OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Author response for Cold War Assemblages: decolonisation to digital roundtable	16
Nairobi in the making: landscapes of time and urban belonging	7
Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, “Tsafendas’s Diary,” and Staffrider magazine (1988)	5
“ Needs ” versus “w ants ”: examining the manifestations and motivations of transactional sex among young women in relation to HIV risk in	4
‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections	4
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag	4
Decolonial opacities: Cold War Assemblages	3
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord	3
The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling	2
The voice of reason: a thematic appraisal of editorial coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 elections	2
Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification	2
“Little research value”: African Estate records and colonial gaps in a post-colonial national archive	2
“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory	2
Composition and/as postcolonial shame: Philip Miller’s REwind: a cantata for voice, tape, and testimony	2
Audiovisual artefacts: the African politics of moving image loss	2
South African photography and the lives of workers	2
Access to land in difficult times: an ethnographic study of morally compromised strangers in northern Ghana	1
[Re-]Creative rites: exploring the materiality of clay and its making processes	1
(W)archives: archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art	1
The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline	1
“An invisible rash”: migrant (im)mobility and corporeality in Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy	1
Auditing and the unconscious: managerialism’s memory traces	1
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	1
Intellectual decolonisation and the danger of epistemic closure: the need for a critical decolonial theory	1
The gendered character of welfare: reconsidering vulnerability and violence in South Africa	1

The native body as blue ground: South Africa’s infrastructural production of race	1
Special Issue Cover Page	1
How is workers’ education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples	1
Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts	1
On maternal legacies of knowledge, ukwambathisa , and rethinking of the sociology of Eastern Cape, South Africa	1
Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in the truly African university	1
Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits	1
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance	1
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory	1
Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive	1
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa	1
Edward W. Blyden’s intellectual tradition: the place of ‘race’ and religion	1
Ke mosali oa Mosotho : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho	1
Arrested (game) development: labour and lifestyles of independent video game creators in Cape Town	1
Record-keeping and political advocacy in late colonial Uganda: the case of Abataka Abasoga, Busoga, 1940 to 1950	1
Ghosts of archive: deconstructive intersectionality and praxis	1
The struggle for housing and basic services in South Africa: a case for service delivery protests	1
A review of the state of trade union-based worker education	1
“Peculiar and enabling”: cold war paradigms and paradoxes	1
Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter	1
“Making plans through people”: the social embeddedness of informal entrepreneurship in urban South Africa	1
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”	1
The queen mothers’ struggle for breath: the colonisation of an institution	1