James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Parent: UCLA International Institute
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for December, 2024 through March, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2kj825dq | Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | 1,718 | 18 | 1,700 | 1.0% |
| 6331d10p | The Kushite Origins of Sumer and Elam | 871 | 221 | 650 | 25.4% |
| 8cj8q196 | Black Study, Black Struggle | 689 | 305 | 384 | 44.3% |
| 3284d08q | “The Black Man in the White Man’s Court”: Mandela at Wits University, South Africa, 1943-1949 | 662 | 20 | 642 | 3.0% |
| 7xf4w6v7 | Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures | 657 | 268 | 389 | 40.8% |
| 5wr073nc | Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’ | 526 | 142 | 384 | 27.0% |
| 17c6d1sb | The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas | 522 | 237 | 285 | 45.4% |
| 01k1c0vf | Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity | 478 | 240 | 238 | 50.2% |
| 0nw283jj | Post-War Reintegration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation Among the Anioma People of Nigeria | 448 | 373 | 75 | 83.3% |
| 1835f6tg | On the Market Day | 440 | 10 | 430 | 2.3% |
| 92h8j7td | The Largest Black Nation Outside Africa and its Racist Politics | 416 | 5 | 411 | 1.2% |
| 1kv3h29z | The Land-Grabbing Debacle: An Analysis of South Africa and Senegal | 379 | 101 | 278 | 26.6% |
| 6q14n95b | When the Zombie Becomes Critic: Misinterpreting Fela’s “Zombie” and the Need to Reexamine His Prevailing Motifs | 367 | 205 | 162 | 55.9% |
| 3c8738vj | Mau Mau: The Peak of African Political Organization and Struggle for Liberation in Colonial Kenya | 360 | 10 | 350 | 2.8% |
| 0cf1c74s | Daniel O. Fagunwa, <em>Forest of a Thousand Daemons, A Hunters Saga<em> (New York, NY: Random House, 1982). pp. 140.</em> </em> | 359 | 338 | 21 | 94.2% |
| 7g4406gv | Pro-Nazi Subversion in South Africa | 359 | 47 | 312 | 13.1% |
| 4j47346d | Women Subjugating Women: Re-Reading Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song | 351 | 37 | 314 | 10.5% |
| 94h9q4h3 | Walter Rodney and The Restatement of Pan Africanism In Theory and Practice | 337 | 222 | 115 | 65.9% |
| 4ph014jj | Post-Colonial African Literature as Counter-Discourse: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Reworking of the Canon | 334 | 69 | 265 | 20.7% |
| 72k2n7m2 | The Social Character of Slavery in Asante and Dahomey | 331 | 50 | 281 | 15.1% |
| 3jm9186m | Customary Law in Anglophone Cameroon and the Repugnancy Doctrine: An Insufficient Complement to Human Rights | 325 | 259 | 66 | 79.7% |
| 8072719q | Language Shift and National Identity in Tanzania | 325 | 51 | 274 | 15.7% |
| 7qs6h7fx | The Evolution and Fall of the South African Apartheid State: A Political Economy Perspective | 304 | 75 | 229 | 24.7% |
| 1tb4b0fk | Gérard Prunier, <em>The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide</em>, (New York: Columbia University Press), 1995. pp. 389 | 302 | 54 | 248 | 17.9% |
| 3dv8g15c | Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest | 292 | 9 | 283 | 3.1% |
| 6359f55g | I Write What I Like | 283 | 126 | 157 | 44.5% |
| 98q1c1d1 | Space and Colonial Alterity: Interrogating British Residential Segregation in Nigeria, 1899-1919 | 278 | 175 | 103 | 62.9% |
| 7hc8d096 | The "Contract" in Agostinho Neto's Poetry | 277 | 21 | 256 | 7.6% |
| 3jm5n6pw | Arabic Loan Words in Hausa | 275 | 23 | 252 | 8.4% |
| 6kx3b9z3 | Chinua Achebe. <em>There Was a Country</em> | 274 | 43 | 231 | 15.7% |
| 53f1j6qm | Beyond Elmina: The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana | 255 | 169 | 86 | 66.3% |
| 0h4255s9 | A.E. Opubor and O.E. Nwuneli, The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria | 251 | 4 | 247 | 1.6% |
| 7w80g2xr | Balancing Male and Female Principles: Teaching About Gender in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart | 250 | 132 | 118 | 52.8% |
| 450167x3 | A Linguistic Outline of Early Somali History | 236 | 31 | 205 | 13.1% |
| 4v83483q | Alekwu Poetry as a Source of Historical Reconstruction: The Pursuit of Idoma-Otukpo Origin, Genealogy and Migration | 235 | 86 | 149 | 36.6% |
| 5r64v5qg | Mandela, Luthuli, and Nonviolence in the South African Freedom Struggle | 229 | 154 | 75 | 67.2% |
| 94c516dc | Modes of Production and Social Formations | 224 | 137 | 87 | 61.2% |
| 0830m6m8 | Edouard Glissant and the African Roots of Creolization | 222 | 158 | 64 | 71.2% |
| 9c82v5mx | African History: The Rise and Decline of Academic Tourism | 220 | 14 | 206 | 6.4% |
| 8k7472tg | African Renaissance and Globalization: A Conceptual Analysis | 212 | 145 | 67 | 68.4% |
| 72k950pp | Notes on Slave-Trade Historiography | 209 | 5 | 204 | 2.4% |
| 4fk5d8x3 | Black Consciousness & the Quest for a True Humanity | 206 | 71 | 135 | 34.5% |
| 9q24t26f | Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience | 205 | 134 | 71 | 65.4% |
| 03z6b3xf | Shembeism and the Rainbow Nation: Shembe Religion and Cultural Change in Durban, South Africa | 203 | 36 | 167 | 17.7% |
| 1700p1w0 | Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War? - Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women | 201 | 116 | 85 | 57.7% |
| 0f60t2b1 | Retelling the Mau Mau Past from the Mbeere Perspective | 200 | 112 | 88 | 56.0% |
| 0jn89711 | The Currency of Revolution in Southern Nigeria: 1880-1948 | 200 | 4 | 196 | 2.0% |
| 0962m2tv | The Cultural Unity of Black Africa, The Domains of Matriarchy and of Patriarchy in Classical Antinquity, by Cheik Anta Diop; Conceptions of History: Cheikh Anta Diop and Theophile Obenga, by Chris Gray | 199 | 16 | 183 | 8.0% |
| 28h0r4sr | Revisiting Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa | 196 | 77 | 119 | 39.3% |
| 9ss1t6vj | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center | 196 | 156 | 40 | 79.6% |
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