OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Africa is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction	23
‘Human ATMs’: M-Pesa and the expropriation of affective work in Safaricom's Kenya	22
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity	21
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction	16
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda	14
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya	13
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity	13
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi	11
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region	10
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa	10
Made in China, fashioned in Africa: ethnic dress in Ethiopia and Mozambique	8
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal	7
Providing to belong: masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos’	6
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below	6
Introduction: the stuff of African cities	5
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests	5
Death without mourning: homosexuality,homo sacer, and bearable loss in Central Africa	5
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa	5
The spectre of rootless urban youth (bayaaye) inKulyennyingi,a novel of Amin-era Uganda	4
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria	4
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi'smatatu	4
‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes	4
The dead archive: governance and institutional memory in independent Mozambique	3
Hackers of the heart: digital sorcery and virtual intimacy in Côte d'Ivoire	3
What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana	3

Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–2020	3
Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia	3
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism	3
‘Idle minds’ and ‘empty stomachs’: youth, violence and religious diversity in coastal Kenya	3
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region	3
‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi	3
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule	3
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language	2
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state	2
‘My eyes are my ears’: Deaf people appropriating AIDS education messages in Uganda	2
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda	2
Goats, materials and uncertainty in Nairobi	2
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya	2
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana	2
‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces	2
Rhythms of the unemployed: making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya	2
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages	2
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia	2
Disarming the xenophobic everyday: Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban	2
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa	2
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists	2
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda	2
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment	2
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space	1
The death of Adumissa: a suicide at Cape Coast, Ghana, around 1800	1
Chinua Achebe’s postcolony: a literary anthropology of postcolonial decadence	1
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics	1
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation	1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola	1
The carnality of power	1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie	1
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change	1
Tasting ‘kienyeji’: gustatory explorations of city futures in Nakuru, Kenya	1
Modelling the city: bedroom drawer blueprints as urban planning in Maputo, Mozambique	1
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar	1
Ghana muntie: from Station ZOY to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation	1
Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville	1
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi. Cape Town: African Minds (pb R250 – 978 1 928331 78 0). 2019, 200 pp.	1
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya	1
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa	1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa	1
Tangled crises in Turkana: investigating the spread of Prosopis in Kenya’s northern drylands	1
Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria	1
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement	1
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council	1
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya	1
Building concrete futures: materiality and urban lives in West Africa	1
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange	1
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders	1
Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo	1

Embracing and denouncing the ‘Mecca uniform’ in Nigerian mass media, 1950s–1970s	1
‘We deserve new things’: (anti-)bricolage in Lomé’s makerspaces	1
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis	1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy	1
Nico Cloete, Ian Bunting and François van Schalkwyk (eds), Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town: African Minds (R300 – 978 1 928331 87 2). 2018, 314 pp.	1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation	1
Disability and technology in Africa: introduction	1
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda	1
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara	1
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria	1
Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny (eds), The Material Subject: rethinking bodies and objects in motion. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £90 – 978 1 350 07736 2). 2021, xxi + 246 pp	1
Entangled oligarchies: structure, agency and rent seeking in South Africa	1
‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ in Congo studies: an overview of themes and debates	1
Overheated stomachs: notes on urban life and toxicity in Nakuru, Kenya	1