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About the Journal of the African Literature Association format

Journal of the African Literature Association is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, African history and culture studies, Caribbean and African Literature and Culture.

PublisherTaylor & Francis
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago, T&F)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of the African Literature Association 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies African history and culture studies Caribbean and African Literature and Culture South African History and Culture African studies and sociopolitical issues
ISSN2167-4736
Citation impact (2-yr)0.32
h-index10
i10-index14
Total citations892
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Journal websitewww.tandfonline.com
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Papers published in Journal of the African Literature Association per year

26
2014
14
2015
22
2016
36
2017
38
2018
63
2019
41
2020
44
2021
50
2022
40
2023
48
2024
39
2025

Citation impact of Journal of the African Literature Association by publication year

12
2014
5
2015
57
2016
104
2017
78
2018
133
2019
79
2020
43
2021
160
2022
38
2023
21
2024
11
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of the African Literature Association

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

Mich Yonah Nyawalo · 2 Jul 2016

This article examines how both Bekolo and Kahiu deploy afrofuturist aesthetics in their films Les Saignantes and Pumzi in order to critique afro-pessimist perspectives from which socio-economic realities on the continent are often framed. Les Saignantes confronts the viewer with a question: “How can you make an anticipation [or futuristic] film in a country that…

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

Nicodemus Fru Awasom · 30 Mar 2020

Since September 2017, the English-speaking peoples of the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon have been subjected to unprecedented repression of genocidal dimension by the Biya regime that needs to be unpacked. What precisely led to this ugly situation which has come to be known as “the Anglophone problem?” This article sets out to lucidly…

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

Carli Coetzee · 4 May 2018

The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive.…

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

Anneeth Kaur Hundle · 2 Sep 2022

This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and…

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

Ottmar Ette · 2 Jan 2017

Khal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at…

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What reference style does Journal of the African Literature Association use?
Journal of the African Literature Association uses Author–year (Chicago, T&F) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of the African Literature Association 12 (3): 45–58.
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