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

Article	Citations
‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentering African agency	36
Parastatals and economic transformation in South Africa: The political economy of the Eskom crisis	24
Party campaign strategies in Ghana: Rallies, canvassing and handouts	15
The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices	14
The complex choreography of agricultural biotechnology in Africa	11
Manipulating Africa? Perspectives on the experimental method in the study of African politics	11
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria	11
The Sahel crisis since 2012	11
Introduction: Methodologies for researching Africa	11
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	10
Briefing: Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 elections	10
Devolution and the politics of communal tenure reform in Kenya	10
Refugees And Patronage: A Political History Of Uganda’s ‘Progressive’ Refugee Policies	10
Diaspora Voting In Kenya: A Promise Denied	9
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda	9
Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments	8
Nomination Violence in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement	8
Mozambique elections 2019: Pernicious polarization, democratic decline, and rising authoritarianism	8
State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire	8
Amhara nationalism: The empire strikes back	6
How regional norms shape regional organizations: The Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament	5
The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia	5
Pidgin play: Linguistic subversion on Chinese-run construction sites in Ethiopia	5
Western And Chinese Development Engagements In Uganda’s Roads Sector: An Implicit Division of Labour	5
Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba	5

New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past	4
Introduction: The uncertainties of Ghana’s 2020 elections	4
‘Mbare Musika is ours’: An analysis of a fresh produce market in Zimbabwe	4
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram	4
The 2020 Ivorian election and the ‘third-term’ debate: A crisis of ‘Korocracy’?	4
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	3
The Politics of Non-State Security Provision in Burkina Faso: Koglweogo Self-Defence Groups’ Ambiguous Pursuit of Recognition	3
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships: Apartheid’s Legal Shadows	3
Alms, Arms, And The Aftermath: The Legacies Of Rebel Provision Of Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia	3
The politics of autocratic survival in Equatorial Guinea: Co-optation, restrictive institutional rules, repression, and international projection	3
Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament	3
‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi	3
India’s Infrastructure Building In Africa: South-South Cooperation And The Abstraction Of Responsibility	3
State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central African Republic	3
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare	3
Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	3
Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway	3
Women’s rights and critical junctures in constitutional reform in Africa (1951–2019)	2
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	2
We All Need Philosophy Of Science: Analyticism As A Vehicle For Explanatory Understanding In Multi-method Research	2
Voting Decisions and Racialized Fluidity in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities	2
Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia	2
China, Africa And The 2021 Dakar Focac	2
Opposition in a hybrid regime: The functions of opposition parties in Burkina Faso and Uganda	2
Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia	2
Fighting fences and land grabbers in the struggle for the Commons in N≠a Jaqna, Namibia	2
The logic of authoritarian industrial policy: the case of Angola’s special economic zone	2
Decolonization, Freemasonry and the rise of ‘homosexuality’ as a public issue in Cameroon: The return of Dr Aujoulat1	2
The War in UKraine, the African Union, and African Agency	1
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	1
Litigating socio-economic and women’s rights in Benin’s constitutional court	1
Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia	1
Demanding Recognition: a New Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism	1
A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda	1
Sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: Problems, perspectives, and prospects	1
Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos	1
Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations	1
Infrastructure and perceptions of democracy in Zambia: Democracy off the rails	1
A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations	1
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi	1
Public Governance and Technological Capabilities in the Kenyan Leather Industry	1
Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In Kenya’s 2022 Elections	1
Robust electoral violence prevention: An example from Ghana	1
Violence, peacebuilding, and state formation in Mozambique	1
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	1
Book Review	0
The next factory of the world: How Chinese investment is reshaping Africa	0
Memory Mobilization and Postconflict Stability in CôTE D’Ivoire: Analysing the Transmission of Conflict Narratives Among Ivoirian Youth	0
Retail worker politics, race and consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the service economy	0
Peacemaking in authoritarian context in Africa: promoting peace from below in Cameroon	0

Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	0
Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya	0
Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective	0
Language and Education in Africa: A fresh approach to the debates on language, education, and cultural identity	0
Youthquake: Why African demography should matter to the world	0
South Sudan’s civil war: Violence, insurgency and failed peacemaking	0
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	0
Political Identity as Temporal Collapse: Ethiopian Federalism and Contested Ogaden Histories	0
Arbitrary States. Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda	0
Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power, and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone	0
Ethnic Politics and Party realignment in African Constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	0
Book Review	0
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	0
Interpreting Africa: Imperialism and independence in African Affairs	0
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions: Explaining Reforms To Candidate Selection In Ghana	0
China and Africa: The new era	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
Fighting for peace in Somalia: A history and analysis of the African Union mission (AMISOM), 2007–2017	0
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa	0
British media and the Rwandan genocide	0
Bureaucratic fragmentation by design? the case of payroll management in the democratic Republic of Congo	0
Power politics in Africa: Nigeria and South Africa in comparative perspective	0
Multiplicity and simultaneity in ethnographic research: Exploring the use of drones in Ghana	0
Beyond history: African development, diplomacy, and conflict resolution	0
The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation Since the Late Nineteenth Century by Morten Jerven	0
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	0
The agency problem in readings of Sino–African relations	0
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria	0
Patterns of Electoral Violence During Côte D’Ivoire’s Third-Term Crisis	0
Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria	0
Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations	0
Virtual issue: elections	0
Betting the farm: Rural illiberal State-building in Angola via Chinese loans	0
‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe	0
Understanding Boko Haram	0
Citizen Participation during the 2014 Protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good State’	0
Shaping the African savannah: From capitalist frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia	0
Land Restitution and Conflict in Cameroon: the case of The Bakweri	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Africa’s big men: Predatory state-society relations in Africa	0
Conflits et violences dans le bassin du lac Tchad [Conflicts and violence in the Lake Chad basin]	0
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt	0
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	0
Rethinking self-reliance and economic inclusion of refugees through a distributive lens: A case study from Uganda	0
The path to genocide in Rwanda: Security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state	0
African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy	0
Trusting in Somalia’s stateless money: The persistence of the Somali shilling	0
Book Review	0
A Companion to African Rhetoric	0
Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts	0
Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy	0
Urbanization and political change in Africa	0
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	0
Intent to deceive: Denying the genocide of the Tutsi, By Linda Melvern	0
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	0
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	0
Acting Like an Owner: Land Claims and Judicial Practices in Twentieth-Century Ghana	0
Review of social policy in the African context	0
The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism: Spectacles of suffering	0
Reinvigorating Social Support Systems in Rural Northwestern Ghana: Towards Affective Empathy in a Neoliberal Age	0
China, Africa, and the future of the internet	0
Erratum to: ‘Africa+1’ summit diplomacy and the ‘new scramble’ narrative: Recentreing African Agency	0
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	0
African heritage challenges: Communities and sustainable development	0
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East 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
The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money	0
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle	0
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	0