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Africa Today
Indiana University Press, United States
Africa Today is an academic journal published by Indiana University Press (United States). Identifiers: ISSN 0001-9887, eISSN 1527-1978. Indexed in SCOPUS. Metrics: CiteScore 1.2, SJR 0.208, SNIP 0.81. tlooto lists 2,130 papers from this journal.
CiteScore
1.20
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.208
SCImago rank
SNIP
0.81
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
-
JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 0001-9887
- eISSN
- 1527-1978
- Abbreviation
- -
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Country
- United States
Web of Science categories
No Web of Science category data available.
Scopus ASJC categories
1200 General Arts and Humanities3300 General Social Sciences3305 Geography
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)
2026
- Checkpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy
2026
- Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda by Tony Roberts and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (review)
2026
- Colonialism, Modernity, and African Agency: Does Decoloniality Still Make Sense?
2026
- From the Good to the Evil: Digital Technology, Social Conflict, and Urban Violence in Nigeria
2026
Most cited papers
- Pilfering the Public: The Problem of Land Grabbing in Contemporary Kenya
2000 · 241 citations
- BOOK REVIEW: Bayart, Jean-Franois, Stephen Ellis, and Batrice Hibou. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE STATE IN AFRICA. Oxford: James Currey, 1999. and Chabal, Patrick and Jean-Pascal Daloz. AFRICA WORKS: DISORDER AS POLITICAL INSTRUMENT. Oxford: James Currey, 1999.
2000 · 240 citations
- Between Maitatsine and Boko Haram: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Response of the Nigerian State
2011 · 207 citations
- Locating Xenophobia: Debate, Discourse, and Everyday Experience in Cape Town, South Africa
2010 · 171 citations
- The Lies We Have Been Told: On (Homo) Sexuality in Africa
2011 · 169 citations