Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza's Degrees

PhD Economic History Dalhousie University
Masters Economic History Dalhousie University
Bachelors History University of Malawi

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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 served as Vice Chancellor of the United States International University Africa from 2016 to 2021, located in Nairobi, Kenya. He served as Associate Provost and North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 2021 to 2023, and was appointed to his current position as Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at Howard University in October 2023.

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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza's Published Works

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Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic (2005) (247)
Manufacturing African studies and crises (1997) (128)
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) (63)
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) (50)
African studies and universities since independence (2009) (49)
Academic Freedom in the Neo-Liberal Order: Governments, Globalization, Governance, and Gender (2003) (46)
Contemporary African migrations in a global context (2002) (45)
The Causes and Costs of War in Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the'War on Terror' (2008) (40)
Transnational education and African universities (2005) (39)
Dancing with the Dragon: Africa's Courtship with China (2008) (36)
Manufacturing African Studies and Crises, Dakar: CODESRIA Book Series, 1997 (2002) (34)
The Perpetual Solitudes and Crises of African Studies in the United States (1997) (33)
African Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Knowledge and society (2004) (32)
Gender Biases in African Historiography (2005) (32)
Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (2004) (31)
The disciplinary, interdisciplinary and global dimensions of African studies (2006) (30)
The Struggle for African Universities and Knowledges (2004) (30)
The Africa-China relationship: challenges and opportunities (2014) (27)
Diaspora Dialogues: Engagement between Africa and its Diasporas (2010) (26)
Encyclopedia of Twentieth – Century African History, (2005) (25)
The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015 (2016) (25)
Manufacturing and consuming knowledge (1996) (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)
Leisure in urban Africa (2003) (22)
The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa (2007) (21)
What Happened to the African Renaissance?: The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century (2009) (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 Democratic Transition in Africa and the Anglophone Writer (1994) (19)
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History (2006) (19)
The academic diaspora and knowledge production in and on Africa: What role for CODESRIA? (2007) (18)
A Modern Economic History of Africa Volume I: The Nineteenth Century (1997) (17)
Banishing the silences: Towards the globalization of African history (2005) (17)
The African Academic Diaspora and African Higher Education (2014) (15)
African universities and globalisation (2002) (15)
Neo-liberalism and academic freedom (2004) (14)
The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements (2007) (14)
In Search of African Diasporas : Testimonies and Encounters (2012) (13)
The media in social development in contemporary Africa (2009) (13)
The Spatial economy of structural adjustment in African cities (1999) (13)
The historic and humanistic agendas of African nationalism: A reassessment (2008) (13)
The Study of Africa Volume 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters (2006) (13)
The challenges of editing scholarly journals in Africa (1998) (13)
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)
Banishing words and stories: censorship in Banda's Malawi (1996) (10)
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)
Imagining and Inventing the Postcolonial State in Africa (2003) (9)
Totalitarian power and censorship in Malawi (1995) (8)
The African" brain drain" to the North: Pitfalls and possibilities (2002) (8)
Obama’s Africa Policy: The Limits of Symbolic Power (2013) (8)
Fictions of the postcolonial: A review article (1997) (7)
The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor (1994) (7)
A historical accounting of African universities: beyond Afropessimism (2006) (7)
Mandela’s Long Walk with African History (2013) (6)
The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory (2007) (6)
Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing (2001) (6)
Challenges in the Production and Globalization of African Knowledges (1998) (6)
The African universities in the twenty-first century: future challenges and research agenda (2004) (5)
Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States (2011) (5)
Academic Freedom in the North and the South: An African Perspective. (1997) (5)
Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century (2007) (5)
Africa’s Struggles for Decolonization: From Achebe to Mandela (2014) (5)
Africa's Contemporary Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities (2010) (5)
Posititioning Universities as Engines of Innovation for Sustainable Development and Transformation (2017) (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)
Changing Historiographical Perspectives on Colonialism. (2005) (4)
The African struggle continues: The awakening of North Africa (2012) (4)
Africa's Resurgence: Domestic, Global, and Diaspora Transformations (2014) (4)
Contemporary African Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities (2008) (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)
Postscript: Challenges of the ICT Revolution in East Africa (2005) (4)
Leveraging Africa’s Global Diasporas for the Continent’s Development (2019) (4)
The Changing Terrain of African Studies (2007) (4)
Africanity: The Author Refers to the \'Mbembe/Zeleza Debate\' (2004) (4)
RECONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN DIASPORAS: NOTES FROM A HISTORIAN (2010) (4)
Visions of Freedom and Democracy in Postcolonial African Literature (1997) (4)
Africa and Its Diasporas: Dispersals and Linkages (2005) (4)
Rethinking Space, politics, and society in Africa (1999) (4)
Trade Union Imperialism: American Labour, the ICFTU and the Kenyan Labour Movement (1987) (3)
Academic Freedom in Context (1994) (3)
Africa’s persistent struggles for development and democracy in a multipolar world (2019) (3)
The Pasts and Futures of African Studies and Area Studes (1997) (3)
National book policy: the key to long-term development (1996) (3)
Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama: Challenges and Prospects (2011) (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)
Writing African Leisure History (2003) (3)
African Diaspora and academics: The struggles for a global epistemic presence (2007) (3)
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)
Human rights and academic freedom (Response to the Ontario government's Framework Regarding Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination in Ontario Universities) (1994) (2)
Global Village: The Competitive Challenges of Internationalization (2016) (2)
The Significance of Johnson-Sirleaf's Victory (2006) (2)
Reflections on the Traditions of Authoritarianism and Democracy in African History (1994) (2)
Writing slavery in (to) the African diaspora (2009) (2)
The political wrath of Hurricane Katrina (2005) (2)
Reckoning with the pasts and reimagining the futures of African studies for the 21st century (2019) (2)
A Social Contract for Books (1996) (2)
The Devaluation of Africa's Labor (1997) (2)
Dr. Gates, we presume: the interplay of text, audience, and narrator in Wonders of the African world (2002) (1)
1 - Enhancing the Digital Transformation of African Universities: Covid-19 as Accelerator (2022) (1)
Our Stregth is in our Fields: African Families in Change (1996) (1)
The Challenges of Writing African Economic History (2002) (1)
Money Matters: Economic and Occupational Disruptions (2016) (1)
Human Rights and Minorities: A Theoretical Overview (2004) (1)
Trends and Inequalities in the Production of Africanist Knowledge (2005) (1)
The Joys of Exile: Stories (1994) (1)
Women's scholarly publishing in African Studies (2001) (1)
African Studies and the Disintegration of Paradigms (1994) (1)
Education: post-independence (2003) (1)
The Middle Class, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music in Harare, Zimbabwe (2003) (1)
Money Matters: The Financial Crises Facing Universities from the USA to Kenya (2019) (1)
Africa, Internationalization and the Global Context: Making it Work (2019) (1)
Report of Codesria Eighth General Assembly (1995) (1)
Labour, Unionization and Women's Participation in Kenya (1987) (1)
Higher Education and Africa’s Development Agenda (2016) (1)
The Causes & Costs of War in Africa (2007) (1)
The Developmental and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya (2010) (1)
End of Empire: Hegemonic shifts in global power (2018) (1)
Jobs, Skills and Industry 4.0: Rethinking the Value Proposition of University Education (2018) (0)
Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century (2021) (0)
Context and Rationale for the Thought Pieces on COVID-19 Response in Africa (2021) (0)
Mandela’s Long Walk with African History – Part 3 (2013) (0)
Africa and Its Diasporas: From Pan-Africanism to Developmentalism to Transnationalism (2022) (0)
Quality Control: Struggles for Accountability and Value (2016) (0)
Letter from the ASA President (2009) (0)
The Financial Crisis and American Universities (2008) (0)
Africa's search for modernity in the internet age (2003) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
Message from the VC: Media Story on CUE Quality Audit (2017) (0)
The Postwar Boom: The Universalization of Higher Education (2016) (0)
The joys of exile (1998) (0)
Science and Technology in Africa (2004) (0)
The Turbulent 2010s – Of the Globalization of Tribalism and Democratic Recessions and Resistance (2022) (0)
3 - The Turbulent 2010s: A Historical Draft (2021) (0)
Dimensions of Higher Education in Africa (1995) (0)
Achieving and Sustaining High-Levels of E-readiness (2018) (0)
Foreword:: A Tribute to an Intellectual Griot (2017) (0)
Index for Volume 40 (2008) (0)
Human rights and development in Africa: Current contexts, challenges, and opportunities (2005) (0)
The African renaissance: The recurrent search for a viable future (2002) (0)
The Challenges of The Fourth Industrial Revolution for African Universities (2019) (0)
Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia 1890-1990. (1995) (0)
Struggle for the university (1997) (0)
The Turbulent 2010s: Rising Economic Disequilibrium and Shifting Global Hierarchies and Hegemonies (2020) (0)
AfricaResource The Place for Africa on the Net (2006) (0)
Malawi Makes History: The Opposition Wins Presidential Election Rerun (2020) (0)
An Imperial Perspective (1996) (0)
Women in African Studies (2001) (0)
European Leisure Studies at the Crossroads? Leisure Research and Leisure Policy in Europe (2003) (0)
Disciplining Knowledges: Ruptures in Academic Systems (2016) (0)
Pre-Colonial Market Forces (1996) (0)
Africa's Renewal: The Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainability and Leadership (2012) (0)
Enhancing Demand Driven Digital and Technological Skills Development (2019) (0)
Vice Chancellor's New Year Message (2017) (0)
The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas1 (2010) (0)

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