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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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	11
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	10
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	8
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	8
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	5
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	5
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	5
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	4
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	4
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4

State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	4
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	3
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
‘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	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	3
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	2
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	2
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	2
Understanding African views of China: analyses of student attitudes and elite media reportage in Kenya	2
Courtship and partnerships in northern Uganda: the role of family and friends in the process of marrying	2
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	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
(Un)leashed potentials: an activist-centered perspective on the political mobilization of motorcycle taxi drivers in eastern DRC	2
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	2
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	2
Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985	2
Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda	2
Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements	1
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	1
Environmental risk management from below: living with landslides in Bududa, eastern Uganda	1
From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)	1
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	1
Correction	1
Ambivalent Dis inheritance? Articulating urban rootedness and rural routedness	1
Solidarities on the move between the Horn of Africa and Italy: Somali migrants’ disconnection and networking practices in the 2010s	1
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda	1
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps	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
The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya	1
Citizenship moods in the late Museveni era: a cartoon-powered analysis	1
Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya	1
Making mainland: settlement designs in/against archipelagic Kenya	1
Assemblages of mobility and violence: the shifting social worlds of Somali youth migration and the meanings of tahriib , 2005–2020	1
A comparison of the role of domestic and international election observers in Zambia’s 2016 and 2021 general elections	1
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences	1
Social, cultural and political responses to Somaliland’s tahriib movement	1
The politics of policymaking in Rwanda: adaptation and reform in agriculture, energy, and education	1
Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia	1
Popular protests in the Amhara region and political reforms in Ethiopia, 2016–2018	1
Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya	1
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia	1
Integrationism vs. rejectionism: revisiting the history of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya	1

‘Returning to the world of ancestors’: death and dying among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1900s–1980s