Publications in the Development category

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• Introduction: Localizing the History of Development in Africa IJAHS 50, by Leslie Hadfield and John Aerni-Flessner, pp. 1—9 p. (2017)
• Self-Help Development Projects and Conceptions of Independence in Lesotho, 1950s–1970s IJAHS 50, by By John Aerni-Flessner, pp. 11—33 p. (2017)
• Sweating to Help Themselves: Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development in Decolonizing Kenya IJAHS 50, by Kara Moskowitz, pp. 35—58 p. (2017)
• Like Biscuits in Wrappers: Apartheid Development and Decolonization in South West Africa, 1962–1968 IJAHS 50, by Molly McCullers, pp. 59—78 p. (2017)
• Conscientization in South Africa: Paulo Freire and Black Consciousness Community Development in the 1970s IJAHS 50, by Leslie Anne Hadfield, pp. 79—98 p. (2017)
• “From a Place of Misery to a Place of Deeper Misery”: Development, Authority, and Conflict in the Mwesi Highlands Rwandan Refugee Settlement IJAHS 50, by Jill Rosenthal, pp. 99—120 p. (2017)
• Displaced Agents of Development: Mozambican Refugees and Tanzanian Nation-Building Projects, 1964–1975 IJAHS 50, by Joanna T. Tague , pp. 121—145 p. (2017)
• Making Sense of Fifty Years of U.S. Peace Corps Service in Cameroon IJAHS 47, by Julius A. Amin, pp. 319—338 p. (2014)
• Harnessing the Zambezi: How Mozambique's Planned Mphanda Nkuwa Dam Perpetuates the Colonial Past IJAHS 45, by A. Isaacman, D. Morton, pp. 157—190 p. (2012)
• Endowing Property and Edifying Power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab Migrant Entreprenuers, and Urban Authority in Madssawa, 1860s-1880s IJAHS 42, by Jonathan Miran, pp. 151—178 p. (2009)
• Food Matters: the Pace of Development in Building the Postwar Ethiopian State, 1941-1974 IJAHS 42, by Getnet Bekele, pp. 29—54 p. (2009)
• Changes in Political Economy and Ecology in West-Usambara, Tanzania: ca. 1850-1950 IJAHS 41, by Frans D. Huijzendveld, pp. 383—409 p. (2008)
• View from the Village:Changing Settlement Patterns in Sisalaland, Northern Ghana IJAHS 41, by Natalie Swanepoel, pp. 1—27 p. (2008)
• Urbanizing Mystical Islam: Making Murid Space in the Cities of Senegal IJAHS 40, by Cheikh Anta Babou, pp. 197—223 p. (2007)
• "A Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s & 1960s IJAHS 40, by Michael Jennings, pp. 71—95 p. (2007)
• Social Development in Francophone Africa–The Case of Women in Gabon and Morocco, WP 211, by Claire Griffiths, (1998)
• Development Interventions and Pastoral Dynamics in Southern Ethiopia: A Discussion of Natural Resources Management in Borana Pastoralism, WP 186, by Johan Helland, (1994)
• The Nigeria/Benin Transborder Trade, Border Control, and the Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program, WP 155, by A.I. Asiwaju, (1991)
• Towards a Purposeful African Development: An Early Twentieth Century View, AH 18, by Kofi Baku, (1991)
• Modernizing Land Tenure in Mauritania: The Role of Law in Development, WP 118, by John Grayze, (1986)
• Consolidating Accountability for Development in Africa, WP 116, by James B. Ghartey, (1986)
• Tanzania's Performance in Meeting Basic Needs: The International Context, WP 82, by John R. Harris, (1983)
• Development, Underdevelopment, and the State in Ghana, WP 58, by Naomi Chazan, (1982)
• The Development of a Labor Reserve: The Impact of Colonial Rule on Botswana, WP 34, by David Massey, (1980)