OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Southern 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	11
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	9
Wars or revolutions?	9
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	9
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	7
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	6
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	6
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	6
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	6
The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique	6
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	5
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	5
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	5
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	5
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	4
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India	4
Editorial	4
‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	4
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	4

Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	3
Editorial	3
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
The personal–local as national history	3
Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	3
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian	3
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	3
Editorial	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa	2
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province	1
Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique	1
The micropolitics of a bantustan	1
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963	1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Editorial	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	1

Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1