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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	22
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	14
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	8
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	6
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction	6
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	5
Editorial	4
Fathers in stories of the nation	4
Wars or revolutions?	4
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	4
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	4
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	3
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	3
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	3
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement	3
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	3
The maturation of Kaokoveld environmental studies	3
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	3
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	3
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	3
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	3
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	3
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday	3
The making of South African revolutionaries	3
*Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa* Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	3

Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	3
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	2
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)	2
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	2
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	2
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	2
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	2
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	2
In the shadows of formal education	2
Editorial	2
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	2
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	2
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	1
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
‘van die oorspronklike lippe’ (‘from the original lips’): The 19th-Century Cape Colony, Holographic Archaeology and the Historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s /xam–Afrikaans Collection	1
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	1
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi	1
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr	1
Obituary	1
*The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy*	1
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government	1
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging	1
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	1
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township	1
Obituary	1
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	1
Health in a fragile state	1
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia	1
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape	1
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	1
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	1
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	1
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	1
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956	1
Editorial	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	1
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973	1
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	1
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	1
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	1

Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
In Solomon’s way	1
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	1
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	1
Editorial	1