James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Parent: UCLA International Institute
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8cj8q196 | Black Study, Black Struggle | 1,205 | 540 | 665 | 44.8% |
| 6331d10p | The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam | 1,202 | 456 | 746 | 37.9% |
| 23t603b8 | Cultural Dynamism in Process: The Kenya Music Festival | 984 | 104 | 880 | 10.6% |
| 8kf4m24x | Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886) | 927 | 184 | 743 | 19.8% |
| 0nw283jj | Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria | 916 | 237 | 679 | 25.9% |
| 7xf4w6v7 | Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures | 907 | 215 | 692 | 23.7% |
| 7533w2xq | “From Historical Facts to Poetic Truths”: The Nigerian Civil War and Other Subjects: An Exploration of Texts and Images in Painting | 834 | 173 | 661 | 20.7% |
| 5wr073nc | Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’ | 813 | 221 | 592 | 27.2% |
| 17c6d1sb | The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas | 788 | 225 | 563 | 28.6% |
| 4pf860qn | Adam Mayer, Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (London: Pluto Press, 2016). pp. 241. | 757 | 52 | 705 | 6.9% |
| 3jm9186m | Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights | 695 | 213 | 482 | 30.6% |
| 450167x3 | A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History | 662 | 119 | 543 | 18.0% |
| 6q14n95b | When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs | 644 | 183 | 461 | 28.4% |
| 7qs6h7fx | The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective | 638 | 194 | 444 | 30.4% |
| 4v83483q | Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration | 612 | 192 | 420 | 31.4% |
| 01k1c0vf | Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity | 608 | 356 | 252 | 58.6% |
| 7g4406gv | Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa | 608 | 182 | 426 | 29.9% |
| 49p344tg | Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control | 602 | 179 | 423 | 29.7% |
| 2kj825dq | Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | 585 | 114 | 471 | 19.5% |
| 0qt6q69k | The Use and Misuse of Language in the Study of African History | 583 | 157 | 426 | 26.9% |
| 7h11k656 | The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960 | 562 | 215 | 347 | 38.3% |
| 5n55b5vw | Drama as Popular Culture in Africa | 552 | 98 | 454 | 17.8% |
| 1548j3ck | Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader | 551 | 111 | 440 | 20.1% |
| 72k2n7m2 | The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey | 536 | 238 | 298 | 44.4% |
| 3284d08q | “The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949 | 534 | 114 | 420 | 21.3% |
| 82w1w85t | Nigerian Population and Urbanization, 1911-1974: A Bibliography | 526 | 81 | 445 | 15.4% |
| 92h8j7td | The Largest Black Nation Outside Africa and its Racist Politics | 526 | 101 | 425 | 19.2% |
| 18d681jd | Protest in Ethiopia | 520 | 279 | 241 | 53.7% |
| 65d6v69p | The Role of Indigenous Collaborators during the Anglo-Ekumeku War of 1898-1911 | 517 | 99 | 418 | 19.1% |
| 91x5k9wm | The Uganda Offer, 1902-1905: A Study of Settlement Concessions in British East Africa | 512 | 300 | 212 | 58.6% |
| 9q24t26f | Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience | 505 | 101 | 404 | 20.0% |
| 9ss1t6vj | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center | 498 | 237 | 261 | 47.6% |
| 0hw1z4xm | Home to Hargeisa: Migritude, Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of Movement from <em>Banjo</em> to <em>Black Mamba Boy</em> | 492 | 168 | 324 | 34.1% |
| 0jn89711 | The Currency of Revolution in Southern Nigeria: 1880-1948 | 490 | 80 | 410 | 16.3% |
| 1z29x45b | Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass: A Critical Assessment | 477 | 132 | 345 | 27.7% |
| 3jm5n6pw | Arabic Loan Words in Hausa | 472 | 136 | 336 | 28.8% |
| 0k49j9nf | Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500 | 466 | 129 | 337 | 27.7% |
| 7w80g2xr | Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart | 464 | 147 | 317 | 31.7% |
| 3dv8g15c | Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest | 463 | 77 | 386 | 16.6% |
| 8p65m9zc | Amilcar Cabral: Evolution of Revolutionary Thought | 463 | 62 | 401 | 13.4% |
| 06k79136 | The South African Woman and the Immigrant Lover: Myths and Dynamics of Cross-Border Love Relationships in a Post-Apartheid South African Community | 455 | 202 | 253 | 44.4% |
| 6359f55g | I Write What I Like | 454 | 246 | 208 | 54.2% |
| 5xq4f1ck | Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC): A Study in Mass Mobilization | 436 | 98 | 338 | 22.5% |
| 0f60t2b1 | Retelling the Mau Mau Past from the Mbeere Perspective | 431 | 135 | 296 | 31.3% |
| 2th8b363 | Play in Uganda: Omweso a Game People | 427 | 130 | 297 | 30.4% |
| 6pb0b8hz | The Politicisation of Trade Unionism: The Case of Labour/NCNC Alliance in Nigeria, 1940-1960 | 424 | 90 | 334 | 21.2% |
| 0n1264qb | Economic Crisis and Authoritarian Breakdown: Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom in Light of Evidence from Africa | 412 | 69 | 343 | 16.7% |
| 6z0686f7 | Corruption in Uganda | 405 | 66 | 339 | 16.3% |
| 0297m71t | Economic Imperialism and Oligopolization of Trade in the Gold Coast: 1886-1939 | 399 | 245 | 154 | 61.4% |
| 28h0r4sr | Revisiting Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa | 399 | 58 | 341 | 14.5% |
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