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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning	37
Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects	26
Interpreting contemporary Oromo politics in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach	14
Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya	12
When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists	9
Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa	8
Agency in constrained circumstances: adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	8
One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind	8
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park	6
Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa	6
Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement	6
Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty	6
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	6
Militant Islamism and local clan dynamics in Somalia: the expansion of the Islamic Courts Union in Lower Jubba province	6
Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia	6
War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi	5
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Prosperity in a crisis economy: the Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993	5
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	5
Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935	5
Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo	4
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88	4
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	4

Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya	4
Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future	4
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	4
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	3
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	3
Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya	3
Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014	3
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	3
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	2
Beyond associations: emerging spaces of self-organization among vendors in Zambia	2
Between grassroots contention and elite manoeuvring: sub-nationalism in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya	2
Dependence after independence: Sudan’s bounded sovereignty 1956–1958	2
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	2
Mobile hearings in the Eastern DRC: prosecuting international crimes and implementing complementarity at national level	2
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election	2
‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69	2
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	2
Language policy in public space: a historical perspective on Asmara’s linguistic landscape	2
‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past	2
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	2
“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000	2
New wine in an old wineskin? Socio-political context and participatory budgeting in Kenya	2
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	2
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	1
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	1
Public letters and the culture of politics in Kenya, c.1960-75	1
Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators	1
The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019)	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs	1
The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya	1
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north	1
‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	1
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	1
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	1
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	1
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	1
Governing the economy: rule and resistance in the Ethiopia-Somaliland borderlands	1
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	1
‘Our time to recover’: young men, political mobilization, and personalized political ties during the 2017 primary elections in Nairobi	1
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	1
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	1
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	1
Editorial announcement	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	1
The “Civilizational Project” and the southern Sudanese Islamists: between assimilation and exclusion	1

Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia	1
Building a culture of resistance: securitising and de-securitising Eastleigh during the Kenyan government’s Operation Usalama Watch	1
Youth on the margins: criminalizing Kenya's pastoral frontier, c. 1930-present	1
In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	1
The Gaboye of Somaliland: transformations and historical continuities of the labour exploitation and marginalisation of hereditary groups of occupational specialists	1