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Assistant Professor, African American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
686 Barrows Hall
(510) 643-8203
Office Hours: By Appt.
ugo@berkeley.edu
G. Ugo Nwokeji who received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1999, joined the Department in 2003 from the University of Connecticut, where he had taught for four years. A specialist in African and Atlantic history, his primary research focus is the slave trade from Africa, which he approaches from a perspective that speaks to culture formation in the Americas. With Professor David Eltis of Emory University, Professor Nwokeji is presently creating a database of ethnic background of 70,000 Africans who were rescued from slave ships by the British navy during the 19th century. Professor Nwokeji is currently completing a book manuscript dealing with the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra, as well as coediting a book, to be titled "Religion, History and Politics in Nigeria." In the past few years, he has been Research Associate of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Germany.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
- G. Ugo Nwokeji & David Eltis, "Characteristics of Captives Leaving the Cameroons, 1822-1837." Journal of African History, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2002.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji & David Eltis, "The Roots of the African Diaspora: Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Names in the Liberated African
Registers of Sierra Leone and Havana." History in Africa, 29, 2002.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. LVIII, No. 1, Jan. 2001.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "The Atlantic Slave Trade and Population Density: A Historical Demography of the Biafran Hinterland." Canadian Journal of
African Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2000.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "Slave Emancipation Problematic: Igbo Society and the Colonial Equation." Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1998.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, “Ojukwu's Leadership and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70: An Analysis of the Role of The Individual in History.” Ife Journal of History, Vol. No. 1, 1995.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, “Britain's Response to Post-Second World War Colonial Crises, 1947-51: Findings and Reflections from the Nigeria Research.” Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, No. 6, 1994.
Books & Book Chapter
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ogbu U. Kalu (Co-Editor with Chima Korieh), University Press of America, 2005.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa." Cambridge World History of Slavery, eds. David Eltis and Stanley Engerman, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "The Colonial Joint Venture: An Interpretation of 'Indirect Rule' in Southern Nigeria, 1900-40." In The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of
Toyin Falola, Volume 2, ed. Adebayo Oyebade, Africa World Press, 2003.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "African Economies in the Years of Decolonization." In Africa, Volume 4, Decolonization Era, ed. Toyin Falola (Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, "The Politicization of Merchant Capital: European Business in Nigeria, 1947-52." In The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin
Falola, ed. Adebayo Oyebade, Trenton, N.J., Africa World Press, 2002).
- G. Ugo Nwokeji, Caste, Slavery, and Postslavery in Igboland. In Afrika 2000 (CD-ROM), ed. U. Engel, Adam Jones and Robert Kappel, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2000.
