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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity	21
‘Human ATMs’: M-Pesa and the expropriation of affective work in Safaricom's Kenya	19
Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges	19
The lived experiences of the African middle classes Introduction	17
Labour, laziness and distribution: work imaginaries among the South African unemployed	14
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction	14
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity	12
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa	11
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa	10
(Re)inventing development: China, infrastructure, sustainability and special economic zones in Nigeria	9
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction	9
Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda	9
From Russia with love: medical modernities, development dreams, and Cold War legacies in Kenya, 1969 and 2015	8
Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making	8
Kenya and China's labour relations: infrastructural development for whom, by whom?	7
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi	7
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya	7
Beyond realism: Africa's medical dreams Introduction	7
Neotraditional authority contested: the corporatization of tradition and the quest for democracy in the Topnaar Traditional Authority, Namibia	6
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal	6
Morality in the middle: choosing cars or houses in Botswana	6
Global health's durable dreams: ethnography, ‘community health workers’ and health without health infrastructure	5
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region	5
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique	5
‘We are passing our leisure time’: moving on from education in eastern Uganda	5

Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below	5
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector	4
The spectre of rootless urban youth (bayaaye) in Kulyennyingi, a novel of Amin-era Uganda	4
Death without mourning: homosexuality,homo sacer, and bearable loss in Central Africa	4
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa	4
Made in China, fashioned in Africa: ethnic dress in Ethiopia and Mozambique	4
Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso	4
Dreams and dream spaces of West African molecular microbiology	4
Performing excess: urban ceremony and the semiotics of precarity in Guinea-Conakry	4
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu	4
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region	3
Afro-Chinese engagements: infrastructure, land, labour and finance Introduction	3
The need to travel: Malian women shuttle traders, autonomy and (mis)trust in neoliberal Dakar	3
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–2020	3
Hackers of the heart: digital sorcery and virtual intimacy in Côte d'Ivoire	3
Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches	3
Dreaming partnership, enabling inequality: administrative infrastructure in global health science	3
Of dreams and nightmares: implementing medical male circumcision in eSwatini (Swaziland)	3
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana	3
Financing China's engagement in Africa: new state spaces along a variegated landscape	3
What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana	3
Tindaanaship and tindaanas in traditional Gurensi (Frafra) communities: land use and practices	3
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists	2
‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces	2
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule	2
Janus-faced activists: the social and political embeddedness of civil society in Niger	2
Introduction: the stuff of African cities	2
Providing to belong: masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos’	2
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field: black lawyers and the Bantustans	2
‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes	2
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda	2
Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home	2
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia	2
Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint	2
The dead archive: governance and institutional memory in independent Mozambique	2
‘We are taught to act’: hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi	2
Credible risk: private credit bureaus and the work of loan officers in West Africa	2
Ebola imaginaries and the Senegalese outbreak: anticipated nightmare and remembered victory	2
United Nigerian Textiles Limited and Chinese–Nigerian textile-manufacturing collaboration in Kaduna	2
Rhythms of the unemployed: making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya	2
Imagining viral hepatitis in Burkina Faso	2
Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia	2
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s	2
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya	1
#weareone: blood donation, terrorism and dreams of inclusion in Kenya	1
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state	1
Remembering Africanization: two conversations among elderly science workers about the perpetually promissory	1
‘Idle minds’ and ‘empty stomachs’: youth, violence and religious diversity in coastal Kenya	1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola	1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa	1

‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa	1
The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council	1
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria	1
New books on popular transport in East Africa - Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: a history of popular transportation in Nairobi. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb US$90 – 978 0 226 13086 6; pb US$30 –	1
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange	1
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in 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
‘The food is not enough’: disability and food aid technologies in a Ugandan refugee settlement	1
Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo	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
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment	1
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya	1
The death of Adumissa: a suicide at Cape Coast, Ghana, around 1800	1
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya	1
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests	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
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change	1
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism	1
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana	1
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders	1
‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ in Congo studies: an overview of themes and debates	1
Flight and fortitude: the decline of the middle class in Zimbabwe	1
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda	1
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages	1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation	1
Becoming militant: embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations	1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie	1
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language	1
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation	1
Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal	1