OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Dynamics-A Journal 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification	16
South African photography and the lives of workers	7
The voice of reason: a thematic appraisal of editorial coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 elections	5
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance	4
Special Issue Cover Page	4
Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits	4
Youth and the future of work: introduction	3
Arrested (game) development: labour and lifestyles of independent video game creators in Cape Town	3
Mixed memories: rethinking the loss and transformation of the colonial heritage archive in the aftermath of the Jagger Library inferno and Rhodes Must Fall Movement	3
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid	3
The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive	3
Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture	2
Migration and education in Zimbabwe and South Africa	2
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé’sKites of Good Fortuneand Rayda Jacobs’sThe Slave Book	2
Against racial capitalism: selected writings	2
Frank-talking: a reading of Biko’s statement “On Death” with Foucault’s concept of parrhesia	2
Rethinking river resilience: the lower Orange/Gariep river	2
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa	2
No time to relax: waithood and work of young migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa	2
Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts	1
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson	1
The ears of apartheid	1
The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962–64: censorship by harassment of a radical journal	1
Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary AfroFrench narratives	1
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony	1

Access to land in difficult times: an ethnographic study of morally compromised strangers in northern Ghana	1
The gendered character of welfare: reconsidering vulnerability and violence in South Africa	1
Decolonial opacities: Cold War Assemblages	1
Competing traditions: the origins and development of worker education in South Africa	1
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory	1
Rasa and resilience: where to from here	1
Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, “Tsafendas’s Diary,” and Staffrider magazine (1988)	1
Lower Orange River views	1
The road to democracy in South Africa Vol. 9, South African democracy education trust: the power and authority of African women in the Southern African and African diaspora during “precolonial” and co	1
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies	1
Crediting worker education? Insights from South African experiences	1
The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline	1
“Making plans through people”: the social embeddedness of informal entrepreneurship in urban South Africa	1
The queen mothers’ struggle for breath: the colonisation of an institution	1
Author response for Cold War Assemblages: decolonisation to digital roundtable	1
Ungroup, regroup	1
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord	1
Small magazines in Africa: ecologies and genealogies	1
Composition and/as postcolonial shame: Philip Miller’s REwind: a cantata for voice, tape, and testimony	1
Under waves of resilience – Dwesa-Cwebe: a case study on environmental policy and the expectation of resilience on South African coastal communities	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s weaponisation of the discourse of race	1
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	1
Cape mission liberalism and the South African liberation struggle	1
Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive	1
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”	1
Johannesburg’s shitty little river: faecal discourse and discontent regarding the Jukskei	1
Everyday sociality, political protest and the commodity boundary in southern Africa	1
Edward W. Blyden’s intellectual tradition: the place of ‘race’ and religion	0
Audiovisual artefacts: the African politics of moving image loss	0
On Race and Religion in African Political Communities: An Interview with David Theo Goldberg	0
The native body as blue ground: South Africa’s infrastructural production of race	0
The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling	0
Roundtable on Bhakti Shringapure’s Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (New York and London, Routledge, 2020, 218 pages, ISBN 9780367670900)	0
A review of the state of trade union-based worker education	0
“Peculiar and enabling”: cold war paradigms and paradoxes	0
Perceived (ir)relevance: resilience and Visual Arts	0
Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
Ke mosali oa Mosotho : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho	0
Rebellious sons and bad fathers: white male jouissance in the postcolony	0
Archive history in Zambia as a history of loss	0
The desire of apartheid	0
Editorial note of thanks	0
‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections	0
Commanding the respect of all who knew her: recovering the marginalised history of Eleanor Xiniwe and the challenges of the colonial archive	0
“Dancing on the ceiling” : young Black entrepreneurs leveraging capitals across sub-fields in Johannesburg tourism	0
Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in the truly African university	0
Exploring the entanglement of race and religion in Africa	0
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None	0
Conceptualising the historical tradition of radical workers’ education in South Africa	0

The work of repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa	0
Intellectual decolonisation and the danger of epistemic closure: the need for a critical decolonial theory	0
“An invisible rash”: migrant (im)mobility and corporeality in Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy	0
J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution . Bloomsbury 2021	0
Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria	0
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag	0
The afterlife of apartheid: a triadic temporality of trauma	0
Precarious employment and precarious life: youth and work in Pretoria’s white working-class suburbs	0
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa	0
On the political theology of apartheid: a philosophical investigation	0
Why recognition? Deciphering justice claims in 2016 Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon	0
Burying the superego?	0
How is workers’ education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples	0
From apartheid to the planetary present: breaching time in Nadine Gordimer’s “Something Out There”	0
A kind of horror of the archive: a conversation between Onyeka Igwe and Litheko Modisane	0
[Re-]Creative rites: exploring the materiality of clay and its making processes	0
“You don’t say”	0
Nexus/Busara and the rise of modern Kenyan literature	0
“ Needs ” versus “w ants ”: examining the manifestations and motivations of transactional sex among young women in relation to HIV risk in	0
Record-keeping and political advocacy in late colonial Uganda: the case of Abataka Abasoga, Busoga, 1940 to 1950	0
Pan-Africanism and psychology in decolonial times	0
“All who care to look”: loss and renewal in the wake of the Jagger library fire	0
Interview with Harry Garuba on modernist African poetry and his collection Animist Chants and Memorials	0
Apartheid and the unconscious: an introduction	0
Bhakti Shringarpure’s Cold War Assemblages: decolonisation to digital	0
(W)archives: archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art	0
Beyond apocalypse: rethinking capitalism, democracy and crisis in South Africa	0
Reading the paratext: posture and self-fashioning in African “little magazines”	0
My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece	0
“Little research value”: African Estate records and colonial gaps in a post-colonial national archive	0
Auditing and the unconscious: managerialism’s memory traces	0
Housing struggles as political practice in post-apartheid Cape Town: reading Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession	0
Condemned by desire: miscegenation, gender, and eroticism in South Africa’s Immorality Act	0
Decolonisation in Africa: love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital	0
The struggle for housing and basic services in South Africa: a case for service delivery protests	0
Is being itself colonial?	0
Engendering social protection: a feminist critical policy analysis of the national social protection policy of Ghana	0
Decolonising the Neoliberal University. Law, psychoanalysis and the politics of student protest Decolonising the Neoliberal University. Law, psychoanalysis and the politics of student p	0
On maternal legacies of knowledge, ukwambathisa , and rethinking of the sociology of Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
“These aren’t the jobs we want”: youth unemployment and anti-work politics in Khayelitsha, Cape Town	0
Transporting the “Bus Stop Republic” – resilience and apartheid’s transport infrastructure, 1979 to present times	0
The politics of decolonial investigations The politics of decolonial investigations , by Walter Mignolo, Durham, Duke University Press, 2021, xxvi + 707 pp., US$39.95 (p	0
Laughter in the face of police brutality: an analysis of satirical memes on police brutality in Zimbabwe on August 16, 2019	0
The past, present, and future of workers’ education in South Africa	0
Strategic protest and the negotiation of legibility in Cape Town: a case study of Reclaim the City	0
Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction	0
Ghosts of archive: deconstructive intersectionality and praxis	0
From “dependency” to “decoloniality”? The enduring relevance of materialist political economy and the problems of a “decolonial” alternative	0
Rituals, family connections, and BoRakgadi	0
“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory	0
Decolonial Marxism, essays from the Pan African revolution	0
The contradictions of black consciousness: from Biko to RhodesMustFall	0
Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter	0
Nairobi in the making: landscapes of time and urban belonging	0
Asserting identity in stifling spaces: multisemioticity in Nigerian queer-positive Instagram	0