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

Article	Citations
Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya	13
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park	11
Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa	10
When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists	9
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	8
Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty	8
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	6
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	6
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	6
Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement	6
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	5
Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014	4
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	4
Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo	4
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	4
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	4
Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya	4
Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community	4
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	3
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	3
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election	3
Language policy in public space: a historical perspective on Asmara’s linguistic landscape	3
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	3

Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya	3
Mobile hearings in the Eastern DRC: prosecuting international crimes and implementing complementarity at national level	2
‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69	2
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	2
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	2
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	2
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	2
In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	2
Dependence after independence: Sudan’s bounded sovereignty 1956–1958	2
Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators	2
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	2
‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past	2
The “Civilizational Project” and the southern Sudanese Islamists: between assimilation and exclusion	2
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	2
The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections	2
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	2
“Little Dubai” in the crossfire: trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale	1
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	1
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	1
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	1
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs	1
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	1
Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election	1
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	1
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	1
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	1
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	1
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	1
The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019)	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	1
The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya	1
‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election	1
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north	1
Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections	1
Editorial announcement	1
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	1
Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
Governing the economy: rule and resistance in the Ethiopia-Somaliland borderlands	1
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	1
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	1
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	1
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005	1
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	1

Public letters and the culture of politics in Kenya, c.1960-75