OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Eastern 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
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	19
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	14
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	10
The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991	9
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005	7
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	5
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	5
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	4
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	4
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	4
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs	4
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	4
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	4
The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict	4
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	4
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	3
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3

Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	3
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	3
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	3
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	3
Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions	2
Revisiting a colonial landmark: caravanserais as tools of urban transformation in early colonial Tanzania	2
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	2
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	2
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	2
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	2
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	2
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	2
Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya	2
Correction	1
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	1
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park	1
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	1
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda	1
Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	1
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)	1
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	1
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	1
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	1
Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya	1
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1