OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Africa Spectrum 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
Political Vigilante Groups in Ghana: Violence or Democracy?	14
African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality	12
Punching above Weight: How the African Union Commission Exercises Agency in Politics	12
Exploring Africa's Agency in International Politics	10
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino–Angolan Relationship	10
Autocratisation by Term Limits Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace	9
Dear German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production?	8
Rethinking African Futures after COVID-19	8
African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons	7
Remittance Houses and Transnational Citizenship: Mapping Eritrea’s Diaspora–State Relationships	7
Presidential Term Limits and Regime Types: When Do Leaders Respect Constitutional Norms?	6
Process Tracing the Term Limit Struggle in Malawi: The Role of International Democracy Promotion in Muluzi’s Bid for a Third Term	6
Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan	5
Between Tradition and Modernity: Customary Structures as Agents in Local Governance in Ghana	5
Africa's Middle Classes	5
Eritrea’s Chosen Trauma and the Legacy of the Martyrs: The Impact of Postmemory on Political Identity Formation of Second-Generation Diaspora Eritreans	5
Patronage, Repression, and Co-Optation: Bobi Wine and the Political Economy of Activist Musicians in Uganda	5
The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation	4
Citizenship, Indigeneity, and the Experiences of 1.5- and Second-Generation Fulani Herders in Ghana	4
Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements	4
“Special Circumstances” and the Politics of Climate Vulnerability: African Agency in the UN Climate Change Negotiations	3
Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry	3
“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs	3
Transnational Lived Citizenship – The Case of the Eritrean Diaspora	3

The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda	3
The Resurgence of Religious and Ethnic Identities among Eritrean Refugees: A Response to the Government’s Nationalist Ideology	3