Journal of Southern African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Southern African Studies is 0. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–199716
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism14
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis8
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law7
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction6
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa5
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area4
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa4
Wars or revolutions?4
Editorial4
Fathers in stories of the nation3
The maturation of Kaokoveld environmental studies3
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar3
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle3
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming3
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–19753
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution3
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho3
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania3
Religion, same-sex desire and masculinity in South Africa3
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday3
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre 3
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 19522
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System2
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review2
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique2
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics2
Editorial2
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–19312
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe2
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt2
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ2
The making of South African revolutionaries 2
In the shadows of formal education2
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)2
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe2
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola2
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s2
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi2
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–621
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s1
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique1
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 19521
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa1
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid1
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War1
The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy1
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity1
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–19561
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony1
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia1
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order1
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art1
Editorial1
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism1
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia1
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr1
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga1
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy1
In Solomon’s way1
Health in a fragile state1
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History1
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance1
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core1
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations1
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle1
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement1
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–19601
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape1
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel1
‘van die oorspronklike lippe’ (‘from the original lips’): The 19th-Century Cape Colony, Holographic Archaeology and the Historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s /xam–Afrikaans Collection1
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique1
Editorial1
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 19731
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government1
Obituary1
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging1
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa1
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army1
Response to the reviews of Ruling Nature, Controlling People0
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances0
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’0
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign0
The intertwined history of independence and development in Lesotho0
Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean0
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People0
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically0
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–20000
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District0
Editorial0
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi0
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–19650
Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? Gift Wasambo Kayira, The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting0
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe0
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe0
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos0
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–19820
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide0
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery0
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s0
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–19640
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out0
Editorial0
Finding Roles in Unseen Places: Government Action Conferring Roles on Traditional Authorities in South Africa0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi0
Editorial0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe0
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution0
Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa0
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi0
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa 0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia0
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–19630
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church0
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs0
Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–19220
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement0
Editorial0
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 19800
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania0
‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive0
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s0
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo0
‘Stealing Dingane’s Title’: The Fatal Significance of Saguate Gift-Giving in Zulu King Dingane’s Killing of Governor Ribeiro (1833) and Piet Retief (1838)0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism0
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape0
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique0
On the afterlives of colonialism0
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–20210
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town0
The ANC in the struggle and in power0
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola0
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania0
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid0
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance0
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature0
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
How polygamy became queer0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–20200
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa0
Editorial0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe0
Obituary0
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA0
Conservation, militarisation and apartheid in Caprivi0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–19770
Southern Africa: Is It Still a Thing?0
Editorial0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un0
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap0
Donal Lowry, 1959–20220
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia0
Citizenship, political participation and the state in Zambia0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico0
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa0
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–19900
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin0
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community0
Getting under the skin of Luanda0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days0
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–20200
The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe0
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–19740
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa0
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa0
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s0
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo0
‘If you belong to my generation and you never read James Hadley Chase, then you are not educated’: Everyday Reading of High School Students in Soweto, 1968–19760
Class, work and whiteness0
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg 0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid0
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 19520
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines0
Emerging funeral culture in Swaziland in response to HIV/AIDS0
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe0
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms0
Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications0
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body0
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–890
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape0
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 19700
Editorial0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate0
Contextualising family and subjectivities0
Editorial0
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)0
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction0
‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–19900
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa0
Can a dissident be a citizen?0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa0
The personal–local as national history0
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa0
Editorial0
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities0
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa0
Points of Entry into Zimbabwean Post-Independence Politics: Mugabe, the Military or the Social SubalternsStephen Chan, Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (London, I.B.0
Beyond the State? Organised Settler Tobacco Interests and the Consolidation of Southern Rhodesia’s Tobacco Industry in the Early Post-Second World War Years0
Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD0
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 19760
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions0
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone0
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–20170
Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation0
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–20180
Geography and nation building0
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania0
Towards Living Customary Administrative Law0
Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts0
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa0
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