OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Eastern 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
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	12
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	8
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	7
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	7
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	5
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	5
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	5
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	3
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3

Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	3
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	2
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	2
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	2
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	2
‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s	2
Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions	2
Musical activity, show business and post-colonial politics in socialist Maputo, or ‘the multiple sides of a full circle’ (1975–1994)	2
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	2
Correction	2
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	2
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	2
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	2
Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya	2
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	2
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	2
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda	1
Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda	1
Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections	1
Mountain farmers and ecosystems: changing land use and livelihoods in Mount Rungwe, Tanzania	1
Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements	1
Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: the regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia	1
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome	1
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	1
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	1
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps	1
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north	1
In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	1
Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania	1
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	1