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AGRICULTURE
Africa and the Global GM Crop Conflict: Why Europe Will Win, and Poor Farmers Lose, by Robert L. Paarlberg [2003] WP 245 ($4)
The Agrarian Question in Tanzania: The Case of Tobacco, by Susanne D. Mueller [1980] WP 32 ($4)
Anthropological Models of African Production: The Naturalization Problem, by Jane I. Guyer [1983] WP 78 ($4)
British, Colonial and Post-Colonial Food Regulation, with Reference to Nigeria: An Essay in Formal Sector Anthropology, by Jane I. Guyer [1991] WP 158 ($4)
Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women in Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria, by Olufemi Idowu and Jane I. Guyer [1993] WP 172 ($4)
Coping with Confusion: African Farmers’ Responses to Economic Instability in the 1970s and 1980s, by Sara Berry [1989] WP 141 ($4)
Coping with Seasonality in Amhara Households of Wogda, Central Ethiopia: An In-Depth and Multi-Dimensional Perspective, by Yared Amare [1996] WP 208
The Diffusion of Fertilizer in Ethiopia: Pattern Determinants and Implications, by Bisrat Aklilu [1979] WP 15 ($4)
The Distribution and Efficiency of Crop Production in Tribal Areas of Botswana, by Robert E. B. Lucas [1981] WP 44 ($4)
Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, by Jane I. Guyer [1984] ARS 15 ($11)
Frontier Agriculture, Food Supply, and Conjuncture: A Revolution in Dura on Ethiopia’s Mazega 1898–1930, by James C. McCann [1989] WP 138 ($4)
“‘GM or Death’: Food and Choice in Zambia”, by Christopher M. Annear [2003] WP 247 ($4)
A Great Agrarian Cycle? A History of Agricultural Productivity and Demographic Change in Highland Ethiopia, 1900–1987, by James C. McCann [1988] WP 131 ($4)
HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences, by Thomas S. Jayne, Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Gunter Hemrich, WP 253 ($4)
Labor-Saving Techniques in Food Processing: Rural Women and Technological Change in the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 108 ($4)
Neo-Classical Household Models and Modes of Household Production: Problems in the Analysis of African Agricultural Households, by Jeanne Koopman [1992] WP 166 ($4)
Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation, and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria, by Sara Berry [1982] WP 66 ($4)
Property Rights and Rural Resource Management: The Case of Tree Crops in West Africa, by Sara Berry [1987] WP 122 ($4)
Seasonal Patterns of Household and Child Food Consumption among Amhara Peasants: The Case of Wogda, Central Ethiopia, by Yared Amare [1998] WP 213 ($4)
Starving in Plenty and in Poverty: Famine in the Gabon Estuary, 1916–1926, by Jeremy Rich [2001] WP 239 ($4)
Stewards of African Labor: The Evolution of Trusteeship in Kenya’s Horticulture Industry, by Catherine Dolan, WP 252 ($4)
Women and Vegetable Gardens in the Gambia: Action Aid and Rural Development, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 109 ($4)
ARTS/ART HISTORY
Museumafrica as Metonymic for the “New” South Africa, 1988–2004, by Sara Byala, AH 37 ($4)
African Art in Movement: Traders, Networks, and Objects in the West African Art Market, by Christopher B. Steiner [1989] AH 3 ($4)
Art in History, History in Art: The Idoma Ancestral Masquerade as Historical Evidence, by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir [1985] WP 103 ($4)
Boston University Papers on Africa, 6: African Images: Essays in African Iconology, edited by Daniel F. McCall and Edna Bay [1975] (Order from Africana Publishing Company)
Fashioning a Modern Identity in Colonial Western Kenya: Struggles over Clothing in the Interwar Period, by Margaret Jean Hay [2002] AH 35 ($4)
Levels of Reality: Portraiture in African Art, by Jean Borgatti [1980] WP 36 ($4)
Oyibo: Representations of the Colonialist Other in Yoruba Art, 1826–1960, by Babatunde Lawal [1993] AH 24 ($4)
Patterns from Without, Meaning from Within: European-Style Military Dress and German Colonial Politics in the Bamum Kingdom (Cameroon), by Christraud Geary [1989] AH 1 ($4)
“Peripheral Markets” and The Purchase of Museum Collections in Early Colonial Equatorial Africa, by Jane I. Guyer [1992] AH 21 ($4)
The Bamum Two-Figure Throne: Additional Evidence, by Christraud Geary [1983] WP 74 ($4)
The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts, by Christraud Geary [1981] WP 51 ($4)
The Sowo Mask: Symbol of Sisterhood, by Priscilla Hinckley [1980] WP 40 ($4)
Western Clothing and African Identity: Changing Consumption Patterns Among the Luo, by Margaret Jean Hay [1989] AH 2 ($4)
Who Wears the Pants? Christian Missions, Migrant Labor, and Clothing in Colonial Western Kenya, by Margaret Jean Hay [1992] AH 23 ($4)
COLONIAL AND MODERN HISTORY
Liberia’s Choice and Regional Stability, by John Gay, WP 251 ($4)
A Research Strategy for Analyzing the Colonial State, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1987] WP 128 ($4)
Africans Speak, Colonialism Writes: The Transcription and Translation of Oral Literature Before World War II, by Ralph Austen [1990] AH 8 ($4)
Attitudes Toward Race and Work in Mozambique: Lourenço Marques, 1900–1974, by Jeanne Penvenne [1979] WP 16 ($4)
Belgian-French Relations During World War II: The Perspective of a Congo Governor-General, by William B. Norton [1979] WP 18 ($4)
Between Decadent Enjoyment and Struggle to Survive: Market Women Restructuring Gender in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Tuulikki Pietilä [2001] WP 235 ($4)
Blatta Gäbrä Egzi’abeher’s Letter to Menilek in the Italian Colonial Context, by Irma Taddia [1991] AH 13 ($4)
Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Areas 1926–1964, by Jane L. Parpart [1983] WP 77 ($4)
Class Consciousness among Zambian Copper Miners, 1950–1966, by Jane Parpart [1982] WP 53 ($4)
Colonial Politics and Historical Texts: The Case of the Umarian Narratives, by David Robinson [1991] AH 16 ($4)
Colonialism and the Individual: A Nigerian Life History, by Simon Ottenberg [1992] AH 19 ($4)
Coming of Age through Colonial Education: African Autobiography as Reluctant Bildungsroman, The Case of Camara Laye, by Ralph A. Austen [2000] AH 32 ($4)
The Development of a Labor Reserve: The Impact of Colonial Rule on Botswana, by David Massey [1980] WP 34 ($4)
The Dhow as Cultural Icon, by Erik Gilbert [2008] WP 258 ($6)
Diola Land/European Country: Religious Representations of the French in Twentieth-Century Senegal, by Robert M. Baum [1992] AH 20 ($4)
Fashioning a Modern Identity in Colonial Western Kenya: Struggles over Clothing in the Interwar Period, by Margaret Jean Hay [2002] AH 35 ($4)
Forced Labor and the Origins of an African Working Class: Lourenço Marques, 1870–1962, by Jeanne Penvenne [1979] WP 13 ($4)
Forest War No More: Detention, Villagization, and the Mau Mau Emergency, by Caroline Elkins [2000] WP 227 ($4)
Good Food, Riciculous Diets, and a Well Fed Swahili: British Approaches to Food in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, by Melissa Graboyes, [2009] WP 262 ($6)
Head Tax, Social Structure, and Rural Incomes in Cameroun, 1922—1937, by Jane Guyer [1978] WP 3 ($4)
The Historical Origins of Tanzania’s Ruling Class, by Susanne D. Mueller [1980] WP 35 ($4)
Homes Fit for Heroes: White Servicemen, Social Justice, and the Making of Apartheid in South Africa, 1939–1948, by Neil Roos [2000] WP 232 ($4)
Imperialism, Dependency, and Social Class, by William Hansen and Brigitte Schulz [1981] WP 45 ($4)
Labor Conditions in the Tanzanian Mining Industry, 1930–1960, by Fred J. Kaijage [1983] WP 83 ($4)
Labor Strategies in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1926–1935, by Jane L. Parpart [1979] WP 23 ($4)
Language, Culture, and Patrimony in Africa: The French School and Its Victims, by John Hutchison [2004] WP 249 ($4)
Making Our Own Way: Women Working in Lourenço Marques, 1900–1933, by Jeanne Penvenne [1986] WP 114 ($4)
Material Culture and the Shaping of Consumer Society in Colonial Western Kenya, by Margaret Jean Hay [1994] WP 179 ($4)
Naming the Past in a “Scattered” Land: Memory and the Powers of Women’s Naming Practices in Southern Mozambique, by Heidi Gengenbach [2001] WP 234 ($4)
Oyibo: Representations of the Colonialist Other in Yoruba Art, 1826–1960, by Babatunde Lawal [1993] AH 24 ($4)
Patterns from Without, Meaning from Within: European-Style Military Dress and German Colonial Politics in the Bamum Kingdom (Cameroon), by Christraud Geary [1989] AH 1 ($4)
Peasant Resistance to Proletarianization in Colonial Tanzania, by Fred Kaijage [1983] WP 81 ($4)
Politics and Murder: A Case from West Africa in the 1940s, by Richard Rathbone [1992] WP 164 ($4)
Principles and Passion: Capturing the Legacy of João dos Santos Albasini, by Jeanne Penvenne [1991] AH 12 ($4)
The Provident Societies in the Rural Economy of Yaounde, 1945–1960, by Jane I. Guyer [1980] WP 37 ($4)
Settler Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sinoe County, Liberia, by Jo Sullivan [1980] WP 33 ($4)
The Social History of Leisure and Sport in Colonial Brazzaville, by Phyllis Martin [1990] AH 7 ($4)
Social Mobility: Selling Transportation and Modernity in Independence-Era Ghana, by Jonathan T. Reynolds [2008] WP 256 ($6)
Starving in Plenty and in Poverty: Famine in the Gabon Estuary, 1916–1926, by Jeremy Rich [2001] WP 239 ($4)
“Stealing the Road”: Colonial Rule and the Hajj From Nigeria in the Early 20th Century, by Jonathan Reynolds [2003] WP 246 ($4)
The Streetcorner Press: Worker Intelligence Networks in Lourenço Marques, 1900–1962, by Jeanne Penvenne [1980] WP 26 ($4)
Transformations in Ilorin: Actions and Artefacts Speak Louder Than Words, by Ann O’Hear [1989] AH 4 ($4)
“Unwrapping” Nationalism: Dress, Gender, and Nationalist Discourse in Colonial Lagos, by Judith Byfield [2000] AH 30 ($4)
Western Clothing and African Identity: Changing Consumption Patterns Among the Luo, by Margaret Jean Hay [1989] AH 2 ($4)
Women in Ethiopian History: A Bibliographic Review, by Belete Bizuneh [2004] WP 250 ($4)
DEVELOPMENT
Stewards of African Labor: The Evolution of Trusteeship in Kenya’s Horticulture Industry, by Catherine Dolan, WP 252 ($4)
The Agrarian Question in Tanzania: The Case of Tobacco, by Susanne D. Mueller [1980] WP 32 ($4)
Aid or Imperialism? West Germany in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Brigitte Schulz and William Hansen [1982] WP 61 ($4)
Becoming Indigenous in Africa: The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, by Jim Igoe [2004] WP 248 ($4)
The Botswana National Migration Study: A Conceptual Framework, by John R. Harris [1981] WP 42 ($4)
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Africa: A Critical Essay, by Sara Berry [1981] WP 49 ($4)
The Challenges of Post-Dam Environmental and Economic Rehabilitation in the Senegal River Valley, by Jeanne Koopman, [2007] RS 1 ($6)
Censuses, Development Plans, and Statistical Abstracts: A Working List of Holdings in the Boston University Documents Collection, by Victoria K. Evalds [1982] WP 63 ($4)
Consolidating Accountability for Development in Africa, by James B. Ghartey [1986] WP 116 ($4)
Custom, Class, and the “Informal” Sector: Or, Why Marginality is not Likely to Pay, by Sara Berry [1978] WP 1 ($4)
Damming the Empire: British Attitudes on Hydropower Development in Africa, 1917–1960, by Heather Hoag, [2008] PSAE RS 3 ($6.00)
Development, Underdevelopment, and the State in Ghana, by Naomi Chazan [1982] WP 58 ($4)
The Distribution of Wages and Employment in Rural Botswana, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1981] WP 43 ($4)
Economic Causes and Consequences of Migrations Within the Context of Underdevelopment in West Africa, by John Harris [1978] WP 6 ($4)
Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, by Allan Hoben [2001] WP 236 ($4)
From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town, by Sara S. Berry [1983] WP 76 ($4)
Household Economy, Demography, and the “Push” Factor in Northern Ethiopian History, 1916–1935, by James McCann [1984] WP 97 ($4)
International Migration: Economic Causes, Consequences, Evaluation, and Policies, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1979] WP 21 ($4)
Kings and Farmers. The Urban Development of Aksum, Ethiopia: ca. 500 BC–AD 1500, by Rodolfo Fattovich, [2008] PSAE RS 4 ($6.00)
Labor Conditions in the Tanzanian Mining Industry, 1930–1960, by Fred J. Kaijage [1983] WP 83 ($4)
Labor Migration from Botswana to South African Mines: Economic Effects, by John R. Harris [1983] WP 80 ($4)
The Local Politics of Market Liberalization in Tanzania: Power Relations, Shifting Alliances, and Contrasting Outcomes, by Stefano Ponte [2000] WP 229 ($4)
Micro-Finance Institutions in Kenya: Client Profiles and Institutional Growth, by Jeanne Koopman [2001] WP 238 ($4)
Migration among the Batswana, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1983] WP 70 ($4)
Mines and Migrants in South Africa, by Robert E.B. Lucas [1985] WP 106 ($4)
National Machineries for the Integration of Women in Development: A Strategy for the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 104 ($4)
NGOs, Wheat, and Civil Society: The Story of Tanzania’s Hanang Community Development Project, by Jim Igoe [2003] WP 243 ($4)
Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation, and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria, by Sara Berry [1982] WP 66 ($4)
On the Care and Feeding of a Gift Horse: The Recurrent Cost Problem as the Result of Biased Project Design, by A. Mead Over, Jr. [1983] WP 69 ($4)
Publishing in Africa: A Neglected Component of Development, by Gretchen Walsh [1991] WP 156 ($4)
Slack in Kenya’s Modern Manufacturing Sector, by Irving Gershenberg [1985] WP 105 ($4)
Sources of Capital Formation and Accumulation Among Kano Entrepreneurs, 1950–1980, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1986] WP 117 ($4)
Strategic Issues in Economic Development: An African Perspective, by Samuel M. Wangwe [1983] WP 84 ($4)
Tanzania’s Performance in Meeting Basic Needs: The International Context, by John R. Harris [1983] WP 82 ($4)
The Tin Mining Industry in Independent Nigeria, by Bill Freund [1983] WP 73 ($4)
The Unmaking of an African Petite Bourgeoisie: Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, by Jeanne Penvenne [1982] WP 57 ($4)
Towards a Purposeful African Development: An Early Twentieth Century View, by Kofi Baku [1991] AH 18 ($4)
Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: A Preliminary Mapping, by Kate Showers [2001] WP 237 ($4)
Women and Technological Change in the Gambia: A Case Study of the Salt Industry, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 107 ($4)
Women at Work in Mali: The Case of the Markala Cooperative, by Susan Caughman [1981] WP 50 ($4)
DIASPORA
African Communities of Karnataka, South India: The Life Stories of Six Siddis, by Pashington Obeng [2002] WP 242 ($4)
EDUCATION
An Exploration of Language Planning Issues in Malawi, by Alfred J. I. Matiki [1998] ILE 9 ($4)
Bifocalism or Unifocalism in Education? A Critical Evaluation of Language Policy in Tanzania, by Z.S. M. Mochiwa [1991] ILE 4 ($4)
Coming of Age through Colonial Education: African Autobiography as Reluctant Buldungsroman. The Case of Camara Laye, by Ralph A. Auste [2000] AH 32 ($4)
Language and Educational Reform in Rwanda, by Susan J. Hoben [1988] ILE 2 ($4)
Language in Cameroon, 1960–1990: Bilingual Policy, Multilingual Practice, by Milton Krieger [1991] ILE 6 ($4)
Language in Education in Benue State: A Search For A Policy, by G.A. Gundu [1991] ILE 7 ($4)
The Language of Education in Ethiopia: Empowerment or Imposition?, by Susan Hoben [1995] ILE 8 ($4)
Language Use and Literacy: Lesson from Eastern Africa, by Susan J. Hoben [1985] WP 101 ($4)
Le Projet d’éducation préscolaire en Langue Maternelle en Côte d’Ivoire, by Pascal D. Kokora [1989] ILE 3 ($4)
Originality of Thought and Method in West African Islamic Teaching: A Fulfulde Example, by Louis Brenner [1980] WP 31 ($4)
School, Work, and Equity: Educational Reform in Rwanda, by Susan J. Hoben [1989] ARS 16 ($13)
Schooling and Access to Management in LDCs: The Case of Kenya, by Irving Gershenberg [1988] WP 132 ($4)
The Spread Effect of Management Training: A Comparative Analysis of Multinational and Other Firms in Kenya, by Irving Gershenberg [1985] WP 110 ($4)
ENVIRONMENT/LAND USE
Africa Beyond the Famine: The Case for Hope, by Maurice F. Strong [1989] WP 135 ($4)
African Traditional Religion and Earthkeeping in Zimbabwe, by M. L. Daneel [1999] AH 28 ($4)
Becoming Indigenous in Africa: The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, by Jim Igoe [2004] WP 248 ($4)
A Case for Modified Sedentism Among Earlier Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa, by Creighton Gabel [1983] WP 72 ($4)
Climate and Causation in African History, by James C. McCann [1999] WP 222 ($4)
Colonial and Post—Apartheid Water Projects in Southern Africa: Political Agendas and Environmental Consequences, by Kate B. Showers [1998] WP 214 ($4)
The Complementarity of Remote Sensing and Anthropology in the Study of Complex Human Ecology, by Eric Lambin and Jane Guyer [1994] WP 175 ($4)
The Challenges of Post-Dam Environmental and Economic Rehabilitation in the Senegal River Valley, by Jeanne Koopman, [2007] RS 1($6)
Cultural Landscapes in South Africa and Australia: Kalahari Gemsbok and Uluru-Tjuta National Parks, by Jane Carruthers [2003] WP 244 ($4)
Damming the Empire: British Attitudes on Hydropower Development in Africa, 1917–1960, by Heather Hoag [2008] RS 3 ($6)
Deforestation History and the Ecology of Swidden Fallows in Sierra Leone, by A. Endre Nyerges [1994] WP 185 ($4)
Development Interventions and Pastoral Dynamics in Southern Ethiopia: A Discussion of Natural Resources Management in Borana Pastoralism, by Johan Helland [1994] WP 186 ($4)
Early Experiences of Soil Conservation in Southern Africa: Segregated Programs and Rural Resistance, by Kate B. Showers [1994] WP 184 ($4)
Earthkeeping in Missiological Perspective: An African Challenge, by M. L. Daneel [2000] AH 31 ($4)
The Earth Shall Give Judgment: Land, Leadership and Political Legitimacy in Highland Cameroon, by Miriam Goheen [1989] WP 143 ($4)
An Environmental and Cultural Study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: A Research Prospectus, by Creighton Gabel and Karl Petruso [1980] WP 25 ($4)
The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North pare, Tanzania, 1961—1988, by Michael Sheridan [2000] WP 233 ($4)
Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, by Allan Hoben [2001] WP 236 ($4)
Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Kinshasa, Libreville, and Yaounde, by Theodore Trefon [1995] WP 200 ($4)
French and British Colonial Forest Policies: Past and Present Implications for Côte D’Ivoire and Ghana, by Marc P.E. Parren [1994] WP 188 ($4)
From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal, by Jesse C. Ribot [1994] WP 187 ($4)
Global Warming and Regional Environmental Change: Winners and Losers in Africa, by Michael H. Glantz [1991] WP 162 ($4)
A Great Agrarian Cycle? A History of Agricultural Productivity and Demographic Change in Highland Ethiopia, 1900–1987, by James C. McCann [1988] WP 131 ($4)
Gully Erosion in Lesotho and the Development of Historical Environmental Impact Assessment, by Kate Showers [1995] WP 201 ($4)
Historical Environmental Impact Assessment: Connecting Land Use History to Environmental Impact Assessment, by Kate B. Showers [1994] WP 174 ($4)
The Human Exploitation of Local Environmental Variations on the Mbulu Highlands, Northern Tanzania, 1920s—1950s, by Yusufu Qwaray Lawi [1999] WP 221 ($4)
“Human Locusts” & “The Sporting Class” Wood-Cutting and Game Hunting by White Settlers in Botswana, by Julie Croston [1994] WP 192 ($4)
A Hundred Years of Crisis? Environment and Development Narratives in Ukambani, Kenya, by Dianne E. Rocheleau, Philip E. Steinberg, and Patricia A. Benjamin [1994] WP 189 ($4)
Implementing Effective Local Management of Natural Resources: New Roles for NGOs in Africa, by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter [1990] WP 148 ($4)
Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, by James Giblin [1994] WP 176 ($4)
Land and Social Stratification in Dar Fur, 1785–1875: The Hakura System, by G. Michael LaRue [1984] WP 96 ($4)
Land Redistribution and Socioeconomic Change in Ethiopia: The Case of Wogda, Northern Shewa, by Yared Amare [1994] WP 190 ($4)
The Literature of African Environmental History: An Introduction, by Robert Munson [2007] RS 2 ($6)
Lords of the Flies: British Sleeping Sickness Policies as Environmental Engineering in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900–1950, by Kirk Arden Hoppe [1995] WP203 ($4)
Maize and Grace: History, Corn, and Africa’s New Landscapes, 1500–1999, by James C. McCann [1999] WP 223 ($4)
Methods in the Study of African Land Use, by Katherine Homewood [1994] WP 182 ($4)
Modernizing Land Tenure in Mauritania: The Role of Law in Development, by John Grayzel [1986] WP 118 ($4)
NGOs, Wheat, and Civil Society: The Story of Tanzania’s Hanang Community Development Project, by Jim Igoe [2003] WP 243 ($4)
Paradigms and Politics: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Ethiopia, by Allan Hoben [1995] WP 193 ($4)
Planning as a Rational Act: Constructing Environmental Policy in Uganda, by David D. Gow [1994] WP 181 ($4)
Plows, Oxen, and Household Managers: A Reconsideration of the Land Paradigm and the Production Equation in Northeast Ethiopia, by James McCann [1984] WP 95 ($4)
Problems of Pastoral Land Tenure in Kenya: Demographic, Economic, and Political Process Among Maasai, Samburu, Boran, and Rendille, 1950–1990, by Elliot Fratkin [1994] WP 177 ($4)
Productivity and Environmental Conservation under Rapid Population Growth: A Case Study of Machakos District, by Mary Tiffen [1993] WP 170 ($4)
Property Rights and Rural Resource Management: The Case of Tree Crops in West Africa, by Sara Berry [1987] WP 122 ($4)
Roadblocks to Community Conservation in Tanzania: A Case Study from Simanjiro District, by Jim Igoe [1999] WP 218 ($4)
Sales Contracts and Land Tenure Relations in Ankole, Western Uganda, by Simon Heck [1996] WP 205 ($4)
Spatial Scales, Desertification and Environmental Perception in the Bougouriba Region (Burkina Faso), by Eric F. Lambin [1992] WP 167 ($4)
Struggles Over Water, Struggles Over Meaning: Cattle, Water, and the State in Botswana, by Pauline E. Peters [1984] WP 88 ($4)
A Tale of Two Forests: Narratives of Deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840—1996, by James McCann [1998] WP 209 ($4)
The Sacred Forests of North Pare, Tanzania: Indigenous Conservation, Local Politics, and Land Tenure, by Michael J. Sheridan [2000] WP 224 ($4)
Those Who Have Each Other: Land Tenure of Kalahari Foragers, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1984] WP 94 ($4)
Urban Areas as Environmental Interventions Part I: The Water Cycle, by Kate B. Showers [2000] WP 226 ($4)
Jayne, Thomas S., Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Gunter Hemrich HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: A Preliminary Mapping, by Kate Showers [2001] WP 237 ($4)
HEALTH AND DISEASE
Marcela Villarreal, Prabhu Pingali, and Gunter Hemrich HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences, by Thomas S. Jayne, WP 253 ($4)
“A Good Moral Tone”: Victorian Ideals of Health and the Judgement of Persons in Nineteenth Century Travel and Mission Accounts from East Africa, by Philip Setel [1991] WP 150 ($4)
Basic Health Needs in Africa, by Robert W. Morgan [1980] WP 29 ($4)
Biological Variables in Forager Fertility Performance: A Critique of Bongaarts’ Model, by Edwin Wilmsen [1982] WP 60 ($4)
Breast Sweeping, Cesarean Section, and High Blood: Ideas About Aging in Postcolonial Botswana, by Julie Livingston [2000] WP 230 ($4)
Chappati Complaints and Biriani Cravings: The Aesthetics of Food and Diet in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, by Melissa Graboyes, [2008] WP 261 ($6.00)
Diet and Fertility Among Kalahari Bushmen, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1979] WP 14 ($4)
Do the Poor Need Nutrition Education? Some Methodological Issues and Suggestive Evidence from Kinshasa, Zaire, By David Wheeler [1978] WP 2 ($4)
Epidemiologists, Social Scientists, and the Structure of Medical Research on AIDS in Africa, by Randall M. Packard [1989] WP 137 ($4)
“Getting AIDS is like Breaking Your Shaft in the Shamba”: Energy, Disease, and Changing Concepts of Manhood in Kilimanjaro, by Philip Setel [1993] WP168 ($4)
Good Food, Riciculous Diets, and a Well Fed Swahili: British Approaches to Food in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, Melissa Graboyes, [2009] WP 262 ($6)
Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, by James Giblin [1994] WP 176 ($4)
Macro—Economic Policies and Women’s Reproductive Health: The Case of the Sahel, by Jennifer Yanco [1995] WP 204 ($4)
Planning a Family in Bali Nyonga: Concepts and Practices in the Context of Medical Pluralism, by Sarah C. Richards [1999] WP 220 ($4)
The Sopono Cult and Smallpox Vaccinations in Lagos, by Robert W. Morgan [1979] WP 11 ($4)
LITERATURE
Africans Speak, Colonialism Writes: The Transcription and Translation of Oral Literature Before World War II, by Ralph Austen [1990] AH 8 ($4)
Alex La Guma: The Literary and Political Functions of Marginality in the Colonial Situation, by Abdul JanMohamed [1982] WP 52 ($4)
An Annotated Bibliography of Southern Bantu Praise Poetry, by David M. Westley [1999] AH 29 ($4)
Hausa Oral Traditions: An Annotated Bibliography, by David Westley [1991] WP 154 ($4)
Joyce Cary’s African Romances, by Abdul R. Jan Mohamed [1978] WP 5 ($4)
Killer Chill: Poems for the South African Peoples’ Struggle, by Ed Wilmsen [1985] Working Papers in African Studies series special edition ($4)
Maybe Heaven, Maybe the Sky, but Definitely Up: Lingering Over Words in Translating Historical Texts, by David Henige [1991] AH 11 ($4)
“Okukkera Ng’omuzungu”–To Talk Nonsense like a Whiteman: The Use of Proverbs in Luganda Historical Writing, by John A. Rowe [1991] AH 14 ($4)
Orality, State Literacy, and Political Culture in Ethiopia: Translating the Ras Kassa Registers, by James C. McCann [1991] AH 10 ($4)
Performing Identity: Nations, Cultures, and African Experimental Novels, by Phyllis Clark [2000] AH 34 ($4)
The Significance of the Swahili Literary Tradition and Interpretation of Early Twentieth Century Political Poetry, by Ann Biersteker [1990] AH 6 ($4)
Translation: Languages and Cultures in Contrast, by Bento Sitoe [1990] AH 9 ($4)
POLITICS
Museumafrica as Metonymic for the “New” South Africa, 1988-2004, by Sara Byala, AH 37 ($4)
Liberia’s Choice and Regional Stability, by John Gay, WP 251 ($4)
Africa and the Global GM Crop Conflict: Why Europe Will Win, and Poor Farmers Lose, by Robert L. Paarlberg [2003] WP 245 ($4)
The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: A New African-American Voice for Africa in the United States, 1962–1970, by Edward O. Erhagbe [1991] WP 157 ($4)
The Anatomy of a Riot: Single Women and Religious Violence in Niger, by Barbara Cooper [2002] WP 241 ($4)
Assessing the Potential for Survival of Presidential Democracies in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1999] WP 219 ($4)
Becoming Indigenous in Africa: The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, by Jim Igoe [2004] WP 248 ($4)
Boston University Papers on Africa, 9: Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa: Studies Presented to Professor Harold G. Marcus, edited by Melvin E. Page, Stephanie F. Beswick, Tim Carmichael, and Jay Spaulding [1998] ($14.95)
Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Rural Democratization in Kwazulu—Natal, South Africa, by William A. Munro [1998] WP 215 ($4)
The Conservative Nationalist Tradition in Ghana, by Richard Rathbone [1994] WP 183 ($4)
Cultural Landscapes in South Africa and Australia: Kalahari Gemsbok and Uluru-Tjuta National Parks, by Jane Carruthers [2003] WP 244 ($4)
Democratic Transition and Electoral Systems in Africa: A Preliminary Comparison of Ghana, Mali, and Niger, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1995] WP 202 ($4)
Development, Underdevelopment, and the State in Ghana, by Naomi Chazan [1982] WP 58 ($4)
Dimensions of State-Society Relations in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1985] WP 102 ($4)
Dying to Win: Elections, Political Violence, and Institutional Decay in Kenya, by Susanne Mueller {2010} WP 263 ($6)
The Earth Shall Give Judgment: Land, Leadership and Political Legitimacy in Highland Cameroon, by Miriam Goheen [1989] WP 143 ($4)
Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, by Allan Hoben [2001] WP 236 ($4)
Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)
Freedom of Association in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, by Theodore M. Vestel [1998] WP 210 ($4)
“‘GM or Death’: Food and Choice in Zambia,” by Christopher M. Annear [2003] WP 247 ($4)
Government and Opposition in Kenya, 1966–1969, by Susanne D. Mueller [1983] WP 85 ($4)
Harmonization of African Foreign Policies, 1955–1975: The Politics and Economics of African Diplomacy, by G. Aforka Nweke [1980] ARS 14 ($10)
Kobina Sekyi of Ghana: An Annotated Bibliography of His Writings, by Kofi Baku [1991] WP 151 ($4)
Landing the Middle Peasantry: Narodism in Tanzania, by Susanne D. Mueller [1979] WP 20 ($4)
Language, Culture, and Patrimony in Africa: The French School and Its Victims, by John Hutchison [2004] WP 249 ($4)
Leadership Process and the Management of Ethnic Conflict in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1986] WP 112 ($4)
Measuring Democracy: A Comparative Theory of Political Well-Being, by Célestin Monga [1996] WP 206 parts 1 & 2 ($7)
Multiethnic vs. Deeply Divided Societies in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [2002] WP 240 ($4)
NGOs, Wheat, and Civil Society: The Story of Tanzania’s Hanang Community Development Project, by Jim Igoe [2003] WP 243 ($4)
The Pan-African Roots of the OAU: A Model of African, African-American, and Caribbean International Cooperation, by Kwamina Panford [1994] WP 178 ($4)
Pan-Africanism in French-Speaking West Africa, 1945–1960, by Eunice A. Charles [1982] WP 59 ($4)
Participatory Resource Analysis and the Creation of a Democratic Law Making Process, by Ann Seidman and Robert Seidman [1995] WP 197 ($4)
Politics and Administration of Industrial Incentives and Finance in Kano, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1984] WP 93 ($4)
Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: Examining the Connections in Rural Kenya, by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter [1989] WP 140 ($4)
Politics and Murder: A Case from West Africa in the 1940s, by Richard Rathbone [1992] WP 164 ($4)
The Politics and Violence in Kenya, by Suzanne D. Meuller [2008] WP 257 ($6)
The Political Economy of an Oligarchy: The Case of Kano’s Bourgeoisie, by Ibrahim L. Bashir [1984] WP 89 ($4)
Political Economy, Political Class, and Political System in Recivilianized Nigeria, by William D. Graf, [1981] WP 47 ($4)
The Political Economy of Population Policy in South Africa, by Barbara B. Brown [1983] WP 71 ($4)
The Politics of Regime Change in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1994] WP 180 ($4)
Quick-Fixing the State in Africa: The Liberian Case, by Patrick L. N. Seyon [1998] WP 217 ($4)
Reconstructing the Political Roles of African Women: A Postrevisionist Paradigm, by Emmanuel Konde [1991] WP 161 ($4)
Remote Area Dwellers in Botswana: An Assessment of Their Current Status, by Edwin Wilmsen [1982] WP 65 ($4)
Representation Without Taxation: An Essay on Democracy in Rural Nigeria, 1952–1990, by Jane Guyer [1991] WP 152 ($4)
Some Observations on the Elections and Transition in Ghana: 1991–1996, by Kwamina Panford [1998] WP 216 ($4)
State Voices in the Countryside: Politics and the Kenyan Baraza, by Angelique Haugerud and Kimani Njogu [1991] WP 159 ($4)
Struggles Over Water, Struggles Over Meaning: Cattle, Water, and the State in Botswana, by Pauline E. Peters [1984] WP 88 ($4)
The Rentier State in Gabon, by Douglas Andrew Yates [1995] WP 196 ($4)
The State and Peasant Leverage in Kenya, by Frank Holmquist [1984] WP 91 ($4)
Toward Sustainable Democracy in Africa: Can U.S. Policy Make a Difference?, by James R. Scarritt and Shaheen Mozaffar [1993] WP 171 ($4)
Underdevelopment, Social Relations, and the State in Africa, by Beverly Grier [1987] WP 127 ($4)
The Use of Women for the Empowerment of Men in African Nationalist Politics: The 1958 “Anlu” in Cameroon, by Emmanuel Konde [1990] WP 147 ($4)
Women and the State in Africa: Marriage Law, Inheritance, and Resettlement, by Jane I. Guyer [1987] WP 129 ($4)
Women in Government Service in Colonial Nigeria, 1862–1945, by LaRay Denzer [1989] WP 136 ($4)
Women’s Participation in the Democratization Process in Nigeria, by Felicia Ekejuiba [1991] WP 163 ($4)
PRECOLONIAL HISTORY
Mirroring Modernity: On Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar, by Jeremy Prestholdt, WP 254 (2006)
A History of the Sahara in the Nineteenth Century, by Stephen Baier [1978] WP 4 ($4)
A Narrative History of People and Forests between the Great Lakes: ca. 1000 B.C. to ca. 1500 A.D., by David Lee Schoenbrun [1995] WP 194 ($4)
Aksum and the Habashat: State and Ethnicity in Ancient Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, by Rodolfo Fattovich [2000] WP 228 ($4)
Alcohol and Disorder in Precolonial Africa, by Charles H. Ambler [1987] WP 126 ($4)
The Art and Science of Writing in Africa: The Lost Script of the Bagam, by Konrad Tuchscherer [1998] AH 27 ($4)
Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland, 1600–1850, by Akinwumi Ogundiran [2002] AH 36 ($4)
Biological Consequences of Economic Change in Prehistoric and Contemporary Populations: A Research Design, by Alice J. Hausman [1982] WP 67 ($4)
Boston University Papers on Africa, 8: Discovering the African Past: Essays in Honor of Daniel F. McCall, edited by Norman R. Bennett [1987] BUPA 8 ($11)
Central Saharan Trade in the Early Islamic Centuries, by Mark Dyer [1979] WP 19 ($4)
Dahomey and the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Robin Law [1992] WP 165 ($4)
Environmental and Cultural Study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: A Research Prospectus, by Creighton Gabel and Karl Petruso [1980] WP 25 ($4)
Historical Dimensions of the Food Crisis in Africa: Surviving Famines Along the Kenya Coast, ca. 1880–1980, by Thomas J. Herlehy [1984] WP 87 ($4)
Kings and Farmers. The Urban Development of Aksum, Ethiopia: ca. 500 BC–AD 1500, by Rodolfo Fattovich, [2008] PSAE RS 4 ($6.00)
Kola Trade and State-Building: Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 38 ($4)
Krumen “Down the Coast”: Liberian Migrants on the West African Coast in the Nineteenth Century, by Jane Martin [1982] WP 64 ($4)
The “Labor Aristocracy” Thesis Considered Once Again: Elite Mine Workers on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt 1926–1966, by Jane L. Parpart [1982] WP 56 ($4)
Lamu in the Nineteenth Century: Land, Trade, and Politics, by Marguerite Ylvisaker [1979] ARS 13 ($9)
Luso-African Trade and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Regions, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 24 ($4)
Marea: A Byzantine Port in Northern Egypt, by Karl Petruso and Creighton Gabel [1982] WP 62 ($4)
Notes on the History of Archaeology in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Creighton Gabel [1984] WP 86 ($4)
The Nupe Invasion of Etsakoland: Its Impact on the Socio-Political Development of the Etsako Clans, c. 1860–1897, by Edward O. Erhagbe [1990] WP 149 ($4)
The Periodization of Precolonial African History, by Jay Spaulding and Lidwien Kapteijns [1987] WP 125 ($4)
Precolonial Commerce in Northeastern Sierra Leone, by C. Magbaily Fyle [1979] WP 10 ($4)
Precolonial Senegal: The Jolof Kingdom, 18001890, by Eunice Charles [1977] ARS 12 ($7.50)
Prehistoric and Historic Antecedents of a Contemporary Ngamiland Community, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1979] WP 12 ($4)
Reconstructing African Culture History, edited by Creighton Gabel and Norman Bennett [1967] ARS 8 ($9.50)
Ties that Bind: Palm Wine and Blood Brotherhood at the Kenya Coast During the Nineteenth Century, by Thomas J. Herlehy [1983] WP 68 ($4)
The Use of Slaves in Precolonial Western Dar Fur: The Case of Dar Masalit, 1870–1905, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1984] WP 92 ($4)
Zanzibar, Portugal, and Mozambique: Relations from the Late Eighteenth Century in 1890, by Norman R. Bennett [1987] WP 123 ($4)
RELIGION
African Communities of Karnataka, South India: The Life Stories of Six Siddis, by Pashington Obeng [2002] WP 242 ($4)
African Initiated Churches in Southern Africa: Protest Movements or Mission Churches?, by Marthinus L. Daneel [2000] AH 33 ($4)
African Traditional Religion and Earthkeeping in Zimbabwe, by M. L. Daneel [1999] AH 28 ($4)
Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Migrant Women in Abidjan, by May Yacoob [1983] WP 75 ($4)
The Anatomy of a Riot: Single Women and Religious Violence in Niger, by Barbara Cooper [2002] WP 241 ($4)
Asante Women Dancers: Architects of Power Realignment in Corpus Christi, by Pashington Obeng [1995] AH 26 ($4)
Boston University Papers on Africa, 5: Aspects of West African Islam, edited by Daniel F. McCall and Norman Bennett [1971] BUPA 5 ($7.50)
Earthkeeping in Missiological Perspective: An African Challenge, by M. L. Daneel [2000] AH 31 ($4)
Gender, Culture and Capitalism in the Islamic Revival (Sudan), by Victoria Bernal [1991] WP 160 ($4)
The Meditations of Zara Yaqoub, a 17th Century Ethiopian Philosopher, by Tedros Kiros [1994] WP 191 ($4)
That Old Time Religion in West Africa, by Daniel F. McCall [1979] WP 9 ($4)
Originality of Thought and Method in West African Islamic Teaching: A Fulfulde Example, by Louis Brenner [1980] WP 31 ($4)
Sittaat: Somali Women’s Songs for “The Mothers of the Believers,” by Lidwien Kapteijns, with Mariam Omar Ali [1995] AH 25 ($4)
Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History, by Emmanuel Akyeampong and Pashington Obeng [1995] WP 198 ($4)
“Stealing the Road”: Colonial Rule and the Hajj From Nigeria in the Early 20th Century, by Jonathan Reynolds [2003] WP 246 ($4)
Urbanization, Pentecostalism, and Refugee Youth in Africa, by Marc Sommers [2000] WP 231 ($4)
Who Wears the Pants? Christian Missions, Migrant Labor, and Clothing in Colonial Western Kenya, by Margaret Jean Hay [1992] AH 23 ($4)
TRADE AND MARKETS
Mirroring Modernity: On Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar, by Jeremy Prestholdt, WP 254 (2006)
Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland, 1600–1850, by Akinwumi Ogundiran [2002] AH 36 ($4)
Between Decadent Enjoyment and Struggle to Survive: Market Women Restructuring Gender in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Tuulikki Pietilä [2001] WP 235 ($4)
Central Saharan Trade in the Early Islamic Centuries, by Mark Dyer [1979] WP 19 ($4)
Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century, by E. Frances White [1980] WP 27 ($4)
The Dhow as Cultural Icon, by Erik Gilbert [2008]. WP 258 ($6)
Exchange, Interaction and Settlement in North Western Botswana: Past and Present Perspective, by Edwin N. Wilmsen [1980] WP 39 ($4)
Khabir ‘Ali at Home in Kubayh: A Brief Biography of a Dar Fur Caravan Leader, by G. Michael LaRue [1984] WP 90 ($4)
Kola Trade and State-Building: Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia, Fifteenth—Seventeenth Centuries, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 38 ($4)
The Local Politics of Market Liberalization in Tanzania: Power Relations, Shifting Alliances, and Contrasting Outcomes, by Stefano Ponte [2000] WP 229 ($4)
Luso-African Trade and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Regions, by George E. Brooks [1980] WP 24 ($4)
New England Merchants in Africa, edited by Norman Bennett and George Brooks [1965] ARS 7 ($24.50)
The Nigeria/Benin Transborder Trade, Border Control, and the Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program, by A.I. Asiwaju [1991] WP 155 ($4)
The Outlook for Liberalization in Zaire: Evidence from Kisangani’s Rice Trade, by Diane Russell [1989] WP 139 ($4)
Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana, by Beverly Grier [1989] WP 144 ($4)
Precolonial Commerce in Northeastern Sierra Leone, by C. Magbaily Fyle [1979] WP 10 ($4)
Trade Reform and Exchange Rate Issues in the CFA Zone, by Célestin Monga [1995] WP 195 ($4)
Social Mobility: Selling Transportation and Modernity in Independence-Era Ghana, by Jonathan T. Reynolds [2008] WP 256 ($6)
Yankee Traders, Old Coasters, and African Middlemen: A History of American Legitimate Trade with West Africa in the Nineteenth Century, by George Brooks [1970] ARS 11 ($20)
WAR AND CONFLICT
Belgian-French Relations During World War II: The Perspective of a Congo Governor-General, by William B. Norton [1979] WP 18 ($4)
The Ethiopian Intelligentsia and the Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–1941, by Bahru Zewde [1991] AH 15 ($4)
Ethnicity and Politics in Africa, by Crawford Young [2002] CT 1 ($15)
Forest War No More: Detention, Villagization, and the Mau Mau Emergency, by Caroline Elkins [2000] WP 227 ($4)
From Exhortation to Strategy: Mediation Efforts in South Africa, by Donald Rothchild [1987] WP 124 ($4)
Leadership Process and the Management of Ethnic Conflict in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [1986] WP 112 ($4)
The Mending of Hearts: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Activities Among Rwandan Refugee Religious Groups In Ngara District, Tanzania (A Preliminary Field Report), by Marc Sommers [1996] WP 207 ($4)
Militarism and Warlordism: Rethinking the Somali Political Experience, by Hussein M. Adam [1993] WP 169 ($4)
Multiethnic vs. Deeply Divided Societies in Africa, by Shaheen Mozaffar [2002] WP 240 ($4)
The Political Economy of Rural Rebellion in Ethiopia: Northern Resistance to Imperial Expansion, 1928–1935, by James McCann [1984] WP 99 ($4)
The Role of Women in Disputing Among the Ila of Zambia: Political Adaptation in Legal Change, by C.R. Cutshall [1981] WP 46 ($4)
WOMEN AND GENDER
Stewards of African Labor: The Evolution of Trusteeship in Kenya’s Horticulture Industry, by Catherine Dolan, WP 252 ($4)
African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives, edited by Margaret Jean Hay and Marcia Wright [1983] BUPA 7 (OUT OF PRINT)
Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Migrant Women in Abidjan, by May Yacoob [1983] WP 75 ($4)
The Anatomy of a Riot: Single Women and Religious Violence in Niger, by Barbara Cooper [2002] WP 241 ($4)
Asante Women Dancers: Architects of Power Realignment in Corpus Christi, by Pashington Obeng [1995] AH 26 ($4)
Between Decadent Enjoyment and Struggle to Survive: Market Women Restructuring Gender in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Tuulikki Pietilä [2001] WP 235 ($4)
Choosing Between African and French Destinations: The Role of Family and Community Factors in Migration from the Senegal River Valley, by Sally E. Findley [1989] WP 142 ($4)
Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Areas 1926–1964, by Jane L. Parpart [1983] WP 77 ($4)
Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women in Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria, by Olufemi Idowu and Jane I. Guyer [1993] WP 172 ($4)
Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century, by E. Frances White [1980] WP 27 ($4)
The Economic Position of Beti Widows, Past and Present, by Jane I. Guyer [1979] WP 22 ($4)
Gender, Culture and Capitalism in the Islamic Revival (Sudan), by Victoria Bernal [1991] WP 160 ($4)
Household Budgets and Women’s Incomes, by Jane I. Guyer [1980] WP 28 ($4)
Labor-Saving Techniques in Food Processing: Rural Women and Technological Change in the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 108 ($4)
Macro—Economic Policies and Women’s Reproductive Health: The Case of the Sahel, by Jennifer Yanco [1995] WP 204 ($4)
Making Our Own Way: Women Working in Lourenço Marques, 1900–1933, by Jeanne Penvenne [1986] WP 114 ($4)
Marriage and Madness”: Marriage Stability and Demon Possession in Irigwe, Nigeria, by Walter Sangree, [2008] WP 260 ($8.00)
The Material Basis of Sexism: A Mode of Production Analysis with African Examples, by Jeanne Koopman Henn [1986] WP 119 ($4)
Naming the Past in a “Scattered” Land: Memory and the Powers of Women’s Naming Practices in Southern Mozambique, by Heidi Gengenbach [2001] WP 234 ($4)
National Machineries for the Integration of Women in Development: A Strategy for the Gambia, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 104 ($4)
On Legal Change in Cameroon: Women, Marriage, and Bridewealth, by Christraud M. Geary [1986] WP 113 ($4)
Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana, by Beverly Grier [1989] WP 144 ($4)
Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: Examining the Connections in Rural Kenya, by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter [1989] WP 140 ($4)
Queens, Prostitutes and Peasants: Historical Perspectives on African Women, 1971–1986, by Margaret Jean Hay [1988] WP 130 ($4)
The Raw, the Cooked, and the Half-Baked: A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex, by Jane I. Guyer [1981] WP 48 ($4)
Reconstructing the Political Roles of African Women: A Postrevisionist Paradigm, by Emmanuel Konde [1991] WP 161 ($4)
The Role of Women in Disputing Among the Ila of Zambia: Political Adaptation in Legal Change, by C.R. Cutshall [1981] WP 46 ($4)
Sexuality and Power on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926–1964, by Jane L. Parpart [1986] WP 120 ($4)
Sittaat: Somali Women’s Songs for “The Mothers of the Believers,” by Lidwien Kapteijns, with Mariam Omar Ali [1995] AH 25 ($4)
Social Development in Francophone Africa–The Case of Women in Gabon and Morocco, by Claire Griffiths [1998] WP 211 ($4)
Sources of Class Consciousness: The Experience of Women Workers in South Africa, 1973–1980, by Iris Berger [1982] WP 55 ($4)]
Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History, by Emmanuel Akyeampong and Pashington Obeng [1995] WP 198 ($4)
“Unwrapping” Nationalism: Dress, Gender, and Nationalist Discourse in Colonial Lagos, by Judith Byfield [2000] AH 30 ($4)
Women and Technological Change in the Gambia: A Case Study of the Salt Industry, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 107 ($4)
Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1993] WP 173 ($4)
Women and the Somali Pastoral Tradition: Corporate Kinship and Capitalist Transformation in Northern Somalia, by Lidwien Kapteijns [1991] WP 153 ($4)
Women and the State in Africa: Marriage Law, Inheritance, and Resettlement, by Jane I. Guyer [1987] WP 129 ($4)
Women and Vegetable Gardens in the Gambia: Action Aid and Rural Development, by Kamla Nath [1985] WP 109 ($4)
Women at Work in Mali: The Case of the Markala Cooperative, by Susan Caughman [1981] WP 50 ($4)
Women in Ethiopian History: A Bibliographic Review, by Belete Bizuneh [2004] WP 250 ($4)
Women in Government Service in Colonial Nigeria, 1862–1945, by LaRay Denzer [1989] WP 136 ($4)
Women’s Domestic Labor in Colonial Kenya: Prostitution in Nairobi, 1909–1950, by Luise White [1980] WP 30 ($4)
Women’s Participation in the Democratization Process in Nigeria, by Felicia Ekejuiba [1991] WP 163 ($4)
Women’s Work in the Food Economy of the Cocoa Belt: A Comparison, by Jane Guyer [1978] WP 7 ($4)
Women, Employment, and the Family in Nairobi: The Impact of Capitalist Development in Kenya, by Sharon Stichter [1986] WP 121 ($4)
Women, Migrant Labor, and Social Change in Botswana, by Barbara B. Brown [1980] WP 41 ($4)
Working-Class Wives and Collective Labor Action on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1926–1964, by Jane Parpart [1985] WP 98 (1985) ($4)
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