Andrew Apter

Andrew Herman Apter (born December 7, 1956) is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles,[1] and Director of the African Studies Center.[2]

He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council.[3]

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellow [4]

Works

• Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa, University of Chicago Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-02352-6
• Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society, University of Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-226-02342-7
• The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria, University of Chicago Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-226-02355-7
• "Atinga Revisited", Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa, Editors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-11440-8
• "IBB = 419: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion", Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives, Editors John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-226-11413-2

Further reading

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-05-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2010-05-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Black Atlantic Studies - Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Brooklyn, NY, USA". Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-05-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Youth & Violence: Andrew Apter, UCLA on YouTube