MA Thesis Archive
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2021
Akua Agyei-Boateng
African Studies in the United States: A Divided Tradition
Gerardo Manrique de Lara Ruiz
Pre-colonial and colonial legacies in the Houses of Chiefs of Botswana and Ghana
Leslie Rose
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Planting the Roots for a New Era of Museum Work
2020
Connor Compton
Black Star Soccer: Football and the Political Ideology of Kwame Nkrumah
Jonathan Doernhofer
Spatial Considerations of Rural Economic Development: Assessing the Determinants of Rural Service Access in South Africa’s Riemland
Harry Green
Threatening Exit: Democratic Disillusionment in South Africa After Zuma
Papa Yoofi Nketsiah
The University as a site for the Efflorescence of Musical Culture:A Case Study of the Development of Folk Music in the University of Ghana
Ethan Timmins-Schiffman
The Kankan-Kissidougou Road Is Not Paved
Sam Weber
Church and State: On the role of the Catholic Church in the 2018 Presidential Election in the DR Congo
2019
Lolade Siyonbola
Black Migrant: Nigerian Identity Formation in New York, Tokyo and Mumbai
Catherine Labiran
Literature, Human Rights and National Identity in Nigeria
2018
Otis Illert
The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and the German Democratic Republic: Military Aid in Exchange for International Recognition
Mairead MacRae
“We Intend To Cause Havoc”: Making Music and Meaning in a Zambian Rock Scene
Garret Nash
Kongosa: The Anthropology of Rumor, Gossip, and Conflict in Cameroon
2014
Ayalew Helinna
Identity On The Margins – Constructing National Identity In Ethiopia
Erdong Chen
Achievements and Challenges of China’s Special Economic Zones in Africa – A Case Study of the China-Nigeria Lekki Free Trade Zone
Lila Ann M. Dodge
Professionally Oriented Contemporary Dance Training in Burkina Faso: Social and Somatic Foundations for a Transnational Career
Denise L. Lim
What is African Literature?
Catherine Nelson
The Role of Minerals in Economic Development in Ethiopia
Scott Ross
Radio’s Role in Reducing LRA Violence and the Effects of Humanitarian Intervention
Kevin Winn
The Effects of Short-Term Volunteers On Host Communities
2013
Camille Raquel Davidson
Africans on Exhibit: Investigating Poverty Tourism in South African Townships
Justin Scott
“NOTHING IS RIGHT”: Fuel Subsidies, Popular Sentiment, and the Legacy of #OccupyNigeria
Klara Wojtkowska
Crisis of Imagination in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
2012
Alexander Bowles
Careers, Stigma and Mental Health Care: Community Psychiatric Nursing in Ghana
Zachary Obinna Enumah
From Ujamaa to Usalama: A Changing Tolerance Towards Refugees in Post-Ujamaa Tanzania
Oluwadamilola Oladeru
Evaluation of the Abiye Program, A safe Motherhood Initiative in Ondo State, Nigeria
Nyasha Karimakwenda
Terrains of Struggle: Black Women’s Bodies As Sites of Violence During Apartheid
2011
Michael Baca
Millenarian Violence in Northern Nigeria: 1804-1985
David Bargueno
Humanitarianism for Africa in the Age of Empire, The Congo Free State & German South West Africa, Then and Now
Katie Gualtieri
“For he who does not die, poverty dies”: The Intersection of State Power and Survival Struggles of Young Rwandans
Andrew Iliff
A Seed That Can Carry: Tradition, Authority and Power in Grassroots Transitional Justice
Rachel Mandel
The Potential and Limitations of Health-Based Organizations for Minority Sexual Rights
Eva Namusoke
Pulpits and Politicians: The Relationship Between Church And State In Uganda
2010
Philip Bonney
The Politics of US Africa Command: The Effects and Limitations
Seraphine Hamilton
The New “Other” in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
Mohamed Rafiq
Colonial Memories, Contemporary Health: How Tanzanian Muslims Utilize the Past in Therapeutic Decisions
Jason Warner
Sovereignty, Peace, and Pan-Africanism: The Construction of a Decolonized Theory of African International Relations
2009
Sarah Beckham
Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapies in Resource-Poor Settings: A Mixed-Methods Case Study in Rural Tanzania
Carol Gallo
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Former Combatants: A Critical Nexus Between Human Rights and Development
Nomcebesi Ndlovu
Constructions of Customary Law: A Legal Historical Perspective of Women in KwaZulu-Natal
Kimberly Roosenburg
Partners in Protection? Sport Hunting as a Means to Wildlife Conservation
Rachel Silver
Power, Voice, and Censorship: Exploring Discourse on Female Circumcision and its Implications for Transnational Feminist Engagement
2008
Chimamanda Adichie
The Myth of “Culture”: Sketching the History of Igbo Women in Precolonial and Colonial Nigeria
Matthew Kustenbauder
Legio Maria: The History of a Messianic Movement in Africa
Andrew Offenburger
Decentralized History: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing and Post-Apartheid South Africa
2007
Jenny Kline
Rainbow Nation in Search of a History: The Evolution of the South African History Curriculum
Heather McGorman
Creating Alternative Centers of Power: An Examination of the Peace-Building Process in Uganda Under the NRM
Singto Saro-Wiwa
The Development of the Tourism Industry in Nigeria
Nancy Steedle
Western Interaction and Development in Africa: Evidence of Extraversion
2006
Feyisetan Adunbi
The New Battleground: Women, Sexual Violence and the War in Darfur
Elizabeth Ashamu
The History of Lebanese Immigration to Guinea
Abigail Koch
From Hamba Kahle to Umkhonto: The African National Congress Between 1949 and 1961
Beverly Lwenya
New Developments, Newer Discourse: The Emergence of Contemporary Kenyan Cinema and its Challenges
Lucy Moore
National Identification in Contemporary Nigeria and South Africa
Reynolds Richter
Food Rationing, Labor, and Citizenship in Kenya During World War II
Laura Smalligan
Untangling the Serpent: State Fetishism and the Art of Dahomey
Nora Staal
Peace in Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Prospects for Long Term Stability
2005
Henry Kwan
Hired Guns, Pinstripe Suits and CEOs: The Modern Corporate Mercenary and the Privatization of Warfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ashley Lynn
Early Written Kiswahili: History and Translation of Kiswahili in Arabic Script
Jeffrey Meserve
Narrating the African “Other”: (Re)Reading Camões, Os Lusíadas, and Portuguese Encounters with Africa, 1492-1572
2004
Omolade Adunbi
Nigeria: Democratization, Economic Growth, and the Politics of Truth and Reconciliation
Robera Battal
Relocating the Periphery: Amharization and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Resettlement Scheme
Judd Devermont
Refining Racial Identities on the South African Sugar Belt, 1851 – 1913
Kristen Gilmore
Is Qadafi Rational?
Amanda Whiddon
Blood on the Altar: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Rwandan Genocide
2003
Sharon Jackson
Empowerment, Women, and HIV/AIDS in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: Quantitative and Qualitative Exploration
Larissa Leclair
Historical Images and Contemporary Analysis: Reclaiming the Archive and Re-looking at History
Mukhtar Mohamed
Armed Conflict and HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kwesi Snsculotte-Greenidge
Decentralization Versus Democratization: An Analysis of Ethiopia’s Experiment with Ethnic Federalism
Amelia Shaw
Interactive Communication Strategies for Anemia Reduction in Chole, Tanzania