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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency	17
Dependency in a financialised global economy	15
Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies	12
Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin	12
Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	10
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve	10
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
The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation	9
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013	9
Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania	8
Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy	7
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	6
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	5
Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala	5
Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin	5
Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class	5
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood	4
The political economy of disability in South Africa, between social grants and job-creation programmes	4
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	4
East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?	4
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso	4
Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?	4
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa	4
Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015	4

When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa	4
Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy	4
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	3
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	3
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique	3
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers	3
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda	3
Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa	3
Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria	3
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	2
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	2
Reclaiming Africa: scramble and resistance in the 21st century	2
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa: just transitions and Extinction Rebellion in Nigeria and South Africa	2
Mozambique – neither miracle nor mirage	2
The deep coloniality of economics – a (r)evolutionary appraisal	2
Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system	2
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective	2
Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: a ‘new’ countryside	2
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	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
The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets	2
The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique	2
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	2
Africa’s stalled structural transformation: the end of the flying geese?	2
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	2
Cooperatives and the reorganisation of labour-intensive production in South Africa’s clothing industry	2
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa	2
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies	2