OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of African Political Economy 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	31
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	28
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	20
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	18
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War	16
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots	16
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	13
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe	13
Migration beyond capitalism	11
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	10
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s	9
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	8
Africa Development	8
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	7
A radical supplement: Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire	7
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism	7
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers	6
Africa’s unequal balance	6
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	5
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	5
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	4
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation	4
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity	4
Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo	4
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	4

Ruth First Prize	4
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	4
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	4
The military in Zimbabwean politics	3
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	3
Economic instrument or political tool? An assessment of the socioeconomic outcomes of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2022 currency redesign and cashless policy	3
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	3
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	3
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta	3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	3
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans	3
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	3
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources	3
Volume Index	3
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources	3
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	3
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	2
The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics	2
The climate emergency in Africa	2
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique	2
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	2
Correction	2
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana	2
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	2
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions	2
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	2
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria	2
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan	2
The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism (1968–1978)	2
Chinese capital and economic transformation in Africa: what has changed after Covid-19?	2