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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	23
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	20
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	16
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	14
Book Review	13
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz	13
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history	12
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	12
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	10
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi	9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	9
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	8
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	7
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	7
A Companion to African Rhetoric	7
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	6
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	6
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	5
Book Review	5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	5
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	5

Navigating the post-donor arena in Uganda’s Gulu district	4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	4
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò	3
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong	3
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	3
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	3
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	3
Nigerian Youth Engagement in Violent Electoral Environments: Political Apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	2
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	2
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	2
Africa–Asia: a tale of worldmaking between alterity and contestation	2
Review of social policy in the African context	2
Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon	2
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	2
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola	2
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	2
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	1
Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo. Christoph N. Vogel	1
Contagious Coups In Africa? History Of Civil–Military imbalance	1
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	1
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Proselytiser, Pharaoh, and Pope. Adekeye Adebajo	1
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions: Explaining Reforms To Candidate Selection In Ghana	1
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	1
The study centre of the Africa Institute: Dutch aid, trade policy, and the future of African Studies	1
Decentring foreign peace mediation in the case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis	1
Correction To: Ethnic Politics and Party Realignment in African Constitutional Referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of Insults’	1
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	1
Correction to: Building an idea of the state? Regime dominance and the material legacy of a development project in Ethiopia	0
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	0
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	0
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	0
Salafism between purism and politicking: Chieftaincy struggles, party competition, and the Anbariya movement in Dagbon, Northern Ghana	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	0
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	0
state-building, infrastructure, and citizenship in rural tanzania: persistence and change in nyumba kumi kumi (the 10-house cell)	0
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria. Wale Adebanwi	0

Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	0
Correction to: The Sahel crisis since 2012	0
Urbanization and political change in Africa	0
Dark humour, social media, and everyday violence in Nigeria: gbaa ya ọkụ in Onitsha city	0
Brutalism. Achille Mbembe	0
Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	0
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	0
Tourism, Change and the Global South. Jarkko Saarinen and Jayne M. Rogerson	0
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	0
The Politics of Cryptocurrency Regulation in Africa	0
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	0
Book Review	0
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	0
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	0
‘If you build him, he will build’: Rural Tanzanian women’s agency through home construction	0
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon	0
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Elite Recyclement or Generational Change: South Sudan’s Critical Juncture	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era	0
Arbitrary States. Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	0
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	0
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	0
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana	0
Book Review	0
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	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
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	0
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	0
Shaping the African savannah: From capitalist frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia	0
The Politics of Non-State Security Provision in Burkina Faso: Koglweogo Self-Defence Groups’ Ambiguous Pursuit of Recognition	0
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Book Review	0
Policing and Citizen Trust in Kenya: How Community Policing Shapes Local Trust-Building and Collaboration	0
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	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
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0
The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel	0
Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone	0
The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in planetary networks of work. Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham	0
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	0
China and Africa: The new era	0
Strategizing for quality elections in Africa: party capacity and the politics of vigilance in Ghana	0
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	0
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi	0
Building an idea of the state? Regime dominance and the material legacy of a development project in Ethiopia	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
Shuffled and Shortchanged? The Gender Gap in Cabinet Shuffles in Africa	0
British media and the Rwandan genocide	0
What do voters want from their legislators? evidence from ghana	0
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	0