OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Studies 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toxic waste dumping in the Global South as a form of environmental racism: Evidence from the Gulf of Guinea	23
Everyday practices of poor urban women to access water: Lived realities from a Nairobi slum	12
Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens	10
Causes and Effects of Rural-Urban Migration in Ethiopia: A Case Study from Amhara Region	10
‘We're now the Walking Dead’: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Social Activism	9
Urbanisation and the water challenge in Africa: Mapping out orders of water scarcity	9
Christianity and Masquerade Practices Among the Youth in Nsukka, Nigeria	7
Navigating Traditional and Modern Institutions in City Governance: The Role of Chieftaincy in Spatial Planning in Tamale, Ghana	6
Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs	6
Traditional Authorities in African Cities: Setting the Scene	6
Bleeding from One Generation to the Next: The Media and the Constructions of Gukurahundi Postmemories by University Students in Zimbabwe	6
‘I cannot stand up to the authority of my chief nor the state’: reflections on development-induced housing mobility in pro-poor housing systems in Tamale, Ghana	5
The South African land question in light of Nelson Mandela’s political thought	5
#African Time: Making the Future Legible	5
An Ethnopragmatic Analysis of Death-Prevention Names in the Karanga Society of Zimbabwe	4
Learning and performing political violence: ZANU-PF Youth and the 2008 presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe	4
Traditional Authorities and Spatial Planning in Urban Burkina Faso: Exploring the Roles and Land Value Capture by Moose Chieftaincies in Ouagadougou	4
A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Traditional Authority in Urban Development in South Africa and Eswatini	3
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies	3
Reading the Place and Role of Endogenous Governance Structures in Modernist Physical Planning: The Case of theBogosiand theKgotlain Botswana	3
‘A Song is Not Just a Song’: Community Mobilisation and Psychosocial Healing in South Africa’s AIDS Crisis	3
Local Governance and Traditional Authority in the Kingdom of Eswatini: The EvolvingTinkhundlaRegime	3
‘Such a Thing Does Not Have a Name in his Country’: Entanglements of Diaspora and ‘Home’ Homes in the Zimbabwean Short Story of Crisis	2
Identities, exclusionism and politics in Africa	2
Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders	1

Settling in Motion as Consciousness: Nyasa (Malawian) Informal Transit Across Southern Rhodesia towards South Africa from the 1910s to the 1950s	1
Staying a ‘Real Man’: Sexual Performance Concerns and Alternative Masculinities Among Young Men in Urban Tanzania	1
Foreigners in the South African Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis	1
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive	1
Communal Land and Belonging Among Foreign Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe	1
‘Then … Horror! Horror!': Laughter, Terror and Rebellion in the Unpublished Plays of H.I.E. Dhlomo	1
Catching the Disc: Panopticism, Surveillance and Punishment as a Pedagogical Tool in the Acquisition of Colonial Languages in Post-Colonial Schooling	1
School infrastructure as a predictor of teacher identity construction in Tanzania: The lesson from secondary education enactment policy	1
The Causes of Blood Feud in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia	1
Sex, Lives and Videotape: The Transhistoricity of an Itinerant Visual Archive	1
Alfred Nzo: Reassessing a Misunderstood Minister	1
Men’s Emic Perspectives on Factors Contributing to Child Sexual Abuse Vulnerability on the Islands of Western Kenya	1
Big Tsek: Joburg’s Private Surveillance Network and our Public Deficit	1
The Consolidation Of ‘Traditional Villages’ In Pikine, Senegal: Negotiating Legitimacy, Control and Access to Peri-Urban Land	1
Pastoralism and politics of exclusion in Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria	1
Decolonising the Cultural Landscape: Preserving Historical Statues in Tshwane, South Africa	0
Citizenship Attitudes and Social Inequality Among Moroccan University Students	0
Blaming the Other: Migrancy and Populism in Contemporary South Africa	0
Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya	0
The Fluidity of Patriarchy: Kinship, Tradition and the Prevention of Gendered Violence in Lugbaraland, Uganda	0
Along the museological grain: An exploration of the (geo)political inheritance inIsishweshwe Story: Material Women?	0
Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives	0
Echoes of home: Mamtiseni in the everyday of post-apartheid amaBhaca women migrants in Johannesburg, circa 1994–2017	0
Guns, Truncheons and the Virus: An Analysis of Liberation War Ideology in the Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Zimbabwe	0
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework	0
Sincere Intimacy, Genre and Heterotopology of a Confessional Public	0
Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ Speech: Mobilising Psycho-Political Resources for Political Reconstitution of Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
The terrorist and the mercenary: Private warriors against Nigeria’s Boko Haram	0
Ethnocentrism in African politics: The Nigerian experience	0
Dr Vera Bührmann (1910–1998): From Volksmoeder to Igqira? A Popular Myth Re-examined	0
The Ghost of Gulamo Nabi: The 1983 Case that Fractured the Façade of Multiracial Unity in Mozambican Socialism	0
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra’s Open-Air Markets	0
The 2019 Vilakazi Prize Report	0
Malaria and the Subsistence Crisis in Northeast Shewa, Ethiopia, in the 20th Century	0
Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy	0
Nationhood and Ethnic Ideology: Examining Selected Cartoon Paratexts in Kwani?	0
‘C’était bien à l’Époque’: Work and Leisure among Retrenched Mineworkers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba’s Kiswahili playTendehogo	0
Unsettling the Ranks: 1930s Zulu-Language Writings on African Progress and Unity in The Bantu World	0
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
Correction	0
The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy	0
The Politics of the Penis: Post-Apartheid Zulu Nationalism and Martial Masculinity, ca 1999 to 2018	0
Low Season	0
Twentieth-Century South African Women’s Memoir as Historiography	0
Rereading Burying SM as a ‘Social Reproduction Text’	0
Good for Elections but not for Government: Zongos and the Politics of Exclusion in Ghana	0
Making Ends Meet: Experiences of Older Women Heading Households in Rural Domboshava, Zimbabwe	0
Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township	0
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique	0

Neoliberal Leveraging of the Colonial Imagination: A Global South Reading of Tobacco Ads in Africa	0
In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres	0
Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi	0
An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia’	0
Exile and postcolonial national redemption in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus	0
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop	0
The ‘two democracies’ and Africa’s burden	0
Silent Agents of Nationalist Struggle? Women of Mozambique, Fighting a War Within a War	0
Colonialism and Customary Land Tenure in Africa: Portuguese Representations and Policies During the 19th and 20th Centuries	0
Thandika Mkandawire: A ‘young’ African economist’s appreciation	0
Institutional Prosperity: No Money, No Church, No Fellowship in South Africa? Migrant Women’s Relationships in a Context of Lack at Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church	0
Constructing the Symbolic Agendas of Political and Structural Transformation with the Discourse of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa	0