MSU DISSERTATIONS IN AFRICAN HISTORY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Arranged by year; alphabetical within year
Compiled by Joseph Lauer & Walter Hawthorne
- Eluwa, Gabriel Ihie Chinenye. The Colonial Office and the emergence of the National Congress of British West Africa. 1967.
- Wylie, Kenneth Charles. The politics of transformation: indirect rule in Mendeland and Abuja 1890-1914. 1967.
- Shiroya, O.J.E. The impact of World War II on Kenya: The role of ex-servicement in Kenyan nationalism. 1968.
- Hannah, Robert Wilfred. The origins of indirect rule in Northern Nigeria, 1890-1904. 1969.
- Postma, Johannes. The Dutch participation in the African slave trade; slaving on the Guinea Coast, 1675-1795. 1970.
- Nwachuku, Levi Akalazu. U.S./Nigeria: an analysis of U.S. involvement in the Nigeria/Biafra war 1967-1970. 1973.
- Boeder, Robert. Malawians Abroad: the history of labor emigration from Malawi to its neighbors, 1890 to the present. 1974.
- Gerrit D. Groen, Gerrit. The Afrikaners in Kenya, 1903-196. 1974.
- Keefer, Edward Coltrin. The career of Sir John L. Harrington: Empire and Ethiopia, 1884-1918. 1974.
- Anchak, George Ronald. An experience in the paradox of indigenous church building: a history of the Eastern Mennonite Mission in Tanganyika, 1934-1961. 1975.
- Moniba, Harry Fumba. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute and Liberia: institutional and moral assistance, 1908-1969. 1975.
- Reed, Harry A. Cotton-growing in Central Nyanza province, Kenya, 1901-1939: an appraisal of African reactions to imposed government policy. 1975.
- Barnes, Carolyn. An experiment with African coffee growing in Kenya: the Gusii, 1933-1950. 1976.
- Breen, Rita Mary. The politics of land: the Kenya Land Commission (1932-33) and its effects on land policy in Kenya. 1976.
- McKinnon, Murlene E. Commerce, Christianity and the gunboat: an historical study of Malawi Lake and river transport, 1850-1914. 1977.
- Page, Melvin E. Malawians in the great war and after, 1914-1925. 1977.
- McClellan, Charles. Reaction to Ethiopian expansionism: The case of Darasa, 1895-1935. 1978.
- Chiteji, Frank M. The development and socio-economic impact of transportation in Tanzania, 1884-present. 1979.
- Elkiss, Terry H. The quest for an African Eldorado: Sofala, Southern Zambezia and the Portuguese, 1500 to 1865. 1979.
- Dosunmu, Joshua Toye. The missionary impact on the Igbomina. 1980.
- Al-Subaiy, Abdullah Nasir. Anglo-Egyptian relations under Lord Salisbury, 1885-1892. 1980.
- Al-Thakakfi, Yosif Ali. The diplomatic relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Empire in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. 1981.
- Dorsey, Learthen. The Rwandan colonial economy, 1916-1941. 1983.
- Decker, David Fred. Hikimdar vs Jellaba: the impact of the Turkiyya on the political economy of 19th century Sudan (Kordofan). 1984.
- McCann, James. Households, peasants and recent history in Lasta, Northern Ethiopia, 1900-35. 1984.
- Ellingson, Lloyd Schettler. Eritrea: separatism and irredentism, 1941-1985. 1986.
- Tessema Ta’a. The political economy of Western Central Ethiopia: from the mid-16th to the early 20th centuries. 1986.
- Kane, Moustapha. A history of Fuuta Tooro, 1890s-1920s: Senegal under colonial rule: The protectorate. 1987.
- Edwards, Jon Russell. The Economic Reorganization of Ethiopia during the Interwar Period: 1918-1935. 1988.
- Hanson, John Henry. Umarian Karta (Mali, West Africa) during the late nineteenth century: dissent and revolt among the Futanke after Umar Tal’s holy war. 1989.
- Clark, Andrew Francis. Economy and society in the Upper Senegal valley West Africa 1850-1920. 1990.
- Jones, Laird Revis. The district town and the articulation of colonial rule: the case of Mwanza, Tanzania, 1890-1945. 1991.
- Towghi, Malik Muhammed. Foundations of Muslim Images and treatment of the world beyond Islam. 1991.
- Woods, Tony. Accumulation and order: state and society in Colonial Malawi, 1891-1929. 1991.
- Cheeseboro, Anthony Quinn. Administration and change in the Gezira Scheme and the Sudan, 1938-1970. 1993.
- Bivins, Mary Wren. Women, ecology and Islam in the making of modern Hausa cultural history. 1994.
- Conte, Christopher Allan. Transformations along the gradient: ecological change in the mountains and plains of Northeastern Tanzania’s West Usambara mountains, 1860-1970. 1994.
- Kendie, Daniel. The internal and external dimensions of the Eritrean conflict. 1994.
- Callahan, Michael. Mandates and Empire in Africa: Britain, France and the League of Nations mandates system, 1914-1931. 1995.
- Gemede, Guluma. Land, agriculture and society in the Gibe region, southwestern Ethiopia, c. 1850-1974. 1996.
- Ngalamulume, Kalala J. City growth, health problems, and colonial government response: Saint-Louis (Senegal) from mid-nineteenth century to the First World War. 1996.
- Hino, Abannik Ohure. Eastern Equatoria and the White Nile trade: the political economy of a trading frontier, 1840-1900. 1997.
- Jenkins, Earnestine. A kingly craft: manuscripts, ideology, and society in 18th-19th century Ethiopia. 1997.
- Gebissa, Ezekiel. Consumption, contraband and commodification: a history of khat in Harerge, Ethiopia, c. 1930-1991. 1997.
- Beswick, Stephanie F. Violence, ethnicity and political consolidation in South Sudan: a history of the Dinka and their their relations with their neighbors. 1998.
- Cohen, Brett. “Something like a blowing wind”: African conspiracy and the coordination of resistance to colonial rule in South Africa, 1876-1882. 1999.
- Genge, Manelisi. Power and gender in Southern African history: power relations in the era of Queen Labotsibeni Gwamile Mdluli of Swaziland, ca 1875-1921. 1999.
- Walker, Ezekiel Ayodele. The rise and decline of cocoa farming in Western Nigeria. 1999.
- Benti, Getahun. The dynamics of migration to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and the over-urbanization of the city, c.1941-c.1974. 2000
- Lydon, Ghislaine. On trans-Saharan trails: trading networks and cross-cultural exchange in Western Africa, 1840s-1930s. 2000.
- Brown, Kevin K. The military and social change in colonial Tanganyika, 1919-1964. 2001.
- Carmichael, Tim. Approaching Ethiopian history: Addis Abäba and local governance in Harär, c.1900 to 1950. 2001.
- Fikru Gebrekidan N. Bond without blood, a study of Ethiopian-Caribbean ties, 1935-1991. 2001.
- Macgonagle, Elizabeth. A mixed pot: history and identity in the Ndau region of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, 1500-1900. 2001.
- Babou, Cheikh. Ahmadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya: The history of a Muslim Brotherhood in Senegal, (1853-1913). 2002.
- Creary, Nicholas Matthew. Domesticating a foreign import? African cultures and the Catholic Church at Jesuit missions in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980. 2002.
- Geysbeek, Timothy William. History from the Musadu epic: the formation of Manding power on the southern frontier of the Mali empire. 2002.
- Sereke-Brhan, Heran. Building bridges, drying bad blood: elite marriages, politics and ethnicity in 19th and 20th century Imperial Ethiopia. 2002.
- Jones, Hilary. Citizens and subjects: Métis society, identity and the struggle over colonial politics in Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1870-1920. 2003.
- Bekele, Getnet. Knowledge, power and a region: the making of Ethiopia’s South Central Rift Valley: agricultural environment and society, 1892-1974. 2004.
- Getahun, Solomon Addis . The history of Ethiopian immigrants in the United States in the twentieth century, 1900-2000. 2004.
- Miran, Jonathan. Facing the land, facing the Sea: commercial transformation and urban dynamics in the Red Sea port of Massawa, 1840s-1900s. 2004.
- Curry, Dawne Y. Community, culture and resistance in Alexandria [i.e. Alexandra], South Africa, 1912-1985. 2005.
- Eshete, Tibebe. Growing through the storms: the history of the Evangelical movement in Ethiopia, 1941-1991. 2005.
- Mwiandi, Mary. The Jeanes School in Kenya: the role of the Jeanes teachers and their wives in “social transformation” of rural colonial Kenya, 1925-1961. 2005.
- Cele, Nokuthula Peace. Building a community on the Zulu frontier: the history of the Machi chieftaincy from the early 19th century to 1948. 2006.
- Esese, Danson P. Lumumba. The changing system of land ownership and its socio-economic effects in Lugari Division, Western Province of Kenya, c. 1880-2000. 2007.
- Sene, Ibra. Crime, punishment, and colonization: a history of the prison of Saint-Louis and the development of the penitentiary system in Senegal, ca. 1830-ca. 1940. 2008
- Harris, Shannon Vance. Politics, discourses and contradictions: Galandou Diouf in French colonial Senegal, 1890-1941. 2009.
- M’bayo, Tamba Eadric. African interpreters, mediation, and the production of knowledge in colonial Senegal: the lower and middle Senegal valley, ca. 1850s to ca. 1920s. 2009.
- Antoine, Mikelle. Practice and conversion of Asante market women to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in the late 20th century. 2010.
- Hadfield, Leslie Anne. Restoring human dignity and building self-reliance: youth, woman, and churches and Black consciousness community development, South Africa, 1969-1977. 2010.
- Odamtten, Harry Nii Koney. A history of ideas: West Africa, “The Black Atlantic,” and Pan-Africanism. 2010.
- Sarr, Assan. Land and historical changes in a river valley: property, power and dependency in the lower Gambia basin, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 2010.
- Diawara, Marieme A. Islam and public health: French management of the Hajj from colonial Senegal and Muslim responses beginning in 1895. 2012.
- Kelly, Jill E. “Only the fourth chief”: conflict, land, and chiefly authority in 20th century KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 2012.
- Saho, Bala. Islam, gender, and colonialism: Social and religious transformations in the Muslim Court of the Gambia, 1905-1970. 2012.
- Grace, Joshua Ryan. Modernization bubu: Cars, roads, and the politics of development in Tanzania, 1870s–1980s. 2013
- Mbah, Leonard Ndubueze. Emergent masculinities: The gendered struggle for power in southeastern Nigeria, 1850-1920. 2013.
- Obasi, Winifred Uche. From shrines to prayer houses: A religious history of Igbo women, 1900–1970. 2013.
- Shabaka, Lumumba Hamilcar. Transformation of “old” slavery into Atlantic slavery: Cape Verde Islands, c. 1500–1879. 2013.
- Brühwiler, Benjamin Amani. Moralities of owing and lending: Credit, debt, and urban living in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam. 2015.
- Chipande, Decius H. Chipolopolo: A Political and Social History of Football (Soccer) in Zambia, 1940s-1994. 2015.
- Davey, Joseph Miles. Replanting the seeds of home: Slavery, King Jaja, and Igbo connections in the Niger Delta, 1821-1891. 2015.
- Lewis, Amanda. Amboseli landscapes: Maasai pastoralism, wildlife conservation, and natural resource management in Kenya, 1944-present. 2015.
- Owen, Caleb Edwin. Lands of leisure: Recreation, space, and the struggle for urban Kenya, 1900-2000. 2016.
- Park, Matthew James. Heart of Banjul: The history of Banjul, The Gambia, 1816-1965. 2016.
- Liu, Shaonan. “The Chinese Are Coming”: A History of Chinese Migrants in Nigeria. 2018.
- Felipe González, Jorge. Foundation and Growth of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1790-1820. 2019.
- Timbs, Elizabeth H. The Regiments: Cultural Histories of Zulu Masculinities and Gender Formation in South Africa, 1816-2018. 2019.
- Glovsky, David. Belonging Beyond Boundaries: Constructing a Transnational Community in a West African Borderland. 2020.
- Bradshaw, Joseph. The Bandiagara Emirate: Warfare, Slavery and Colonization in the Middle Niger, 1863-1903. 2020.
- Stevenson, Russell Wade. “The University of the Village”: The University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Making of Post-Independence Nigeria. 2020.
- Blackwell, Jr., James K. Igbo Migration, Entrepreneurship, and the Creation of the ‘Igbo Scare’ in British Southern Cameroon, 1900-1975. 2020.
- Reyelts, Tara. Law, Justice, and Gender: (Re)gendering the Legal System in Ogidi, Igboland. 2020.
- Marshall, Jodie. Immobility in a Sea of Migration: Biographical Histories of Transnational Families in Zanzibar and Oman, 1856-2019. 2021.
- Crigler, Robin K. Laughter and Identity: a Social and Cultural History of South African Humor, 1910-1961. 2021.
- Cornelius, Akil A. The Armory: Warfare, Gender, and Technology in South Africa, 1820-1904. 2022.
- Carline, Katie. Black Women’s Christian Associations and the Making of Urban Cultures in a South African city, c.1900-1994. 2023.
- Jabang, Abdouli. Reproducing Environmental (In)Equalities: Power, Dispossession, and Injustice in the Gambia River Region, 1600-1960. 2023.
- Kesse, Nana. Living with Water: Environment, Slavery, & Spirituality in Nzulezo (West Africa), 1750s-1850. 2023.