Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Why Is Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a Malawian historian, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger at The Zeleza Post. He was president of the African Studies Association. He was the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Quinnipiac University. He is the current Vice Chancellor of the United States International University Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza's Published Works

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Published Papers

Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic (2005) (245)
Manufacturing African studies and crises (1997) (127)
The inventions of African identities and languages: The discursive and developmental implications (2006) (83)
The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa (2002) (70)
A modern economic history of Africa (1993) (62)
African Diasporas: Toward a Global History (2010) (51)
Rethinking Africa's Globalization, Volume 1: The Intellectual Challenges (2002) (51)
Internationalization in higher education: Opportunities and challenges for the Knowledge Project in the Global South (2012) (48)
African studies and universities since independence (2009) (46)
Academic Freedom in the Neo-Liberal Order: Governments, Globalization, Governance, and Gender (2003) (45)
Contemporary African migrations in a global context (2002) (43)
The Causes and Costs of War in Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the'War on Terror' (2008) (40)
Transnational education and African universities (2005) (38)
Dancing with the Dragon: Africa's Courtship with China (2008) (36)
Manufacturing African Studies and Crises, Dakar: CODESRIA Book Series, 1997 (2002) (33)
African Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Knowledge and society (2004) (32)
The Perpetual Solitudes and Crises of African Studies in the United States (1997) (32)
Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (2004) (31)
Gender Biases in African Historiography (2005) (31)
The Struggle for African Universities and Knowledges (2004) (30)
The disciplinary, interdisciplinary and global dimensions of African studies (2006) (29)
The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of Productive Engagement (2004) (28)
Diaspora Dialogues: Engagement between Africa and its Diasporas (2010) (26)
Encyclopedia of Twentieth – Century African History, (2005) (25)
Manufacturing and consuming knowledge (1996) (24)
The Africa-China relationship: challenges and opportunities (2014) (24)
The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015 (2016) (24)
The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas (2010) (23)
African Studies and Universities since Independence: the challenges of epistemic and institutional decolonization (2009) (23)
What Happened to the African Renaissance?: The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century (2009) (21)
Leisure in urban Africa (2003) (21)
The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa (2007) (21)
The Roots of African Conflicts : The Causes and Costs and The Resolution of African Conflicts : The Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2008) (21)
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History (2006) (19)
The Democratic Transition in Africa and the Anglophone Writer (1994) (19)
The academic diaspora and knowledge production in and on Africa: What role for CODESRIA? (2007) (18)
Banishing the silences: Towards the globalization of African history (2005) (17)
A Modern Economic History of Africa Volume I: The Nineteenth Century (1997) (17)
African universities and globalisation (2002) (15)
The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements (2007) (14)
Neo-liberalism and academic freedom (2004) (14)
The Spatial economy of structural adjustment in African cities (1999) (13)
The African Academic Diaspora and African Higher Education (2014) (13)
The Study of Africa Volume 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters (2006) (13)
In Search of African Diasporas : Testimonies and Encounters (2012) (13)
The challenges of editing scholarly journals in Africa (1998) (13)
The media in social development in contemporary Africa (2009) (13)
The historic and humanistic agendas of African nationalism: A reassessment (2008) (12)
DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria. By Toyin Falola. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996. Pp. xxiv+215. £45 (ISBN 0-8130-1422-0). (1997) (12)
Africa and Its Diasporas: Remembering South America (2009) (11)
Dancing to the beat of the diaspora: musical exchanges between Africa and its diasporas (2010) (11)
Kenya and the Second World War (1989) (11)
Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions (2009) (10)
Introduction The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa (2004) (10)
Dependent Capitalism and the Making of the Kenyan Working Class During the colonial period (1984) (10)
Banishing words and stories: censorship in Banda's Malawi (1996) (10)
Imagining and Inventing the Postcolonial State in Africa (2003) (9)
The African" brain drain" to the North: Pitfalls and possibilities (2002) (8)
Totalitarian power and censorship in Malawi (1995) (8)
A historical accounting of African universities: beyond Afropessimism (2006) (7)
Fictions of the postcolonial: A review article (1997) (7)
The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor (1994) (7)
Obama’s Africa Policy: The Limits of Symbolic Power (2013) (7)
Mandela’s Long Walk with African History (2013) (6)
Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing (2001) (6)
Challenges in the Production and Globalization of African Knowledges (1998) (6)
Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century (2007) (5)
Academic Freedom in the North and the South: An African Perspective. (1997) (5)
Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States (2011) (5)
The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory (2007) (5)
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume 1: The Nineteenth Century. (Dakar): CODRESIA, 1993. vii+501pp. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $38.00. Paper. (1997) (5)
Africa’s Struggles for Decolonization: From Achebe to Mandela (2014) (5)
Africa's Contemporary Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities (2010) (5)
Leveraging Africa’s Global Diasporas for the Continent’s Development (2019) (4)
The African struggle continues: The awakening of North Africa (2012) (4)
Visions of Freedom and Democracy in Postcolonial African Literature (1997) (4)
The Changing Terrain of African Studies (2007) (4)
African Studies and Universities since Independence: the challenges of epistemic and institutional decolonization (2009) (4)
Transnational Scholarship: Building Linkages between the U.S. Africanist Community and Africa (2002) (4)
The African universities in the twenty-first century: future challenges and research agenda (2004) (4)
Africanity: The Author Refers to the \'Mbembe/Zeleza Debate\' (2004) (4)
Contemporary African Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities (2008) (4)
Postscript: Challenges of the ICT Revolution in East Africa (2005) (4)
Africa and Its Diasporas: Dispersals and Linkages (2005) (4)
Posititioning Universities as Engines of Innovation for Sustainable Development and Transformation (2017) (4)
RECONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN DIASPORAS: NOTES FROM A HISTORIAN (2010) (4)
Changing Historiographical Perspectives on Colonialism. (2005) (4)
Rethinking Space, politics, and society in Africa (1999) (4)
Africa's Resurgence: Domestic, Global, and Diaspora Transformations (2014) (4)
Writing African Leisure History (2003) (3)
The Pasts and Futures of African Studies and Area Studes (1997) (3)
National book policy: the key to long-term development (1996) (3)
Academic Freedom in Context (1994) (3)
Trade Union Imperialism: American Labour, the ICFTU and the Kenyan Labour Movement (1987) (3)
Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama: Challenges and Prospects (2011) (3)
African Diaspora and academics: The struggles for a global epistemic presence (2007) (3)
Africa’s persistent struggles for development and democracy in a multipolar world (2019) (3)
The Role of Higher Education in Africa’s Resurgence (2016) (3)
The Giant Challenge of Higher Education in Africa (2018) (3)
The Decolonization of African Knowledges (2017) (3)
The political wrath of Hurricane Katrina (2005) (2)
Global Village: The Competitive Challenges of Internationalization (2016) (2)
The Devaluation of Africa's Labor (1997) (2)
A Social Contract for Books (1996) (2)
The intelligentsia and academic freedom: the question of expatriate African scholars in African universities (1990) (2)
Reconstructing post-apartheid South Africa: a review essay (2004) (2)
Reckoning with the pasts and reimagining the futures of African studies for the 21st century (2019) (2)
Writing slavery in (to) the African diaspora (2009) (2)
Reflections on the Traditions of Authoritarianism and Democracy in African History (1994) (2)
The Significance of Johnson-Sirleaf's Victory (2006) (2)
Human rights and academic freedom (Response to the Ontario government's Framework Regarding Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination in Ontario Universities) (1994) (2)
The Joys of Exile: Stories (1994) (1)
Human Rights and Minorities: A Theoretical Overview (2004) (1)
Trends and Inequalities in the Production of Africanist Knowledge (2005) (1)
Education: post-independence (2003) (1)
Dr. Gates, we presume: the interplay of text, audience, and narrator in Wonders of the African world (2002) (1)
Africa, Internationalization and the Global Context: Making it Work (2019) (1)
Report of Codesria Eighth General Assembly (1995) (1)
Women's scholarly publishing in African Studies (2001) (1)
Money Matters: Economic and Occupational Disruptions (2016) (1)
People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1990 (1997) (1)
The Developmental and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya (2010) (1)
The Causes & Costs of War in Africa (2007) (1)
Labour, Unionization and Women's Participation in Kenya (1987) (1)
The Challenges of Writing African Economic History (2002) (1)
The Middle Class, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music in Harare, Zimbabwe (2003) (1)
End of Empire: Hegemonic shifts in global power (2018) (1)
Higher Education and Africa’s Development Agenda (2016) (1)
Money Matters: The Financial Crises Facing Universities from the USA to Kenya (2019) (1)
Our Stregth is in our Fields: African Families in Change (1996) (1)
African Studies and the Disintegration of Paradigms (1994) (1)
The African renaissance: The recurrent search for a viable future (2002) (0)
The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas1 (2010) (0)
Letter from the ASA President (2009) (0)
Foreword:: A Tribute to an Intellectual Griot (2017) (0)
The Postwar Boom: The Universalization of Higher Education (2016) (0)
Disciplining Knowledges: Ruptures in Academic Systems (2016) (0)
Women in African Studies (2001) (0)
Quality Control: Struggles for Accountability and Value (2016) (0)
The joys of exile (1998) (0)
The Turbulent 2010s – Of the Globalization of Tribalism and Democratic Recessions and Resistance (2022) (0)
The Financial Crisis and American Universities (2008) (0)
Malawi Makes History: The Opposition Wins Presidential Election Rerun (2020) (0)
Science and Technology in Africa (2004) (0)
An Imperial Perspective (1996) (0)
Dimensions of Higher Education in Africa (1995) (0)
Africa's Renewal: The Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainability and Leadership (2012) (0)
3 - The Turbulent 2010s: A Historical Draft (2021) (0)
The Turbulent 2010s: Rising Economic Disequilibrium and Shifting Global Hierarchies and Hegemonies (2020) (0)
Enhancing Demand Driven Digital and Technological Skills Development (2019) (0)
Achieving and Sustaining High-Levels of E-readiness (2018) (0)
Message from the VC: Media Story on CUE Quality Audit (2017) (0)
Vice Chancellor's New Year Message (2017) (0)
Pre-Colonial Market Forces (1996) (0)
Struggle for the university (1997) (0)
Africa and Its Diasporas: From Pan-Africanism to Developmentalism to Transnationalism (2022) (0)
Human rights and development in Africa: Current contexts, challenges, and opportunities (2005) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
The Challenges of The Fourth Industrial Revolution for African Universities (2019) (0)
Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century (2021) (0)
European Leisure Studies at the Crossroads? Leisure Research and Leisure Policy in Europe (2003) (0)
AfricaResource The Place for Africa on the Net (2006) (0)
Mandela’s Long Walk with African History – Part 3 (2013) (0)
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia 1890-1990. (1995) (0)
Jobs, Skills and Industry 4.0: Rethinking the Value Proposition of University Education (2018) (0)
Africa's search for modernity in the internet age (2003) (0)