OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Southern African Studies 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
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	22
Wars or revolutions?	14
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	8
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	8
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	6
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	6
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	6
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	5
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	5
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	4
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	4
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	4
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	4
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	4
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	4
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	4
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	4
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church	3
‘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 Zimbabwe	3
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	3
‘Back to the Fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	3
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India	3
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	3
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017	3

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 Zimbabwe	3
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	3
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	3
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	3
Editorial	3
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
Competing dreams of freedom	3
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	3
Editorial	3
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa	2
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	2
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	2
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	2
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	2
‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Editorial	2
The personal–local as national history	2
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press	1
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	1
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa	1
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	1
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963	1
Editorial	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Editorial	1
The micropolitics of a bantustan	1

On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	1
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	1
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1