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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	16
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	14
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	8
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law	7
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction	6
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	6
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	5
Editorial	4
Fathers in stories of the nation	4
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	4
Wars or revolutions?	4
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	3
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	3
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday	3
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	3
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	3
Religion, same-sex desire and masculinity in South Africa	3
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	3
The making of South African revolutionaries	3
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	3
The maturation of Kaokoveld environmental studies	3
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	3
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	3
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution	3
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	2

The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	2
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	2
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	2
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	2
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement	2
Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt	2
In the shadows of formal education	2
Editorial	2
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	2
*Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa* Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	2
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)	2
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	2
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	2
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	2
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	1
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	1
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	1
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	1
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	1
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	1
Health in a fragile state	1
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	1
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Editorial	1
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	1
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956	1
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	1
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government	1
Customary Marriage: Missteps Threaten the Constitutional Ideal of Common Citizenship	1
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	1
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel	1
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	1
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa	1
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	1
In Solomon’s way	1
Citizenship in Africa	1
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	1
Obituary	1
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	1
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Obituary	1
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape	1

Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	1
*The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy*	1
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr	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
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia	1
Editorial	1
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	1
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging	1
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	1