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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt22
Wars or revolutions?14
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi8
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 19528
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis6
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre 6
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System6
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 19525
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State5
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy4
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–624
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid4
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga4
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis4
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi4
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health4
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)4
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa3
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s3
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa3
Editorial3
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation3
Competing dreams of freedom3
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?3
Editorial3
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe3
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction3
‘Back to the Fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa3
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India3
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland3
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–20173
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg 3
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe3
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–19972
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape2
‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–19902
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania2
Editorial2
The personal–local as national history2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–19642
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa2
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 19522
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics2
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe2
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out2
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth2
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election1
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana1
Editorial1
The micropolitics of a bantustan1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–20201
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe1
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia1
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania1
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 19801
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press1
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s1
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe1
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa1
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs1
Contextualising family and subjectivities1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa1
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–20001
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–19631
Editorial1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War1
In Solomon’s way0
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity0
‘The League Will Not Ignore the Cry of the Negro Race for Justice’: Marcus Garvey, the League of Nations and South-West Africa0
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–19740
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s0
Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa0
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days0
Correction0
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–19770
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army0
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–19820
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–19900
On the afterlives of colonialism0
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
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia0
Land, conservation and the San in Northern Namibia0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance0
On the voyage of rediscovery0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction0
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order0
Editorial0
Can a dissident be a citizen?0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa0
A Visible Problem0
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations0
‘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
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola0
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems0
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–19650
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa 0
A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan0
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi0
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District0
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle0
Health in a fragile state0
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe0
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically0
Getting under the skin of Luanda0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review0
Southern Africa: Is It Still a Thing?0
Editorial0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war0
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa0
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s0
Editorial0
The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction0
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’0
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s0
Obituary0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–890
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice0
The making of South African revolutionaries 0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique0
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap0
Obituary0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos0
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
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction0
Editorial0
Class, work and whiteness0
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 19760
Fathers in stories of the nation0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions0
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art0
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
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa0
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign0
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone0
‘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 Collection0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–20160
Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–19220
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique0
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo0
How polygamy became queer0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism0
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–20180
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–20210
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana0
Donal Lowry, 1959–20220
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–19310
Editorial0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–19750
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 19700
The ANC in the struggle and in power0
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–20200
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola0
The intertwined history of independence and development in Lesotho0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe0
Conservation, militarisation and apartheid in Caprivi0
A history of border jumping between Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life0
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
Response to the reviews of Ruling Nature, Controlling People0
Geography and nation building0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?0
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement0
Editorial0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho0
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe0
Editorial0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi0
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
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe0
Editorial0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery0
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming0
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa0
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