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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning	35
Bureaucrats, investors and smallholders: contesting land rights and agro-commercialisation in the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania	30
Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county	28
Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects	26
‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa	20
Interpreting contemporary Oromo politics in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach	14
Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya	11
Agricultural corridors as ‘demonstration fields’: infrastructure, fairs and associations along the Beira and Nacala corridors of Mozambique	9
When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists	9
Agency in constrained circumstances: adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	8
One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind	8
Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa	8
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	6
Militant Islamism and local clan dynamics in Somalia: the expansion of the Islamic Courts Union in Lower Jubba province	6
Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia	6
Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa	6
Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement	6
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park	6
War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi	5
Prosperity in a crisis economy: the Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993	5
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	5
Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935	5
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty	5
Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo	4

Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future	4
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	4
Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya	4
Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88	4
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	4
Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya	3
Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014	3
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	3
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	3
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	3
Beyond associations: emerging spaces of self-organization among vendors in Zambia	2
New wine in an old wineskin? Socio-political context and participatory budgeting in Kenya	2
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	2
Language policy in public space: a historical perspective on Asmara’s linguistic landscape	2
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	2
“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000	2
Between grassroots contention and elite manoeuvring: sub-nationalism in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya	2
Dependence after independence: Sudan’s bounded sovereignty 1956–1958	2
Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm	2
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	2
Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election	2
‘Off to Sugar Valley’: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and ‘Nyerere's People’, 1959–69	2
‘Sufurias cannot bring blessings’: change, continuity and resilience in the world of Marakwet pottery, a case from western Kenya	2
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	2
‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past	2
The electoral strategies of ethnic socio-cultural associations in former Katanga province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (2006–2019)	1
Mobile hearings in the Eastern DRC: prosecuting international crimes and implementing complementarity at national level	1
Building a culture of resistance: securitising and de-securitising Eastleigh during the Kenyan government’s Operation Usalama Watch	1
Youth on the margins: criminalizing Kenya's pastoral frontier, c. 1930-present	1
‘The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991’: explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia’s 2021 election	1
Editorial announcement	1
Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation	1
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
The “Civilizational Project” and the southern Sudanese Islamists: between assimilation and exclusion	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
Priceless land: valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia	1
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	1
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	1
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	1
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	1
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	1
Public letters and the culture of politics in Kenya, c.1960-75	1
Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators	1
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	1
Governing the economy: rule and resistance in the Ethiopia-Somaliland borderlands	1
The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya	1
‘Our time to recover’: young men, political mobilization, and personalized political ties during the 2017 primary elections in Nairobi	1

In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	1
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	1