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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	22
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	14
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	8
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	8
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	7
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	6
Wars or revolutions?	6
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	5
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	5
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	5
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	5
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	4
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	4
Competing dreams of freedom	4
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	4
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	4
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	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
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Editorial	4
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017	3

Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	3
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church	3
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa	3
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
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	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	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
Editorial	3
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg	3
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	3
‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990	3
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	3
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	2
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	2
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	2
Editorial	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	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
The personal–local as national history	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	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 micropolitics of a bantustan	1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
Editorial	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1

Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	1
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	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
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
Editorial	1