OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Dynamics-A Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification	21
South African photography and the lives of workers	14
The voice of reason: a thematic appraisal of editorial coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 elections	8
Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits	7
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa	6
Mixed memories: rethinking the loss and transformation of the colonial heritage archive in the aftermath of the Jagger Library inferno and Rhodes Must Fall Movement	6
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid	5
Against racial capitalism: selected writings	5
African urbanisms and their hinterlands: contemporary cultural imaginaries of spatial connections	5
Guilty on the innocent side: evil subjectivity in two eastern african child soldier memoirs	5
The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive	5
Everyday sociality, political protest and the commodity boundary in southern Africa	4
Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture	4
Johannesburg’s shitty little river: faecal discourse and discontent regarding the Jukskei	4
The long career of Dr Coert Grobbelaar: engaging the history of physical anthropology at Stellenbosch University	4
Frank-talking: a reading of Biko’s statement “On Death” with Foucault’s concept of parrhesia	4
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”	3
Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts	3
The queen mothers’ struggle for breath: the colonisation of an institution	3
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	3
Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive	3
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord	3
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory	2
Reimagining good fatherhood: non-custodial black fathers’ experiences in South Africa	2
Circular mobilities and health care seeking practices for perceived malaria illness among Nairobi residents in Kenya	2

Unpacking the Makhadzi metaphor in No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela	2
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies	2
Thanks to Reviewers	2
“We’re making the town dirty”: the disruptive potential of “matter out of place” in a post-apartheid politics of visibility	2
The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline	2
Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s weaponisation of the discourse of race	2
Cape mission liberalism and the South African liberation struggle	2
Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary AfroFrench narratives	2
History and its aftermath: an interview with Premesh Lalu	1
Why recognition? Deciphering justice claims in 2016 Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon	1
Rebellious sons and bad fathers: white male jouissance in the postcolony	1
The struggle for housing and basic services in South Africa: a case for service delivery protests	1
The road to democracy in South Africa Vol. 9, South African democracy education trust: the power and authority of African women in the Southern African and African diaspora during “precolonial” and co	1
The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling	1
“Johnny Just Come”: Lagos and the newcomer figure in Nigerian screen media	1
Engendering social protection: a feminist critical policy analysis of the national social protection policy of Ghana	1
Against the academic plantation: pedagogical experiments to dismantle the imperial antiblack episteme in Postcolonial Universities	1
Notions of self and community in Kampala urban space in Ugandan poetry anthologies	1
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa	1
Reconfiguring Acholi cultural dance: a visual arts mediation of Bwola dance in a performative space of Kampala city	1
Interview with Harry Garuba on modernist African poetry and his collection Animist Chants and Memorials	1
“You don’t say”	1
The ears of apartheid	1
Of ghosts and haunting: postcolonial urbanisms in Southern Africa	0
Laughter in the face of police brutality: an analysis of satirical memes on police brutality in Zimbabwe on August 16, 2019	0
The politics of decolonial investigations The politics of decolonial investigations , by Walter Mignolo, Durham, Duke University Press, 2021, xxvi + 707 pp., US$39.95 (p	0
“An invisible rash”: migrant (im)mobility and corporeality in Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy	0
Indentured vulnerability: Fatima Meer, visual culture, and the South African Indian	0
Polyphony, instrumentality and the urban experience for migrants in Accra, Ghana	0
Intellectual decolonisation and the danger of epistemic closure: the need for a critical decolonial theory	0
Collective action frames provide limited political leverage for two community-based organisations in Johannesburg	0
Housing struggles as political practice in post-apartheid Cape Town: reading Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession	0
“Yesu Adom (God’s grace)” chop bar: liminality and provisionality within Accra Airport City	0
Beyond apocalypse: rethinking capitalism, democracy and crisis in South Africa	0
Burying the superego?	0
(W)archives: archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art	0
Ghosts of archive: deconstructive intersectionality and praxis	0
On the political theology of apartheid: a philosophical investigation	0
Pan-Africanism and psychology in decolonial times	0
Thinking with Indifference : a scene among skeletons	0
The desire of apartheid	0
‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections	0
Condemned by desire: miscegenation, gender, and eroticism in South Africa’s Immorality Act	0
Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction	0
Rituals, family connections, and BoRakgadi	0
Editorial note of thanks	0
Auditing and the unconscious: managerialism’s memory traces	0
Ke mosali oa Mosotho : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho	0
Audiovisual artefacts: the African politics of moving image loss	0
Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter	0

“Little research value”: African Estate records and colonial gaps in a post-colonial national archive	0
My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece	0
J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution . Bloomsbury 2021	0
Decolonisation in Africa: love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital	0
The work of repair: capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa	0
From apartheid to the planetary present: breaching time in Nadine Gordimer’s “Something Out There”	0
Is being itself colonial?	0
Understanding amapiano and the South African city through the music videos of Big Flexa and Bhebha	0
Record-keeping and political advocacy in late colonial Uganda: the case of Abataka Abasoga, Busoga, 1940 to 1950	0
A kind of horror of the archive: a conversation between Onyeka Igwe and Litheko Modisane	0
Commanding the respect of all who knew her: recovering the marginalised history of Eleanor Xiniwe and the challenges of the colonial archive	0
Surviving Swedish exceptionalism: Allina Ndebele’s wedding tapestry, 1963	0
Doing research among exiled Rwandan army deserters: a reflexive narrative	0
Exploring the entanglement of race and religion in Africa	0
Undoing Apartheid	0
Rural ritual, urban appropriation: night running as an examination of mobility in the city by night	0
“All who care to look”: loss and renewal in the wake of the Jagger library fire	0
On maternal legacies of knowledge, ukwambathisa , and rethinking of the sociology of Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
Edward W. Blyden’s intellectual tradition: the place of ‘race’ and religion	0
“Friend[s] of the heart”: reconsidering “queer” archives, ambivalence and untranslatability in texts from Lesotho	0
“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory	0
“ Needs ” versus “w ants ”: examining the manifestations and motivations of transactional sex among young women in relation to HIV risk in	0
Statement of Removal: Asserting identity in stifling spaces: multisemioticity in Nigerian queer-positive Instagram	0
On Race and Religion in African Political Communities: An Interview with David Theo Goldberg	0
Decolonial Marxism, essays from the Pan African revolution	0
Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria	0
From “dependency” to “decoloniality”? The enduring relevance of materialist political economy and the problems of a “decolonial” alternative	0
Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in the truly African university	0
Decolonising the Neoliberal University. Law, psychoanalysis and the politics of student protest Decolonising the Neoliberal University. Law, psychoanalysis and the politics of student p	0
Strategic protest and the negotiation of legibility in Cape Town: a case study of Reclaim the City	0
Archive history in Zambia as a history of loss	0
Apartheid and the unconscious: an introduction	0
The role of Non-Governmental Organisations in supporting popular struggles: a case study of Sustaining the Wild Coast (SWC) and the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC)	0
Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	0
The afterlife of apartheid: a triadic temporality of trauma	0
Harare muJoni : musicking, placemaking and everyday citizenship of Zimbabwean immigrants in Johannesburg, South Africa	0
Ambivalent identities in Kampala city: an interrogation of the “grasshopper delicacy” in Ugandan press photographs	0