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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity	21
Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges	21
‘Human ATMs’: M-Pesa and the expropriation of affective work in Safaricom's Kenya	19
The lived experiences of the African middle classes Introduction	18
Harnessing the ‘hustle’: struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond Introduction	17
Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction	14
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa	13
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity	13
Hloniphaand health: ancestors, taboos and social medicine in South Africa	10
‘Youth are redrawing the map’: temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi	10
‘Under construction’: everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya	9
Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda	9
Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making	8
Quietly queer(ing): the normative value ofsuturaand its potential for young women in urban Senegal	7
Morality in the middle: choosing cars or houses in Botswana	6
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique	6
Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below	5
Death without mourning: homosexuality,homo sacer, and bearable loss in Central Africa	5
Made in China, fashioned in Africa: ethnic dress in Ethiopia and Mozambique	5
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa	5
The making of a conservation landscape: the emergence of a conservationist environmental infrastructure along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi region	5
‘You will build me’: fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu	4
Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso	4
The spectre of rootless urban youth (bayaaye) inKulyennyingi,a novel of Amin-era Uganda	4
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector	4

‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes	3
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda	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
Moral navigation and child fostering in Chiawa, Zambia	3
What's (not) in a leather pouch? Tracing Islamic amulets in Asante, Ghana	3
Chronicles of Bailundo: a fragmentary account in Umbundu of life before and after Portuguese colonial rule	3
Introduction: the stuff of African cities	3
Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region	3
Providing to belong: masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos’	3
Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches	3
Tindaanaship and tindaanas in traditional Gurensi (Frafra) communities: land use and practices	3
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana	3
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s	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
‘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
‘Its name is Awetasc’: devices and the everyday life of people with physical disability in Ethiopia	2
The dead archive: governance and institutional memory in independent Mozambique	2
From discursive resistance to new genealogies: rethinking Israelite identities in Africa through the case of Nuer Christian Zionists	2
‘Idle minds’ and ‘empty stomachs’: youth, violence and religious diversity in coastal Kenya	2
Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint	2
‘Money looks for money’: managing financialization in eastern Uganda	1
City of icebergs: materiality, surface and depth in Nairobi’s built environment	1
‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa	1
On the theologico-theatrical: popular culture and the economic imperative in Nigerian Pentecostalism	1
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola	1
Politics by night: histories of extraversion and rumours of body part theft on the south coast of Kenya	1
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests	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
Scientific knowledge and sexual advocacy: African publics, choiceless citizens and potential confounders	1
The meaning and uses of privatization: the case of the Ethiopian developmental state	1
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: the materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space	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
Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda	1
Paradigm-breaking pandemics, old academic politics	1
Female slam poets of francophone Africa: spirited words for social change	1
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy	1
‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya	1
Becoming militant: embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations	1
A share in the sands: trips, pits and potholes in Accra, Ghana	1
On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda	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
‘You can’t do politics without money’: female politicians, matronage, and the limits of gender quotas in Kenya	1
Ibadi Muslim schools in post-revolutionary Zanzibar	1
Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria	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

Embracing and denouncing the ‘Mecca uniform’ in Nigerian mass media, 1950s–1970s	1
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation	1
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda: values of utility, provenance and presentation	1
Saving the ‘indigenous banks’: moral politics of economic sovereignty in Ghana’s 2017–19 financial crisis	1
Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa	1
The death of Adumissa: a suicide at Cape Coast, Ghana, around 1800	1
Never enough: neoliberalizing Namibian middle-class marriages	1
Rejoicing of the hearts: Turkish constructions of Muslim whiteness in Africa south of the Sahara	1
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie	1
From ‘ethnic militias’ to ‘jungle justice’? Research and change in vigilantism in Nigeria	1
Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language	1
Ghana muntie: from Station ZOY to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation	1
Flight and fortitude: the decline of the middle class in Zimbabwe	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
Investing in independence: popular shareholding on the West African stock exchange	1
Chinua Achebe’s postcolony: a literary anthropology of postcolonial decadence	1