OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Eastern African Studies is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	14
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	13
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	12
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	11
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	10
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	9
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	8
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	8
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	7
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	7
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	7
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	6
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	6
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	6
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	6
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	5
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	5
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	5
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	5
A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya	4
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	4

Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia	4
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	4
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	4
The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952	4
The politics of silence: narrating return to Burundi	4
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
Between marriage and slavery: women, social mobility, and the making of Ngwana power in late-nineteenth-century Central Africa	3
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	3
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	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
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	3
Courtship and partnerships in northern Uganda: the role of family and friends in the process of marrying	3
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	3
Beyond war and politics: Somali kinship and everyday service delivery	3
Becoming a migrant: The refugee-migrant nexus in onward trajectories of displaced Burundians towards South 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	3
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)	2
Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda	2
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	2
The politics of beauty: colourism and objectification of Ḥabashiyyah in medieval Arabic literature	2
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	2
Ambivalent Dis inheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness	2
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	2
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya	2
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	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
Correction	1
Ritual topography, time reckoning, and overlapping chronologies: Boran Oromo jila gadamojji rites of passage in colonial and contemporary Kenya (c. 1930–	1
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
Contesting the capital: Sheger and the spatial politics of nation building	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
‘Climate-smart agriculture’: top-down solutions versus knowledge from the ground in rural Rwanda	1
The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya	1
Religion, healthcare, and social media use in urban Tanzania: an ethnographic study of faith-based organizations	0
Reframing religious conflict in Gondar: land, public visibility, and the politics of difference	0
Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections	0
The Italo-Ethiopian war, Italian colonial rule and ethnic relations in the Borana borderlands of southern Ethiopia, 1935–1941	0
Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome	0
Bibanda video halls in Uganda: between vernacular transcreation and cinematic reworlding	0
Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda	0
Omani Arab aspirations, national representation, and political tensions in the Zanzibarisation of the colonial administration, 1947–1963	0
Power in floating spaces and closed spaces: lessons from a Chinese volunteer tourism organization’s practice in Nairobi, Kenya	0
Les heurs et malheurs du mariage femme-femme en pays kikuyu, Kenya	0

Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’	0
Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania	0
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	0
Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda	0
Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002–2012	0
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	0
Ever-changing sites: the salient dynamics of sacred forests in Tanzania’s postcolonial Njombe region, 1961–2019	0
Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia	0
The public political ideologies of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–1980	0
Perspectives on the African Union high level implementation panel in the Sudanese media, 2009–2019: sovereignty and its uses	0
Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election	0
Djibouti first: local agency and the geopolitics of ports in infrastructure-led development	0
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north	0
‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election	0
Coordination and governance bottlenecks to smallholder vegetable producers’ capacity for supermarkets supply in Kenya	0
A non-event: ratifying the African Women’s Rights framework in Ethiopia	0
In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	0
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	0
Weaponising suspicion: allegations of ‘extremism’ as driver of religious conflict in Mota	0
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	0
Populism-in-state-practice under neoliberalism: Museveni’s ad-hoc squads to ‘halt all evictions’ from land in Uganda	0
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	0
Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya	0
Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements	0
Contested development, entangled governmentalities and the politics of pastoralism in the Upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia	0
The Karl Braun Collection and the role of the Amani Institute during the German colonial period in Tanzania. A German-Tanzanian research project	0
Contesting the Zanzibari revolution: the origins of political opposition in Tanzania	0
On the move, together: intimacy, the ‘elsewhere’ and the imagination of the future in Jinja (Uganda)	0
Editorial Announcement	0
Babies, buildings, and bones: the (im)materiality of love and homemaking	0
Correction	0
The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya	0
The moral economy behind the commoditisation of camel milk in northern Kenya	0
Locating Kenya's emergency detention camps: place, memory, and the afterlives of colonial violence	0
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda	0
Serving the state at all costs? Being a civil servant in wartime South Sudan	0
Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present	0
Ownership, nativism, and conflict: the case of the 2020 violence in Shashemene	0
Disillusionment and queer feminist utopias in Kenyan digital counterpublics	0
Between settler colonialism, regionalisation and Africanisation: the making of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, 1954–1970	0
A 1960s odyssey from Zanzibar to Cairo: educational mobility and anti-heroic anticolonialism in Adam Shafi’s travelogue Mbali na Nyumbani	0
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps	0
The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections	0
Infrastructure for peace: conflict settlement between pastoralists and farmers in Kilosa/Tanzania	0
Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community	0
Old wounds: embodying the Mau Mau war in post-colonial Kenya	0
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	0
Introduction: religion and politics in post-EPRDF Ethiopia	0
Citizenship dilemma: how second-generation Rwandan migrants navigate life challenges in post-colonial Kenya	0
Social media and role specialisations in Oromo Protests, Ethiopia: implications of digital inequalities in political protests	0
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election	0
“Little Dubai” in the crossfire: trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale	0
Editorial Announcement	0
Military decolonisation and Africanisation: the first African officers in the Kenyan army, 1957–1964	0
Leftovers for legacy: why rebel governance contributed so little to Uganda’s post-insurgent state	0