
Keywords: Circular economy ; climate crisis ; food security ; gender ; South Africa ; sustainable development goals
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2503452 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19376812.2025.2503452

South Africa
VISAGIE, J., TUROK, I. & NELL, A. 2026. Creative Destruction or Just a Reshuffle? Turnover Among Businesses and Jobs in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70010.
Keywords: creative destruction ; firm entry ; firm exit ; firm turnover ; job creation ; job destruction ; job reallocation ; job turnover ; South Africa ; structural transformation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70010 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70010

South Africa
ABDURRAHMAN, A., TRUNA, D. S., HURIANI, Y. & ARIPUDIN, A. 2025. A preliminary analysis of South Africa's role in resolving the Gaza conflict through the ICJ: A legitimacy theory perspective. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):553-577.
Keywords: anti-apartheid ; genocide ; human rights ; ICJ ; legitimacy theory ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2578483

South Africa
CHIPKIN, I. 2025. From revolution to anti-imperialism: Does South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel help resolve the organic crisis within the ANC? South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):531-551.
Keywords: African National Congress ; International Court of Justice ; National Democratic Revolution ; organic crisis ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2587021

South Africa
GRAHAM, S., TSHANGELA, Z., NARISMULU, Y. & MAMABOLO, T. 2025. From apartheid to advocacy: South Africa’s foreign policy journey over the last 30 years. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):461-480.
Keywords: economic diplomacy ; multilateralism ; Pan-Africanism ; post- apartheid ; regional leadership ; South African foreign policy
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2604784

South Africa
MNISI, R. & THETE, I. P. 2025. Internalised Struggles Faced by Boys and Men: An Analysis of Matalane Mokgatla’s Song “Men Speak Out”. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):81-100.
Keywords: emotional suppression ; masculinity ; men’s mental health ; silent struggles ; societal expectations
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2577332

South Africa
MUKONAVANHU, T. & NEL-SANDERS, D. 2025. The Role of Digital Technologies for Risk Management in the South African Public Sector. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):101-125.
Keywords: digital governance ; digital technology ; public sector ; risk management ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2590440

South Africa
NELL, E. & LESCH, E. 2025. Expectations and Interactions About Father Provision in South African, Black, Low-Income, Non-Resident Father Families. African Studies, 84 (1-2):28-47.
Keywords: families ; family systems ; father involvement ; financial provision ; non-resident fathers ; South African fathers
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2561573 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2561573

South Africa
OTTO, L. & NAGAR, M. 2025. South Africa’s non-alignment posture under the GNU: Still seeking multipolarity amid great power rivalry? South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):481-500.
Keywords: foreign policy ; government of national unity ; multipolarity ; non-alignment ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2599528

South Africa
PEETE, K., VRATSANOS, C. I., LUPINDO, E., GOLOMSKI, C. & QAMBELA, G. 2025. Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room. African Studies, 84 (1-2):155-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2530335

South Africa
PHILIP, S. 2025. Sandton girls: consumer femininities, gendered anxiety and urban inequalities in ‘new’ South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):565-580.
Keywords: Class ; consumption ; gender ; South Africa ; urbanisation
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2605450

South Africa
SESANTI, S. 2025. The Exclusion of Ubuntu from South Africa’s Constitution: Implications for Pan-Africanism and Violent ‘Xenophobia’. African Studies, 84 (3):191-207.
Keywords: colonialism ; Constitution ; exclusion ; Pan-Africanism ; ubuntu ; violence ; xenophobia
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2536650

South Africa
SITHOLE, T. 2025. South Africa’s role in global peace and security: Thirty Years of conflict resolution and a post-2024 foreign policy strategy. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32 (4):501-529.
Keywords: foreign policy ; liberal institutionalism ; national interest ; post-conflict reconstruction and development ; South Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2602576

South Sudan
FELIX DA COSTA, D. 2025. Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37 (4):436-461.
Keywords: age-sets ; Embodied knowledge ; iconography of modernity ; Murle ; scarification ; South Sudan ; violent conflict ; youth
https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2444220

Subsaharan Africa
ASALOKO, P. P., ASONGU, S. A., ODHUA, N. A. & MOSUNGA, G. M. 2026. Regional Integration and Participation of COMESA Member Countries in Global Value Chains. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70045.
Keywords: COMESA ; de jure and de facto economic and financial integration ; global value chains
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70045 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70045

Subsaharan Africa
GBEGNON, K. O., PILO, M. & LOKONON, K. O. B. 2026. La vulnérabilité au changement climatique entrave-t-elle la stabilité financière des économies de l'Afrique subsaharienne? African Development Review, 38 (1):e70049.
Keywords: Afrique subsaharienne ; climate change vulnerability ; climate risks ; financial stability ; modèle PSVAR ; PSVAR model ; risques climatiques ; stabilité financière ; sub-Saharan Africa ; vulnérabilité au changement climatique
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70049 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70049

Subsaharan Africa
YAO, K. Y. & KOUAKOU, A. K. 2026. Envois de Fonds et Pauvreté en Afrique Subsaharienne: Le Rôle du Développement Financier. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70042.
Keywords: développement financier ; envois de fonds ; pauvreté
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70042 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70042

Subsaharan Africa
AKINSEYE, T. 2025. ‘You are a man’: a discursive construction of men, masculinities and domestic violence in Nigerian and Ugandan novels. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 43 (4):514-531.
Keywords: critical discourse analysis ; discursive construction ; ideologies in Nigerian and Ugandan novels ; masculinities and domestic violence ; men ; Sub-Saharan Africa
https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2025.2595932

Subsaharan Africa
MARMON, B. 2025. Winston Field and the Decolonisation of ‘British Central Africa’: Crossing Racial Divides with Kamuzu Banda and Beyond, 1957-64. African Studies, 84 (1-2):48-67.
Keywords: diplomacy ; Ian Smith ; Julius Nyerere ; Malawi Congress Party ; Rhodesia ; Zimbabwe African National Union
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2540844 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2540844

Tanzania
MSEMO, E. M., HELLA, J. P., MGENI, C. P., MASKAEVA, A., MGENI, M., KINYONDO, G., NECHIFOR, V., EL MELIGI, A., BOYSEN, O., SIMOLA, A. & FERREIRA, V. 2026. Export–Import Assessment of Tanzania's Produce Market Post-African Continental Free Trade Area Agreements: The Case of Fruits and Vegetables. South African Journal of Economics, 94 (1):e70009.
Keywords: AfCFTA ; exports ; imports ; vegetables and fruits
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.70009 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/saje.70009

Tanzania
SCHETTER, C., MASSOI, L. & SHILLINGI, V. 2025. Infrastructure for peace: conflict settlement between pastoralists and farmers in Kilosa/Tanzania. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19 (4):579-600.
Keywords: infrastructure ; Parakuyo ; Pastoralism ; peaceful coexistence ; Standard Gauge Railway (SGR)
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2611657

Uganda
AKELLO, F. J., KISIRA, Y., NAKILEZA, B. R., TUMWINE, F. R., NEDALA, S. & SSENNOGA, M. 2026. Applying GIS to monitor school exposure to landslide hazards in disaster-prone areas of Mount Elgon in Uganda. African Geographical Review, 45 (1):52-78.
Keywords: landslide hazards ; mount elgon ; preparedness to landslide disasters ; School’s exposure ; Uganda
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2025.2480390

West Africa
NABIE, O. & DIARRA, M. 2026. Effects of Fiscal Policy on Banking Profitability in West African Economic and Monetary Union Countries. African Development Review, 38 (1):e70048.
Keywords: banking profitability ; fiscal policy ; government securities ; tax pressure ; threshold effect
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8268.70048 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1467-8268.70048

West Africa
AJETUNMOBI, O., ADEBAYO, K. O. & TADE, O. 2025. Space and Trading among Herbal Medicine Practitioners along the Nigeria-Niger Corridor. African Studies, 84 (1-2):139-154.
Keywords: border ; herbal medicine ; negotiation ; space ; trade
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2540842

Zambia
CHISENI, M. C. 2025. Healing the Nation: Christian Missionaries, Colonial Healthcare and Disease Prevention in Northern Rhodesia 1924-1960. African Studies, 84 (1-2):1-27.
Keywords: Africa ; Christian missionaries ; colonial healthcare ; economic history ; Northern Rhodesia
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2533952 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2533952

Zimbabwe
MUKWARA, P. 2026. Street theatre in Zimbabwe: a history of connection, disconnection, and reconnection. African Identities, 24 (1):19-30.
Keywords: Harare ; hidden transcripts ; resistance ; Street theatre
https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2324107

Zimbabwe
KACHEMBERE, T. 2025. After Mugabe: Transitional Justice in a Failed Zimbabwe. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, 20 (2):61-80.
Keywords: equality ; failed Zimbabwe ; Gukurahundi ; human dignity ; Robert Mugabe ; self-respect ; transitional justice
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2025.2572074

Zimbabwe
MHONDERA, A., MUKARO, L., MABUGU, P. R. & SIBANDA, C. 2025. Climate Change in Indigenous Peoples' Narratives: A Case of Doma People of the Zambezi Valley. African Studies, 84 (1-2):123-138.
Keywords: climate change ; climate narratives ; Doma ; indigenous people ; stories ; Zimbabwe
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2561575

Zimbabwe
TSHUMA, L. A. 2025. Through the Camera’s Eye: Gukurahundi Genocide, Sexual Violence and Collective Trauma in Zimbabwe. African Studies, 84 (1-2):106-122.
Keywords: documentaries ; genocide ; Gukurahundi ; rape ; sexual violence ; trauma
https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2521368 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00020184.2025.2521368