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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging15
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt14
The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa10
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe9
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s8
Activism for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa: Tensions in the Framing of Labour Rights7
Traditional Authority in South Africa: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Eastern Cape7
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe6
Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt6
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances5
The National Party and the Ideology of Welfare in South Africa under Apartheid5
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town4
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe4
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body4
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania4
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa3
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–19773
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe3
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle3
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia3
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique3
The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa3
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction3
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms3
Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933–19753
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics3
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis3
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature2
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 19762
Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation2
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone2
Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–19902
Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses2
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law2
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania2
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland2
Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa2
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs2
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art2
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho2
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism2
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–20182
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa2
Chiefly Succession and Democracy in South Africa: Why History Matters2
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts2
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia2
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe2
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi2
From Labour Elites to Garveyites: West African Migrant Labour in Namibia, 1892–19251
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid1
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–20201
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi1
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape1
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar1
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s1
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance1
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction1
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community1
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa1
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania1
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo1
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out1
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony1
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction1
Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations1
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–19821
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement1
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin1
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa1
How polygamy became queer1
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe1
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation1
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement1
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique1
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–19741
Pamela Reynolds’s field diary in the Zambezi valley1
‘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)1
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique1
‘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
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola1
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines1
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution1
Towards Living Customary Administrative Law1
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe1
A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan1
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe1
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–20201
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s1
Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean1
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)1
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi1
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India0
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System0
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–20170
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War0
On the voyage of rediscovery0
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 19520
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos0
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance0
Citizenship in Africa0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions0
Fathers in stories of the nation0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?0
The intertwined history of independence and development in Lesotho0
Customary Marriage: Missteps Threaten the Constitutional Ideal of Common Citizenship0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s0
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA0
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
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola0
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony0
Citizenship, political participation and the state in Zambia0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate0
‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive0
Editorial0
Whiteness and schooling in South Africa0
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election0
Continuity and Change in Gender Relations within the Contract Labour System in Kavango, Namibia, 1925–19720
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe0
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s0
Editorial0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe0
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area0
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity0
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History0
West Germany, East Germany and the path to Namibia’s independence0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi0
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–620
Intersectional Religious Agency: Mauritian Muslim Women and the Negotiation of Porous Interfaces0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa0
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s0
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa0
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr0
Competing dreams of freedom0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army0
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)0
Editorial0
Health in a fragile state0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa0
In the shadows of formal education0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s0
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi0
Correction0
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions0
Emerging funeral culture in Swaziland in response to HIV/AIDS0
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation0
Editorial0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 19700
Editorial0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–890
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap0
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa0
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday0
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape0
Archiving settler colonialism0
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–19630
The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy0
The ANC in the struggle and in power0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–19750
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’0
Class, work and whiteness0
‘The League Will Not Ignore the Cry of the Negro Race for Justice’: Marcus Garvey, the League of Nations and South-West Africa0
In Solomon’s way0
Wars or revolutions?0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery0
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance0
Editorial0
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa0
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg 0
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–19600
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?0
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia0
Editorial0
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape0
Editorial0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order0
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel0
African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–19310
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church0
Banking on Family: What Was the Role of Family in the Establishment of Banks in 19th-Century South Africa?0
Editorial0
The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism0
A history of border jumping between Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–19900
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa 0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming0
Geography and nation building0
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–20000
Editorial0
Obituary0
The making of South African revolutionaries 0
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa0
Editorial0
Obituary0
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi0
Radical teachers and Trotskyists in Cape Town0
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
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s0
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities0
Religion, same-sex desire and masculinity in South Africa0
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe0
Violence and Work: Convict Labour and Settler Colonialism in the Cape–Namibia Border Region (c.1855–1903)0
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
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy0
The maturation of Kaokoveld environmental studies0
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution0
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 19730
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un0
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis0
A political history of housing and aspirations in Mozambique0
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–19560
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–19970
Finding Roles in Unseen Places: Government Action Conferring Roles on Traditional Authorities in South Africa0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique0
The micropolitics of a bantustan0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance0
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 19520
Land, conservation and the San in Northern Namibia0
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre 0
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