Research Monographs

 

Title, Author(s), Year of Publication Price
"A Song of Praise to Hausa" A Translation in Verse of Alhaji Ibrahim Yaro's Wakar Harshen Hausa, Edward L. Powe, 2007 (42 pp) $12
The Forgotten Peddie/Campbell Expedition into Fuuta Jaloo, West Africa, 1815-17: a record of elaborate planning and grand misfortune and misunderstanding, Bruce L. Mouser, ed., 2007 (182 pp) $25
Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa, Stanley B. Alpern, 2006 (130 pp) $25
One Word: Listening to Violence in Early Colonial Sierra Leone, Daniel R. Magaziner, 2006 (54 pp) $12
Cameroonian Women, the Act of Petitioning, and the Creation of a Popular Nationalism, 1949-1960, Meredith Terretta (2001 Jordan Prize Winner), 2004 (70 pp) $12
The Reverend Peter Hartwig, 1804-1815: A Sourcebook of Correspondence from the Church Missionary Society Archive, Bruce L. Mouser, ed., with Nancy Fox Mouser, 2003 (167 pp) $11
Case of the Reverend Peter Hartwig, Slave Trader or Misunderstood Idealist? Clash of Church Missionary Society / Imperial Objectives in Sierra Leone, 1804-1815, Bruce L. Mouser with Nancy Fox Mouser, 2003 (134 pp) $11
The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri, Charles Muhoro Kareri, Derek R. Peterson, ed., 2003 (104 pp) $14
Chief of a Heathen Town: Kgosi Sechele and the Arrival of Christitianity among the Tswana, Stephen Volz, 2001 (55 pp) $10
A Bibliography of Swahili Language and Linguistics, David M. Westley, 2001 (62 pp) $15
Voyage to the Coast of Africa, François de Paris, ed., Aimery Caron, 2001 (86 pp) $12
Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria, John Edward Philips, 2000 (110 pp) $12
The Epic of El Hadj Umar Taal of Fuuta, Samba Diop and Birahim Caam, 2000 (80 pp) $14
William Sunley and David Livingstone: A Tale of Two Consuls, Gary W. Clendennen and Peter M. Nottingham, 2000 (147 pp) $14
Chief Luka and the Lari Massacre: Contrary Notions of Kikuyu Land Tenure and the Mau Mau War (1999 Jordan Prize Winner), Stephen Carradini, 2000 (42 pp) $8
I'm Not What You're Searching For: Frameworks, Perceptions, and the Construction of Liberian Refugee Identity in Côte d'Ivoire, 1989-1997 (1998 Jordan Prize Winner), Leah Thayer, 2000 (49 pp) $8
A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck, Isaac Fadoyebo, David Killingray, ed., 1999 (70 pp) $12
The Mfecane: An Annotated Bibliography, David M. Westley, 1999 (60 pp) $12
Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Economic History of Nigeria, Toyin Falola and Ann O'Hear, eds., 1999 (130 pp) $14
Idi Amin Speaks: An Annotated Selection of His Speeches, Benoni Turyahikayo-Rugyema, 1998 (154 pp) $12
Democracy and the Elite in Nigeria: Perspectives from Survey Research, Paul A. Beckett with the assistance of Warisu O. Alli, 1998 (68 pp) $8
Female Characters in Contemporary Kenyan Women's Writing: Independent Figures or Subdued Voices? (Jordan Prize Winner 1996), Marie Krüger, 1998 (68 pp) $8
Segu Maana Bamanankan Na: Bamana Language Edition of the Epic of Segu, according to Tayiru Banbera, David C. Conrad, ed., 1998 (158 pp) $12
The Literature of Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and the Emerging Genre of Littattafai na Soyayya: A Prognostic of Change for Women in Hausa Society, (A.C. Jordan Prize Winner 1997), Novian Whitsitt, 1998 (42 pp) $8
Pilgrims, Interpreters and Agents: French Reconnaissance Reports on the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno, 1891-1895, A.S. Kanya-Forstner and Paul Lovejoy, eds., 1997 (214 pp) $16
Guides, Collections, and Ancillary Materials to African Archival Resources in the United States, John Howell and Yvette Scheven, 1996 (108 pp) $14
The Artfulness of M'Fa Jigi. An Interview with Nyamaton Diarro, Sarah Brett-Smith, 1996 (149 pp) $14
Ecrits D'Entre-Deux Mondes, Gérard Chouin, 1996 (62 pp) $15
Study of Africa. Curriculum Materials for K-12, Betty Wass, ed., 1996 (120 pp) $8
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionsblatt. Extracts on Arusha and Meru 1897-1914, Thomas Spear, ed., C. Michelle Murphy and Timothy M. Murphy, trans., 1995 (133 pp) $10
Lyrics of Basotho Migrants, David Coplan, 1995 (181 pp) $16
A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages,  J.D. Fage, 2nd Edition, 1994 (192 pp)
Seeds in the Palm of Your Hand, Edward Kanu Uku, 1993 (118 pp) $18
A Witch in My Heart, Short Stories, and Poems, Hilda Kuper, 1993 (132 pp) $12
Labarin Baba (Hausa Version of Baba of Karo), Mary Smith, 1993 (79 pp) $10
Letters from Nigeria, 1899-1900, by David Wynford Carnegie, Ann O'Hear, ed., 1992 (96 pp) $12
Trade on the Guinea Coast, 1657-1666: The Correspondence of the English East India Company, Margaret Makepeace, ed., 1991 (158 pp) $14
Democratization and Structural Adjustment in Africa in the 1990s, Lual Deng, M. Kostner and M. Crawford Young, eds., 1991 (216 pp) $8
Decade of Discontent: An Index to Fighting Talk, 1954-1963, Dorothy Woodson, 1991 (86 pp) $12
Yoruba Historiography, Toyin Falola, 1991 (214 pp) $19
An Index to Drum: Africa's Leading Magazine, 1951-1965, Dorothy Woodson, 1988 (207 pp) $15

Raw, Medium, and Well Done: A Critical Review of Editorial and Quasi-Editorial Work on Pre-European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-1986, Adam Jones, 1987 (154 pp)

Available online through the Africana Digitization Project

$12

A Bibliography of the Kalenjin Peoples of East Africa, R. Daniels, et al, 1987 (74 pp) $8
Hausa Lexical Expansion Since 1930: Bargery Supplement, Neil Skinner, 1985 $8
Wasan Bahaushe Gaskiyarsa, John Sigel, 1982 (40 pp) $7
The Saga of a Cotton Capulana, Luis Polanah, 1981 (90 pp) $7
Small Urban Centers in Rural Development in Africa, Aidan Southall, ed., 1979 (409 pp) $20
Maasai and Iloikop: Ritual Experts and Their Followers, John Lawrence Berntsen, 1977 (67 pp) $10
Land Tenure Among the Rural Hausa, William Starns, Jr., 1974 (39 pp) $7

 

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