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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging	15
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	14
The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa	10
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe	9
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	8
Activism for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa: Tensions in the Framing of Labour Rights	7
Traditional Authority in South Africa: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Eastern Cape	7
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	6
Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt	6
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances	5
The National Party and the Ideology of Welfare in South Africa under Apartheid	5
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	4
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	4
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body	4
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania	4
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	3
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	3
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	3
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique	3
The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa	3
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction	3
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms	3
Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933–1975	3
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	3
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	3

Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	3
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	3
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature	2
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976	2
Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation	2
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone	2
Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–1990	2
Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses	2
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law	2
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	2
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	2
Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa	2
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	2
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	2
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	2
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	2
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	2
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	2
Chiefly Succession and Democracy in South Africa: Why History Matters	2
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	2
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	2
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	2
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	2
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	1
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	1
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	1
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	1
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	1
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	1
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	1
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–1974	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa	1
‘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
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	1
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History	1
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	1
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	1
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement	1
How polygamy became queer	1
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	1
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	1
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement	1
Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean	1
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique	1
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi	1

Pamela Reynolds’s field diary in the Zambezi valley	1
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	1
‘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 Collection	1
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	1
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	1
Towards Living Customary Administrative Law	1
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution	1
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	1
A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan	1
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	1
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	1
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings	1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	1
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s	1
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction	1
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	1
From Labour Elites to Garveyites: West African Migrant Labour in Namibia, 1892–1925	1
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020	1
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	1