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Professor, Undergraduate Director
History - Affiliate Faculty
Africana Studies - Tenure-Track Faculty
3613 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

My research interest is primarily on colonial and post-colonial Africa, with emphasis on political developments; a secondary focus is on human rights and contemporary African migration to the United States. 

OVERSEAS RESEARCH

 
Field Research in Cameroon, June-July 2005
Field Research in Cameroon, June-August 1998
Field Research in Cameroon, July-September 1995
Research at the National Archives in Buea, Cameroon, July-September 1991
Research at the National Archives in Yaounde and Buea, Cameroon, June-September 1982. 

 

Research Support

Taft Publication Grant, $1,000.00. Date: 12-2003

Taft Foundation. $362. Date: 2003

Taft Foundation. $1,340. Date: 2002

Taft Foundation. $950. Date: 1999

Taft Publication Grant, $1,000.00. Date: 02-1998

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

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

Faculty development Grant . $1,800. Date: 1994

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

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

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

Summer Research Fellowship, Taft Foundation. $3,500. Date: 1991

Peer Reviewed Publications

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

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

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

with Professor Basouri Tidjani: “Settlement Patterns and Organizations Among African Immigrants in the United States,”  Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXVI, no. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 31-40.

“The 1992 Multiparty Elections in Cameroon: Prospects for Democracy and Democratization,” International Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 31, no. 1 (1996), pp. 52-65. Reprinted in Democracy and Democratization in Africa, Ike E. Udogu, ed.  E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands (1997), pp. 52-65.

“The Union des Populations du Cameroun and Its Southern Cameroons Connection,” Revue Française d’Histoire D’Outre-Mer, Vol. 83, no. 310 (1996), pp. 7-24.

“Human Rights and Multi-party Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa,” 21^stCentury Afro
Review, Vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1995), pp. 145-177.

“The Press and the Democratization Process in Africa: The case of the Republic of Cameroon,” Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 1995), pp. 326-349.

“Recent African Immigrants to the United States: A Historical Perspective,” Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (1994), pp. 50-57.

“Chief Manga Williams and the Making of a ‘Native’ Colonial Autocrat among the Bakweri of the Southern Cameroons,” Transafrican Journal of History, Vol. 23 (1994), pp. 9-31.

“Cameroons at the Democratic Crossroads: The Struggle for Power and Authority in an African State,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 27, no. 3 (1993), pp. 241-262.

“The Post-Ahidjo Era in Cameroon: Continuity and Change,” Journal of ThirdWorld, Studies, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Fall 1993), pp. 268-302.

“The Demise of Biya’s New Deal in Cameroon, 1982-1992,” Africa Insight, Vol. 23, no. 2 (1993), pp. 91-101.

Books

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

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

Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands,  co-edited with John Arthur and Thomas Owusu. Lexington Books (A Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishes, Inc.), 2012.
  

 
 “The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon Under Paul Biya,” co-edited with John M. Mbaku. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2004. 

“African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon’s Political Crossroads,” co-authored with Milton Krieger. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado,

Book Chapters

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

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

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

"Africa Beyond 2000, " The Future of Human Rights in sub-Saharan Africa, edited by S. C. Saxena, 237-264. Delhi, India: Kalinga Publications, 2000.

"Democracy and Democratization in Africa, " The 1992 Multiparty Elections in Cameroon: Prospects for Democracy and Democratization, edited by Ike E. Udogu. The Netherlands: Leiden, 1997.

Encyclopedia Articles

“Ahmadou Ahidjo” in Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas M. Leonard, ed. New York: Routledge (2005), pp. 25-25 

“Cameroon” in Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas M. Leonard, ed. New York: Routledge( 2005), pp. 217-219. 

Reviews

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

"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."

Jeff Handmaker, Lee Ann de la Hunt and Johnathan Klaaren, eds. Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa, New York: Berhahn Books, 2008, in African and Asian Studies, Vol. 8 (2009), pp. 341-342. 

Catherine Besteman. Transforming Cape Town, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, in Africa Today, Volume 57, No. 4 (Summer 2011), pp. 131-132. 

Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick. Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their Hinterland, c. 1600- c. 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 31, no. 3 (1998), pp. 638-640. 

Vincent B. Khapoya. The African Experience: An Introduction. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994, in 21^stCentury Afro Review, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1995), pp. 195-198.  

Julius Amin. The Peace Corps in Cameroon. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1992, in Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 10, no. 2 (Fall 1993), pp. 469-472. 

Newspaper Articles

"Inkatha can't have it both ways." Cincinnati Enquirer, 1994.

“U.S. should help Zaire depose brutal dictator Mobutu,” The Columbus Dispatch, February 5, 1993; reprinted in UC Current, February 12, 1993. 

“New World Order and Africa,” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 19, 1992.
 
  

“Is Multipartism the Answer?” Africa Events, April 1991.
  

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.