Journal of the African Literature Association

Aims & Scope

The Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) is an international peer reviewed journal that serves as a forum for research on African literary arts broadly, as well as on related areas of African and African diasporic cultural production.

The Journal offers a space for examining the interface between literary and other forms of cultural and artistic work on the African continent and in the African diaspora.

Articles published in the Journal of the African Literature Association aim to contribute to the fields of literary and cultural studies.

The Journal of the African Literature Association publishes research articles, book and film reviews, review essays, important roundtable debates, and interviews with notable African and African diasporic authors and filmmakers.

The Journal does not publish creative writing, but does welcome submissions focusing on current debates in African literary and cultural studies.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.237

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	4

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	19180

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	30

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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

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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.

• Unsettling the air-conditioned room: journal work as ethical labour

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Carli

• Afro-futurism and the aesthetics of hope in Bekolo's<i>Les Saignantes</i>and Kahiu's<i>Pumzi</i>

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Mich

• Fifty years on: the 1972 Asian expulsion as global critical event, or the insecurities of expulsion

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Anneeth Kaur

• Khal Torabully. “Coolies” and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Ottmar

• The anglophone problem in Cameroon yesterday and today in search of a definition

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Nicodemus Fru

• Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa <b>Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa</b> , by Ketu H.Katrak, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 436 pages. 30 b&amp;w illus. ISBN 978-0-253-05368-8 (paperback) $35.00. ISBN 978-0-253-05367-1 (hardback) $85.00. ISBN 978-0-253-05369-5 (ebook) $34.99

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Juanita

• Marking the American landscape: African Muslim slave writings and the place of Islam

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Reem M.

• Abiola Irele and the publicness of African letters

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Moradewun

• Shona philosophy of <i>Unhu/Hunhu</i> and its onomastics in selected fictional narratives

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Ruby

• E-fraud economy as an emergent perspective towards the corpus of African hustler narratives

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Daniel

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