OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Affairs is 0. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices	17
Party campaign strategies in Ghana: Rallies, canvassing and handouts	15
Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies	14
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria	14
The Sahel crisis since 2012	12
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	12
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	11
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	11
The complex choreography of agricultural biotechnology in Africa	11
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	11
Diaspora Voting In Kenya: A Promise Denied	10
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	9
Amhara nationalism: The empire strikes back	8
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	8
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	8
The politics of autocratic survival in Equatorial Guinea: Co-optation, restrictive institutional rules, repression, and international projection	7
Pidgin play: Linguistic subversion on Chinese-run construction sites in Ethiopia	7
Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba	7
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	6
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram	5
How regional norms shape regional organizations: The Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament	5
The 2020 Ivorian election and the ‘third-term’ debate: A crisis of ‘Korocracy’?	5
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	5
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	4
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	4

Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	4
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	4
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4
Introduction: The uncertainties of Ghana’s 2020 elections	4
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia	3
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	3
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	3
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	3
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	3
The Politics of Non-State Security Provision in Burkina Faso: Koglweogo Self-Defence Groups’ Ambiguous Pursuit of Recognition	3
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships: Apartheid’s Legal Shadows	3
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	3
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	3
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	3
Women’s rights and critical junctures in constitutional reform in Africa (1951–2019)	3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	2
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana	2
Decolonization, Freemasonry and the rise of ‘homosexuality’ as a public issue in Cameroon: The return of Dr Aujoulat1	2
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	2
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	2
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	2
Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos	2
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	2
We All Need Philosophy Of Science: Analyticism As A Vehicle For Explanatory Understanding In Multi-method Research	2
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	2
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	1
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	1
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	1
The War in UKraine, the African Union, and African Agency	1
Litigating socio-economic and women’s rights in Benin’s constitutional court	1
Infrastructure and perceptions of democracy in Zambia: Democracy off the rails	1
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	1
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	1
A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda	1
Sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: Problems, perspectives, and prospects	1
Urbanization and political change in Africa	1
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	1
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon	1
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	1
Erratum to: ‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentreing African Agency	1
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi	1
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	1
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	1
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle	0
Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda	0
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	0
The next factory of the world: How Chinese investment is reshaping Africa	0

Africa–Asia: a tale of worldmaking between alterity and contestation	0
Book Review	0
Correction To: Ethnic Politics and Party Realignment in African Constitutional Referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of Insults’	0
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	0
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	0
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	0
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	0
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	0
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0
African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy	0
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
A Companion to African Rhetoric	0
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	0
The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism: Spectacles of suffering	0
Contagious Coups In Africa? History Of Civil–military imbalance	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò	0
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history	0
China and Africa: The new era	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
British media and the Rwandan genocide	0
Book Review	0
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	0
Multiplicity and simultaneity in ethnographic research: Exploring the use of drones in Ghana	0
Retail worker politics, race and consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the service economy	0
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	0
Book Review	0
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	0
Fighting for peace in Somalia: A history and analysis of the African Union mission (AMISOM), 2007–2017	0
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	0
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	0
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	0
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	0
Review of social policy in the African context	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	0
Shaping the African savannah: From capitalist frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia	0
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	0
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions: Explaining Reforms To Candidate Selection In Ghana	0
Book Review	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	0
The path to genocide in Rwanda: Security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state	0
Trusting in Somalia’s stateless money: The persistence of the Somali shilling	0
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	0
Book Review	0
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	0
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Nigerian youth engagement in violent electoral environments: Political apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	0
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	0
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	0
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	0
South Sudan’s civil war: Violence, insurgency and failed peacemaking	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
Beyond history: African development, diplomacy, and conflict resolution	0
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	0
Arbitrary States. Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	0
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	0
China, Africa, and the future of the internet	0
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	0
Matched Sampling Methodology Reconsidered: The Role of Trust in Studying Remittance Transfers Between Ghanaian Immigrants in the UK and their Relatives in Ghana	0
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-Dos Santos era	0