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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	12
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	11
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	8
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	7
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	7
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	5
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	5
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	5
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	4
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4

Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	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
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	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
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	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
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	2
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	2
Ambivalent Dis inheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness	2
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya	2
Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions	2
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	2
Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya	2
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	2
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	2
Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985	2
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	2
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)	2
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1
Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania	1
Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s	1
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements	1
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps	1
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	1
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	1
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	1
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	1
Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia	1
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1
Correction	1