Christabel Aba Sam

Publishing since 2016, latest 2026

Literature and Literary Theory
Sociology and Political Science
Gender Studies
Philosophy
Anthropology
Communication

In their own words

Postcolonial Futures
African Literature

Publications: 232016–2026
Citations: 40to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 4.411.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 27%4 of 15 scored papers
Open access: 80%12 of the 15 whose access is recorded

Google Scholar shows 73 citations, h-index 5 and i10-index 2 (70 citations and h-index 5 since 2021), as of October 3, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

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Publications

23 in all

Re-defining Ghanaian hiplife songs by women as liberatory narratives
2026Tydskrif vir letterkundeJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation10.17159/tl.v63i1.22643
Re-imagining African Feminist Futures
2026Ahyu A Journal of Language and LiteratureJournalOpen access

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To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Literature and Literary Theory835%
Sociology and Political Science730%
Gender Studies313%
Philosophy313%
Anthropology14%
Communication14%
Cultural Studies14%
Demography14%
Education14%
History14%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies8
South African History and Culture3
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues2
Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics2
African cultural and philosophical studies1
Caribbean history, culture, and politics1
Cultural Identity and Representation1
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity1
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature1
Gender Diversity and Inequality1
Gender Politics and Representation1
Gender Roles and Identity Studies1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where they publish

KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts3
Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape Coast2
Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the Humanities2
Ahyu A Journal of Language and Literature1
AS} MKA1
Brolly1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

5Gender equality7
10Reduced inequalities2
14Life below water1

Most cited

A postcolonial ecocritical reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Kwakuvi Azasu’s The Slave Raiders (2004)
Cogent Arts and Humanities14
202212 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
20169 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Unmasking Patriarchies: Paradigms of Violation and the Future Praxis in Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile.

‘Physician, Heal Thyself’: Disability, Aesthetic Nervousness, and Diasporic Authority in Tope Folarin’s Miracle

2026KENTE-Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the ArtsJournalSenior author0 citations

Gendering Leadership, Mediating Feminist Political Futures

2025UJ Press eBooksBook chapterOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.64449/9780639890142-07

Masculinity, traumatic memories and futurity: an engagement with Nii Ayikwei Parkes’ Tail of the Blue Bird

2025Journal of the African Literature AssociationJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1080/21674736.2025.2575576

Narrative as a Symbolic Social Act: Sexual Bribery and the Pragmatics of Resolution in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Kunle Afolayan’s Citation

2023International Journal of Current Research in the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.19

Becoming conscious of the self: Spatial dynamics, character pairs and the feminist vision in Amma Darko’s beyond the horizon

2023Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.47963/drumspeak.v6i2.1266

A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST READING OF J. M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2000)

2022International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS)JournalOpen accessFirst author3 citations10.24071/ijhs.v6i1.3937

Villains, victims and victors: A character analysis of Amma Darko’s women

2021Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.47963/drumspeak.v5i3.840

Disrupting Hegemony, Anticipating the Future: A Nietzschean Reading of God Dies by the Nile and Purple Hibiscus

2021International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation StudiesJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.9n.3p.16

Futuring Africa: Immature Men and the Utility of Hope in Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

2021KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the ArtsJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.47963/jla.v2i1.184

Shadows of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda

2021AS} MKAJournalFirst author0 citations

The Making of the New Man in Contemporary African Fiction: A Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

2019KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the ArtsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.47963/jla.v1i1.86

Intimations of Futurity: Masculinity and Spatial Representation in African Novels

2018University of Cape CoastThesisFirst author1 citation

Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon

2016HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)JournalOpen accessSenior author9 citations

Cogent Arts and Humanities1

Contemporary Journal of African Studies1

How it can be read

80% free to read, of the 15 recorded

Diamond 4 · 17%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 9%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 4%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 4 · 17%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 4%A copy in a repository
Closed 3 · 13%Behind a paywall
Unknown 8 · 35%Not recorded by the source

Research in African Literatures

A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST READING OF J. M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2000)

International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS)5

20223 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Villains, victims and victors: A character analysis of Amma Darko’s women

Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the Humanities5

20213 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze