James S. Coleman African Studies Center

eScholarship stats: History by Item for March through June, 2025

Item	Title	Total requests	2025-06	2025-05	2025-04	2025-03
2kj825dq	Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	1,392	322	282	336	452
7h11k656	The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960	1,204	40	345	745	74
7xf4w6v7	Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures	1,055	210	261	397	187
6331d10p	The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam	928	200	234	223	271
01k1c0vf	Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity	865	96	231	347	191
5wr073nc	Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’	784	140	234	232	178
3284d08q	“The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949	722	155	230	136	201
8cj8q196	Black Study, Black Struggle	703	113	191	225	174
3dv8g15c	Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest	627	135	228	128	136
17c6d1sb	The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas	616	104	224	135	153
98q1c1d1	Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919	562	97	321	60	84
7qs6h7fx	The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective	533	76	154	133	170
1835f6tg	On the Market Day	480	147	109	76	148
7g4406gv	Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa	466	62	216	83	105
6359f55g	I Write What I Like	438	57	149	141	91
03z6b3xf	Shembeism and the Rainbow Nation: Shembe Religion and Cultural Change in Durban, South Africa	426	113	105	134	74
4j47346d	Women Subjugating Women: Re-Reading Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song	417	106	90	89	132
6q14n95b	When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs	389	99	122	76	92
0nw283jj	Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria	367	88	117	66	96
4v83483q	Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration	352	56	154	45	97
8g13k8m1	Makerere and the Beginnings of Higher Education for East Africans	348	63	220	27	38
94h9q4h3	Walter Rodney and The Restatement of Pan Africanism In Theory and Practice	343	51	57	45	190
5r64v5qg	Mandela, Luthuli, and Nonviolence in the South African Freedom Struggle	336	57	139	55	85
450167x3	A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History	327	70	138	60	59
3jm9186m	Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights	316	80	101	54	81
3c8738vj	Mau Mau: The Peak of African Political Organization and Struggle for Liberation in Colonial Kenya	309	61	86	67	95
7hc8d096	The "Contract" in Agostinho Neto's Poetry	305	53	79	78	95
0830m6m8	Edouard Glissant and the African Roots of Creolization	297	69	90	76	62
1700p1w0	Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War? - Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women	294	61	105	65	63
1548j3ck	Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader	288	72	117	45	54
4fk5d8x3	Black Consciousness & the Quest for a True Humanity	287	91	78	67	51
7w80g2xr	Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	283	49	92	82	60
8072719q	Language Shift and National Identity in Tanzania	281	56	82	73	70
4ph014jj	Post-Colonial African Literature as Counter-Discourse: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Reworking of the Canon	280	63	68	68	81
0f60t2b1	Retelling the Mau Mau Past from the Mbeere Perspective	276	72	97	43	64
53f1j6qm	Beyond Elmina: The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana	274	81	56	83	54
1tb4b0fk	Gérard Prunier, <em>The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide</em>, (New York: Columbia University Press), 1995. pp. 389	270	31	56	89	94
3jm5n6pw	Arabic Loan Words in Hausa	269	83	61	37	88
9c82v5mx	African History: The Rise and Decline of Academic Tourism	263	79	60	50	74
0cf1c74s	Daniel O. Fagunwa, <em>Forest of a Thousand Daemons, A Hunters Saga<em> (New York, NY: Random House, 1982). pp. 140.</em> </em>	262	53	62	54	93
2th7j61n	Problems of Third World Development	255	52	53	69	81
9fd844n0	I Write What I Like	253	36	85	70	62
9ss1t6vj	Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center	251	60	69	54	68
12s403mz	The Meaning of Black Consciousness	245	27	43	132	43
3x6106n0	A Marxian Analysis on The Bond Between Capitalism and the Oppression of Nigerian Women Since Colonial Times	242	23	76	115	28
72k2n7m2	The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey	238	64	49	58	67
0h4255s9	A.E. Opubor and O.E. Nwuneli, The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria	237	84	59	39	55
18d681jd	Protest in Ethiopia	235	54	97	41	43
8kf4m24x	Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886)	233	80	63	46	44
6231f7zv	Fundamental Rights Under the Nigerian Constitution, 1960-1965	232	76	52	33	71

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