James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Parent: UCLA International Institute
eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 | 2026-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8cj8q196 | Black Study, Black Struggle | 1,205 | 310 | 154 | 169 | 572 |
| 6331d10p | The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam | 1,202 | 236 | 244 | 380 | 342 |
| 23t603b8 | Cultural Dynamism in Process: The Kenya Music Festival | 984 | 126 | 73 | 94 | 691 |
| 8kf4m24x | Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440-1886) | 927 | 389 | 100 | 231 | 207 |
| 0nw283jj | Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria | 916 | 176 | 159 | 359 | 222 |
| 7xf4w6v7 | Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures | 907 | 268 | 167 | 195 | 277 |
| 7533w2xq | “From Historical Facts to Poetic Truths”: The Nigerian Civil War and Other Subjects: An Exploration of Texts and Images in Painting | 834 | 44 | 26 | 67 | 697 |
| 5wr073nc | Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’ | 813 | 184 | 158 | 191 | 280 |
| 17c6d1sb | The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas | 788 | 228 | 137 | 201 | 222 |
| 4pf860qn | Adam Mayer, Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (London: Pluto Press, 2016). pp. 241. | 757 | 32 | 18 | 53 | 654 |
| 3jm9186m | Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights | 695 | 54 | 75 | 338 | 228 |
| 450167x3 | A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History | 662 | 245 | 114 | 147 | 156 |
| 6q14n95b | When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs | 644 | 198 | 103 | 187 | 156 |
| 7qs6h7fx | The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective | 638 | 141 | 113 | 160 | 224 |
| 4v83483q | Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration | 612 | 128 | 135 | 167 | 182 |
| 01k1c0vf | Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity | 608 | 157 | 90 | 122 | 239 |
| 7g4406gv | Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa | 608 | 143 | 115 | 167 | 183 |
| 49p344tg | Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control | 602 | 112 | 84 | 135 | 271 |
| 2kj825dq | Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | 585 | 73 | 98 | 156 | 258 |
| 0qt6q69k | The Use and Misuse of Language in the Study of African History | 583 | 131 | 131 | 153 | 168 |
| 7h11k656 | The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia from 1947-1960 | 562 | 117 | 76 | 162 | 207 |
| 5n55b5vw | Drama as Popular Culture in Africa | 552 | 75 | 272 | 103 | 102 |
| 1548j3ck | Al Hajj Umar Tall: The Biography of a Controversial Leader | 551 | 141 | 69 | 134 | 207 |
| 72k2n7m2 | The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey | 536 | 181 | 94 | 122 | 139 |
| 3284d08q | “The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949 | 534 | 138 | 87 | 125 | 184 |
| 82w1w85t | Nigerian Population and Urbanization, 1911-1974: A Bibliography | 526 | 144 | 114 | 103 | 165 |
| 92h8j7td | The Largest Black Nation Outside Africa and its Racist Politics | 526 | 143 | 91 | 158 | 134 |
| 18d681jd | Protest in Ethiopia | 520 | 136 | 86 | 143 | 155 |
| 65d6v69p | The Role of Indigenous Collaborators during the Anglo-Ekumeku War of 1898-1911 | 517 | 182 | 64 | 131 | 140 |
| 91x5k9wm | The Uganda Offer, 1902-1905: A Study of Settlement Concessions in British East Africa | 512 | 115 | 73 | 79 | 245 |
| 9q24t26f | Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience | 505 | 115 | 60 | 119 | 211 |
| 9ss1t6vj | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center | 498 | 153 | 73 | 85 | 187 |
| 0hw1z4xm | Home to Hargeisa: Migritude, Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of Movement from <em>Banjo</em> to <em>Black Mamba Boy</em> | 492 | 104 | 81 | 153 | 154 |
| 0jn89711 | The Currency of Revolution in Southern Nigeria: 1880-1948 | 490 | 172 | 44 | 139 | 135 |
| 1z29x45b | Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass: A Critical Assessment | 477 | 84 | 82 | 117 | 194 |
| 3jm5n6pw | Arabic Loan Words in Hausa | 472 | 130 | 95 | 130 | 117 |
| 0k49j9nf | Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500 | 466 | 143 | 53 | 131 | 139 |
| 7w80g2xr | Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart | 464 | 127 | 68 | 100 | 169 |
| 3dv8g15c | Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest | 463 | 107 | 127 | 95 | 134 |
| 8p65m9zc | Amilcar Cabral: Evolution of Revolutionary Thought | 463 | 50 | 48 | 272 | 93 |
| 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 | 126 | 66 | 101 | 162 |
| 6359f55g | I Write What I Like | 454 | 139 | 95 | 105 | 115 |
| 5xq4f1ck | Union Des Populations Du Cameroun (UPC): A Study in Mass Mobilization | 436 | 84 | 58 | 155 | 139 |
| 0f60t2b1 | Retelling the Mau Mau Past from the Mbeere Perspective | 431 | 131 | 58 | 80 | 162 |
| 2th8b363 | Play in Uganda: Omweso a Game People | 427 | 142 | 58 | 110 | 117 |
| 6pb0b8hz | The Politicisation of Trade Unionism: The Case of Labour/NCNC Alliance in Nigeria, 1940-1960 | 424 | 54 | 40 | 131 | 199 |
| 0n1264qb | Economic Crisis and Authoritarian Breakdown: Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom in Light of Evidence from Africa | 412 | 83 | 58 | 60 | 211 |
| 6z0686f7 | Corruption in Uganda | 405 | 45 | 48 | 161 | 151 |
| 0297m71t | Economic Imperialism and Oligopolization of Trade in the Gold Coast: 1886-1939 | 399 | 126 | 55 | 110 | 108 |
| 28h0r4sr | Revisiting Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa | 399 | 210 | 49 | 58 | 82 |
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