Recent Africa-Related Theses

• Ayana, Daniel. "Land Tenure and Agriculture in Sayyoo-Afillo, Western Wallaga, Ethiopia, 1880-1974." Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995), Donald Crummey, Advisor.

• Conte, Christopher. "Transformations along the Gradient: Ecological Change in the Mountains and Plains of Northeastern Tanzania, c.1860-1970." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State University (1995), Harold Marcus, Advisor.

• Gebissa, Ezekiel B. "Consumption, Contraband and Commodification: A History of Khat in Harerge, Ethiopia, c.1930-1991." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State University (1997), Harold Marcus, Advisor.

• Gemeda, Guluma. "Land, Agriculture, and Society in the Gibe Region: Southwestern Ethiopia, C. 1850-1974." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State Universitiy (1996), Harold G. Marcus, Advisor.

• Genge, Manelisi. "Power and Gender in Southern African History: Power Relations in the Era of Queen Labotsibeni Gwamile Mdluli of Swaziland, ca. 1875-1921." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State University (1999), Elizabeth A. Eldredge, Advisor.

• Hinchman, Mark. "African Rococo: House and Portrait in Eighteenth-Century Senegal." Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Chicago (2000), Barbara Stafford, Advisor.

• Jacobs, Nancy. "Environmental Management and Food Production in Kuruman, South Africa, c.1800-1935." Thesis (Ph.D.), Indiana University (1995), Phyllis Martin, Advisor.

• Kendie, Daniel Dagnew. "The Internal and External Dimensions of the Eritrean Conflict." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State University (1994), Harold Marcus, Advisor.

• Konye, Paul. "Twentieth-Century Nigerian Art Music: Social, Political, and Cultural Factors Involved in Its Evolution and Practice." Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Kentucky (1997), Ron Pen, Advisor.

• Libby, Jean. "African Ironmaking Culture Among African American Ironworkers in Western Maryland, 1760-1850." Thesis (M.A.), San Francisco State University (1991), A.Y. Yansane and Angela Y. Davis, Advisors.

• Limb, Peter. "The African National Congress and Black Workers in South Africa: Continuity and Change in Their Relationships before 1940." Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Western Australia (1997), Norman Etherington, Advisor.

• McClendon, Thomas V. "Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants, Law, Domestic Struggle in Natal, South Africa, 1918-1944." Thesis (Ph.D.), Stanford University (1995).

• Ngalamulume, Kalala J. "City Growth, Health Problems, and Colonial Government Response: Saint-Louis (Senegal), From Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First World War." Thesis (Ph.D.), Michigan State University (1996), David Robinson, Advisor.

• Peffer, John M."The Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid." Thesis (Ph.D.), Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University (2001), Suzanne Blier, Advisor.

• Ramoupi, Neo. "The amaThuli and the Mnini Trust: A Documentary and Oral History" Thesis (M.A.), University of Natal, Durban (1998), Jeff Guy and Melvin Page, Advisors.

• Sanyal, Sunanda K. "Imaging Art, Making History: Two Generations of Makerere Artists." Thesis (Ph.D.), Emory University (2000), Sidney Kasfir, Advisor.

• Silla, Eric. "'People are not the Same': Leprosy, Community, and Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Mali." Thesis (Ph.D.), Northwestern University (1995), John Hunwick, Advisor.

• Vasconcellos, Colleen. "Suffer the Children: Experiences in the Atlantic Slave Trade." Thesis (Ph.D.), East Tennessee State University (1998), Mel Page, Advisor.

• White, Bob. W., "Modernity's Spiral: Popular Culture, Mastery and the Politics of Dance Music in Congo-Kinshasa." Thesis (Ph.D.), McGill University (1998), John Galaty, Advisor.

• Winshall, Robert. "When the Sahara Turned from Green to Brown--Postglacial Climate Change and Human Settlement in Central Sahara, 12,000 - 2,500 BC." Thesis (M.A), California State University (1996), Alan Almquist, Advisor.

• Wooten, Stephen. "'Gardens are for Cash, Grain is for Life': The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)." Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997), Alma J. Gottlieb, Advisor.