Working Papers in African Studies
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- No Hyena Eats the Lion’s Share: Centralized Rent Management and Subdued Regional Favoritism in Ethiopia, WP 275, , pp. 1—26 (2023)
- The Lango of Uganda: Identity, Origin, Migration, and Settlements, WP 274, , pp. 1—13 (2021)
- LDS Materials for the Study of Sub-Saharan Africa at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University, WP 273, , pp. 1—4 (2020)
- Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Manuscripts, WP 272, , pp. 1—18 (2019)
- The Boston University Diaspora Studies Initiative: Progress Report and Vision for the Future, WP 271, , pp. 1—42 (2019)
- Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Oral Histories, WP 270, , pp. 1—21 (2018)
- The History of Christianity in Nigeria: A Bibliography of Secondary Literature, WP 269, , pp. 1—48 (2017)
- Nigerian Converts, Mormon Missionaries, and the Priesthood Revelation: Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946-1978, WP 268, , pp. 1—22 (2015)
- Passageways of Cooperation: Mutual Help in Post-Socialist Tanzania, WP 267, , pp. 1—57 (2012)
- War Chiefs and Peace Chiefs: The Irigwe, WP 266, (2011)
- The Founding of Kanem by Assyrian Refugees ca. 600 BCE: Documentary, Linguistic, and Archaeological Evidence, WP 265, (2011)
- Moving Beyond "Illiberal Democracy" in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recalling the Significance of Local Governance, WP 264, (2010)
- Dying to Win: Elections, Political Violence, and Institutional Decay in Kenya, WP 263, (2010)
- Good Food, Ridiculous Diets, and a Well Fed Swahili: British Approaches to Food in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, WP 262, (2009)
- Chappati Complaints and Biriani Cravings:The Aesthetics of Food and Diet in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, WP 261, (2008)
- "Marriage and Madness": Marriage Stability and Demon Possession in Irigwe, Nigeria, WP 260, (2008)
- What Justice for Rwanda? Gacaca versus Truth Commission?, WP 259, (2008)
- The Dhow as Cultural Icon, WP 258, (2008)
- The Politics of Violence in Kenya, WP 257, (2008)
- Social Mobility: Selling Transportation and Modernity in Independence-Era Ghana, WP 256, (2008)
- The Griqua of South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, WP 255, (2007)
- Mirroring Modernity: On Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar, WP 254, (2006)
- HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences, WP 253, (2005)
- Stewards of African Labor: The Evolution of Trusteeship in Kenya's Horticulture Industry, WP 252, (2005)
- Liberia's Choices and Regional Stability, WP 251, (2005)
- Women in Ethiopian History: A Bibliographic Review, WP 250, (2004)
- Language, Culture, and Patrimony in Africa: The French School and Its Victims, WP 249, (2004)
- Becoming Indigenous in Africa: The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, WP 248, (2004)
- "GM or Death: Food and Choice in Zambia", WP 247, (2003)
- "Stealing the Road": Colonial Rule and the Hajj From Nigeria in the Early 20th Century, WP 246, (2003)
- Africa and the Global GM Crop Conflict: Why Europe Will Win, and Poor Farmers Lose, WP 245, (2003)
- Cultural Landscapes in South Africa and Australia: Kalahari Gemsbok and Uluru-Tjuta National Parks, WP 244, (2003)
- NGOs, Wheat, and Civil Society: The Story of Tanzania’s Hanang Community Development Project, WP 243, (2003)
- African Communities of Karnataka, South India: The Life Stories of Six Siddis, WP 242, (2002)
- The Anatomy of a Riot: Single Women and Religious Violence in Niger, WP 241, (2002)
- Multiethnic vs. Deeply Divided Societies in Africa, WP 240, (2002)
- Starving in Plenty and in Poverty: Famine in the Gabon Estuary, 1916-1926, WP 239, (2001)
- Micro-Finance Institutions in Kenya: Client Profiles and Institutional Growth, WP 238, (2001)
- Water Scarcity and Urban Africa: A Preliminary Mapping, WP 237, (2001)
- Ethiopian Land Tenure Revisited: Continuity, Change, and Contradictions, WP 236, (2001)
- Between Decadent Enjoyment and Struggle to Survive: Market Women Restructuring Gender in Kilimanjaro, WP 235, (2001)
- Naming the Past in a "Scattered" Land: Memory and the Powers of Women's Naming Practices in Southern Mozambique, WP 234, (2001)
- The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare, Tanzania, 1961—1988, WP 233, (2000)
- Homes Fit for Heroes: White Servicemen, Social Justice, and the Making of Apartheid, 1939—1948, WP 232, (2000)
- Urbanization, Pentecostalism, and Refugee Youth in Africa, WP 231, (2000)
- Breast Sweeping, Cesarean Section, and High Blood: Ideas About Aging in Postcolonial Botswana, WP 230, (2000)
- The Local Politics of Market Liberalization in Tanzania: Power Relations, Shifting Alliances, and Contrasting Outcomes, WP 229, (2000)
- Aksum and the Habashat: State and Ethnicity in Ancient Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, WP 228, (2000)
- Forest War No More: Detention, Villagization, and the Mau Mau Emergency, WP 227, (2000)
- Urban Areas as Environmental Interventions Part I: The Water Cycle, WP 226, (2000)
- Moving the Goalposts: Playing Styles, Sociability, and Politics in South African Soccer in the 1960s, WP 225, (2000)
- The Sacred Forests of North Pare, Tanzania: Indigenous Conservation, Local Politics, and Land Tenure, WP 224, (2000)
- Maize and Grace: History, Corn, and Africa's New Landscapes, 1500—1999, WP 223, (1999)
- Climate and Causation in African History, WP 222, (1999)
- The Human Exploitation of Local Environmental Variations on the Mbulu Highlands, Northern Tanzania, WP 221, (1999)
- Planning a Family in Bali Nyonga: Concepts and Practices in the Context of Medical Pluralism, WP 220, (1999)
- Assessing the Potential for Survival of Presidential Democracies in Africa, WP 219, (1999)
- Roadblocks to Community Conservation in Tanzania: A Case Study from Simanjiro District, WP 218, (1999)
- Quick—Fixing the State in Africa: The Liberian Case, WP 217, (1998)
- Some Observations on the Elections and Transition in Ghana: 1991—1996, WP 216, (1998)
- Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Rural Democratization in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, WP 215, (1998)
- Colonial and Post—Apartheid Water Projects in Southern Africa: Political Agendas and Environmental Consequences, WP 214, (1998)
- Seasonal Patterns of Household and Child Food Consumption among Amhara Peasants: The Case of Wogda, Central Ethiopia, WP 213, (1998)
- Anthropology in South Africa: An Inside Job, WP 212, (1998)
- Social Development in Francophone Africa–The Case of Women in Gabon and Morocco, WP 211, (1998)
- Freedom of Association in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, WP 210, (1998)
- A Tale of Two Forests: Narratives of Deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840–1996, WP 209, (1998)
- Coping With Seasonality in Amhara Households of Wogda, Central Ethiopia: An In—Depth And Multi—Dimensional Perspective, WP 208, (1996)
- The Mending of Hearts: Conflict Resolution And Reconciliation Activities Among Rwandan Refugee Religious Groups in Ngara District, Tanzania (A Preliminary Field Report), WP 207, (1996)
- Measuring Democracy: A Comparative Theory of Political Well-Being, WP 206, (1996)
- Sales Contracts and Land Tenure Relations in Ankole, Western Uganda, WP 205, (1996)
- Macro-Economic Policies and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of the Sahel, WP 204, (1995)
- Lords of the Flies: British Sleeping Sickness Policies as Environmental Engineering in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900—1950, WP 203, (1995)
- Democratic Transition and Electoral Systems in Africa: A Preliminary Comparison of Ghana, Mali, and Niger, WP 202, (1995)
- Gully Erosion in Lesotho and the Development of Historical Environmental Impact Assessment, WP 201, (1995)
- Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Kinshasa, Libreville, and Yaounde, WP 200, (1995)
- C'est vous, Monsieur le Commandant?" Une Certain Image, WP 199, (1995)
- Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History, WP 198, (1995)
- Participatory Resource Analysis and the Creation of a Democratic Law Making Process, WP 197, (1995)
- The Rentier State in Gabon, WP 196, (1995)
- Trade Reform and Exchange Rate Issues in the CFA Zone, WP 195, (1995)
- A Narrative History of People and Forests Between the Great Lakes: ca. 1000 B.C. to ca. 1500 A.D., WP 194, (1995)
- Paradigms and Politics: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Ethiopia, WP 193, (1995)
- Human Locusts & "The Sporting Class" Wood-Cutting and Game Hunting by White Settlers in Botswana, WP 192, (1994)
- The Meditations of Zara Yaqoub, a 17th Century Ethiopian Philosopher, WP 191, (1994)
- Land Redistribution and Socioeconomic Change in Ethiopia: The Case of Wogda, Northern Shewa, WP 190, (1994)
- A Hundred Years of Crisis? Environment and Development Narratives in Ukambani, Kenya, WP 189, (1994)
- French and British Colonial Forest Policies: Past and Present Implications for Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana, WP 188, (1994)
- From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal, WP 187, (1994)
- Development Interventions and Pastoral Dynamics in Southern Ethiopia: A Discussion of Natural Resources Management in Borana Pastoralism, WP 186, (1994)
- Deforestation History and the Ecology of Swidden Fallows in Sierra Leone, WP 185, (1994)
- Early Experiences of Soil Conservation in Southern Africa: Segregated Programs and Rural Resistance, WP 184, (1994)
- The Conservative Nationalist Tradition in Ghana, WP 183, (1994)
- Methods in the Study of African Land Use, WP 182, (1994)
- Planning as a Rational Act: Constructing Environmental Policy in Uganda, WP 181, (1994)
- The Politics of Regime Change in Africa, WP 180, (1994)
- Material Culture and the Shaping of Consumer Society in Colonial Western Kenya, WP 179, (1994)
- The Pan-African Roots of the OAU: A Model of African, African-American, and Caribbean International Cooperation, WP 178, (1994)
- Problems of Pastoral Land Tenure in Kenya: Demographic, Economic, and Political Process Among Maasai, Samburu, Boran, and Rendille, 1950—1990, WP 177, (1994)
- Integrating the History of Land Use into Epidemiology: Settler Agriculture as a Cause of Disease in Zimbabwe, WP 176, (1994)
- The Complementarity of Remote Sensing and Anthropology in the Study of Complex Human Ecology, WP 175, (1994)
- Historical Environmental Impact Assessment: Connecting Land Use History to Environmental Impact Assessment, WP 174, (1994)
- Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History, WP 173, (1993)
- Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria, WP 172, (1993)
- Toward Sustainable Democracy in Africa: Can U.S. Policy Make a Difference?, WP 171, (1993)
- Productivity and Environmental Conservation under Rapid Population Growth: A Case Study of Machakos District, WP 170, (1993)
- Militarism and Warlordism: Rethinking the Somali Political Experience, WP 169, (1993)
- "Getting AIDS is like Breaking Your Shaft in the Shamba": Energy, Disease, and Changing Concepts of Manhood in Kilimanjaro, WP 168, (1993)
- Spatial Scales, Desertification and Environmental Perception in the Bougouriba Region (Burkina Faso), WP 167, (1992)
- Neo-Classical Household Models and Modes of Household Production: Problems in the Analysis of African Agricultural Households, WP 166, (1992)
- Dahomey and the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, WP 165, (1992)
- Politics and Murder: A Case from West Africa in the 1940s, WP 164, (1992)
- Women's Participation in the Democratization Process in Nigeria, WP 163, (1991)
- Global Warming and Regional Environmental Change: Winners and Losers in Africa, WP 162, (1991)
- Reconstructing the Political Roles of African Women: A Postrevisionist Paradigm, WP 161, (1991)
- Gender, Culture and Capitalism in the Islamic Revival (Sudan), WP 160, (1991)
- State Voices in the Countryside: Politics and the Kenyan Baraza, WP 159, (1991)
- British Colonial and Post-Colonial Food Regulation, with Reference to Nigeria: An Essay in Formal Sector Anthropology, WP 158, (1991)
- The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: A New African-American Voice for Africa in the United States, 1962—1970, WP 157, (1991)
- Publishing in Africa: A Neglected Component of Development, WP 156, (1991)
- The Nigeria/Benin Transborder Trade, Border Control, and the Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program, WP 155, (1991)
- Hausa Oral Traditions: An Annotated Bibliography, WP 154, (1991)
- Women and the Somali Pastoral Tradition: Corporate Kinship and Capitalist Transformation in Northern Somalia, WP 153, (1991)
- Representation Without Taxation: An Essay on Democracy in Rural Nigeria, 1952—1990, WP 152, (1991)
- Kobina Sekyi of Ghana: An Annotated Bibliography of his Writings, WP 151, (1991)
- "A Good Moral Tone": Victorian Ideals of Health and the Judgement of Persons in Nineteenth Century Travel and Mission Accounts from East Africa, WP 150, (1991)
- The Nupe Invasion of Etsakoland: Its Impact on the Socio-Political Development of the Etsako Clans, c. 1860—1897, WP 149, (1990)
- Implementing Effective Local Management of Natural Resources: New Roles for NGOs in Africa, WP 148, (1990)
- The Use of Women for the Empowerment of Men in African Nationalist Politics: The 1958 "Anlu" in Cameroon, WP 147, (1990)
- Changing Nuptiality in a Nigerian Community: Observations from the Field, WP 146, (1990)
- Choice of Language and African Literature: A Bibliographic Essay, WP 145, (1990)
- Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana, WP 144, (1989)
- The Earth Shall Give Judgment: Land, Leadership and Political Legitimacy in Highland Cameroon, WP 143, (1989)
- Choosing Between African and French Destinations: The Role of Family and Community Factors in Migration from the Senegal River Valley, WP 142, (1989)
- Coping with Confusion: African Farmers' Responses to Economic Instability in the 1970s and 1980s, WP 141, (1989)
- Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: Examining the Connections in Rural Kenya, WP 140, (1989)
- The Outlook for Liberalization in Zaire: Evidence from Kisangani's Rice Trade, WP 139, (1989)
- Frontier Agriculture, Food Supply, and Conjuncture: A Revolution in Dura on Ethiopia's Mazega 1898—1930, WP 138, (1989)
- Epidemiologists, Social Scientists, and the Structure of Medical Research on AIDS in Africa, WP 137, (1989)
- Women in Government Service in Colonial Nigeria, 1862—1945, WP 136, (1989)
- Africa Beyond the Famine: The Case for Hope, WP 135, (1989)
- Pigs: The Democratic Philosophers of the Medieval Sudan, WP 134, (1989)
- Schooling and Access to Management in LDCs: The Case of Kenya, WP 132, (1988)
- A Great Agrarian Cycle? A History of Agricultural Productivity and Demographic Change in Highland Ethiopia, 1900—1987, WP 131, (1988)
- Queens, Prostitutes and Peasants: Historical Perspectives on African Women, 1971—1986, WP 130, (1988)
- Women and the State in Africa: Marriage Law, Inheritance, and Resettlement, WP 129, (1987)
- A Research Strategy for Analyzing the Colonial State, WP 128, (1987)
- Underdevelopment, Social Relations, and the State in Africa, WP 127, (1987)
- Alcohol and Disorder in Precolonial Africa, WP 126, (1987)
- The Periodization of Precolonial African History, WP 125, (1987)
- From Exhortation to Strategy: Mediation Efforts in South Africa, WP 124, (1987)
- Zanzibar, Portugal, and Mozambique: Relations from the Late Eighteenth Century in 1890, WP 123, (1987)
- Property Rights and Rural Resource Management: The Case of Tree Crops in West Africa WP 122, (1987)
- Women, Employment, and the Family in Nairobi: The Impact of Capitalist Development in Kenya, WP 121, (1986)
- Sexuality and Power on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926—1964, WP 120, (1986)
- The Material Basis of Sexism: A Mode of Production Analysis with African Examples, WP 119, (1986)
- Modernizing Land Tenure in Mauritania: The Role of Law in Development, WP 118, (1986)
- Sources of Capital Formation and Accumulation Among Kano Entrepreneurs, 1950—1980, WP 117, (1986)
- Consolidating Accountability for Development in Africa, WP 116, (1986)
- Food Crisis and Government Response in Nigeria: A Critique of the River Basin Authorities, WP 115, (1986)
- Making Our Own Way: Women Working in Lourenço Marques, 1900—1933, WP 114, (1986)
- On Legal Change in Cameroon: Women, Marriage, and Bridewealth, WP 113, (1986)
- Leadership Process and the Management of Ethnic Conflict in Africa, WP 112, (1986)
- Foragers for Life: Relations of Property, Production, and Labor in the Perpetuation of Bushman Status, WP 111, (1986)
- The Spread Effect of Management Training: A Comparative Analysis of Multinational and Other Firms in Kenya, WP 110, (1986)
- Women and Vegetable Gardens in the Gambia: Action Aid and Rural Development, WP 109, (1985)
- Labor-Saving Techniques in Food Processing: Rural Women and Technological Change in the Gambia, WP 108, (1985)
- Women and Technological Change in the Gambia: A Case Study of the Salt Industry, WP 107, (1985)
- Mines and Migrants in South Africa, WP 106, (1985)
- Slack in Kenya's Modern Manufacturing Sector, WP 105, (1985)
- National Machineries for the Integration of Women in Development: A Strategy for the Gambia, WP 104, (1985)
- Art in History, History in Art: The Idoma Ancestral Masquerade as Historical Evidence, WP 103, (1985)
- Dimensions of State-Society Relations in Africa, WP 102, (1985)
- Language Use and Literacy: Lesson from Eastern Africa, WP 101, (1985)
- East German Relations with Sub-Saharan Africa: Proletarian Internationalism Vs. "Mutual Advantage", WP 100, (1985)
- The Political Economy of Rural Rebellion in Ethiopia: Northern Resistance to Imperial Expansion, 1928—1935, WP 99, (1985)
- Working-Class Wives and Collective Labor Action on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1926—1964, WP 98, (1985)
- Household Economy, Demography, and the "Push" Factor in Northern Ethiopian History, 1916—1935, WP 97, (1984)
- Land and Social Stratification in Dar Fur, 1785—1875: The Hakura System, WP 96, (1984)
- Plows, Oxen, and Household Managers: A Reconsideration of the Land Paradigm and the Production Equation in Northeast Ethiopia, WP 95, (1984)
- Those Who Have Each Other: Land Tenure of Kalahari Foragers, WP 94, (1984)
- Politics and Administration of Industrial Incentives and Finance in Kano, WP 93, (1984)
- The Use of Slaves in Precolonial Western Dar Fur: The Case of Dar Masalit, 1870—1905, WP 92, (1984)
- The State and Peasant Leverage in Kenya, WP 91, (1984)
- Khabir 'Ali at Home in Kubayh: A Brief Biography of a Dar Fur Caravan Leader, WP 90, (1984)
- The Political Economy of an Oligarchy: The Case of Kano's Bourgeoisie, WP 89, (1984)
- Struggles Over Water, Struggles Over Meaning: Cattle, Water, and the State in Botswana, WP 88, (1984)
- Historical Dimensions of the Food Crisis in Africa: Surviving Famines Along the Kenya Coast, ca. 1880—1980, WP 87, (1984)
- Notes on the History of Archaeology in Sub-Saharan Africa, WP 86, (1984)
- Government and Opposition in Kenya, 1966—1969, WP 85, (1983)
- Strategic Issues in Economic Development: An African Perspective, WP 84, (1983)
- Labor Conditions in the Tanzanian Mining Industry, 1930—1960, WP 83, (1983)
- Tanzania's Performance in Meeting Basic Needs: The International Context, WP 82, (1983)
- Peasant Resistance to Proletarianization in Colonial Tanzania, WP 81, (1983)
- Labor Migration from Botswana to South African Mines: Economic Effects, WP 80, (1983)
- The Somalia Social and Institutional Profile: An Executive Summary, WP 79, (1983)
- Anthropological Models of African Production: The Naturalization Problem, WP 78, (1983)
- Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Areas 1926—1964, WP 77, (1983)
- From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town, WP 76, (1983)
- Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Migrant Women in Abidjan, WP 75, (1983)
- The Bamum Two-Figure Throne: Additional Evidence, WP 74, (1983)
- The Tin Mining Industry in Independent Nigeria, WP 73, (1983)
- A Case for Modified Sedentism Among Earlier Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa, WP 72, (1983)
- The Political Economy of Population Policy in South Africa, WP 71, (1983)
- Migration Among the Batswana, WP 70, (1983)
- On the Care and Feeding of a Gift Horse: The Recurrent Cost Problem as the Result of Biased Project Design, WP 69, (1983)
- Ties that Bind: Palm Wine and Blood Brotherhood at the Kenya Coast During the Nineteenth Century, WP 68, (1983)
- Biological Consequences of Economic Change in Prehistoric and Contemporary Populations: A Research Design, WP 67, (1982)
- Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation, and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria, WP 66, (1982)
- Remote Area Dwellers in Botswana: An Assessment of Their Current Status, WP 65, (1982)
- Krumen "Down the Coast": Liberian Migrants on the West African Coast in the Nineteenth Century, WP 64, (1982)
- Censuses, Development Plans, and Statistical Abstracts: A Working List of Holdings in the Boston University Documents Collection, WP 63, (1982)
- Marea: A Byzantine Port in Northern Egypt, WP 62, (1982)
- Aid or Imperialism? West Germany in Sub-Saharan Africa, WP 61, (1982)
- Biological Variables in Forager Fertility Performance: A Critique of Bongaarts' Model, WP 60, (1982)
- Pan-Africanism in French-Speaking West Africa, 1945—1960, WP 59, (1982)
- Development, Underdevelopment, and the State in Ghana, WP 58, (1982)
- The Unmaking of an African Petite Bourgeoisie: Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, WP 57, (1982)
- The "Labor Aristocracy" Thesis Considered Once Again: Elite Mine Workers on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt 1926—1966, WP 56, (1982)
- Sources of Class Consciousness: The Experience of Women Workers in South Africa, 1973—1980, WP 55, (1982)
- The Limits of French Intervention in Africa: A Study in Applied Neo-Colonialism, WP 54, (1982)
- Class Consciousness "Among Zambian Copper Miners, 1950—1966, WP 53, (1982)
- Alex La Guma: The Literary and Political Functions of Marginality in the Colonial Situation, WP 52, (1982)
- The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts, WP 51, (1981)
- Women at Work in Mali: The Case of the Markala Cooperative, WP 50, (1981)
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Africa: A Critical Essay, WP 49, (1981)
- The Raw, the Cooked, and the Half-Baked: A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex, WP 48, (1981)
- Political Economy, Political Class, and Political System in Recivilianized Nigeria, WP 47, (1981)
- The Role of Women in Disputing Among the Ila of Zambia: Political Adaptation in Legal Change, WP 46, (1981)
- Imperialism, Dependency, and Social Class, WP 45, (1981)
- The Distribution and Efficiency of Crop Production in Tribal Areas of Botswana, WP 44, (1981)
- The Distribution of Wages and Employment in Rural Botswana, WP 43, (1981)
- The Botswana National Migration Study: A Conceptual Framework, WP 42, (1981)
- Women, Migrant Labor, and Social Change in Botswana, WP 41, (1980)
- The Sowo Mask: Symbol of Sisterhood, WP 40, (1980)
- Exchange, Interaction and Settlement in North Western Botswana: Past and Present Perspective, WP 39, (1980)
- Kola Trade and State-Building: Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, WP 38, (1980)
- The Provident Societies in the Rural Economy of Yaounde, 1945—1960, WP 37, (1980)
- Levels of Reality: Portraiture in African Art, WP 36, (1980)
- The Historical Origins of Tanzania's Ruling Class, WP 35, (1980)
- The Development of a Labor Reserve: The Impact of Colonial Rule on Botswana, WP 34, (1980)
- Settler Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sinoe County, Liberia, WP 33, (1980)
- The Agrarian Question in Tanzania: The Case of Tobacco, WP 32, (1980)
- Originality of Thought and Method in West African Islamic Teaching: A Fulfulde Example, WP 31, (1980)
- Women's Domestic Labor in Colonial Kenya: Prostitution in Nairobi, 1909—1950, WP 30, (1980)
- Basic Health Needs in Africa, WP 29, (1980)
- Household Budgets and Women's Incomes, WP 28, (1980)
- Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century, WP 27, (1980)
- The Streetcorner Press: Worker Intelligence Networks in Lourenço Marques, 1900—1962, WP 26, (1980)
- An Environmental and Cultural Study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: A Research Prospectus, WP 25, (1980)
- Luso-African Trade and Settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Regions, WP 24, (1980)
- Labor Strategies in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1926—1935, WP 23, (1979)
- The Economic Position of Beti Widows, Past and Present, WP 22, (1979)
- International Migration: Economic Causes, Consequences, Evaluation, and Policies, WP 21, (1979)
- Landing the Middle Peasantry: Narodism in Tanzania, WP 20, (1979)
- Central Saharan Trade in the Early Islamic Centuries, WP 19, (1979)
- Belgian-French Relations During World War II: The Perspective of a Congo Governor-General, WP 18, (1979)
- Africa and the Media: Changing Aspects of Communication, A Working Bibliography, WP 17, (1979)
- Attitudes Toward Race and Work in Mozambique: Lourenço Marques, 1900—1974, WP 16, (1979)
- The Diffusion of Fertilizer in Ethiopia: Pattern Determinants and Implications, WP 15, (1979)
- Diet and Fertility Among Kalahari Bushmen, WP 14, (1979)
- Forced Labor and the Origins of an African Working Class: Lourenço Marques, 1870—1962, WP 13, (1979)
- Prehistoric and Historic Antecedents of a Contemporary Ngamiland Community, WP 12, (1979)
- The Sopono Cult and Smallpox Vaccinations in Lagos, WP 11, (1979)
- Precolonial Commerce in Northeastern Sierra Leone, WP 10, (1979)
- That Old Time Religion in West Africa, WP 9, (1979)
- African Newspapers Currently Received by American Libraries, WP 8, (1979)
- Women's Work in the Food Economy of the Cocoa Belt: A Comparison, WP 7, (1978)
- Economic Causes and Consequences of Migrations Within the Context of Underdevelopment in West Africa, WP 6, (1978)
- Joyce Cary's African Romance, WP 5, (1978)
- A History of the Sahara in the Nineteenth Century, WP 4, (1978)
- Head Tax, Social Structure, and Rural Incomes in Cameroun, 1922—1937, WP 3, (1978)
- Do the Poor Need Nutrition Education? Some Methodological Issues and Suggestive Evidence from Kinshasa, Zaire, WP 2, (1978)
- Custom, Class, and the "Informal" Sector: Or, Why Marginality Is Not Likely to Pay, WP 1, (1978)