Professor

3412 French Hall
513-556-0355
joseph.takougang@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Professor since September 2005. Co-author of "African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon's Political Crossroads." (Westview Press, 1998); Co-editor of "The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon under Paul Biya." (Africa World Press, 2004. Also published several articles in professional journals and in edited volumes.

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, 1985.

B.A. History, University of Yoaunde,, Cameroon, 1975.

Research Interests

Research interest on colonial and post-colonial Africa, political change and democratization in Africa with a focus on Cameroon. Secondary areas of interest include human rights and African migration.

Research Support

Taft Publication Grant, $1,000.00. Funded 12-2003

Taft Foundation. $362. Funded 2003

Taft Foundation. $1,340. Funded 2002

Taft Foundation. $950. Funded 1999

Taft Publication Grant, $1,000.00. Funded 02-1998

Summer Faculty Research Grant, University of Cincinnati. $4,000. Funded 1998

University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Grant, $4,000. Funded 1997

Faculty development Grant . $1,800. Funded 1994

University of Cincinnati Council on General Education funding. $1,500. Funded 1994

University of Cincinnati Summer Faculty Fellowship, $4,500. Funded 1993

Benodette E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association. $300. Funded 1993

Summer Research Fellowship, Taft Foundation. $3,500. Funded 1991

Peer Reviewed Publications

(12-2003). Contemporary African Immigrants to the United States. Irinkèrindo: A Journal of African Migration, 2.

(09-2003). Nationalism, Democratization and Political Opportunism in Cameroon. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 21 (3), 427-445.

(2003). The 2002 Legislative Election in Cameroon: A Retrospective on Cameroon’s Stalled Democracy Movement. Journal of Modern African Studies, 41 (3), 421-435.

Books

(2004). The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon Under Paul Biya. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.

(1998). African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon’s Political Crossroads. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Book Chapters

(2003). Indigenous Structures and Governance in Africa. Femi Vaughan (Eds.), Strangers Among Us?: French Cameroon Immigrants to the British Southern Cameroons, 1916-1961. Ibadan, Nigeria: Safer Books Ltd..

(2003). The Transition to Democratic Governance in Africa: the Continuing Struggle. John M. Mbaku and Julius Ihonvbere (Eds.), Democracy, Human Rights, and Democratization in Africa. (pp. 263-277). Praeger Publishers.

(2003). The Transition to Democratic Governance in Africa: the Continuing Struggle. John M. Mbaku and Julius Ihonvbere (Eds.), The Opportunities and Limitations of Opposition Politics in Africa: The SDF and Opposition Alliances. (pp. 367-397). Praeger Publishers.

(2000). Africa Beyond 2000. S. C. Saxena (Eds.), The Future of Human Rights in sub-Saharan Africa. (pp. 237-264). Delhi, India: Kalinga Publications.

(1997). Democracy and Democratization in Africa. Ike E. Udogu (Eds.), The 1992 Multiparty Elections in Cameroon: Prospects for Democracy and Democratization. The Netherlands: Leiden.

Reviews

Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick (1998). [Review of Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their Hinterland, c. 1600- c. 1960] International Journal of African Historical Studies 31.3, 638-640.

[Review of Reviewed articles for a number of journals, including: Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Insight, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Third World Studies and Africa Today] .

Newspaper Articles

(04/05/1994). Inkatha can’t have it both ways. Cincinnati Enquirer.

Invited Presentations

(12/03/2003). Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. St. Xavier High School.

(1997). Three series of five-week community education program for adults in the Avondale area organized by the Department of African American Studies and the College of Evening and Continuing Education. The focus of my presentation during these seminars was to educate adults on various topics of interest related to Africa

Paper Presentations

A Review of Professor John M. Mbaku and his works. 25th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Lima, Peru. 11/17/2007.

Settlement Patterns and Role of Organizations among African Immigrants in the United States. 24th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 11/02/2006.

Letters from Home: John Ngu Foncha and Grassroots Politics in Cameroon, 1955-1966. 21stAnnual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Shreveport, LA. 11/06/2003.

Nationalism, Democratization and Political Opportunism in Cameroon. 20th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Taipei, Taiwan. 12/28/2002.

Colonial Policy and French Cameroonian Migration to the British Southern Cameroons. 22nd Annual Meeting of Indiana Association of Historians, Indianapolis, Indiana. 03/01/2002.