African Studies

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The birth of independent African nations, the rise of the Civil Rights movement and African-American Studies in the U.S., and the end of the Cold War all prompted the emergence of African Studies as an important area of inquiry in Africa, Europe, and North America. Founded as Africa was emerging from centuries of the slave trade and foreign domination, the field has sought to displace racist foreign notions to explore African perspectives on art, culture, economics, geography and the environment, ancient and modern history, literature, music, politics, religion, science and thought, and society.

Over more than half a century, the field has emerged as a diverse multidisciplinary effort that spans multiple epistemologies and methodologies, making it challenging for students and scholars to be informed about every applicable area. And given the diversity of African environments and peoples it is difficult to appreciate both its broad similarities and complex specificities. We have thus combined broad introductions to such subjects as African society, politics, or literature with specific studies of individual peoples, states, or literary traditions to enable the user to appreciate Africans’ distinctiveness as well as their diversity.

Since the literature on African Studies is diverse, fast moving, controversial, and scattered among unfamiliar sources, we have asked leading scholars to identify the most significant themes and areas of study in their fields, recommend the best sources for exploring them, and discuss these works conceptual and empirical significance to provide a series of guided studies through the diverse approaches to a wide array of complex subjects. A great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship, research, and statistics appearing in online databases. With advances in online searching and database technologies, researchers and practitioners can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and other lists that show thousands of resources that might also be useful to them. In this situation what is most needed is expert guidance. Researchers and practitioners at all levels need tools that help them filter through the proliferation of information sources to material that is reliable and directly relevant to their inquiries. Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies offers a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload.

 

Editor in Chief

Chima J. Korieh holds a BA (Hons) degree in History/Education (First Class) from the University of Nigeria, an MA in Education and North American Studies from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a Master of Philosophy degree in History from the University of Bergen, Norway. He obtained a Ph.D. in African History from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2003. Dr. Korieh’s research and teaching focus on social and economic change in colonial Africa. He has taught at the University of Nigeria and in serval US institutions, including Hartwick College where he began his teaching career as a Jacob Jameson Teaching Fellow in 2001; Central Michigan University, and Rowan University, New Jersey, where he rose quickly to Associate Professor in 2007, and Marquette University, where he joined the Jesuit University in 2007. He was an Adjunct Professor in the Peace and Conflict Program at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has published over 100 articles and essays in academic journals and scholarly collections and authored, edited, or co-edited 18 volumes including The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria (2012); "Life Not Worth Living": Nigerian Petitions Reflecting an African Society's Experiences During World War II (2014); The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory (2012); Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society and Atlantic Diaspora Connections (2009); Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity (2009); and Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (2007). His most recent books are Nigeria and World War: Empire, Colonialism and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2020), New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished (Lexington Books, 2021), and Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation (Lexington Books, 2022). Dr. Korieh is a fellow of the African Studies Center, Leiden, Netherlands, and a British Academy Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was a past president of the Igbo Studies Association and the founding editor of Igbo Studies Review and Nigerian Studies Review.

 


AREA EDITORS

City College of New York
York University
Regis University
University of Bologna
Marywood University
University of Wisconsin—Madison
 

FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD

University of New Hampshire
University of Cambridge
University of South Carolina
Dartmouth College
The City College of New York
Emory University
Indiana University
Northwestern University
Marywood University
University of Cape Town
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Victoria
 

FORMER EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

University of Wisconsin
United States International University Africa
 

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

* = recently published

 

Arts and Archaeology

Ann B. Stahl
University of Victoria
Pierre de Maret
University College London
Matthew Davies
University College London
Peter Mitchell
University of Oxford
Natalie Swanepoel
University of South Africa
Antoni Scholtens Folkers
African Architecture Matters Foundation
Patrick McNaughton
Indiana University Bloomington
Diane Pelrine
Indiana University Art Museum
Allen F. Roberts
University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Jo Arnoldi
Smithsonian Institution
Andrew B. Smith
University of Cape Town
Rachel MacLean
University of Manchester
Nate Plageman
Wake Forest College
Augustine Agwuele
Texas State University—San Marcos
Andrew J. Eisenberg
New York University in Abu Dhabi
Alex Perullo
Bryant University
Ryan Skinner
The Ohio State University
Gavin Steingo
Princeton University
Andrew J. Eisenberg
New York University in Abu Dhabi

 

Countries

Phillip Naylor
Marquette University
W. Martin James
Henderson State University
Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
John D. Holm
Cleveland State University
Mahir Şaul
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patricia Daley
University of Oxford
Benedict Nantang Jua
South Carolina State University
Isabel Rodrigues
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Richard Bradshaw
Centre College
Juan Fandos-Rius
Iain Walker
COMPAS, University of Oxford
Brett Logan Carter
Stanford University
John F. Clark
Florida International University
Thomas Turner
Independent Scholar
Robert E. Smith
Independent Scholar
Kenneth Menkhaus
Davidson College
Claire Metelits
American University
Andrew Mickleburgh
Farha Ghannam
Swarthmore College
Alicia Campos Serrano
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Dan Connell
Boston University
David H. Shinn
George Washington University
Jeremy Rich
Marywood University
Donald R. Wright
State University of New York College at Cortland
Assan Sarr
Ohio University
Rebecca Shumway
College of Charleston
Jeremy Pool
Monmouth College
Mohamed Saliou Camara
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Jónína Einarsdóttir
University of Iceland
Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Godfrey Muriuki
University of Nairobi
Scott Rosenberg
Wittenberg University
Adebayo Oyebade
Tennessee State University
Silvia Marsans-Sakly
Fairfield University
Jane Hooper
George Mason University
Owen Kalinga
North Carolina State University
Susanna Wing
Haverford College
Katherine Ann Wiley
Pacific Lutheran University
Dale Eickelman
Dartmouth College
Elizabeth MacGonagle
The University of Kansas
Chris Saunders
University of Cape Town
Abdourahmane Idrissa
Universiteit Leiden
Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
University of Port Harcourt
Atei Mark Okorobia
University of Port Harcourt
Noel Twagiramungu
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Gerhard Seibert
ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Linda Beck
University of Maine at Farmington
Mark Pires
Long Island University
Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
Chris Saunders
University of Cape Town
Jay Spaulding
Kean University
Gregory H. Maddox
Texas Southern University
Richard Allen
Framingham State University
Alexander Keese
University of Geneva
Silvia Marsans-Sakly
Fairfield University
Shane Doyle
University of Leeds
Aidan Stonehouse
University of Leeds
Francesco Correale
CNRS
David M. Gordon
Bowdoin College

 

Economy

Alice N. Sindzingre
University Paris-West-Nanterre
Stephanie Decker
University of Birmingham
Peter Lockwood
University of Cambridge
Constance Smith
University of Manchester
Daniel Maxwell
Tufts University
Merry Fitzpatrick
Tufts University
Ayodeji Olukoju
University of Lagos
Nana-Yaw Andoh
University of Michigan
Martin J. Murray
University of Michigan
Dácil Juif
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Peter D. Little
Emory University
Andrew Walsh
University of Western Ontario
John McPeak
Syracuse University
Stefano Bellucci
Universiteit Leiden
Gordon Pirie
University of Cape Town
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University

 

Geography and Environment

Heidi G. Frontani
Elon University
A. T. Grove
University of Cambridge
Heidi G. Frontani
Elon University
Valentina Serreli
University of Bayreuth
Valentina Schiattarella

 

History

Toby Green
King's College London
Mats Widgren
Stockholm University
Charles Ambler
Toby Wilkinson
University of Cambridge
Marion W. Dixon
American University
Pashington Obeng
Wellesley College
Herbert S. Klein
Columbia University
Kathryn M. de Luna
Georgetown College
Matthew G. Stanard
Berry College
Bill Nasson
Stellenbosch University
Timothy H. Parsons
Washington University in St. Louis
Pius Nyambara
Takesure Taringana
John Yoder
Whitworth University
J. Jeffrey Hoover
University of Lubumbashi
Graham Connah
Australian National University
Susan Keech McIntosh
Rice University
David C. Conrad
State University of New York at Oswego
Ewout Frankema
Gregory H. Maddox
Texas Southern University
Ruth Ginio
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jennifer Sessions
The University of Iowa
Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
Universität zu Köln
Funso Afolayan
University of New Hampshire
Jonathan Reynolds
Northern Kentucky University
Andrew Mickleburgh
Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
University of Port Harcourt
Atei Mark Okorobia
University of Port Harcourt
George M. La Rue
Clarion University
Edward A. Alpers
University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Mia Fuller
University of California, Berkeley
Jelmer Vos
University of Glasgow
John M. Janzen
The University of Kansas
Allen Fromherz
Georgia State University
John Lamphear
University of Texas, Austin
Allen Fromherz
Georgia State University
Allen Fromherz
Georgia State University
Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
Universität zu Köln
Allen Fromherz
Georgia State University
Norrie MacQueen
University of St Andrews
E.S.D. Fomin
University of Yaounde, Cameroon
John Wright
University of Cape Town
Simon Hall
University of Cape Town
Amanda Esterhuysen
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Alicia Campos Serrano
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Irene Gonzalez
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Francesco Correale
CNRS
Maria Schoeman
University of the Witwatersrand
Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Rhiannon Stephens
Columbia University
Curtis Keim
Moravian College
Ghislaine Lydon
University of California, Los Angeles
Babatunde Lawal
Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Language and Literature

Harold Scheub
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Isidore Diala
Imo State University
Aida Bamia
University of Florida
Marianne McDonald
University of California at San Diego
Lily Mabura
American University of Sharjah
Evan Mwangi
Northwestern University
Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero University Kano
Sue Kossew
Monash University
Lameen Souag
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Philip J. Jaggar
SOAS, University of London
Evan Mwangi
Northwestern University
Evan Mwangi
Northwestern University
Andries Walter Oliphant
University of South Africa
Evan Mwangi
Northwestern University
F. Fiona Moolla
University of the Western Cape
Amadou Fofana
Willamette University
Ann Biersteker
Michigan State University
Alena Rettová
SOAS, University of London
Alain Ricard
CNRS Université de Bordeaux
Karin Barber
University of Birmingham

 

Politics

Piero Gleijeses
Johns Hopkins University
Matthias Krönke
University of Cape Town
Sarah Lockwood
University of Cambridge
Robert Mattes
University of Strathclyde
Kelly Askew
University of Michigan
Meine Pieter van Dijk
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Catherine Johnson
University of Louisville
Edmond J. Keller
UCLA
Alexander Thurston
University of Cincinnati
Brandon D. Lundy
Kennesaw State University
Edwin Njonguo
Kennesaw State University
Harry Verhoeven
Georgetown University
Moses Khisa
North Carolina State University
Susan Thomson
Colgate University
Kenneth Menkhaus
Davidson College
Maren Milligan
Davidson College
Patrick Vinck
Harvard University
Phuong N. Pham
Harvard University
Niamh Gibbons
Harvard University
Myles Osborne
University of Colorado at Boulder
Jo Ellen Fair
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Matthew Carotenuto
St. Lawrence University
Tim Stapleton
University of Calgary
Rod Alence
University of the Witwatersrand
John W. Harbeson
The City University of New York
Rebecca Shumway
College of Charleston
Lauren Honig
Boston College
Morten Bøås
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

 

Religion

Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Wyatt MacGaffey
Haverford College
Mariam Goshadze
Universität Leipzig
John H. Hanson
Indiana University
Allan Christelow
Idaho State University

 

Science, Medicine, and Health

Shane Doyle
University of Leeds
Kalala Ngalamulume
Bryn Mawr College

 

Society

Ndubueze L. Mbah
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Brandeis University
Steve Howard
Ohio University
James M. Burns
Clemson University
Richard Waller
Bucknell University
Robert Launay
Northwestern University
Amy Stambach
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Corrie Decker
University of California, Davis
Crawford Young
University of Wisconsin
Tea Virtanen
University of Helsinki
Yvan Droz
The Graduate Institute of Geneva
Pádraig Carmody
Trinity College Dublin
Benedetta Rossi
University of Birmingham
Nwando Achebe
Michigan State University
Kristin Mann
Emory University
Richard Roberts
Stanford University
Andrew Mickleburgh
David C. Conrad
State University of New York at Oswego
Stephen Belcher
Pennsylvania State University
Neil Carrier
University of Bristol
Noah Tsika
Queens College, City University of New York
Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
Universität zu Köln
Odile Frank
Public Services International
Jeffrey Haynes
London Metropolitan University
Marc Epprecht
Queen's University
Herbert Lewis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Martha Saavedra
University of California at Berkeley
Paul Spencer
University of London
Garth Myers
Trinity College
Andrew Mickleburgh
Toyin Falola
University of Texas at Austin
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Northwestern University

 

Women

Emily Callaci
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Desiree Lewis
University of the Western Cape
Kathleen Sheldon
University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen Sheldon
University of California, Los Angeles
Aili Mari Tripp
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Claire C. Robertson
The Ohio State University
Temilola Alanamu
University of Kent
Beverly Stoeltje
Indiana University Bloomington

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