Journal of African Cinemas

Aims & Scope

The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film.

It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas.

Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages.

The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or identities of Africa and its peoples represented in film.

The aim is to create a forum for debate that will promote inter-disciplinarity between cinema and other visual and rhetorical forms of representation.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	30099

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.101

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	4

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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.

• Hustlers, home-wreckers and homoeroticism: Nollywood's Beautiful Faces

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Lindsey

• Women in ‘African cinema’ and ‘Nollywood films’: A shift in cinematic regimes

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Kenneth W.

• The capital gap: Nollywood and the limits of informal trade

  Citation: 21

  Authors: John C.

• Video exposé: Metafiction and message in Nigerian films

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Carmen

• A transnational feminist rereading of post-Third Cinema theory: The case of Maghreb documentary

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Stefanie Van de

• Nollywood and the idea of the Nigerian cinema

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Akin

• From orality to visuality: the question of aesthetics in African cinema

  Citation: 13

  Authors: P. Julie

• Filming the invisible: Rubrics of ordinary life in Stories of Our Lives (2014)

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Eddie

• Violence in Souleymane Ciss's films: a cultural perspective

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Blandine

• Funding, ideology and the aesthetics of the development film in postcolonial Zimbabwe

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Alexander

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