OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Silent Agents of Nationalist Struggle? Women of Mozambique, Fighting a War Within a War	6
Reconceptualising Media Ownership and Shifting Power Relations in an Emerging Digital Media Framework	6
Roadblocks and Realities: Expert Insights into Corruption Risk Mitigation in South Africa	5
Home, Diaspora and Beyond: Exploring Notions of Belonging Among Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa	5
Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya	5
Reviewed, Revised, Rejected	5
Masculinity, Carceral Discipline and the Gang Life	4
Harassments, Assaults and Murders: The Travails of Ghana’s Libertarian Press	4
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique	4
Healing the Nation: Christian Missionaries, Colonial Healthcare and Disease Prevention in Northern Rhodesia 1924-1960	4
‘Negotiated’ Indigenous Food Practices in Displacement? Lessons in Socio-Cultural Dislocation	3
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop	3
The Exclusion of Ubuntu from South Africa’s Constitution: Implications for Pan-Africanism and Violent ‘Xenophobia’	3
The Structural Violence of Imperial Trusteeship in Postcolonial Governmentality	3
The Politics of the Penis: Post-Apartheid Zulu Nationalism and Martial Masculinity, ca 1999 to 2018	3
Sincere Intimacy, Genre and Heterotopology of a Confessional Public	3
Electoral Violence and the Persistence of Competitive Authoritarianism in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 Presidential Elections	3
Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings	2
Facts to Fiction: The Dramaturgical Re-Presentations of the British Conquest of Africa in Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and Iredi War	2
They are Just for Making Nyángá : Ethnosemiotic Significance of Waist Beads Among Young Women in Nigeria	2
Foreigners in the South African Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis	2
From Segmentary ‘Tribes’ to Ethnic Nationalism: A Historical Study of Nuer Identity	2
The Discourse of Secession in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone	2
‘Take my Child and May She Love You’: ‘Opting In’ to Orphan Status in Central Kenya, 1860 to present	2
Space and Trading among Herbal Medicine Practitioners along the Nigeria-Niger Corridor	2

Expectations and Interactions About Father Provision in South African, Black, Low-Income, Non-Resident Father Families	2
Protest mobilization, and demobilization: A Case Study of Civil Society Organisations in Zimbabwe	2
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit	1
Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders	1
Private Waste Collection in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana: A Spatial Analysis of User Satisfaction	1
Permissive Space and Policing Practices in Mathare and Kaptembwo, Kenya	1
Colonialism and Customary Land Tenure in Africa: Portuguese Representations and Policies During the 19th and 20th Centuries	1
Power and Identity Formation through Materialisation of Iconic Architecture in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review	1
Black Diasporic Subjectivity and Lacanian Lack of Home: A Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah	1
Co-Management Challenges of the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in South Africa: The Re-Emergence of Traditional Authorities, 2001–2015	1
Creole Oral Aesthetics: Cape Verdean Tradition and Global Environmental Politics	1
The Promise of Belatedness for Africa-Based Scholarship	1
Violence and African Philosophy: Beyond Reaction and Mimicry	1
Communal Land and Belonging Among Foreign Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe	1
‘Defiance Within Compliance’: Statehood Without Secession in Mzimba, Malawi	1
Debilitating Research: Scholarship of the Obvious and Epistemic Trauma	1
‘C’était bien à l’Époque’: Work and Leisure among Retrenched Mineworkers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	1
Environmentalism, Contested Meanings of Consultation and Developmental Projects in South Africa, 2007–2024	0
The Labyrinth of State Intervention in Communal Conflict in Africa: Ghana’s Maiden Official State-Led Efforts in Resolving the Bawku Conflict	0
On the Moral Implications of Henry Odera Oruka’s ‘Human Minimum’ Approach to Fighting Extreme Poverty in Africa	0
Malaria and the Subsistence Crisis in Northeast Shewa, Ethiopia, in the 20th Century	0
The Paradox of Continuity in Nigerian Foreign Policy Amid the Claimed Absence of National Identity	0
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies	0
Neoliberal Leveraging of the Colonial Imagination: A Global South Reading of Tobacco Ads in Africa	0
Gendered Spaces, Religion, and Migration in Zimbabwe: Implications for Economic Development	0
Namummaa: The Indigenous Oromo Relational Philosophy of Conflict Resolution in Ethiopia	0
Through the Camera’s Eye: Gukurahundi Genocide, Sexual Violence and Collective Trauma in Zimbabwe	0
A Critical Consideration of the Effects of Violence in Fanon	0
Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives	0
Of Rape, Black Women and ‘Whitened’ Pudenda: Psychosexual Identity in the Ghanaian Neo-Slave Narrative	0
Winston Field and the Decolonisation of ‘British Central Africa’: Crossing Racial Divides with Kamuzu Banda and Beyond, 1957-64	0
Folktales for Environmental Conservation: From Oral Traditions to Ecological Wisdom	0
Rising from the Ashes of Cultural Devastation	0
The Providence of Review and Writing through Revision	0
Benefit Versus Risk Deliberations on Revisions, Corrections or Rejections of Manuscript Submissions: Reflections of an African Woman Scholar in Audiology	0
Climate Change in Indigenous Peoples' Narratives: A Case of Doma People of the Zambezi Valley	0
Urban Livelihood Insecurity: The Travails and Survival of Women Tricycle Riders in Ibadan, Nigeria	0
Twentieth-Century South African Women’s Memoir as Historiography	0
Revision as Reflection: On Writing from the Global South	0
(Un)doing Gender: The Ethnographic Significance of Mbube Dirge	0
The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust: Implications for South Africa’s Land Governance Policy	0
Ubuntu and Violence	0
Rastafari, Social Exclusion and Covid-19 in Ghana	0
Exporting the Dance Traditions: Innovative Agency, Artistic Imaginaries and Transnational Commodification of Indigenous Ugandan Dances in the Chinese Marketplace	0
Undisciplining Methodologies: Or, Recalling African Subjects from the Shadows of African Cinema Archives	0
Decolonising the Cultural Landscape: Preserving Historical Statues in Tshwane, South Africa	0
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra’s Open-Air Markets	0
American Democracy Promotion in Nigeria: Strategic Approaches and the Centrality of Political Education	0
Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room	0
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0

Power Dynamics: Women in New Nollywood Epics	0
Good for Elections but not for Government: Zongos and the Politics of Exclusion in Ghana	0
Sex, Lives and Videotape: The Transhistoricity of an Itinerant Visual Archive	0
Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi	0
Agency and Violence: An African Philosophical Approach	0
The Postcolonial Voice in Algerian Fiction: Silent Struggles and Spoken Frictions	0
Africanising Indigeneity: Decolonising Identities, Knowledges, and Resilience in the Anthropocene	0
Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy	0
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive	0