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International Journal of African Historical Studies Books Papers Index

CENTER PUBLICATIONS BY COUNTRY

All Africa Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo Cote d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast East Africa Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria North Africa Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Southern Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda West Africa Zaire Zambia Zanzibar Zimbabwe

Note: The entries for each country are sorted by title

Explanation of code numbers (used for ordering): AH, WP, and AAIC refer to article-length papers in Discussion Papers in the African Humanities (AH), Issues in Language Education (ILE), Working Papers of the African Studies Center (WP), and African-American Issues Center Papers (AAIC). ARS refers to a paperback monograph in the African Research Studies. AFDOC refers to a book in the African Historical Documents series. BUPA refers to an edited collection in the Boston University Papers on Africa series.

ALL AFRICA

Africa and the Global GM Crop Conflict: Why Europe Will Win, and Poor Farmers Lose, by Robert L. Paarlberg [2003] WP 245 ($4)

Damming the Empire: British Attitudes on Hydropower Development in Africa, 1917-1960, by Heather Hoag [2008] RS 3 ($6)

The Literature of African Environmental History: An Introduction, by Robert Munson [2007] RS 2 ($6)
 
Multiethnic vs. Deeply Divided Societies in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [2002] WP 240 ($4)
 
Performing Identity Nations, Cultures, and African Experimental Novels, by Phyllis Clark [2000] AH 34 ($4)

 Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: A Preliminary Mapping, by Kate Showers [2001] WP 237 ($4)

BENIN

Dahomey and the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Robin Law [1992] WP 165 ($4)

Ethnicity Ideology, and the Military in the People's Republic of Benin, by Dov Ronen [1984] AAIC 5 ($4)

The Nigeria/Benin Transborder Trade, Border Control, and the Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program, by A.I. Asiwaju [1991] WP 155 ($4)

BOTSWANA

Biological Variables in Forager Fertility Performance: A Critique of Bongaarts' Model, by Edwin Wilmsen [1982] WP 60 ($4)

The Botswana National Migration Study: A Conceptual Framework, by John R. Harris [1981] WP 42 ($4)

Breast Sweeping, Cesarean Section, and High Blood: Ideas About Aging in Postcolonial Botswana, by Julie Livingston [2000] WP 230 ($4)

The Development of a Labor Reserve: The Impact of Colonial Rule on Botswana, by David Massey [1980] WP 34 ($4)

Diet and Fertility Among Kalahari Bushmen, by Edwin N. Wilmsen, WP 14 [1979) ($4)

The Distribution and Efficiency of Crop Production in Tribal Areas of Botswana [1981] by Robert E.B. Lucas, WP 44 ($4)

The Distribution of Wages and Employment in Rural Botswana, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1981] WP 43 ($4)

Exchange, Interaction and Settlement in North Western Botswana: Past and Present Perspective, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1980] WP 39 ($4)

Foragers for Life: Relations of Property, Production, and Labor in the Perpetuation of Bushman Status, by Edwin Wilmsen [1986] WP 111 ($4)

"Human Locusts" and "The Sporting Class": Wood-Cutting and Game Hunting by White Settlers in Botswana, by Julie Croston [1994] WP 192 ($4)

Labor Migration from Botswana to South African Mines: Economic Effects, by John R. Harris [1983] WP 80 ($4)

Migration Among the Batswana, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1983] WP 70 ($4)

Prehistoric and Historic Antecedents of a Contemporary Ngamiland Community, by Edwin N. Wilmsen, WP 12 ($4)

Remote Area Dwellers in Botswana: An Assessment of Their Current Status, by Edwin Wilmsen [1979] WP 65 [1982) ($4)

Struggles over Water, Struggles over Meaning: Cattle, Water, and the State in Botswana, by Pauline E. Peters [1984] WP 88 ($4)

Those Who Have Each Other: Land Tenure of Kalahari Foragers, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1984] WP 94 ($4)

Women, Migrant Labor, and Social Change in Botswana, by Barbara B. Brown [1980] WP 41 ($4)

BURKINA FASO

Spatial Scales, Desertification, and Environmental Perception in the Bougouriba Region (Burkina Faso), by Eric F. Lambin [1992] WP 167 ($4)

CAMEROON

The Bamum Two-Figure Throne: Additional Evidence, by Christraud Geary [1983] WP 74 ($4)

The Communication Process in the Changing Rural Areas of Africa, With Emphasis on the Case of Cameroon, by Chindji-Kouleu and Willard R. Johnson [1985] AAIC 9 ($4)

The Earth Shall Give Judgment: Land, Leadership and Political Legitimacy in Highland Cameroon, by Miriam Goheen [1989] WP 143 ($4)

The Economic Position of Beti Widows, Past and Present, by Jane I. Guyer [1979] WP 22 ($4)

Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, by Jane I. Guyer [1984] ARS 15 ($11)

Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Kinshasa, Libreville, and Yaounde, by Theodore Trefon [1995] WP 200 ($4)

The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts, by Christraud Geary [1981] WP 51 ($4)

Language in Cameroon, 1960—1990: Bilingual Policy, Multilingual Practice, by Milton Krieger [1991] ILE 6 ($4)

Head Tax, Social Structure, and Rural Incomes in Cameroun, 1922—1937, by Jane Guyer [1978] WP 3 ($4)

On Legal Change in Cameroon: Women, Marriage, and Bridewealth, by Christraud M. Geary [1986] WP 113 ($4)

Patterns from Without, Meaning from Within: European-Style Military Dress and German Colonial Politics in the Bamum Kingdom (Cameroon), by Christraud Geary [1989] AH 1 ($4)

Planning a Family in Bali Nyonga: Concepts and Practices in the Context of Medical Pluralism, by Sarah C. Richards [1999] WP 220 ($4)

The Provident Societies in the Rural Economy of Yaounde, 1945—1960, by Jane I. Guyer [1980] WP 37 ($4)

The Use of Women for the Empowerment of Men in African Nationalist Politics: The 1958 "Anlu" in Cameroon, by Emmanuel Konde [1990] WP 147 ($4)

CONGO

Belgian-French Relations During World War II: The Perspective of a Congo Governor-General, by William B. Norton [1979] WP 18 ($4)

Do the Poor Need Nutrition Education? Some Methodological Issues and Suggestive Evidence from Kinshasa, Zaire, By David Wheeler [1978] WP 2 ($4)

Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)

The Outlook for Liberalization in Zaire: Evidence from Kisangani's Rice Trade, by Diane Russell [1989] WP 139 ($4)

COTE d'IVOIRE/ IVORY COAST

Le Projet d'éducation préscolaire en Langue Maternelle en Côte d'Ivoire, by Pascal D. Kokora [1989] ILE 3 ($4)

Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Migrant Women in Abidjan, by May Yacoob [1983] WP 75 ($4)

French and British Colonial Forest Policies: Past and Present Implications for Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana, by Marc P.E. Parren [1994] WP 188 ($4)

EGYPT

An Environmental and Cultural Study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: A Research Prospectus, by Creighton Gabel and Karl Petruso, [1980] WP 25 ($4)

Marea: A Byzantine Port in Northern Egypt, by Karl Petruso and Creighton Gabel [1982] WP 62 ($4)

EAST AFRICA

Damming the Empire: British Attitudes on Hydropower Development in Africa, 1917-1960, by Heather Hoag [2008] RS 3 ($6)

HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences, by Thomas S. Jayne, Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Gunter Hemrich WP 253 ($4)

ETHIOPIA

A Great Agrarian Cycle? A History of Agricultural Productivity and Demographic Change in Highland Ethiopia, 1900—1987, by James C. McCann [1988] WP 131 ($4)

A Tale of Two Forests: Narratives of Deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840—1996, by James McCann [1998] WP 209 ($4)

Aksum and the Habashat: State and Ethnicity in Ancient Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, by Rodolfo Fattovich [2000] WP 228 ($4)

Coping with Seasonality in Amhara Households of Wogda, Central Ethiopia: An In-Depth and Multi-Dimensional Perspective, by Yared Amare [1996] WP 208 ($4)

Kings and Farmers. The Urban Development of Aksum, Ethiopia: ca. 500 BC–AD 1500, by Rodolfo Fattovich, [2008] PSAE RS 4 ($6.00)

Development Interventions and Pastoral Dynamics in Southern Ethiopia: A Discussion of Natural Resources Management in Borana Pastoralism, by Johan Helland [1994] WP 186 ($4)

The Diffusion of Fertilizer in Ethiopia: Pattern Determinants and Implications, by Bisrat Aklilu [1979] WP 15 ($4)

The Ethiopian Intelligentsia and the Italo-Ethiopian War 1935—1941, by Bahru Zewde [1991] AH 15 ($4)

Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, by Allan Hoben [2001] WP 236 ($4)

Freedom of Association in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, by Theodore M. Vestel [1998] WP 210 ($4)

Frontier Agriculture, Food Supply, and Conjuncture: A Revolution in Dura on Ethiopia's Mazega 1898—1930, by James C. McCann [1989] WP 138 ($4)

Household Economy, Demography, and the "Push" Factor in Northern Ethiopian History, 1916—1935, by James McCann [1984] WP 97 ($4)

Land Redistribution and Socioeconomic Change in Ethiopia: The Case of Wogda, Northern Shewa, by Yared Amare [1994] WP 190 ($4)

The Language of Education in Ethiopia: Empowerment or Imposition?, by Susan Hoben [1995] ILE 8 ($4)

The Meditations of Zara Yaqoub, a 17th Century Ethiopian Philosopher, by Tedros Kiros [1994] WP 191 ($4)

Orality, State Literacy, and Political Culture in Ethiopia: Translating the Ras Kassa Registers, by James C. McCann [1991] AH 10 ($4)

Paradigms and Politics: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Ethiopia, by Allan Hoben [1995] WP 193 ($4)

Plows, Oxen, and Household Managers: A Reconsideration of the Land Paradigm and the Production Equation in Northeast Ethiopia, by James McCann [1984] WP 95 ($4)

The Political Economy of Rural Rebellion in Ethiopia: Northern Resistance to Imperial Expansion, 1928—1935, by James McCann [1984] WP 99 ($4)

Seasonal Patterns of Household and Child Food Consumption among Amhara Peasants: The Case of Wogda, Central Ethiopia, by Yared Amare [1998] WP 213 ($4)

Women in Ethiopian History: A Bibliographic Review, by Belete Bizuneh [2004] WP 250 ($4)

GABON

The Rentier State in Gabon, by Douglas Andrew Yates [1995] WP 196 ($4)

Social Development in Francophone Africa–The Case of Women in Gabon and Morocco, by Claire Griffiths [1998] WP 211 ($4)

Starving in Plenty and in Poverty: Famine in the Gabon Estuary, 1916-1926, by Jeremy Rich, WP 239 [2001] ($4)

GAMBIA

Colonial Politics and Historical Texts: The Case of the Umarian Narratives, by David Robinson [1991] AH 16 ($4)

Kola Trade and State-Building: Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 38 ($4)

Labor-Saving Techniques in Food Processing: Rural Women and Technological Change in the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 108 ($4)

Luso-African Trade and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Regions, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 24 ($4)

National Machineries for the Integration of Women in Development: A Strategy for the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 104 ($4)

Women and Technological Change in the Gambia: A Case Study of the Salt Industry, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 107 ($4)

Women and Vegetable Gardens in the Gambia: Action Aid and Rural Development, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 109 ($4)

GHANA

The Conservative Nationalist Tradition in Ghana, by Richard Rathbone [1994] WP 183 ($4)

Democratic Transition and Electoral Systems in Africa: A Preliminary Comparison of Ghana, Mali, and Niger, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1995] WP 202 ($4)

Development, Underdevelopment, and the State in Ghana, by Naomi Chazan [1982] WP 58 ($4)

French and British Colonial Forest Policies: Past and Present Implications for Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana, by Marc P.E. Parren [1994] WP 188 ($4)

Kobina Sekyi of Ghana: An Annotated Bibliography of his Writings, by Kofi Baku [1991] WP 151 ($4)

Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana, by Beverly Grier [1989] WP 144 ($4)

Politics and Murder: A Case from West Africa in the 1940s, by Richard Rathbone
[1992] WP 164 ($4)

Social Mobility: Selling Transportation and Modernity in Independence-era Ghana, by Jonathan T. Reynolds [2008] WP 256 ($6)

Some Observations on the Elections and Transition in Ghana: 1991—1996, by Kwamina Panford [1998] WP 216 ($4)

Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History, by Emmanuel Akyeampong and Pashington Obeng [1995] WP 198 ($4)

GUINEA

Coming of Age Through Colonial Education: African Autobiography as Reluctant Bildungsroman, The Case of Camara Laye [focus on Mali and Guinea], by Ralph A. Austen, AH 32 ($4)

GUINEA-BISSAU

Luso-African Trade and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Regions, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 24 ($4)

KENYA

Stewards of African Labor: The Evolution of Trusteeship in Kenya's Horticulture Industry, by Catherine Dolan, WP 252 ($4)

A Hundred Years of Crisis? Environment and Development Narratives in Ukambani, Kenya, by Dianne E. Rocheleau, Philip E. Steinberg, and Patricia A. Benjamin [1994] WP 189 ($4)

Fashioning a Modern Identity in Colonial Western Kenya: Struggles over Clothing in the Interwar Period, by Margaret Jean Hay [2002] AH 35 ($4)

Forest War No More: Detention, Villagization, and the Mau Mau Emergency, by Caroline Elkins [2000] WP 227 ($4)

Government and Opposition in Kenya, 1966—1969, by Susanne D. Mueller [1983] WP 85 ($4)

Historical Dimensions of the Food Crisis in Africa: Surviving Famines Along the Kenya Coast, ca. 1880—1980, by Thomas J. Herlehy [1984] WP 87 ($4)

Material Culture and the Shaping of Consumer Society in Colonial Western Kenya, by Margaret Jean Hay [1994] WP 179 ($4)

Micro-Finance Institutions in Kenya: Client Profiles and Institutional Growth, by Jeanne Koopman, [2001] WP 238 ($4)

Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: Examining the Connections in Rural Kenya, by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter [1989] WP 140 ($4)

The Politics and Violence in Kenya by Suzanne D. Meuller [2008] WP 257 ($6)

Problems of Pastoral Land Tenure in Kenya: Demographic, Economic, and Political Process Among Maasai, Samburu, Boran, and Rendille, 1950—1990, by Elliot Fratkin [1994] WP 177 ($4)

Productivity and Environmental Conservation under Rapid Population Growth: A Case Study of Machakos District, by Mary Tiffen [1993] WP 170 ($4)

Schooling and Access to Management in LDCs: The Case of Kenya, by Irving Gershenberg [1988] WP 132 ($4)

Slack in Kenya's Modern Manufacturing Sector, by Irving Gershenberg [1985] WP 105 ($4)

The Spread Effect of Management Training: A Comparative Analysis of Multinational and Other Firms in Kenya, by Irving Gershenberg [1985] WP 110 ($4)

The State and Peasant Leverage in Kenya, by Frank Holmquist [1984] WP 91 ($4)

State Voices in the Countryside: Politics and the Kenyan Baraza, by Angelique Haugerud and Kimani Njogu [1991] WP 159 ($4)

Ties that Bind: Palm Wine and Blood Brotherhood at the Kenya Coast During the Nineteenth Century, by Thomas J. Herlehy [1983] WP 68 ($4)

Western Clothing and African Identity: Changing Consumption Patterns Among the Luo, by Margaret Jean Hay [1989] AH 2 ($4)

Who Wears the Pants? Christian Missions, Migrant Labor, and Clothing in Colonial Western Kenya, by Margaret Jean Hay [1992] AH 23 ($4)

Women, Employment, and the Family in Nairobi: The Impact of Capitalist Development in Kenya, by Sharon Stichter [1986] WP 121 ($4)

Women's Domestic Labor in Colonial Kenya: Prostitution in Nairobi, 1909—1950, by Luise White [1980] WP 30 ($4)

LESOTHO

Gully Erosion in Lesotho and the Development of Historical Environmental Impact Assessment, by Kate Showers [1995] WP 201 ($4)

LIBERIA

Liberia's Choice and Regional Stability, by John Gay, WP 251 ($4)

Settler Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sinoe County, Liberia, by Jo Sullivan [1980] WP 33 ($4)

Krumen "Down the Coast": Liberian Migrants on the West African Coast in the Nineteenth Century, by Jane Martin [1982] WP 64 ($4)

Quick-Fixing the State in Africa: The Liberian Case, by Patrick L. N. Seyon [1998] WP 217 ($4)

LIBYA

Central Saharan Trade in the Early Islamic Centuries, by Mark Dyer [1979] WP 19 ($4)

MALAWI

An Exploration of Language Planning Issues in Malawi, by Alfred J. I. Matiki [1998] ILE 9 ($4)

MALI

Democratic Transition and Electoral Systems in Africa: A Preliminary Comparison of Ghana, Mali, and Niger, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1995] WP 202 ($4)

Coming of Age Through Colonial Education: African Autobiography as Reluctant Bildungsroman, The Case of Camara Laye [focus on Mali and Guinea], by Ralph A. Austen, AH 32 ($4)

Women at Work in Mali: The Case of the Markala Cooperative, by Susan Caughman [1981] WP 50 ($4)

MAURITANIA

Modernizing Land Tenure in Mauritania: The Role of Law in Development, by John Grayzel [1986] WP 118 ($4)

MAURITIUS

The Breakthrough in Export Processing Industrialization in Mauritius, by Roland Lamusse [1986] AAIC 13 ($4)

Macro-Economic Policy in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Mauritius, by Roland Lamusse [1986] AAIC 15 ($4)

MOROCCO

Social Development in Francophone Africa–The Case of Women in Gabon and Morocco, by Claire Griffiths [1998] WP 211 ($4)

MOZAMBIQUE

Attitudes Toward Race and Work in Mozambique: Lourenço Marques, 1900—1974, by Jeanne Penvenne [1979] WP 16 ($4)

Forced Labor and the Origins of an African Working Class: Lourenço Marques, 1870—1962, by Jeanne Penvenne [1979] WP 13 ($4)

Making Our Own Way: Women Working in Lourenço Marques, 1900—1933, by Jeanne Penvenne [1986] WP 114 ($4)

Naming the Past in a "Scattered" Land: Memory and the Powers of Women's Naming Practices in Southern Mozambique, by Heidi Gengenbach [2001] WP 234 ($4)

Principles and Passion: Capturing the Legacy of João dos Santos Albasini, by Jeanne Penvenne 1991] AH 12 ($4)

The Streetcorner Press: Worker Intelligence Networks in Lourenço Marques, 1900—1962, by Jeanne Penvenne [1980] WP 26 ($4)

The Unmaking of an African Petite Bourgeoisie: Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, by Jeanne Penvenne [1982] WP 57 ($4)

Zanzibar, Portugal, and Mozambique: Relations from the Late Eighteenth Century in 1890, by Norman R. Bennett [1987] WP 123 ($4)

NAMIBIA

Nama/Namibia: The Diary and Letters of Nama Chief Hendrik Witbooi, edited by Georg M. Gugelberger [1984] AF 5 (1984) ($9) OUT OF PRINT

NIGER

The Anatomy of a Riot: Single Women and Religious Violence in Niger, by Barbara Cooper [2002] WP 241 ($4)

Democratic Transition and Electoral Systems in Africa: A Preliminary Comparison of Ghana, Mali, and Niger, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1995] WP 202 ($4)

Le français et les langues nationales au Niger: Relations inter-linguistiques et dynamiques sociales, by Abdou Hamani [1988] ILE 1 ($4)

Risk, Environmental Variability, and Drought-Induced Impoverishment: The Pastoral Economy of Central Niger, by Martha A. Starr [1986] AAIC 16 ($4)

NIGERIA

Art in History, History in Art: The Idoma Ancestral Masquerade as Historical Evidence, by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir [1985] WP 103 ($4)

Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland, 1600–1850, by Akinwumi Ogundiran [2002] AH 36 ($4)

British, Colonial and Post-Colonial Food Regulation, with Reference to Nigeria: An Essay in Formal Sector Anthropology, by Jane I. Guyer [1991] WP 158 ($4)

Changing Nuptiality in a Nigerian Community: Observations from the Field, by Jane I. Guyer [1990] WP 146 ($4)

Colonialism and the Individual: A Nigerian Life History, by Simon Ottenberg [1992] AH 19 ($4)

Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria, by Olufemi Idowu and Jane I. Guyer [1993] WP 172 ($4)

Community Response to a Pilot Farming Project in Nigeria, by C. Okali and K. Cassaday [1985] AAIC 10 ($4)

Elections in Nigeria: A View from the Bush, by William F.S. Miles [1984] AAIC 6 ($4)

Food Crisis and Government Response in Nigeria: A Critique of the River Basin Authorities, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1986] WP 115 ($4)

From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town, by Sara S. Berry [1983] WP 76 ($4)

Hausa Oral Traditions: An Annotated Bibliography, by David Westley [1991] WP 154 ($4)

Language in Education in Benue State: A Search For A Policy, by G.A. Gundu [1991] ILE 7 ($4)

“Marriage and Madness”: Marriage Stability and Demon Possession in Irigwe, Nigeria, by Walter Sangree, WP 260 (2008) ($8.00)

The Nigeria/Benin Transborder Trade, Border Control, and the Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program, by A.I. Asiwaju [1991] WP 155 ($4)

The Nupe Invasion of Etsakoland: Its Impact on the Socio-Political Development of the Etsako Clans, c. 1860—1897, by Edward O. Erhagbe [1990] WP 149 ($4)

Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation, and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria, by Sara Berry [1982] WP 66 ($4)

Oyibo: Representations of the Colonialist Other in Yoruba Art, 1826—1960, by Babatunde Lawal [1993] AH 24 ($4)

The Political Economy of an Oligarchy: The Case of Kano's Bourgeoisie, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1984] WP 89 ($4)

Political Economy, Political Class, and Political System in Recivilianized Nigeria, by William D. Graf [1981] WP 47 ($4)

Politics and Administration of Industrial Incentives and Finance in Kano, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1984] WP 93 ($4)

Representation Without Taxation: An Essay on Democracy in Rural Nigeria, 1952—1990, by Jane Guyer [1991] WP 152 ($4)

Sources of Capital Formation and Accumulation Among Kano Entrepreneurs, 1950—1980, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1986] WP 117 ($4)

The Sopono Cult and Smallpox Vaccinations in Lagos, by Robert W. Morgan [1979] WP 11 ($4)

“Stealing the Road”: Colonial Rule and the Hajj From Nigeria in the Early 20th Century, by Jonathan Reynolds [2003] WP 246 ($4)

The Tin Mining Industry in Independent Nigeria, by Bill Freund [1983] WP 73 ($4)

"Unwrapping" Nationalism: Dress, Gender, and Nationalist Discourse in Colonial Lagos, by Judith Byfield [2000] AH 30 ($4)

Weaving and the British Presence in Southeastern Nigeria After 1900, by Lisa Aronson [1991] AH 17 ($4)

Women in Government Service in Colonial Nigeria, 1862—1945, by LaRay Denzer [1989] WP 136 ($4)

Women's Participation in the Democratization Process in Nigeria, by Felicia Ekejuiba [1991] WP 163 ($4)

RWANDA

Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)

School, Work, and Equity: Educational Reform in Rwanda, by Susan J. Hoben [1989] ARS 16 ($13)

Language and Educational Reform in Rwanda, by Susan J. Hoben [1988] ILE 2 ($4)

The Mending of Hearts: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Activities Among Rwandan Refugee Religious Groups in Ngara District, Tanzania, by Marc Sommers [1996] WP 207 ($4)

What Justice for Rwanda? Gacaca versus Truth Commission? by Min Reuchamps [2008] WP 259 ($6)

SENEGAL

The Challenges of Post-Dam Environmental and Economic Rehabilitation in the Senegal River Valley, by Jeanne Koopman, [2007] RS 1 ($6)

Choosing Between African and French Destinations: The Role of Family and Community Factors in Migration from the Senegal River Valley, by Sally E. Findley [1989] WP 142 ($4)

Colonial Politics and Historical Texts: The Case of the Umarian Narratives, by David Robinson [1991] AH 16 ($4)

Diola Land/European Country: Religious Representations of the French in Twentieth-Century Senegal, by Robert M. Baum [1992] AH 20 ($4)

From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal, by Jesse C. Ribot [1994] WP 187 ($4)

Kola Trade and State-Building: Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 38 ($4)

Precolonial Senegal: The Jolof Kingdom, 1800—1890, by Eunice Charles [1977] ARS 12 ($7.50)

SIERRA LEONE

Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century, by E. Frances White [1980] WP 27 ($4)

Deforestation History and the Ecology of Swidden Fallows in Sierra Leone, by A. Endre Nyerges [1994] WP 185 ($4)

Precolonial Commerce in Northeastern Sierra Leone, by C. Magbaily Fyle [1979] WP 10 ($4)

SOMALIA

Militarism and Warlordism: Rethinking the Somali Political Experience, by Hussein M. Adam [1993] WP 169 ($4)

Sittaat: Somali Women's Songs for "The Mothers of the Believers," by Lidwien Kapteijns, with Mariam Omar Ali, [1995] AH 25 ($4)

The Somalia Social and Institutional Profile, by Allan Hoben, Susan Hoben, and John Harris [1983] ($10) OUT OF PRINT

Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1993] WP 173 ($4)

Women and the Somali Pastoral Tradition: Corporate Kinship and Capitalist Transformation in Northern Somalia, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1991] WP 153 ($4)

SOUTH AFRICA

Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Gunter Hemrich HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences, by Thomas S. Jayne, WP 253 ($4)

Museumafrica as Metonymic for the "New" South Africa, 1988-2004
by Sara Byala, AH 37 ($4)

African Initiated Churches in Southern Africa: Protest Movements or Mission Churches?, by Marthinus L. Daneel [2000] AH 33 ($4)

Alex La Guma: The Literary and Political Functions of Marginality in the Colonial Situation, by Abdul JanMohamed [1982] WP 52 ($4)

Anthropology in South Africa: An Inside Job, by Adam Kuper [1998] WP 212 ($4)

Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Rural Democratization in Kwazulu—Natal, South Africa, by William A. Munro [1998] WP 215 ($4)

Cultural Landscapes in South Africa and Australia: Kalahari Gemsbok and Uluru-Tjuta National Parks, by Jane Carruthers [2003] WP 244 ($4)

The Griqua of South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, by David Westley [2007] WP 255  ($4)

Homes Fit for Heroes: White Servicemen, Social Justice, and the Making of Apartheid, 1939—1948, by Neil Roos, WP 232 ($4)

Labor Migration from Botswana to South African Mines: Economic Effects, by John R. Harris [1983] WP 80 ($4)

Mines and Migrants in South Africa, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1985] WP 106 ($4)

Moving the Goalposts: Playing Styles, Sociability, and Politics in South African Soccer in the 1960s, by Peter C. Alegi [2000] WP 225 ($4)

The Political Economy of Population Policy in South Africa, by Barbara B. Brown [1983] WP 71 ($4)

Sources of Class Consciousness: The Experience of Women Workers in South Africa, 1973—1980, by Iris Berger [1982] WP 55 ($4)

SUDAN

Khabir 'Ali at Home in Kubayh: Brief Biography of a Dar Fur Caravan Leader, by G. Michael LaRue [1984] WP 90 ($4)

Gender, Culture and Capitalism in the Islamic Revival (Sudan), by Victoria Bernal [1991] WP 160 ($4)

Land and Social Stratification in Dar Fur, 1785—1875: The Hakura System, by G. Michael LaRue [1984] WP 96 ($4)

Pigs: The Democratic Philosophers of the Medieval Sudan, by Jay Spaulding and J.L. Spaulding [1989] WP 134 ($4)

The Use of Slaves in Precolonial Western Dar Fur: The Case of Dar Masalit, 1870—1905, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1984] WP 92 ($4)

TANZANIA

The Agrarian Question in Tanzania: The Case of Tobacco, by Susanne D. Mueller [1980] WP 32 ($4)

Becoming Indigenous in Africa: The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, by Jim Igoe [2004] WP 248 ($4)

Between Decadent Enjoyment and Struggle to Survive: Market Women Restructuring Gender in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Tuulikki Pietilä [2001] WP 235 ($4)

The Current Economic Stagnation in Tanzania: Causes and Effects, by Benno Ndulu [1984] AAIC 2 ($4)

The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare Tanzania, 1961—1988, by Michael Sheridan, WP 233 ($4)

Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)

"Getting AIDS is like Breaking Your Shaft in the Shamba": Energy, Disease, and Changing Concepts of Manhood in Kilimanjaro, by Philip Setel [1993] WP168 ($4)

Bifocalism or Unifocalism in Education? A Critical Evaluation of Language Policy in Tanzania, by Z.S. M. Mochiwa [1991] ILE 4 ($4)

From Zanzibar to Ujiji, the Journal of Arthur W. Dodgshun, 1877—1879, edited by Norman Bennett [1969] AFDOC 1 ($6)

The Historical Origins of Tanzania's Ruling Class, by Susanne D. Mueller [1980] WP 35 ($4)

The Human Exploitation of Local Environmental Variations on the Mbulu Highlands, Northern Tanzania, 1920s—1950s, by Yusufu Qwaray Lawi [1999] WP 221 ($4)

Investment and Resource Gaps in Tanzania, 1964—1982, by Benno Ndulu [1984] AAIC 4 ($4)

Labor Conditions in the Tanzanian Mining Industry, 1930—1960, by Fred J. Kaijage [1983] WP 83 ($4)

Landing the Middle Peasantry: Narodism in Tanzania, by Susanne D. Mueller [1979] WP 20 ($4)

The Local Politics of Market Liberalization in Tanzania: Power Relations, Shifting Alliances, and Contrasting Outcomes, by Stefano Ponte [2000] WP 229 ($4)

Lords of the Flies: British Sleeping Sickness Policies as Environmental Engineering in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900—1950, by Kirk Arden Hoppe [1995] WP203 ($4)

The Mending Of Hearts: Conflict Resolution And Reconciliation Activities Among Rwandan Refugee Religious Groups In Ngara District, Tanzania (A Preliminary Field Report), by Marc Sommers [1996] WP 207 ($4)

NGOs, Wheat, and Civil Society: The Story of Tanzania’s Hanang Community Development Project, by Jim Igoe [2003] WP 243 ($4)

Peasant Resistance to Proletarianization in Colonial Tanzania, by Fred Kaijage [1983] WP 81 ($4)

Roadblocks to Community Conservation in Tanzania: A Case Study from Simanjiro District, by Jim Igoe [1999] WP 218 ($4)

The Sacred Forests of North Pare, Tanzania: Indigenous Conservation, Local Politics, and Land Tenure, by Michael J. Sheridan [2000] WP 224 ($4)

Tanzania's Performance in Meeting Basic Needs: The International Context, by John R. Harris [1983] WP 82 ($4)

Urbanization, Pentecostalism, and Refugee Youth in Africa [focus on Rwandan refugees in Tanzania], by Marc Sommers, WP 231 ($4)

Zanzibar, Portugal, and Mozambique: Relations from the Late Eighteenth Century in 1890, by Norman R. Bennett [1987] WP 123 ($4)

The Zanzibar Letters of Edward D. Ropes, Jr., 1882—1892, edited by Norman Bennett [1973] AFDOC 3 ($6)

UGANDA

Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)

"Okukkera Ng'omuzungu"–To Talk Nonsense like a Whiteman: The Use of Proverbs in Luganda Historical Writing, by John A. Rowe [1991] AH 14 ($4)

Planning as a Rational Act: Constructing Environmental Policy in Uganda, by David D. Gow [1994] WP 181 ($4)

Sales Contracts and Land Tenure Relations in Ankole, Western Uganda, by Simon Heck [1996] WP 205 ($4)

WEST AFRICA

Language, Culture, and Patrimony in Africa: The French School and Its Victims, by John Hutchison [2004] WP 249 ($4)

ZAIRE

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ZAMBIA

Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Areas 1926— 1964, by Jane L. Parpart [1983] WP 77 ($4)

Class Consciousness "Among Zambian Copper Miners, 1950—1966, by Jane Parpart [1982] WP 53 ($4)

“‘GM or Death’: Food and Choice in Zambia,” by Christopher M. Annear [2003] WP 247 ($4)

Labor Strategies in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1926—1935, by Jane L. Parpart [1979] WP 23 ($4)

The "Labor Aristocracy" Thesis Considered Once Again: Elite Mine Workers on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt 1926—1966, by Jane L. Parpart [1982] WP 56 ($4)

The Role of Women in Disputing Among the Ila of Zambia: Political Adaptation in Legal Change, by C.R. Cutshall [1981] WP 46 ($4)

Sexuality and Power on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926—1964, by Jane L. Parpart [1986] WP 120 ($4)

Working-Class Wives and Collective Labor Action on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1926—1964, by Jane Parpart [1985] WP 98 ($4)

ZANZIBAR

 
Chappati Complaints and Biriani Cravings: The Aesthetics of Food and Diet in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, by Melissa Graboyes, WP 261 (2008) ($6.00)
 
 
 

The Dhow as Cultural Icon, by Gilbert, Erik [2008]. WP 258 ($6)

Mirroring Modernity: On Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar, by Jeremy Prestholdt, [2006] WP 254 ($4)

ZIMBABWE

African Traditional Religion and Earthkeeping in Zimbabwe, by M. L. Daneel [1999] AH 28 ($4)

Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, by James Giblin [1994] WP 176 ($4)

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