OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Affairs is 4. 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 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentering African agency	24
The motivations and dynamics of Zimbabwe’s 2017 military coup	24
Respecting and circumventing presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative survey	18
Parastatals and economic transformation in South Africa: The political economy of the Eskom crisis	15
Party campaign strategies in Ghana: Rallies, canvassing and handouts	13
Manipulating Africa? Perspectives on the experimental method in the study of African politics	11
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria	10
Tax bargaining, fiscal contracts, and fiscal capacity in Ghana: A long-term perspective	10
Introduction: Methodologies for researching Africa	10
The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices	10
The complex choreography of agricultural biotechnology in Africa	9
Devolution and the politics of communal tenure reform in Kenya	9
From pyramid to pointed egg? A 20-year perspective on poverty, prosperity, and rural transformation in Tanzania	8
Diaspora Voting In Kenya: A Promise Denied	8
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	8
The Sahel crisis since 2012	7
Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies	7
The Successes and Failures of Economic Reform in Nigeria’s Post-Military Political Settlement	7
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	6
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	5
The foot soldiers of Accra	5
Bureaucrats at war: The resilient state in the Congo	5
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	5
How regional norms shape regional organizations: The Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament	5
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	5

Mozambique elections 2019: Pernicious polarization, democratic decline, and rising authoritarianism	4
Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba	4
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	4
Amhara nationalism: The empire strikes back	4
Introduction: Women, gender, and change in Africa	4
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	4
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	4
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram	4
Pidgin play: Linguistic subversion on Chinese-run construction sites in Ethiopia	4
‘Mbare Musika is ours’: An analysis of a fresh produce market in Zimbabwe	4