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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	17
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	16
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	13
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	11
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	11
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	10
Book Review	10
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history	10
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	10
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	9
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	9
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	8
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	7
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia	7
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	6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	5
A Companion to African Rhetoric	5
Book Review	5
African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy	5
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	5
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	5
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	4
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	4

Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	4
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4
The next factory of the world: How Chinese investment is reshaping Africa	3
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	3
The path to genocide in Rwanda: Security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state	3
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	3
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	3
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	3
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	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