Joseph Takougang , B.A; M.A, PhD

Dr. Joseph Takougang is Professor of African history and Department Head in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of History. Dr.Takougang obtained a BA in history from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, and an MA and PhD in African history from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He researches and writes on colonial and post-colonial Africa, with a focus on Cameroon. A secondary interest focuses on contemporary African migration, particularly to the United States.

Ph.D.: University of Illinois, Chicago 1985

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

In addition to several articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, Dr. Takougang’s publications include:  Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora (Lexington Books, 2014); Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands (Lexington Books, 2012, edited with John A. Arthur and Thomas Owusu); The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon Under Paul Biya (Africa World Press, Inc., 2004, edited with John M. Mbaku) and  African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon’s Political Crossroads (Westview Press, 1998, co-authored with Milton Krieger).

OVERSEAS RESEARCH

Field Research in Cameroon, July-August, 2018 
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. 
 

12-2003 Taft Publication Grant $1,000.00

2003 Taft Foundation $362 Type:Grant

2002 Taft Foundation $1,340 Type:Grant

1999 Taft Foundation $950 Type:Grant

02-1998 Taft Publication Grant $1,000.00

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

1997 University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Grant $4,000

1994 Faculty development Grant $1,800

1994 University of Cincinnati Council on General Education funding $1,500 Type:Grant

1993 University of Cincinnati Summer Faculty Fellowship $4,500

1993 American Historical Association Benodette E. Schmitt Grant $300

1991 Taft Foundation Summer Research Fellowship $3,500

11-2009 -To Present Taft Research Center Taft International Conference Travel Grant $2,100 Type:Grant

11-2011 -To Present Taft International Conference Travel Grant $2,460 Type:Grant

2014 -To Present Taft Publication Grant $380

10-2017 Taft Center Domestic Conference Grant $1,092

11-2017 Taft International Conference Travel $1,426

04-2018 -To Present Taft Publication Grant $1,500

2018 Taft Summer Research Grant $8,600

Book

“African Immigrants 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.

“African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon’s Political Crossroads,” co-authored with Milton Krieger. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1998.

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

“Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora.” Lexington Books (a Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2014.

“Post-Colonial Cameroon: Politics, Economy and Society,” co-edited with Julius Amin. Lexington Books (a Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2018.

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.

“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. 

“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.

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.

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.
 

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.
 

Book Chapter

 "Strangers Among Us?: French Cameroon Immigrants to the British Southern Cameroons, 1916-1961," Indigenous Structures and Governance in Africa, edited by Femi Vaughan. Ibadan, Nigeria: Safer Books Ltd., 2003, pp. 372-401.

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

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

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

"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.

“Biya and Incremental Reform in Cameroon,” in Political Reform in Francophone Africa, John Clark and David Gardinier, eds. (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1997), pp. 162-181.

“The Future of Human Rights in sub-Saharan Africa,” in Preparing Africa for the Twenty-First Century, John M. Mbaku, ed. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999), pp. 173-183; Reprinted in Africa Beyond 2000, S. C. Saxena, ed. (Delhi, India: Kalinga Publications, 2000), pp. 237-264.

“Making In-Roads:African Immigrants and Business Opportunities in the United States,” in Africans in Global Migration: Searching For Promised Lands. John Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, eds. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012, pp. 117-134.

“Searching for Promised Lands: Conceptualization of the African Diaspora in Migration,” in Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands. John Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, eds.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012, pp.1-18.

“Democracy and Democratization in Cameroon: Living with the Dual Heritage,” in Multiparty Democracy and Political Change: Constraints to Democratization in Africa, John M. Mbaku and Julius Ihonvbere, eds. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998), pp. 195-218.

Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands. John Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu, eds.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012, pp.1-18

Review

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. 

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 Article

"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.
  

Encyclopedia Article

“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. 

“Nationalism and Decolonization in Cameroon” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (2019)

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

(11-17-2007. ) A Review of Professor John M. Mbaku and his works .Lima, Peru.

(11-02-2006. ) Settlement Patterns and Role of Organizations among African Immigrants in the United States .Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

(11-06-2003. ) Letters from Home: John Ngu Foncha and Grassroots Politics in Cameroon, 1955-1966 .Shreveport, LA.

(12-28-2002. ) Nationalism, Democratization and Political Opportunism in Cameroon .Taipei, Taiwan.

(03-01-2002. ) Colonial Policy and French Cameroonian Migration to the British Southern Cameroons .Indianapolis, Indiana.

African History (West Africa)