OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Affairs is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes	25
Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier	17
Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict	15
The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers: African Governments and External Finance, by Alexandra O. Zeitz	15
Book Review	14
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa	14
Changing conceptions of power: elites in Africa	13
Coevolutionary pragmatism: approaches and impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation	13
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures, Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang	12
Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana: Evidence From Galamsey in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions	10
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch	9
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar, by Samar Al-Bulushi	8
The Role of Unpredictability in Maintaining Control of the Security Forces in the Gambia	7
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below	7
Book Review	7
The war in Ukraine, the African Union, and African agency	7
The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa	7
A Companion to African Rhetoric	7
Shaping the future of power: Knowledge production and network-building in China–Africa relations	7
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry	7
Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024)	6
Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda	5
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	5
The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda	5
National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic	5

Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide	5
‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo	5
Navigating the Post-Donor Arena in Uganda’s Gulu District	5
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	4
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, by Anima Adjepong	4
From the public to the private: mapping women’s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali	4
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding. Atalia Omer	4
La Question Des Droits Humains Dans La Pensee De Paulin Hountondji	4
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger	4
Ethnic politics and party realignment in African constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’	4
Inequality Regimes in Africa From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present	4
Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa	4