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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection	21
Natural Resource Extraction in the Interior: Scouts, Spirits and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique	16
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	14
Crops and Copper: Agriculture and Urbanism on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000	11
The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa	10
Assessing the Potential Impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of Malawi	7
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging	7
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	7
Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt	6
‘Now I Am Not Afraid’: Simon Nkoli, Queer Utopias and Transnational Solidarity	6
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe	6
Traditional Authority in South Africa: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Eastern Cape	6
Botswana’s Hunting Ban and the Transformation of Game-Meat Cultures, Economies and Ecologies	5
Speak, Friend, and Enter? Fieldwork Access and Anthropological Knowledge Production on the Copperbelt	4
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body	4
‘We Are What We Eat’: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s–1960	4
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	4
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	3
Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933–1975	3
Activism for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa: Tensions in the Framing of Labour Rights	3
Liberating Taste: Memories of War, Food and Cooking in Northern Mozambique	3
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique	3
Language, Resistance and Multilingualism in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: The Kalanga and their Struggle for Recognition	3
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances	3
The National Party and the Ideology of Welfare in South Africa under Apartheid	3

Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	3
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	2
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	2
The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	2
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms	2
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976	2
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	2
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	2
Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–1990	2
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law	2
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	2
The Travelling Toyi-Toyi: Soldiers and the Politics of Drill	2
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature	2
‘But I Know You, You Are Not God’: African Responses to European Colonialism in a Missionary Newspaper	2
Chiefly Succession and Democracy in South Africa: Why History Matters	2
Botswana Votes 2019: Two-Party Competition and the Khama Factor	2
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	2
Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses	2
Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam	2
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	2
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	2
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	2
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	1
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone	1
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	1
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	1
How polygamy became queer	1
Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa	1
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa	1
Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History	1
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	1
Governing the Ungovernable: Performing and Contesting Chris Hani’s Legacy at the Hani Memorial	1
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	1
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	1
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	1
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–1974	1
A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan	1
‘Our Bushes Are the Houses’: People’s War and the Underground during the Insurrectionary Period in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa	1
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	1
The Mueda Massacre Retold: The ‘Matter of Return’ in Portuguese Colonial Intelligence	1
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique	1
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	1
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s	1
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	1
Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation	1
Towards Living Customary Administrative Law	1

On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	1
From Labour Elites to Garveyites: West African Migrant Labour in Namibia, 1892–1925	1
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement	1
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	1
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	1
Protection from Violence: Making Space Public in the Streets of Johannesburg	1
Liberation Beyond the Nation: An Introduction	1
Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean	1
Narratives, Rituals and Political Imaginations: The Social and Political World of the Vashona of North-Eastern Zimbabwe from the 16th to the 19th Centuries	1
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	1
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	1
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi	1
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania	1
‘Under the Thumb of the Party’: The Limits of Tanzanian Socialism and the Decline of the Student Left	1
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	1
A history of sexual violence and political authority in South Africa	1
Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977–1989	1
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	1
Pamela Reynolds’s field diary in the Zambezi valley	1
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	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
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction	1
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution	1
‘My Husband is No Husband to Me’: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869–1910	1
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	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
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	1
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	1
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	1