OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Affairs is 3. 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
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
The complex choreography of agricultural biotechnology in Africa	11
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
Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana	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
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
Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa	3