James S. Coleman African Studies Center

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for July through October, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
8kf4m24x	Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886)	1,649	441	1,208	26.7%
7xf4w6v7	Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures	952	220	732	23.1%
6331d10p	The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam	888	277	611	31.2%
8cj8q196	Black Study, Black Struggle	872	429	443	49.2%
17c6d1sb	The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas	712	202	510	28.4%
72k2n7m2	The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey	682	384	298	56.3%
0nw283jj	Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria	635	175	460	27.6%
450167x3	A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History	622	148	474	23.8%
6q14n95b	When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs	620	176	444	28.4%
5wr073nc	Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’	614	105	509	17.1%
8kt3g586	A King or A Priest in the City of 201 Gods: Interrogating the Place of the Oòni in the Religious system of Ilé-Ifè in Southwest Nigeria	559	268	291	47.9%
7qs6h7fx	The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective	525	223	302	42.5%
22w2c729	The Works of Thomas Mofolo: Summaries and Critiques	511	134	377	26.2%
8xh2g5wm	Inventions and Reinventions of Sharia in African History and the Recent Experiences of Nigeria, Somalia and Mali	511	84	427	16.4%
28h0r4sr	Revisiting Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa	509	70	439	13.8%
7g4406gv	Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa	507	138	369	27.2%
4v83483q	Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration	483	230	253	47.6%
65d6v69p	The Role of Indigenous Collaborators during the Anglo-Ekumeku War of 1898-1911	481	83	398	17.3%
2th8b363	Play in Uganda: Omweso a Game People	475	186	289	39.2%
0qt6q69k	The Use and Misuse of Language in the Study of African History	470	139	331	29.6%
3284d08q	“The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949	469	120	349	25.6%
82w1w85t	Nigerian Population and Urbanization, 1911-1974: A Bibliography	465	86	379	18.5%
1548j3ck	Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader	462	112	350	24.2%
6372j70c	Compradore-in-Arms': The Fante Confederation Project (1868-1872)	460	199	261	43.3%
9ss1t6vj	Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center	457	182	275	39.8%
0k49j9nf	Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500	454	81	373	17.8%
5n55b5vw	Drama as Popular Culture in Africa	447	74	373	16.6%
05b3614s	Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Implications of Abusive Expressions in Hausa	446	377	69	84.5%
8v7112b0	Film Censorship and Identity in Kenya	443	79	364	17.8%
01k1c0vf	Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity	441	253	188	57.4%
0jn89711	The Currency of Revolution in Southern Nigeria: 1880-1948	436	80	356	18.3%
92h8j7td	The Largest Black Nation Outside Africa and its Racist Politics	436	111	325	25.5%
7h11k656	The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960	435	177	258	40.7%
1700p1w0	Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War? - Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women	432	183	249	42.4%
7w80g2xr	Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	426	163	263	38.3%
8g13k8m1	Makerere and the Beginnings of Higher Education for East Africans	420	111	309	26.4%
1654z7gv	The Khepresh Crown of Pharaoh	414	220	194	53.1%
18d681jd	Protest in Ethiopia	410	181	229	44.1%
06k79136	The South African Woman and the Immigrant Lover: Myths and Dynamics of Cross-Border Love Relationships in a Post-Apartheid South African Community	408	225	183	55.1%
13m5c5vp	African Research and Scholarship: 20 Years of Lost Opportunities to Transform Higher Education in South Africa	401	121	280	30.2%
5r64v5qg	Mandela, Luthuli, and Nonviolence in the South African Freedom Struggle	395	124	271	31.4%
06x2x85t	Creating New Leaders: Youth Involvement in Community Activism in South Africa	391	41	350	10.5%
49p344tg	Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control	388	159	229	41.0%
6vz7z5cm	The Masmuda Berbers and Ibn Tumart: an Ethnographic Interpretation of the Rise of the Almohad Movement	386	223	163	57.8%
6359f55g	I Write What I Like	373	233	140	62.5%
0297m71t	Economic Imperialism and Oligopolization of Trade in the Gold Coast: 1886-1939	371	247	124	66.6%
0f60t2b1	Retelling the Mau Mau Past from the Mbeere Perspective	369	114	255	30.9%
1z29x45b	Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass: A Critical Assessment	368	115	253	31.3%
8072719q	Language Shift and National Identity in Tanzania	364	107	257	29.4%
3jm5n6pw	Arabic Loan Words in Hausa	361	139	222	38.5%

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