OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Affairs is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	16
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	15
Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies	15
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	12
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	11
Diaspora Voting In Kenya: A Promise Denied	10
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	10
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	8
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	8
Amhara nationalism: The empire strikes back	8
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	8
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	7
Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba	7
The politics of autocratic survival in Equatorial Guinea: Co-optation, restrictive institutional rules, repression, and international projection	7
How regional norms shape regional organizations: The Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament	6
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram	6
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	5
Introduction: The uncertainties of Ghana’s 2020 elections	5
The 2020 Ivorian election and the ‘third-term’ debate: A crisis of ‘Korocracy’?	5
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	5
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	5
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	4
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	4
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4

Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	4
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	4
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	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
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia	3
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	3
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	3
Women’s rights and critical junctures in constitutional reform in Africa (1951–2019)	3
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	3
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	3
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	3
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	3