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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	20
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	18
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz	13
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	13
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	13
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	12
The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history	12
Book Review	12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	11
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	9
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	9
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi	8
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	7
A Companion to African Rhetoric	6
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	6
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	6
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	6
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	6
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
Book Review	5
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	4
Navigating the post-donor arena in Uganda’s Gulu district	4
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	4

‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	4
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	4
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	4
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	4
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	4
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	3
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	3
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong	3
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	3
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	3
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	3
Against Decolonisation: Taking African agency seriously. Olúfémi Táíwò	3
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	3
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	3
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	3
Africa–Asia: a tale of worldmaking between alterity and contestation	2
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	2
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	2
Memories of Africa: Home and abroad in the United States. Toyin Falola	2
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	2
Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon	2
Nigerian Youth Engagement in Violent Electoral Environments: Political Apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’?	2
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	2
Review of social policy in the African context	2
Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo. Christoph N. Vogel	1
Contagious Coups In Africa? History Of Civil–Military imbalance	1
Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Proselytiser, Pharaoh, and Pope. Adekeye Adebajo	1
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	1
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	1
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	1
The study centre of the Africa Institute: Dutch aid, trade policy, and the future of African Studies	1
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Correction To: Ethnic Politics and Party Realignment in African Constitutional Referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of Insults’	1
Decentring foreign peace mediation in the case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis	1
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	1
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	1
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions: Explaining Reforms To Candidate Selection In Ghana	1
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	0
Brutalism. Achille Mbembe	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
Shaping the African savannah: From capitalist frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia	0
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	0
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s standard Gauge Railway	0
Policing and Citizen Trust in Kenya: How Community Policing Shapes Local Trust-Building and Collaboration	0
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	0
Salafism between purism and politicking: Chieftaincy struggles, party competition, and the Anbariya movement in Dagbon, Northern Ghana	0
Book Review	0
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	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
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	0
China and Africa: The new era	0
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi	0
Arbitrary States. Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	0
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era	0
Building an idea of the state? Regime dominance and the material legacy of a development project in Ethiopia	0
Shuffled and Shortchanged? The Gender Gap in Cabinet Shuffles in Africa	0
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	0
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	0
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana	0
Dark humour, social media, and everyday violence in Nigeria: gbaa ya ọkụ in Onitsha city	0
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle	0
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
What do voters want from their legislators? evidence from ghana	0
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	0
Tourism, Change and the Global South. Jarkko Saarinen and Jayne M. Rogerson	0
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	0
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	0
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	0
‘If you build him, he will build’: Rural Tanzanian women’s agency through home construction	0
Urbanization and political change in Africa	0
The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0
state-building, infrastructure, and citizenship in rural tanzania: persistence and change in nyumba kumi kumi (the 10-house cell)	0
Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda	0
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	0
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	0
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	0
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	0
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
The Politics of Cryptocurrency Regulation in Africa	0
The Politics of Non-State Security Provision in Burkina Faso: Koglweogo Self-Defence Groups’ Ambiguous Pursuit of Recognition	0
Book Review	0
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	0
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	0
Citizen participation during the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good state’	0
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	0
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	0
Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone	0
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa: Promoting peace from below in Cameroon	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
British media and the Rwandan genocide	0
The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in planetary networks of work. Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham	0
Book Review	0
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	0
Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos	0
How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria. Wale Adebanwi	0
Strategizing for quality elections in Africa: party capacity and the politics of vigilance in Ghana	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Correction to: The Sahel crisis since 2012	0