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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency	19
Dependency in a financialised global economy	16
Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies	14
Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	12
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve	12
Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin	12
The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation	11
Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic	10
Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution	9
Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania	9
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013	9
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso	8
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	8
Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy	8
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	7
Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class	7
Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin	6
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	5
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers	5
Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala	5
Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy	5
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood	4
Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?	4
When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa	4
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	4

Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa	4
East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?	4
Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda	4
Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015	4
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa	4
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
Coups and neo-colonialism	3
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique	3
Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria	3
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	3
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies	3
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	2
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	2
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	2
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa	2
The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets	2
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective	2
Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa	2
Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum’s scramble for mining rights, 1995–2019	2
Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry	2
Foreign debt versus organised labour: reflections on the UGTT’s stance on IMF loans in post-uprising Tunisia	2
Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system	2
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	2
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	2
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa	2
Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage	2
Rebuilding hegemony: passive revolution, state transformation and South Africa’s steel sector	2