OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification	27
The voice of reason: a thematic appraisal of editorial coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 elections	15
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	10
The long career of Dr Coert Grobbelaar: engaging the history of physical anthropology at Stellenbosch University	9
African urbanisms and their hinterlands: contemporary cultural imaginaries of spatial connections	8
Against racial capitalism: selected writings	7
The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive	7
Guilty on the innocent side: evil subjectivity in two eastern african child soldier memoirs	6
Frank-talking: a reading of Biko’s statement “On Death” with Foucault’s concept of parrhesia	5
Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture	5
Everyday sociality, political protest and the commodity boundary in southern Africa	5
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa	5
Johannesburg’s shitty little river: faecal discourse and discontent regarding the Jukskei	4
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	4
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord	4
Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts	4
Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive	4
The queen mothers’ struggle for breath: the colonisation of an institution	4
The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline	3
Unpacking the Makhadzi metaphor in No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela	3
Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s weaponisation of the discourse of race	3
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory	3
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies	3
Reimagining good fatherhood: non-custodial black fathers’ experiences in South Africa	2
Cape mission liberalism and the South African liberation struggle	2

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	2
“We’re making the town dirty”: the disruptive potential of “matter out of place” in a post-apartheid politics of visibility	2
Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary AfroFrench narratives	2
Circular mobilities and health care seeking practices for perceived malaria illness among Nairobi residents in Kenya	2
The ears of apartheid	2
Thanks to Reviewers	2
Notions of self and community in Kampala urban space in Ugandan poetry anthologies	2
A call for organic spirituality in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Wizard of the Crow	2