OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of African Political Economy 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Finance, infrastructure and urban capital: the political economy of African ‘gap-filling’	43
Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency	16
The SDGs and the bio-economy: fostering land-grabbing in Africa	15
Dependency in a financialised global economy	13
Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin	12
Covid-19 containment policies in Nigeria: the role of conflictual federal–state relations in the fight against the pandemic	10
Auctioning a ‘just energy transition’? South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme and its implications for transition strategies	10
Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution	9
The hidden legacy of Samir Amin: delinking’s ecological foundation	9
Language of the unheard: police-recorded protests in South Africa, 1997–2013	9
Resource nationalism and community engagement in extractive resource governance: insights from Tanzania	8
Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	8
Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique: the case of Gilé National Reserve	7
Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy	7
Zimbabwe's 2018 elections: funding, public resources and vote buying	7
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?	6
Chinese investment in the Sierra Leone telecommunications sector: international financial institutions, neoliberalism and organisational fields	6
Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class	5
Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin	5
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood	4
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana	4
Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria	4
Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015	4
Should Nigeria join the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the other ECOWAS states?	4
The political economy of disability in South Africa, between social grants and job-creation programmes	4

Samir Amin in Beijing: delving into China’s delinking policy	4
Minimal hegemony in Sudan: exploring the rise and fall of the National Islamic Front	3
Transition now? Another coup d’état in Burkina Faso	3
The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique	3
When anti-corruption fails: the dynamics of procurement in contemporary South Africa	3
Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda	3
Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed	3
Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa	3
Oil production, environmental pressures and other sources of violent conflict in Nigeria	3
He who laughs last laughs the loudest: the 2021 donchi-kubeba (don’t tell) elections in Zambia	3
Anti-fraud measures in Eastern Africa	3
Socially distanced capitalism in a time of coronavirus	3
East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too?	3
Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers	2
Campaign funding laws and the political economy of money politics in Nigeria	2
Caught in Europe’s net: ecological destruction and Senegalese migration to Spain	2
Africa’s stalled structural transformation: the end of the flying geese?	2
South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership	2
‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa	2
The expansion of capitalist agricultural production and social reproduction of rural labour: contradictions within the logic of capital accumulation in Mozambique	2
Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies	2
Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation	2
Reclaiming Africa: scramble and resistance in the 21st century	2
Conditional cash transfer and education under neoliberalism in Nigeria: inequality, poverty and commercialisation in the school sector	2
The deep coloniality of economics – a (r)evolutionary appraisal	2
The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets	2
Generational populism and the political rise of Robert Kyagulanyi – aka Bobi Wine – in Uganda	2
Racial capitalism and capitalism in Africa: the utility and limits of Cedric Robinson’s perspective	2
How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan	2
Development, division and discontent in informal markets: insights from Kampala	2
Crisis of political leadership in Zimbabwe	2