UCLA Dissertations in African History

In reverse chronological order by year, author, title, and chair/co-chair.

AA – Andrew Apter, BIO – Boniface I. Obichere, CE – Christopher Ehret, EAA – Edward A. Alpers, JSG – John S. Galbraith, LMT – Leonard M. Thompson, MP – Merrick Posnansky, RRG – Robert R. Griffeth, TO – Terence Ranger, WHW – William H. Worger

Year Author Dissertation Title Chair / Co-chair
2026 FONSECA, Desmond ‘Unity, Struggle, Victory!’ The PAIGC, Amilcar Cabral, and the Organization of a Pan-African Revolution, 1945- 1974 Robin D.G. Kelley
2022 THIAM, Madina Seeking Freedom in the Sahel: Frontiers of Liberation and Geographies of Belonging in the Atlantic-Saharan Crossroads GL
2022 LEVI, Janice ‘On Saturday We Don’t Beat the Drum’: Refuge, Ritual, Remembering amongst the Shawi Jews of Ghana GL & AA
2021 SPIELMAN, David Law of Spirit and Flesh: The Law of Kings and Legal Development in Early-Modern Christian Ethiopia GL
2020 DE LUCIA, Lori Sicily and the Two Seas: The Cross Currents of Race and Slavery in Early-Modern Palermo AA & GL
2020 ROSENFELD, Susan Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia to Lagos, 1850-1900 AA
2020 WITHERS, Amber Persistence of the Spirit: Kongo and Conjure in the Antebellum South Carolina Lowcountry, 1700-1830 WHW & Brenda Stevenson
2019 OSEI-OPARE, Nana The Red Star State: State-Capitalism, Socialism, and Black Internationalism in Ghana, 1957-1966 AA
2018 ANDERSON, Samuel Dejohn Domesticating the Medersa: Franco-Muslim Education and Colonial Rule in Northwest Africa, 1850-1960 GL
2014 OYUGI, Willis Okech Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Maasailand, 1850s- 2000: Contested Histories of an African People and their Landscape EAA
2014 GLEASON, Tiffany Coastal Islam: Religion and Identity among Minority Muslims in the French Colonial City of Porto-Novo, 1889- 1939 AA
2014 BARDEEN, Regan Buck Utilitarian Pressures: The Production of Literature and the Development of a Reading Public in Southwestern Nigeria, 1880-1980 EAA & AA
2013 WEISE, Constanze Governance and Ritual Sovereignty at the Niger-Benue Confluence: A Political and Cultural History of Nigeria’s Igala, Northern Yoruba and Nupoid-Speaking Peoples to1900 CE & AA
2013 MUSANDU, Phoebe Staking Claims: The Kenya Newspaper Sector, 1898- 1990 EAA
2011 GULEMA, Shimelis Urbanizing a Nation: Addis Ababa and the Shaping of the Modern Ethiopian State, 1941-1975 EAA
2011 ASSEFA, Shiferaw Alemu The Omotic Agricultural System: A Linguistic Approach EAA & CE
2009 CARTER, Tracey The Role of Griots in Gambian Political History EAA & AA
2009 BETTS, Melissa Namibia’s No Man’s Land: Race, Space and Identity in the History of Windhoek Coloureds under South African Rule, 1915-1990 EAA
2008 WELDEMICHAEL, Awet The Eritrean & East Timorese Liberation Movements: Towards a Comparative Study of Their Grand Strategies EAA & Geoffrey Robinson
2007 MUSIL, Emily La Marianne Noire: How Race & Gender in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World Reshaped the Debate about Human Rights GL & EAA
2007 LEE, Anthony The Establishment of the Bahai Faith in West Afica: The First Decade, 1952-1962 EAA
2006 VIEIRA-MARTINEZ, Carolyn Building Kimbundu: Language and Community Reconsidered in Western Central Africa, ca.1500-1750 EAA & CE
2006 HOPPER, Matthew The African Presence in Arabia: The Economic and Cultural Legacy of the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf, 1840-1940 EAA
2003 FERREIRA, Roquinaldo Transforming Atlantic Slavery: Trade, Warfare and Territorial Control in Angola, 1650-1800 EAA
2003 PFOUTS, Anita Economy and Society in Northern Namibia 500 BC to 1800 CE: A Linguistic Approach CE
2003 MALLOY, Patrick Rule by Sindano: A Cultural History of Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1895-1961 EAA
2003 EL SHEIKH, Mahmoud State, Cloves, and Planters: A Reappraisal of British Colonialism in Zanzibar, 1890-1934 EAA
2003 BALL, Jeremy The Colossal Lie: The Sociedade Agricola de Cassequel and Portuguese Labor Policy in Angola, 1899-1975 EAA
2002 TEBOH, Bridget Angum Women and Change in the Cameroon Grassfields: A Social and economic History of Moghamoland, c.1889- 1960 EAA
2002 SADLER, Katherine Trouble Was Brewing: South African Women, Gender Identity, and Beer Hall Protests, 1929 and 1959 WHW
2002 GONZALES, Rhonda Continuity and Change: Thought, Belief, and Practice in the History of the Ruvu Peoples of Central East Tanzania, c.200 BC to AD 1800 CE
2002 FRATES, L. Lloys Aesthetics of Power, Power of Aesthetics: Race and Gender in Colonial Lourenço Marques, 1932-1974 EAA
2002 FOURSHEY, Catherine Cymone Precolonial History of Southwestern Tanzania: A Linguistic Approach CE & EAA
2001 MITCHELL, Laura Contested Terrains: Property and Labor on the Cedarberg Frontier, South Africa, 1725-c.1830 WHW
2001 FLINT, Karen Negotiating a Hybrid Medical Culture: African Healers in Southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s EAA & Sharon Traweek
2001 DILLARD, Mary Testing Freedom: A History of the West African Examinations Council, 1952-1979 EAA
2000 TAYLOR, Eric R. If We Must Die: A History of Shipboard Insurrections during the Slave Trade EAA and Brenda Stevenson
2000 DESCH-OBI, Thomas Engolo: Combat Traditions in African and African Diaspora History EAA
2000 COLE, Gibril Embracing Islam and African Traditions in a British Colony: The Muslim Krio of Sierra Leone, 1787-1910 CE & WHW
2000 ACHEBE, Nwando Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 EAA
1999 THOMPSON, Brian Divided Destinies: Economic and Social Change in the Partitioned Communities of Colonial Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, 1889-1939 CE
1999 RICHARDSON, Marjorie From German Kamerun to British Cameroons, 1884- 1961, with special reference to the Plantations EAA
1999 LAUMANN, Dennis Remembering and Forgetting the German Occupation of the Central Volta Region of Ghana MP
1998 RADCLIFFE, Kendahl The Tuskegee-Togo Cotton Scheme, 1900-1909 BIO & Kendahl CE
1998 MAHONEY, Michael Between the Zulu King and the Great White Chief: Political Culture in a Natal Chiefdom, 1879-1906 WHW
1997 KLIEMAN, Kairn Hunters and farmers of the Western Equatorial Rainforest: Economy and Society, 3000 BC to AD 1880 CE
1997 ADEDZE, Agbenyega Collector, Collections, and Exhibitions: The History of Museums in Francophone West Africa MP
1996 MEKENYE, Reuben The African Struggle Against South African Periphery Imperialism, 1902-1966: The Case of Lesotho EAA
1996 EDGINGTON, Steven Economic and Social Dimensions of Mission Farms on the Mashonaland High Veld, 1890-1930s EAA
1996 CURTO, José Carlos Alcohol and Slaves” The Luso-Brazilian Alcohol Commerce at Mpinda, Luanda, and Benguela during the Atlantic Slave Trade, c.1480-1830, and Its Impact on the Societies of West Central Africa EAA
1995 SHUTT, Allison ‘We Are the Best Poor Farmers’: Purchase AREA Farmers and Economic Differentiation in Southern Rhodesia, c.1925-1980 EAA
1995 AHMED, Christine Before Eve Was Eve: 2200 Years of Gendered History in East-Central Africa CE
1992 PHILIPS, John Ribats in the Sokoto Caliphate: Selected Studies, 1804- 1903 BIO
1991 VOLMAN, Daniel United states Foreign Policy and the Decolonization of British Central Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi), 1945-1965 EAA
1991 MONSON, Jamie Agricultural Transformation in the Inner Kilombero Valley of Tanzania, 1840-1940 EAA
1990 SCHOENBRUN, David Early History on Eastern Africa’s Great Lakes Region: Linguistic, Ecological, and Archaeological Approaches, c.500 BC to c.1000 AD CE
1990 RUBERT, Steven You Have Taken My Sweat: Agricultural Wage Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1904 to 1945 CE
1990 HAAR, Stephen Long Distance Trade, Political Economy, and National Reunification in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, c.1800-1900 EAA
1990 GATLIN, Darryl John A Socio-economic History of São Vicente de Cabo Verde, 1830-1970 BIO
1988 SSALI, Mike Shaka The Development and Role of an African Film Industry in East Africa with special reference to Tanzania, 1922-1984 EAA
1988 SHELDON, Kathleen Working Women of Beira, Mozambique: EAA
1988 MCMASTER, Mary Patterns of Interaction: A Comparative Ethnolinguistic Perspective on the Uele Region of Zaire, c.500 BC to 1900 AD CE
1988 HARMON, Stephen The Expansion of Islam among the Bambara under French Rule, 1890-1940 CE & BIO
1987 LYONS, Maryinez The Colonial Disease: Sleeping Sickness in the Social History of Northern Zaire, 1903-1930 TOR & CE
1986 LEMELLE, Sidney Capital, State, and Labor: A History of the Gold Mining Industry in Colonial Tanganyika, 1890-1942 EAA
1986 GREEN, Allen A Political History of Moshi Town, 1920-1960 EAA
1986 GARRARD, Timothy Brass-casting among the Frafra of northern Ghana MP
1985 OWNBY, Carolyn Early Nguni History: The Linguistic Evidence and Its Correlation with Archaeological and Oral Tradition CE
1985 DISTEFANO, John The Pre-colonial History of the Kalenjin of Kenya: A Methodological Comparison of Linguistic and Oral Traditional Evidence CE
1985 ALI, Mohamed Nuuh History in the Horn of Africa, 1000 BC – 1500 AD: Aspects of Social and Economic Change Between the Rift Valley and the Indian Ocean CE
1984 MULIRA, Jesse Gaston A history of the Mahi Peoples from 1774-1920 BIO
1984 HORNE, David Mode of Production in the Social and Economic History of Kilwa to 1884 BIO
1984 GOUCHER, Candice The Iron Industry in Bassar, Togo: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of African Technological History MP
1983 SHAPIRO, Martin Medicine in the Service of Colonialism: Medical Care in Portuguese Africa, 1885-1974 EAA
1982 PIRIO, Gregory Commerce, Industry, and Empire: The Making of Modern Portuguese Colonialism in Angola and Mozambique, 1890- 1914 EAA
1982 LUCHEMBE, Chilufya Chipasha Finance Capital and Mine Labor: A Comparative Stud of the Copper Miners in Zambia and Peru, 1870-1980 EAA
1981 WAITE, Gloria The Indigenous Medical System in East-Central African History CE
1981 HASKETT, Norman Kete-Krakye and the Middle Volta Basin, 1700-1914: Cockpit of African and European Rivalry BIO
1980 WILSON, Louis The Evolution of Krobo Society. A History from c.1400 to 1892 CE
1980 WILLIAMS, Joy The Educated and Professional Elite in the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, 1885-1914 BIO
1980 VOELTZ, Richard The Origins and Early Years of the South West Africa Company, Ltd.: A Study of a British Concession Company in German South West Africa JSG and Robert Wohl
1980 TOUNGARA, Jeanne The Pre-colonial Economy of Northwestern Ivory Coast and its Transformation under French Colonialism, 1827- 1920 BIO
1980 SAXON, Douglas The History of the Shari River Basin, c.500 BC – 1000 AD BIO
1980 JOHNSON, Douglas History and Prophecy among the Nuer of the Southern Sudan CE
1980 HOLLOWAY, Joseph Liberian Diplomacy in Africa: A Study of Inter-African Relations between 1957 and 1966 BIO
1980 HAWKINS, Joye Conflict, Interaction, and Change in Guinea-Bissau: Fulbe Bowman Expansion and Its Impact, 1850-1900 BIO
1979 TURNER, Arthur A Socio-economic History of Kabwe, 1902-1966 EAA
1979 THORNTON, John The Kingdom of Kongo in the Era of the Civil Wars, 164- 1718 EAA
1979 QUINN, Charlotte Traditionalism, Islam, and European Expansion: The Gambia, 1850-1890 LMT
1979 KINNER, Joseph The Study of the Origins, Development and Role of Radio Broadcasting in Southern Nigeria, 1923-1951 BIO
1978 WILLIAMS-MYERS, Albert The Nsenga of Central Africa: Political and Economic Aspects of Clan History, 1700 to the late Nineteenth Century EAA
1978 PAPSTEIN, Robert The Upper Zambezi: A History of the Luvale People, 1000-1900 CE
1978 OKOYE, Felix The American Image of Africa, Myth and Reality Ronald Takaki
1978 LLOYD, David The Pre-colonial Economic History of the Avongara- Azande, c.1750-1916 EAA
1978 KAMUSIKIRI, James African Education under the American Methodist Episcopal Church in Rhodesia: Objectives, Strategy, and Impact, 1898-1966” Episcopal Church EAA
1977 UDOH, Clayton Religion and Change among the Annang and Ibibio, 1846- 1930 BIO
1977 MUNTEMBA, Maud Shimwayi Rural Underdevelopment in Zambia: Kabwe Rural District, 1850-1970 EAA
1977 HERSI, Ali Abdirahman The Arab Factor in Somali History: The Origins and the Development of Arab Enterprise and Cultural Influences in the Somali Peninsula EAA
1977 EDGAR, Robert The Fifth Seal: Enoch Mgijima, the Osraeilites, and the Bulhoek Massacre, 1921 CE
1977 CHAMBERLAIN, Christopher Competition and Conflict: The Development of the Bulk Export Trade in Central Gabon during the Nineteenth Century EAA
1976 WARD, Jennifer The Bambara-French Relationship, 1880-1915 BIO
1976 O’SULLIVAN, John Developments in the Social Stratification of Northwest Ivory Coast in the 18th and 19th Centuries: From a Malinke Frontier Society to the Liberation of Slaves by the French, 1907 BIO
1976 OKIHIRO, Gary Hunters, Herders, Cultivators, and Traders: Interaction and Change in the Kgalagadi, Nineteenth Century CE
1976 NORTHRUP, Nancy Southern Malawi, 1860-1891: A Case Study of Frontier Politics EAA
1976 NICOLAS, Gildas The Dizzu of Southwest Ethiopia: An Essay in Cultural History based on Religious Interactions TOR & CE
1976 KENNEDY, Phillip The Fatal Diplomacy: Sir Theophilus Shepstone and the Zulu Kings, 1839-1879 JSG
1976 ALLYN, David The Sabon Gari System in Northern Nigeria, 1911-1940 BIO
1975 STROBEL, Margaret Muslim Women in Mombasa, Kenya, 1890-1973 EAA
1975 RASMUSSEN, Kent Ndebele Wars and Migrations, c.1821-1839 EAA
1975 MILLS, George Wallace The Role of African Clergy in the Reorientation of Xhosa Society to the Plural Society in the Cape Colony, 1850- 1915 LMT & CE
1975 CUMMINGS, Robert Aspects of Human Porterage with Special Reference to Akamba of Kenya: Towards an Economic History, 1820- 1920 EAA
1975 BOADI-SIAW, Samuel Development of Relations between Brazil and African States1950-1973 E. Bradford Burns
1975 AIDOO, Agnes Political Crisis and Social Change in the Asante Kingdom, 1867-1903 BIO
1974 RAU, William Mpezeni’s Ngoni of Eastern Zambia, 1870-1920 EAA
1974 NORTHRUP, David Trade Without Rulers: Precolonial Economic Development in the Biafran Hinterland EAA
1974 MURRAY, Jocelyn The Kikuyu Female Circumcision Controversy: With Special Reference to the Church Missionary Society’s ‘sphere of influence’ TOR
1974 MAEL, Rosalind The Problem of Political Integration in the Zulu Empire LMT & CE
1974 BARROWS, Leland General Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal RRG
1973 LIPSHUTZ, Mark R. Northeast Sierra Leone after 1884: Responses to the Samorian Invasions and British Colonialism RRG
1973 BRANTLEY, Cynthia The Giriama Rising, 1914: Focus for Political Development of the Kenya Hinterland, 1850-1914 EAA
1973 FERGUSON, Douglas Nineteenth Century Hausaland: Being a Description by Imamu Imoru of the Land, Economy, and Society of His People RRG
1972 RALSTON, Richard A Second Middle Passage: African Student Sojourns in the United States during the Colonial Period and Their Influences upon the Character of African Leadership RRG
1972 JACKSON, Kennell An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya, RRG
1972 GESHEKTER, Charles British Imperialism in the Horn of Africa and the Somali Response, 1884-1899 Damodar SarDesai
1971 CHANAIWA, David A History of the Nhowa before 1900 Damodar SarDesai
1971 AHANTOU, Austin Metamura The Economics and Politics of Religion: A Study of the Development of the Igbo Spirit of Enterprise, 1800-1955 BIO
1970 SMITH, Alan K. The Struggle for Control of Southern Mozambique, 1720- 1835 EAA & LMT
1970 DUNBAR, Roberta Ann Damagaram (Zinder, Niger), 1812-1906: The History of a Central Sudanic Kingdom RRG
1969 WALLENKAMPF, Arnold The Herero Rebellion in South West Africa, 1904-1908: A Study in German Colonialism Eugene Anderson
1969 LYE, William The Sotho Wars in the Interior of Southern Africa, 1822- 1837 LMT & RRG
1969 LEGASSICK, Martin The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Missionaries, 1780-1840: The Politics of a Frontier Zone LMT & RRG
1968 WOLF, James Captain Hore’s Mission: The London Missionary Society’s Adventure at Lake Tanganyika, 1878-1888 JSG
1967 QUINN, Eugene Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960 RRG
1967 CASSIDY, Rita Britain and Basutoland: A Study of Men and Policies from the Gun War to the Anglo-Boer War JSG
1959 HOWARD, Warren The United States Government and the African Slave Trade, 1837-1862 Brainerd Dyer
1957 GREGORY, Robert The Doctrine of Native Parampuntcy: British Policy in East Africa, 1923-1931 JSG
1957 GAILEY, Harry The London Missionary Society and the Cape Government, 1799-1828 JSG
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