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Africa
ACHEAMPONG, E. Y. 2025. Analysis of African athletes give-back behaviours as cultural identity or popularity. African Identities, 23 (3):800-822.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2373236

Africa
ALBERTS, K. 2025. Unravelling the web: exploring the dynamics of online disinformation and its impact on democracy in Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):333-359.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2491679

Africa
ONWUZURUIGBO, I. & ISIKE, C. 2025. No Patience, no Goodluck: powerful First Ladies and regime change in emerging African democracies. African Identities, 23 (3):845-864.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2386082

Botswana
MAGIDI, J., BANGIRA, T., KELEPILE, M. & SHOKO, M. 2025. Land use and land cover changes in Notwane watershed, Botswana, using extreme gradient boost (XGBoost) machine learning algorithm. African Geographical Review, 44 (5):497-517.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2024.2424378

Burkina Faso
DESROSIERS, M.-E. & HUBERT, N. 2025. La crise de 2014 au Burkina Faso : perceptions citoyennes de la légitimité de l’appareil politique Compaoré. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):313-332.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492389

Eswatini
MOTSA, N. D. 2025. Navigating mental health for vulnerable children aged 6–18 with educational and economic hardships in Eswatini: post-COVID-19. African Identities, 23 (3):604-615.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2025.2474002

Ethiopia
ARAYA, M., ROLLESTON, C., ROSE, P., SABATES, R., TIRUNEH, D. & WOLDEHANNA, T. 2025. Tracking Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia: How Large-Scale Educational Reform Shaped Student Attainment from 2012/13 to 2018/19. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):145-164.
Keywords: educational reform ; Ethiopia ; GEQIP-II ; learning progress ; value-added learning
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2504043 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2504043

Ethiopia
KASSIE, A., BOGALE, W., CHERU, T. & SISHAW, T. 2025. The making and re-making of administrative regions in Ethiopia, 1907-2018: policy changes and continuities. African Identities, 23 (3):948-965.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2307014

Ethiopia
TADESSE, A. M., KUMAR, B. & SUNDARARAJAN, M. 2025. Analysis of cognitive metaphors and schematic frames in the lyric script of Tewodros of Teddy Afro (Tewodros Kassahun). African Identities, 23 (3):916-930.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2025.2527335

Ethiopia
TEMESGEN, Z. 2025. Left-behind women: perspectives on seasonal labor migration in Guagusa Shekudad community, North West Ethiopia. African Identities, 23 (3):781-799.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2365661

Ghana
ADI, G. Y. & ARHIN, V. 2025. Academic Satisfaction, Academic Motivation, and Performance of Senior High School Students. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):60-81.
Keywords: academic ; motivation ; performance ; satisfaction ; senior high school
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2479508

Ghana
AMAKA-OTCHERE, A. B. K., MAWUKO, G., ADEBANJI, A. O., QUARCOO, M. M., AZIZ, F., DRAMANI, J. B. & ODURO-OFORI, E. 2025. Toward sustainable energy transition: understanding electricity-use behavior among low-income urban households in Kumasi. African Geographical Review, 44 (5):479-496.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2024.2399569

Ghana
ARTHUR, J. L., NKRUMAH ARTHUR, V., OWUSU, E. & ARTHUR, S. D. 2025. Electricity power production, transmission and distribution losses in Ghana: the role of regulatory quality. African Geographical Review, 44 (4):371-392.
Keywords: distribution losses ; Electricity production ; regulatory quality ; transmission losses
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2360620

Ghana
ATARAH, S. A., EGBLEWOGBE, M., AWONIYI, F. C. & AMANKWAH, A. 2025. Improving the Achievement of Learning Outcomes in Early Undergraduate Physics: A Case Study at a University in Ghana. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):1-24.
Keywords: exam scores ; formula sheets ; item difficulty ; learning outcomes ; mathematics ; tutorial sessions ; undergraduate physics
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2451425

Ghana
BINEY, E., FORKUO, E. K., POKU-BOANSI, M. & ASARE, Y. M. 2025. Geospatial assessment of urban sprawl in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Ghana from 1991 to 2023. African Geographical Review, 44 (4):339-356.
Keywords: Geospatial techniques ; Landsat ; Sekondi-Takoradi ; Shannon’s entropy ; Urban sprawl
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2334726

Ghana
SALIFU, G. A.-N. 2025. Does livelihood diversification improve food security among rural households?: evidence from Ghana. African Geographical Review, 44 (5):449-464.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2024.2408030

Ghana
SIAW-MARFO, D. & LUMADI, M. 2025. Exploring the Influence of School Location on the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Supervisors in Instructional Supervision in Public Basic Schools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):122-144.
Keywords: educational leadership ; instructional development ; instructional supervision ; public basic school ; school location ; self-efficacy ; verbal persuasion ; vicarious experiences
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2504042 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2504042

Kenya
MUSUVA, C. 2025. Contestation of power and identity in Kenya’s 2022 governor election in Machakos county. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):257-272.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492835

Malawi
KPIENBAAREH, D., LUGINAAH, I. & BEZNER KERR, R. 2025. Considerations for enhancing participation and data accuracy in geospatial research in rural areas: experiences with PGIS in northern Malawi. African Geographical Review, 44 (4):357-370.
Keywords: Community-based management ; participatory GIS ; smallholder agriculture ; sociocultural context ; traditional spatial ecological knowledge
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2423288

Malawi
MULAGA, A. N., KAMNDAYA, M. S. & MASANGWI, S. J. 2025. Impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi: a methodological comparison of spatial multilevel models, standard multilevel and logistic regression models using survey data. African Geographical Review, 44 (5):465-478.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2452557

Nigeria
ADEBAYO, A. O. 2025. Social media discourses of Nigerian social affairs: a critical appraisal of YouTube vloggers’ panacea hypotheses for national recovery. African Identities, 23 (3):896-915.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2419052

Nigeria
ADEBOMI, O. O. 2025. A digito-linguistic analysis of the 2019 Democracy Day speech of former Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. African Identities, 23 (3):737-755.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2346243

Nigeria
ADORA, C. U. 2025. Traditional African festival performances as a panacea for peace and security: the Obubra urban Ababum (cassava) festival as paradigm. African Identities, 23 (3):653-666.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2310069

Nigeria
AINA, F. 2025. Political economy of sub-national fragility and armed conflict in Northwest Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (3):616-633.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308638

Nigeria
AKINYETUN, T. S. 2025. Identity politics, conflict, and national integration in Nigeria: the youths’ perspective. African Identities, 23 (3):515-533.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2319582

Nigeria
DEJI-AFUYE, O. O. & ZHOU, S. 2025. Interplay of ESL Interaction Patterns and Student-Centred Pedagogy in Multilingual Classrooms in Nigeria. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):82-103.
Keywords: classroom interaction ; classroom practice ; English as a second language ; interaction patterns ; student-centred pedagogy ; teacher-centred pedagogy
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2503139 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2503139

Nigeria
GBAMWUAN, A. & ITYONZUGHUL, T. T. 2025. Tiv entrepreneurs in road transport business: engaging the patterns and trends, 1960’s-2015. African Identities, 23 (3):493-514.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308632

Nigeria
KAMALU, I. & ANASIUDU, O. 2025. Conflict and warfare metaphors in the Nigerian media conceptualization of corruption. African Identities, 23 (3):1008-1022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2310065

Nigeria
LAWAL, T. & AKINYEMI, B. 2025. Public sector governance reform and public sector performance in Ondo State, Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (3):568-583.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2388172

Nigeria
NNABUIHE, O. E., ONWUZURUIGBO, I. & IHEMBE, M. A. 2025. Cultural hegemony and ethnic minority struggles in Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (3):715-736.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2331485

Nigeria
OJEDOKUN, U. A. & ADERINTO, A. A. 2025. Policing and politics of law enforcement in Nigeria’s fourth republic. African Identities, 23 (3):996-1007.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308641

Nigeria
OKAISABOR, J. O. 2025. The quest of fiscal autonomy for judicial independence: the case of the Nigerian judiciary and its challenges. African Identities, 23 (3):756-780.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2349613

Nigeria
OLABAMIJI, A. & AJALA, O. 2025. Geospatial determinants of urban poverty in Nigeria: an analysis of locally weighted factors. African Geographical Review, 44 (4):393-411.
Keywords: geographically weighted regression ; GIS ; Nigeria ; Urban poverty
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2024.2402367

Nigeria
OLORUNSOGO, D. 2025. Politeness constructions in doctor-patient interactions in private hospitals in Akure, Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (3):865-877.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2388169

Nigeria
ONANUGA, P. A. 2025. Re-imagining Afrobeat(s): juxtaposing Fela and Falz’s social commentary and lyrical activism. African Identities, 23 (3):584-603.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2025.2471441

Nigeria
OPONE, P. O. & UZEGHE, M. O. 2025. The decline of Aboh’s economic influence in the Western Niger Delta of Nigeria in the era of legitimate commerce, 1830–1960. African Identities, 23 (3):931-947.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2307009

Nigeria
THOMPSON, O. 2025. ‘Beyond our pregnancies and bodies’: benefits and barriers to antenatal care clinic utilisation among pregnant women in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria. African Identities, 23 (3):878-895.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2388180

Nigeria
UROKO, F. C., ANENECHUKWU, S. N. & OKOLI, A. B. 2025. The strategic use of ethnic and religious identity in Nigerian elections by the two dominant political parties. African Identities, 23 (3):549-567.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2383670

South Africa
BELLO, P. O. 2025. University students’ accounts of police use of force: implications for trust in the police. African Identities, 23 (3):634-652.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308639

South Africa
HECHT, G. 2025. Author Response to Murray, “The troubled legacies of gold mining in South Africa”. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):417-419.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2524227

South Africa
KOENIG-VISAGIE, L. 2025. “The Dam Wall Broke”: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Method Analysis of Writing on the First Decade of Democracy in the South African Art World. Critical Arts, 39 (3):51-68.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2024.2421568

South Africa
LAMBRECHTS, D. 2025. The decay of the democratic ideal and the rise of uncivil society: the case of organised crime in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):293-311.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492839

South Africa
LOUW, H. & NOMDO, G. 2025. Conversations through the rear-view mirror: Uber drivers’ narratives on the precarity of work, ‘belonging’, and violence. African Geographical Review, 44 (5):437-448.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2025.2456753

South Africa
MAEBANE, M. M. 2025. Student Support and Students’ Performance in Online Tutorials at Open Distance e-Learning Institutions. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):165-181.
Keywords: distance learning ; online tutorial ; student performance ; student support
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2505618 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18146627.2025.2505618

South Africa
MAZIBUKO, O. & THEBE, V. 2025. Identity, experience, and non-partisan: the institution of traditional chiefs and development in a rural local municipality in North West Province, South Africa. African Identities, 23 (3):683-695.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2324101

South Africa
MTHOMBENI, Z. M. 2025. Amabhinca subculture: re-branded expression of black masculinity in South African townships. African Identities, 23 (3):696-714.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2324108

South Africa
MURRAY, M. J. 2025. The troubled legacies of gold mining in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):405-416.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2471185

South Africa
ROSHAN K, M. 2025. Apartheid politics and ‘coloured’ identity in Nadine Gordimer’s 'My Son’s Story' (1990). African Identities, 23 (3):982-995.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308640

South Africa
SCHEEPERS, L. & DURHOLZ, C. 2025. Introducing the Graduate Student Voice: Perceptions of Academic Success as Shared by Students at a South African–Based Private Higher Education Institution. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):104-121.
Keywords: academic success ; graduate students ; peer support ; perseverance ; self-efficacy ; student voice ; study–life balance
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2503142

South Africa
SIEBRITS, K. 2025. The fiscal policymaking framework and democracy in South Africa since 1994. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):239-255.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492392

South Africa
VAN DER MERWE, L. 2025. “Some White Women (Are Not Like That)”. Affective Gestures in Post-Apartheid Visual Art from South Africa. Critical Arts, 39 (3):69-89.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2024.2398798

Southern Africa
PEARCE, J. 2025. Local histories, national ambitions, and the shadow of the Cold War: articulating opposition in Angola and Mozambique. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):383-404.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2490564

Subsaharan Africa
ESSIEN, A. A. & MOLEKO, M. 2025. Research on Language and Multilingualism in Mathematics Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa Education Review, 21 (1):25-49.
Keywords: code-switching ; language practices ; language proficiency ; multilingualism ; translanguaging
https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2025.2455577

Zambia
SISHUWA, S. 2025. Elite and popular basis for legitimacy of democracy in Zambia since 1991. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):361-382.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492382

Zimbabwe
CHIGOWE, L. T. 2025. Constitutional law and internet regulation in Africa: examining legal tensions in Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 59 (2):273-292.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2025.2492838

Zimbabwe
DLODLO, S. 2025. A losing battle? Interrogating the importance of ‘minority’ languages in expressing symbols of national identity in Zimbabwe. African Identities, 23 (3):966-981.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2308636

Zimbabwe
GUKURUME, S. 2025. New Pentecostal urbanities in Harare: landscapes of everyday life and visions of the future. African Identities, 23 (3):823-844.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2381483

Zimbabwe
MWANDAYI, C. 2025. Uprooted identity: appropriating and rubricating Psalm 137 to explore the rukuvute longings of diasporic Zimbabweans. African Identities, 23 (3):534-548.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2381479

Zimbabwe
NENJERAMA, T. T. 2025. Remembering Mbuya Nehanda: civil religion in ‘second republic’ Zimbabwe. African Identities, 23 (3):667-682.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2310713