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

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	10
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	9
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	9
Wars or revolutions?	8
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	6
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	6
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	6
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	6
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	5
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
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	5
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	5
Competing dreams of freedom	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	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
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Editorial	4
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	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
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	4

Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian	3
The personal–local as national history	3
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	3
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	3
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	3
Editorial	3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Editorial	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	2
The micropolitics of a bantustan	1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	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
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract	1
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	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
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	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
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1

Editorial	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1