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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	43
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	15
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	15
The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa	13
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	11
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots	11
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s	9
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	8
Africa Development	7
A radical supplement: Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire	7
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	7
Africa’s unequal balance	7
The limits of Marxist-Leninism and the democratic ecosocialist alternative	6
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	6
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers	6
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	5
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	5
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	5
Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo	5
Economic instrument or political tool? An assessment of the socioeconomic outcomes of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2022 currency redesign and cashless policy	4
Increased Chinese investments in Zimbabwe’s lithium megaprojects: energy colonialism, geopolitics and new patterns of accumulation in Africa’s critical minerals	4
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	4
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	4
The Sahrawi fisheries sector in the world economy: extraction, industry and commercialisation under occupation	4
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3

Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	3
The military in Zimbabwean politics	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
‘Thieves, return the people’s money!’ The engagement of West Saharan artists against the plundering of regional natural resources	3
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	3
Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity	3
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources	3
‘We’ve got the state. Where’s the power?’: debilitating contradictions in the South African Communist Party’s state leadership since 1994	2
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	2
‘We are building a new and better society’: prefigurative strategies for building socialism today – the legacies of Ruth First and Matthew Goniwe	2
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	2
Correction	2
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	2
The climate emergency in Africa	2
The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics	2
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	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
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	2