OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies is 1. 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
Special Issue Cover Page	4
Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits	4
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance	4
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
Youth and the future of work: introduction	3
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
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
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
Cape mission liberalism and the South African liberation struggle	1
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	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
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