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

Article	Citations
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	15
‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s	14
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	13
Power in floating spaces and closed spaces: lessons from a Chinese volunteer tourism organization’s practice in Nairobi, Kenya	9
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	8
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	7
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	6
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	6
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	6
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa	5
Correction	5
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	4
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	4
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps	4
Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements	4
Social protection ‘from below’: micro traders and their collective associations in Tanzania	4
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	4
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	3
Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya	3
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005	3
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	3
The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict	3

The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991	3
The strategic internationalism of Rwandan heritage	3
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	3
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	3
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	3
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	3
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	2
State identity narratives and threat construction in the Horn of Africa: revisiting Ethiopia's 2006 intervention in Somalia	2
Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community	2
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	2
Populism-in-state-practice under neoliberalism: Museveni’s ad-hoc squads to ‘halt all evictions’ from land in Uganda	2
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	2
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	2
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	2
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	2
The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections	2
Mountain farmers and ecosystems: changing land use and livelihoods in Mount Rungwe, Tanzania	2
Temporal frictions: competing futures of LNG in Tanzania	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	1
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	1
The leasehold system and drivers of informal land transactions in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia	1
Wealth and poverty in mining Africa: migration, settlement and occupational change in Tanzania during the global mineral boom, 2002–2012	1
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north	1
A non-event: ratifying the African Women’s Rights framework in Ethiopia	1
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	1
In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	1
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	1
When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists	1
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	1
Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions	1
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	1
Editorial announcement	1
Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election	1
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1
‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69	1
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
Editorial announcement	1
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	1
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	1
‘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	1
Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome	1
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	1
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya	1