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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	13
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	12
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	11
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	9
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	8
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	8
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	7
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	7
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	7
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	6
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	6
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	6
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	5
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	5
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	4

Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	4
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	4
The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952	4
A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya	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
Good dogs and bad dogs: rabies and the invention of a new canine order under the British South Africa Company government (Southern Rhodesia), 1902–1913	3
Beyond war and politics: Somali kinship and everyday service delivery	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	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
Becoming a migrant: The refugee-migrant nexus in onward trajectories of displaced Burundians towards South Africa	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
Between marriage and slavery: women, social mobility, and the making of Ngwana power in late-nineteenth-century Central Africa	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985	2
Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda	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
Courtship and partnerships in northern Uganda: the role of family and friends in the process of marrying	2
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)	2
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	2
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	2
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	2
The politics of beauty: colourism and objectification of Ḥabashiyyah in medieval Arabic literature	2
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	2
Correction	1
‘Climate-smart agriculture’: top-down solutions versus knowledge from the ground in rural Rwanda	1
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	1
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	1
The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya	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
Ambivalent Dis inheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness	1
Contesting the capital: Sheger and the spatial politics of nation building	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s	1
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1