Africa

Aims & Scope

Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture.

Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences.

Africa aims to give increased attention to African production of knowledge, highlighting the work of local African thinkers and writers, emerging social and cultural trends 'on the ground', and links between local and national levels of society.

At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa's own cultural categories.

Each issue contains six or seven major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews.

Special issues are published annually.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.566

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10270

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	152

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Provisional notes on the postcolony

  Citation: 594

  Authors: Achille

• The world in creolisation

  Citation: 416

  Authors: Ulf

• African Traditional Thought and Western Science

  Citation: 330

  Authors: Robin

• On joking relationships

  Citation: 317

  Authors: A. R.

• Indian films and Nigerian lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities

  Citation: 306

  Authors: Brian

• Social institutions and access to resources

  Citation: 255

  Authors: Sara

• African Conversion

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Robin

• Manufacturing dissent: work, gender and the politics of meaning in a peasant society

  Citation: 207

  Authors: Judith, Michael

• Decentralisation, participation and accountability in Sahelian forestry: legal instruments of political-administrative control

  Citation: 203

  Authors: Jesse C.

• Preliminary notes on audiences in Africa

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Karin

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