John Edward Philips, publications

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Writing African History (Rochester University Press, forthcoming)
editor and author of chapters 1 "What is African History?" and 20 "Writing African History"

Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa (joint editor with Toru MIURA and author of the chapter "The Persistence of Slave Officials in the Sokoto Caliphate")

Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria
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African Studies Program, Publications
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During my first ten years in Japan I went from worrying about how many articles I had published to worrying about how many times my articles had been cited in citation indexes.1
In other words, my ideas began to have an impact.
My three most cited publications so far, in order of their number of citations, have been:
"The African Heritage of White America" in Africanisms in American Culture edited by J.E. Holloway (Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 1990) pp. 225-239
"African Smoking and Pipes" in The Journal of African History v. 24, no. 3 pp. 303-319
"A History of the Hausa Language" in Kano and Some of her Neighbors edited by Bawuro Barkindo (Zaria; Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1989) pp. 39-58

Dissertation:
(1992 History, University of California, Los Angeles)
Ribats in the Sokoto Caliphate: selected Studies, 1804-1903

Selected Publications:
BOOKS:

Writing African History (Rochester University Press, forthcoming) editor and author of chapters 1 "What is African History?" and 20 "Writing African History"
Slave Elites in Africa and the Middle East edited by Toru Miura and John Philips (Kegan Paul International, 2000, distributed by Columbia University Press) [including the chapter "The Persistence of Slave Officials in the Sokoto Caliphate" byJohn Edward Philips]

Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria (Madison; University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000)

Frontier Fortresses: Royal Ribats of Kano and Sokoto (Abuja, Nigeria: National Commission for Museums and Monuments, in press)

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL:

(December 1997) "African Studies in Japan" African Studies Review

(1994) "African History in Japan: Problems and Prospects" pages 225-238 in Proceedings: Japanese/American Workshop for Cooperation in Africa edited by Merrick Posnansky (Los Angeles; UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center)

(1993a) "Some Recent Thinking on Slavery in Islamic Africa and the Middle East" Middle East Studies Association Bulletin vol. 27 no. 2 pp. 157-162

(1993b) "A Bibliography on Afro-American Religion and Nationalism, with Special Reference to Islam" in Akita Ronso 秋田論叢

(1989) Japanese translation of (1993b) in Journal of American Studies no. 5 pp. 1-18 (Fukuoka, Japan)

(1991a) "World Conference on Slavery and Society in History" in 日本中東学会年報 (Annals of the Japan Association of Middle East Studies (AJAMES) no. 6 (1991) pp. 271-287

(1991b) "Language Learning Lessons from Three Continents" in Akita Ronso　秋田論叢 no. 7 pp. 41-71

(1990) "The African Heritage of White America" in (1990) "The African Heritage of White America" in Africanisms in American Culture edited by J.E. Holloway(Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 1990) pp. 225-239

(1985) "The Islamization of Kano Before the Jihad" in Kano Studies (new series) v. 2, no. 3, (1982-5) pp. 32-52

DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS:

(1993a) "Five Letters from the Sokoto Archives Bearing on the Kano Civil War" Sudanic Africa vol. 4 pp. 77-94

(1993b) "A Letter from Ningi in the Sokoto Archives" Journal of Asian and African Studies アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究 (ILCAA, Tokyo) no. 45 pp. 221-226

(1989a) "A History Manuscript in Hausa Ajami from Wurno, Nigeria" in History in Africa v. 16 (1989), pp. 389-395

(1989b) "Two Arabic-Hausa Histories of Wurno by Malam Haliru Muhammad Wurno" in 日本中東学会年報　 Annals of the Japan Association of Middle East Studies (AJAMES) no. 4(2), pp. 192-210; no. 5, 1990, pp. 499-520

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS:

(1989) "A History of the Hausa Language" in Kano and Some of her Neighbors edited by Bawuro Barkindo (Zaria; Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1989) pp. 39-58

"The Origins of Northern Nigerian Language Policy: Lugard and Hausa (1900-1906)" in The Sokoto Caliphate and the European Powers: 1890-1906 ed. by Paul Lovejoy, Abdullahi Mahadi and Ahanmu Adebayo (Ahmadu Bello University Press)

ORAL TRADITIONS AND DOCUMENTS:

(1989) "Wurno, Caliph Muhammad Bello's Personal Ribat and Sometime Capital of the Sokoto Caliphate" in The Proceedings of the International Conference on Urbanism in Islam (volume 1) (Tokyo; Middle East Culture Center, 1989) pp. 219-270

ARCHAEOLOGY:

(1983) "African Smoking and Pipes" in The Journal of African History v. 24, no. 3 pp. 303-319
　
HAUSA LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS:

(1994a) "Dalilin da ya sa Sarkin Musulmi Bello ya K'arfafa Zaman Ribad'i" ("Why Caliph Muhammad Bello Advocated Living in Ribats") Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, page 6, March 31 (with photographs)

(1994b) "Dalilin da ya sa Boko ya Tsere wa Ajami a Halin Yanzu" ("Why Romanized Hausa Predominates over Arabic Script") Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, page 6, March 28,

(1994c) "'Da Wannan Abu ya Samu, da K'ila Yanzu Birnin Kano na Takai' --In Ji Alhaji Abubakar Dokaji (Kano ta Dabo Cigari)" ("Had This Taken Place, Perhaps the Capital of Kano Would be Takai" -- according to Alhaji Abubakar Dokaji (in his book Kano ta Dabo Cigari) Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, March 24, page 6, (with photographs of royal Ningi drums, ruins of Kano Sultan's palace)

(1985) "Ya Kamata Mu Yi Alfahiri da Kayayyakinmu na Tarihin Gargajiya" ("We Should be Proud of our Traditional Historical Objects" Hausa in Arabic Script) Alfijir (Kano, Nigeria) May 27, 1985
　
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
　
(1998) "Making the most of TICAD II: Africa and Japan are still worlds apart" The Japan Times December 28, 1998

(1996) "Akita Fulbright Association"Chapter News (Penn State Alumni Association, Japan)

(1995) "How to Flame [not]"Algorithmica Japonica: Newsletter of the Tokyo PC Users' Group release 12.8 (August) pages 7-11

(1994a) "Chances for Cooperation" [on the African/American/Japanese Scholars' Conference for Cooperation in the Educational, Cultural and Environmental Spheres in Africa, December 18-20, 1993, Tokyo] in two parts: West Africa 14-20 February 1994 page 263, and 21-27 February, pages 303-304

(1994b) "The Need for Japan" [on the need for Japanese studies in Africa] West Africa 21-27 March 1994 pages 502-503

(1993) "Conference Report: West meets East" [on the annual meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies] West Africa 21-27 June 1993, page 1046

(1992) Akko and English Communication (Shohakusha Publishers) (joint author with Nobuaki Namiki and Joseph Young)

(1991) "The Wisest of the Greeks" [the story of Socrates] Weekend Triumph Magazine (Kano, Nigeria) Saturday, September 14, 1991 p. 7

(1988) "Double-duty scholar Lafcadio Hearn a link between Japan, Black America" The Japan Times September 17, 1988 p. 20

(Citation indexes are huge volumes that list how many times publications have been cited in the footnotes of other peer-reviewed articles.)
September 16, 2003
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