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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate Security and Climate Justice: Recognizing Context in the Sahel . Tor A. Benjaminsen	20
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	19
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance , by Alexandra O. Zeitz	18
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	17
CHALLENGERS IN A PANDEMIC: COVID-19 STATES OF EXCEPTION, OPPOSITION PARTIES, AND OUTCOMES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA	16
Book Review	16
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	13
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang	11
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	11
The 2024 Botswana elections and the demise of the Botswana Democratic Party	9
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	8
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	7
Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations , Abiodun Williams	7
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi	7
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	7
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	6
HOW CONSTITUENCY GATEKEEPERS SHAPE PARLIAMENTARY BEHAVIOUR IN GHANA	6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	6
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	6
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	6
Cultural Cohesion in Regional Organizations: Equatorial Guinea, the Cplp, and its Death Penalty Abolition	5
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	5
A Companion to African Rhetoric	5
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	4
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District	4

‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	4
The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4
Book Review	4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	4
Broken Bones, Buried Bullets, and Honest Money: Peacemaking, Innovation, and History in Karamoja, Uganda	4
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	3
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	2
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	2
Africa–Asia: a tale of worldmaking between alterity and contestation	2
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	2
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong	2
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	2
Nigerian Youth Engagement in Violent Electoral Environments: Political Apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	2
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	2
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	2
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola	2
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò	2
Correction To: Ethnic Politics and Party Realignment in African Constitutional Referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of Insults’	1
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	1
Review of social policy in the African context	1
The study centre of the Africa Institute: Dutch aid, trade policy, and the future of African Studies	1
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	1
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	1
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	1
Decentring foreign peace mediation in the case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis	1
Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Proselytiser, Pharaoh, and Pope. Adekeye Adebajo	1
Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon	1
Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo. Christoph N. Vogel	1
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	1
Comparing Jihadist Governance in the Sahelian Branches of the Islamic State	0
Succession in Uganda: what do Ugandans Think of Muhoozi Kainerugaba?	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
Contagious Coups In Africa? History Of Civil–Military imbalance	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	0
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Tourism, Change and the Global South. Jarkko Saarinen and Jayne M. Rogerson	0
Property Confiscation in the Zanzibar Revolution	0
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	0
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	0
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	0
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	0
Reimagining a Nexus Between Seaport and National Development: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Ghana’s Port of Tema	0

Book Review	0
Urbanization and political change in Africa	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0
Kony 2025: the Survival of the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Car–Sudan–DRC Borderlands	0
China and Africa: The new era	0
state-building, infrastructure, and citizenship in rural tanzania: persistence and change in nyumba kumi kumi (the 10-house cell)	0
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	0
Book Review	0
The Covid-19 Pandemic Response and the New Era of Austerity in Africa	0
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	0
Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Kwame Nkrumah’s Normative Legacy and Pan-Africanism , Charles Asante	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
Dark Humour, Social Media, and Everyday Violence in Nigeria: Gbaa ya ọkụ in Onitsha city	0
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria. Wale Adebanwi	0
The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in planetary networks of work. Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham	0
THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS: FOREIGN INVESTMENTS, KINSHIP, STATE-BUILDING, AND CONFLICT IN SOMALILAND	0
Book Review	0
Balancing Acts: Gender Parity Law and Cultural Boundaries in Senegal	0
‘Is this Liver Human?’: Child Sacrifice and Moral Panics in Uganda	0
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	0
Brutalism. Achille Mbembe	0
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Pedagogies of Digital Sovereignty: The Un/Making Of Dependency Through Technical Education in Kenya	0
Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya , Colin Leys	0
BRINGING PAN-AFRICANISM BACK IN AS AN ANALYTICAL CATEGORY	0
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	0
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone	0
‘If you build him, he will build’: Rural Tanzanian women’s agency through home construction	0
Policing and Citizen Trust in Kenya: How Community Policing Shapes Local Trust-Building and Collaboration	0
Shuffled and Shortchanged? The Gender Gap in Cabinet Shuffles in Africa	0
Strategizing for Quality Elections in Africa: Party Capacity and the Politics of Vigilance In Ghana	0
From Rhetoric to Reality: The Role of Political Framing in Shaping Understanding and Behaviour During the Tigray Conflict	0
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	0
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle	0
Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum, Redux	0
Correction to: Building an idea of the state? Regime dominance and the material legacy of a development project in Ethiopia	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
The Politics of Cryptocurrency Regulation in Africa	0
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	0
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	0
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	0
The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel	0
What do voters want from their legislators? evidence from ghana	0
Correction to: The Sahel crisis since 2012	0
Elite Recyclement or Generational Change: South Sudan’s Critical Juncture	0
Salafism between purism and politicking: Chieftaincy struggles, party competition, and the Anbariya movement in Dagbon, Northern Ghana	0
Senegal: Between Political Instability and Democratic Consolidation	0
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon	0
THE SMARTPHONE CONNECTS IN VIOLENT CONFLICTS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MALI’S NEW WAR ECOLOGY	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism In Ghana, by Ellie Gore	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era	0
On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Building an idea of the state? Regime dominance and the material legacy of a development project in Ethiopia	0
Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda	0
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	0
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	0