OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Affairs is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	16
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	15
Beyond history: African development, diplomacy, and conflict resolution	15
African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy	12
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	11
A Companion to African Rhetoric	10
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	10
Nigerian Youth Engagement in Violent Electoral Environments: Political Apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	8
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	8
What do voters want from their legislators? evidence from ghana	8
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	7
Women’s rights and critical junctures in constitutional reform in Africa (1951–2019)	7
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	6
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	6
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	5
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	5
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	5
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	4
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	4
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	4
The 2020 Ivorian election and the ‘third-term’ debate: A crisis of ‘Korocracy’?	4
Erratum to: ‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentreing African Agency	4
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	4
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	3
Book Review	3

India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	3
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	3
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships: Apartheid’s Legal Shadows	3
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	3
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	3
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	3
Review of social policy in the African context	3
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	3
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	2
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	2
Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon	2
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	2
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	2
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	2
Virtual issue: elections	2
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	2
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	2
Book Review	2