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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither epistemic decolonisation? How to make experiences a source of moral justification	14
South African photography and the lives of workers	12
The voice of reason: a thematic appraisal of editorial coverage of Nigeria’s 2015 elections	5
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance	5
Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits	4
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid	4
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa	4
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	4
Special Issue Cover Page	4
The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive	4
Migration and education in Zimbabwe and South Africa	3
African urbanisms and their hinterlands: contemporary cultural imaginaries of spatial connections	3
Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture	3
Guilty on the innocent side: evil subjectivity in two eastern african child soldier memoirs	3
Frank-talking: a reading of Biko’s statement “On Death” with Foucault’s concept of parrhesia	3
Against racial capitalism: selected writings	3
Johannesburg’s shitty little river: faecal discourse and discontent regarding the Jukskei	2
Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive	2
Rethinking river resilience: the lower Orange/Gariep river	2
Ungroup, regroup	2
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”	2
Everyday sociality, political protest and the commodity boundary in southern Africa	2
The queen mothers’ struggle for breath: the colonisation of an institution	2
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 ears of apartheid	1

The struggle for housing and basic services in South Africa: a case for service delivery protests	1
Circular mobilities and health care seeking practices for perceived malaria illness among Nairobi residents in Kenya	1
Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary AfroFrench narratives	1
Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s weaponisation of the discourse of race	1
The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline	1
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord	1
Under waves of resilience – Dwesa-Cwebe: a case study on environmental policy and the expectation of resilience on South African coastal communities	1
Notions of self and community in Kampala urban space in Ugandan poetry anthologies	1
The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling	1
Reconfiguring Acholi cultural dance: a visual arts mediation of Bwola dance in a performative space of Kampala city	1
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies	1
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory	1
Access to land in difficult times: an ethnographic study of morally compromised strangers in northern Ghana	1
Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts	1
Rasa and resilience: where to from here	1
Lower Orange River views	1
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa	1
“Johnny Just Come”: Lagos and the newcomer figure in Nigerian screen media	1
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony	1
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Cape mission liberalism and the South African liberation struggle	1