OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies is 2. 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
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
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa	6
The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive	5
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
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
Everyday sociality, political protest and the commodity boundary in southern Africa	4
Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture	4
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
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 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
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