OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of African Political Economy 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
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	20
Climate imperialism in Africa: critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime	16
Ruth First Prize: James Musonda on the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	16
Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region	13
Postcolonial security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War	11
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness: mineral depletion, pollution, emissions and social reproduction blind spots	10
From energy racism to people’s power: unpacking the electricity crisis and resistance in Orange Farm, Johannesburg	9
Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe	7
Migration beyond capitalism	7
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	6
Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s	6
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	5
The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism	4
Africa Development	4
Battling to save the soul of higher education in Africa: attacks on intellectual labour in Nigeria	4
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	3
ROAPE at 50: A place of critical scholarship, accompanying the struggles of African peoples, comrades and allies	3
When retrenchment and loans coincide: the financialised precarity of Zambian mineworkers	3
Africa’s unequal balance	3
ROAPE at 50: Tribute to ROAPE on its 50th anniversary	3
Democracy, separatist agitation and militarised state response in South East Nigeria	3
Ruth First Prize	2
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship: honouring Lungisile Ntsebeza	2
Ruth First Prize: Musa Nxele on crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa’s platinum belt	2
Pathologies of representation: Lungisile Ntsebeza on the political misrepresentation of rural South Africans	2

Humanitarian permanence: the political economy of South Sudan’s reign of insecurity	2
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	2
ROAPE at 50: Amplifying the voices of organic intellectuals in grassroots social movements	2
How armed militancy transformed power relations in the oil communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta	2
Volume Index	2
Imperialist terrorism in Northern Africa	2
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	2
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	2
The military in Zimbabwean politics	2
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	2
Memorials and shifting meanings of rural revolts in South Africa: the Mpondo rural revolts and insurgent scholarship	1
Predatory economics fuelling insecurity: violence and the commodification of labour in South Sudan	1
Correction	1
Evolution and decline: transformation of social movements in Nigeria	1
Resource nationalism and energy transitions in lower-income countries: the case of Tanzania	1
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo	1
Exploitation, patriarchy and petty commodity production: class, gender and neocolonialism in rural eastern Uganda	1
Between green extractivism and energy justice: competing strategies in South Africa’s hydrogen transition in the context of climate crisis	1
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	1
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions	1
The climate emergency in Africa	1
Natural resource conflicts and innovation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta	1
Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana	1
Contradictions to decent African jobs under energy transition-related extractivism: the case of graphite mining in Mozambique	1
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	1
Improvement and change in rural Tanzania	1
Overlying and muddled power: the Ciskei Bantustan’s disputed rural governance in the twilight decade of apartheid, c.1985–95	1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	1
Workers, protests and trade unions in Africa	1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	1
Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023)	1
ROAPE at 50: What is ROAPE’s significance to me?	1
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa	1
ROAPE at 50: Critical Third Worldism	1
Ten challenges in reconfiguring African Studies	1
Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership): understanding the persistence of unfree Fulani labour and the (non)violent renegotiation of power relations in agrarian economies in northern Ghana	1
The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on	1
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	1
ROAPE: looking back to move forward	1