OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Affairs 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	19
Nigerian Youth Engagement in Violent Electoral Environments: Political Apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	17
African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy	16
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	12
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	11
Tourism, Change and the Global South. Jarkko Saarinen and Jayne M. Rogerson	10
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	10
The 2020 Ivorian election and the ‘third-term’ debate: A crisis of ‘Korocracy’?	9
Women’s rights and critical junctures in constitutional reform in Africa (1951–2019)	8
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	8
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	8
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	8
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	7
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	7
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	6
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	6
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	5
What do voters want from their legislators? evidence from ghana	5
Erratum to: ‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentreing African Agency	5
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	5
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	5
A Companion to African Rhetoric	5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Book Review	4

Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	4
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	4
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	3
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	3
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	3
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	3
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	3
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	3
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	3
Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon	3
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	3
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	2
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	2
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	2
Book Review	2
Review of social policy in the African context	2
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	2
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	2
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	2
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	2
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	2
Policing and Citizen Trust in Kenya: How Community Policing Shapes Local Trust-Building and Collaboration	1
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria. Wale Adebanwi	1
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
Correction To: Ethnic Politics and Party Realignment in African Constitutional Referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of Insults’	1
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	1
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	1
Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo. Christoph N. Vogel	1
Decentring foreign peace mediation in the case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis	1
Correction to: The Sahel crisis since 2012	1
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	1
Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba	1
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon	1
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	1
Brutalism. Achille Mbembe	1
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	1
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	0
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era	0
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	0
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola	0
The Politics of Cryptocurrency Regulation in Africa	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
China and Africa: The new era	0
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	0
The next factory of the world: How Chinese investment is reshaping Africa	0
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò	0
Multiplicity and simultaneity in ethnographic research: Exploring the use of drones in Ghana	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0

The path to genocide in Rwanda: Security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state	0
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	0
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history	0
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	0
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in planetary networks of work. Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham	0
The Politics of Non-State Security Provision in Burkina Faso: Koglweogo Self-Defence Groups’ Ambiguous Pursuit of Recognition	0
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	0
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	0
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	0
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	0
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	0
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	0
Book Review	0
Salafism between purism and politicking: Chieftaincy struggles, party competition, and the Anbariya movement in Dagbon, Northern Ghana	0
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	0
Urbanization and political change in Africa	0
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	0
Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda	0
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle	0
British media and the Rwandan genocide	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
Matched Sampling Methodology Reconsidered: The Role of Trust in Studying Remittance Transfers Between Ghanaian Immigrants in the UK and their Relatives in Ghana	0
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	0
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	0
The study centre of the Africa Institute: Dutch aid, trade policy, and the future of African Studies	0
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	0
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	0
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	0
Shaping the African savannah: From capitalist frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia	0
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	0
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	0
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	0
Arbitrary States. Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	0
Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos	0
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	0
Book Review	0
Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone	0
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	0
Contagious Coups In Africa? History Of Civil–Military imbalance	0
Book Review	0
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	0
Africa–Asia: a tale of worldmaking between alterity and contestation	0
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions: Explaining Reforms To Candidate Selection In Ghana	0
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	0
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	0
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi	0
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	0
The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	0
Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies	0
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia	0
Retail worker politics, race and consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the service economy	0