James S. Coleman African Studies Center

eScholarship stats: History by Item for March through June, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-06	2026-05	2026-04	2026-03
6331d10p	The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam	1,651	380	342	424	505
8cj8q196	Black Study, Black Struggle	1,345	169	572	401	203
7xf4w6v7	Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures	1,078	195	277	291	315
3jm9186m	Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights	969	338	228	185	218
7533w2xq	“From Historical Facts to Poetic Truths”: The Nigerian Civil War and Other Subjects: An Exploration of Texts and Images in Painting	957	67	697	92	101
23t603b8	Cultural Dynamism in Process: The Kenya Music Festival	951	94	691	73	93
01k1c0vf	Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity	926	122	239	382	183
5wr073nc	Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’	926	191	280	244	211
0nw283jj	Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria	924	359	222	162	181
72k2n7m2	The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey	921	122	139	328	332
17c6d1sb	The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas	904	201	222	235	246
7qs6h7fx	The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective	814	160	224	204	226
2kj825dq	Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	805	156	258	192	199
4pf860qn	Adam Mayer, Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (London: Pluto Press, 2016). pp. 241.	803	53	654	64	32
3284d08q	“The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949	801	125	184	212	280
8kf4m24x	Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886)	793	231	207	175	180
7g4406gv	Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa	743	167	183	188	205
7w80g2xr	Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	740	100	169	213	258
6q14n95b	When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs	723	187	156	193	187
1548j3ck	Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader	719	134	207	154	224
49p344tg	Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control	719	135	271	151	162
4v83483q	Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration	718	167	182	166	203
7h11k656	The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960	657	162	207	136	152
450167x3	A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History	652	147	156	179	170
53f1j6qm	Beyond Elmina: The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana	623	63	169	189	202
9q24t26f	Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience	621	119	211	180	111
6pb0b8hz	The Politicisation of Trade Unionism: The Case of Labour/NCNC Alliance in Nigeria, 1940-1960	602	131	199	117	155
4j47346d	Women Subjugating Women: Re-Reading Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song	595	50	127	211	207
6359f55g	I Write What I Like	584	105	115	206	158
5xq4f1ck	Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC): A Study in Mass Mobilization	572	155	139	137	141
1700p1w0	Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War? - Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women	563	123	104	188	148
2th7j61n	Problems of Third World Development	563	77	142	161	183
1z29x45b	Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass: A Critical Assessment	559	117	194	155	93
0k49j9nf	Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500	555	131	139	138	147
3jm5n6pw	Arabic Loan Words in Hausa	552	130	117	135	170
3c8738vj	Mau Mau: The Peak of African Political Organization and Struggle for Liberation in Colonial Kenya	549	91	118	153	187
8p65m9zc	Amilcar Cabral: Evolution of Revolutionary Thought	546	272	93	100	81
03z6b3xf	Shembeism and the Rainbow Nation: Shembe Religion and Cultural Change in Durban, South Africa	538	86	152	168	132
0n1264qb	Economic Crisis and Authoritarian Breakdown: Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom in Light of Evidence from Africa	528	60	211	120	137
82w1w85t	Nigerian Population and Urbanization, 1911-1974: A Bibliography	526	103	165	103	155
9ss1t6vj	Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center	523	85	187	145	106
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	101	162	100	155
4ph014jj	Post-Colonial African Literature as Counter-Discourse: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Reworking of the Canon	518	46	105	210	157
6cq0g5tp	The Search for a Zionist Settlement in Kenya, 1902-1905	518	85	115	130	188
91x5k9wm	The Uganda Offer, 1902-1905: A Study of Settlement Concessions in British East Africa	516	79	245	91	101
0qt6q69k	The Use and Misuse of Language in the Study of African History	514	153	168	102	91
3dv8g15c	Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest	510	95	134	152	129
18d681jd	Protest in Ethiopia	508	143	155	115	95
1mm6m9xc	God, Anti-Colonialism and Drums: Sheikh Uways and the Uwaysiyya	506	57	99	160	190
6z0686f7	Corruption in Uganda	504	161	151	91	101

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