Book

The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001), xxi+338 pp.
For reviews of this book, see
American Historical Review, vol. 108, No. 2 (April 2003) pp. 616-7
Journal of African History, vol. 44, No. 1 (2003), pp. 170-71
African Affairs, vol. 102, No. 407 (April 2003), pp. 355-56

Co-authored Textbooks

G. I. C. Eluwa, M. O. Ukagwu, J. U. N. Nwachukwu, A. C. N. Nwaubani, Africa and the Wider World since 1800 (Onitsha, Nigeria: Africana-FEP Publishers, 1996).

G. I. C. Eluwa, M. O. Ukagwu, J. U. N. Nwachukwu, A. C. N. Nwaubani, A History of Nigeria for Schools and Colleges (Onitsha, Nigeria: Africana-FEP Publishers, 1991).

Book Chapters

The 1947 "Cohen" Constitutional Proposal and Planned Decolonization," in Toyin Falola (ed.), The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005), pp. 55-73.

"Africa and Europe: Anatomy of a Colonial Relationship," in Toyin Falola (ed.), Africa, vol. 4: The End of Colonial Rule Nationalism and Decolonization (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002), pp. 495-514.

"Constitution-making and the Nigerian Identity, 1914-60" in Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Transformation of Nigeria (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002), pp. 73-112.

"Acephalous Societies," in Toyin Falola (ed.), Africa, vol. 1: African History before 1885 (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000), pp. 275-293.

Journal Articles

"The United States and the Liquidation of European Colonial Rule in Tropical Africa, 1941-63," Cahiers d'tudes africaines, xlii (3), 171 (2003), pp. 505-551.

"Eisenhower, Nkrumah, and the Congo Crisis," Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 36, No. 4 (October 2001), pp. 599-622.

"Kenneth Onwuka Dike, Trade and Politics, and the Restoration of the African in History," History in Africa, vol. 27 (2000), pp. 229-48.

"The Political Economy of Aboh, 1830-1857," African Economic History, vol. 27 (1999), pp. 93-116.

"For Bread Alone: A Postscript on Nigeria's Wheat Entrapment," Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, vol. 18, Nos. 2-3 (June-September 1999), pp. 47-57.

"Ekechi, Tradition, and Transformation: Matters Arising," Benin Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1997), pp. 116-24.

"Chieftaincy among the Igbo: A Guest on the Center-stage," International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 27, No. 2 (1994), pp. 347-71.

"Getting Behind a Myth: The British Labour Party and Decolonization in Africa, 1945-51," The Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 39, No. 2 (1993), pp. 197-217.

"The British Labour Party, the Dual Mandate,' and Africa, 1945-1951," Trans-African Journal of History, No. 22 (1992), pp. 93-110.

"The World Bank and Hunger in Africa: A Causal Analysis," The Journal of International Studies (Sophia University, Tokyo), No. 29 (June-July, 1992), pp. 25-62.

"Searching for Relevance in History," Nsukka Journal of History, vol. 1, No. 1 (December 1989), pp. 1-15.

"The Okonko: A Political Institution among the Ngwa Igbo," A u (journal of the Imo State Council of Arts and Culture, Owerri, Nigeria), No. 6 (1987), pp. 5-15.

Encyclopedia Entries

"Akiga [Akighirga] Sai (1898-1959)," in D. R. Woolf (ed.), A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, vol. I (A-J) (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 15 "Bethwell Alan Ogot (b. 1929)," ibid., pp. 669-670.

"Egypt: Muhammad Ali, 1805-48: Imperial Expansion," in Kevin Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History vol. 1, A-G (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005), pp. 455-456 "Egypt: Muhammad Ali, 1805-48: State and Economy," ibid., pp. 456-458 "Sudan: Mahdist State, 1881-98," ibid., vol. 3, P-Z Index, pp. 1490-1492.

Book Reviews

Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1998) in Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 35, No. 1 (2001), pp. 160-162.

"Afigbo's Views on Nigeria" in Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs: Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005), pp. 51-60.

Forthcoming journal articles

(that is, accepted/scheduled for publication)

"Igbo Political Systems," Lagos Notes and Records, March 2006

"American Historians on the Cold War: A Historiographical Interpretation," Lagos Historical Review, April 2006