James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Parent: UCLA International Institute
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for March through June, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6331d10p | The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam | 1,651 | 730 | 921 | 44.2% |
| 8cj8q196 | Black Study, Black Struggle | 1,345 | 531 | 814 | 39.5% |
| 7xf4w6v7 | Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures | 1,078 | 252 | 826 | 23.4% |
| 3jm9186m | Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights | 969 | 386 | 583 | 39.8% |
| 7533w2xq | “From Historical Facts to Poetic Truths”: The Nigerian Civil War and Other Subjects: An Exploration of Texts and Images in Painting | 957 | 237 | 720 | 24.8% |
| 23t603b8 | Cultural Dynamism in Process: The Kenya Music Festival | 951 | 112 | 839 | 11.8% |
| 01k1c0vf | Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity | 926 | 603 | 323 | 65.1% |
| 5wr073nc | Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’ | 926 | 297 | 629 | 32.1% |
| 0nw283jj | Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria | 924 | 206 | 718 | 22.3% |
| 72k2n7m2 | The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey | 921 | 168 | 753 | 18.2% |
| 17c6d1sb | The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas | 904 | 231 | 673 | 25.6% |
| 7qs6h7fx | The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective | 814 | 253 | 561 | 31.1% |
| 2kj825dq | Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | 805 | 103 | 702 | 12.8% |
| 4pf860qn | Adam Mayer, Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (London: Pluto Press, 2016). pp. 241. | 803 | 66 | 737 | 8.2% |
| 3284d08q | “The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949 | 801 | 125 | 676 | 15.6% |
| 8kf4m24x | Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886) | 793 | 153 | 640 | 19.3% |
| 7g4406gv | Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa | 743 | 154 | 589 | 20.7% |
| 7w80g2xr | Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart | 740 | 207 | 533 | 28.0% |
| 6q14n95b | When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs | 723 | 186 | 537 | 25.7% |
| 1548j3ck | Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader | 719 | 155 | 564 | 21.6% |
| 49p344tg | Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control | 719 | 205 | 514 | 28.5% |
| 4v83483q | Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration | 718 | 189 | 529 | 26.3% |
| 7h11k656 | The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960 | 657 | 255 | 402 | 38.8% |
| 450167x3 | A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History | 652 | 112 | 540 | 17.2% |
| 53f1j6qm | Beyond Elmina: The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana | 623 | 326 | 297 | 52.3% |
| 9q24t26f | Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience | 621 | 134 | 487 | 21.6% |
| 6pb0b8hz | The Politicisation of Trade Unionism: The Case of Labour/NCNC Alliance in Nigeria, 1940-1960 | 602 | 112 | 490 | 18.6% |
| 4j47346d | Women Subjugating Women: Re-Reading Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song | 595 | 158 | 437 | 26.6% |
| 6359f55g | I Write What I Like | 584 | 249 | 335 | 42.6% |
| 5xq4f1ck | Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC): A Study in Mass Mobilization | 572 | 118 | 454 | 20.6% |
| 1700p1w0 | Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War? - Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women | 563 | 177 | 386 | 31.4% |
| 2th7j61n | Problems of Third World Development | 563 | 202 | 361 | 35.9% |
| 1z29x45b | Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass: A Critical Assessment | 559 | 119 | 440 | 21.3% |
| 0k49j9nf | Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500 | 555 | 179 | 376 | 32.3% |
| 3jm5n6pw | Arabic Loan Words in Hausa | 552 | 106 | 446 | 19.2% |
| 3c8738vj | Mau Mau: The Peak of African Political Organization and Struggle for Liberation in Colonial Kenya | 549 | 134 | 415 | 24.4% |
| 8p65m9zc | Amilcar Cabral: Evolution of Revolutionary Thought | 546 | 83 | 463 | 15.2% |
| 03z6b3xf | Shembeism and the Rainbow Nation: Shembe Religion and Cultural Change in Durban, South Africa | 538 | 160 | 378 | 29.7% |
| 0n1264qb | Economic Crisis and Authoritarian Breakdown: Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom in Light of Evidence from Africa | 528 | 77 | 451 | 14.6% |
| 82w1w85t | Nigerian Population and Urbanization, 1911-1974: A Bibliography | 526 | 73 | 453 | 13.9% |
| 9ss1t6vj | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center | 523 | 265 | 258 | 50.7% |
| 06k79136 | The South African Woman and the Immigrant Lover: Myths and Dynamics of Cross-Border Love Relationships in a Post-Apartheid South African Community | 518 | 136 | 382 | 26.3% |
| 4ph014jj | Post-Colonial African Literature as Counter-Discourse: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Reworking of the Canon | 518 | 71 | 447 | 13.7% |
| 6cq0g5tp | The Search for a Zionist Settlement in Kenya, 1902-1905 | 518 | 53 | 465 | 10.2% |
| 91x5k9wm | The Uganda Offer, 1902-1905: A Study of Settlement Concessions in British East Africa | 516 | 303 | 213 | 58.7% |
| 0qt6q69k | The Use and Misuse of Language in the Study of African History | 514 | 120 | 394 | 23.3% |
| 3dv8g15c | Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest | 510 | 121 | 389 | 23.7% |
| 18d681jd | Protest in Ethiopia | 508 | 284 | 224 | 55.9% |
| 1mm6m9xc | God, Anti-Colonialism and Drums: Sheikh Uways and the Uwaysiyya | 506 | 243 | 263 | 48.0% |
| 6z0686f7 | Corruption in Uganda | 504 | 88 | 416 | 17.5% |
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