LANSINÉ KABA
Curriculum Vitae

Personal:
Address:
Education:
Languages:

° French: Fluent
° English: Fluent
° Spanish: Moderate (reading and speaking)
° Mandinka (a major West African language): Fluent
° Latin: Advanced reading level (nine years of study)
° Classical Arabic: Elementary

Publications:
  Books
   
 
  • The Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa, 1945-1960 (Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1974). Co-winner of the Melville Herskovits Award of the U.S. African Studies Association in 1975.
 
  • Sonni Ali, empereur du Songhay, 1464-1492 (Paris, ABC, 1978)
 
  • Le "non" de la Guinée à de Gaulle (Paris et Dakar, Chaka, 1989)
 
  • Kwame N'Krumah ou le rêve de l' unité africaine (Paris et Dakar, Chaka, 1991). Nominated for the 1992 Noma Prize for best publication in French-speaking Afric
 
  • Lettre à un ami sur la politique et le bon usage du pouvoir (Paris, Présence Africaine, 1995)
 
  • L'État, la société et la culture au Songhay,1464-1612 (accepted for publication)
 
  • Cheikh Mouhammad Chérif (Karammô Sékouba) et son temps à Kankan (1870-1955) (forthcoming

 

  Articles
   
 
  • "Islam, State and Politics in Pre-Colonial Baté, Guinea," Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 35, B.2 (1973): 323-344
 
  • "Ideology and African History," Black Scholar, 5.4 (1974): 43-51
 
  • "L' idéologie dans l'historiographie africaine," Afrika-Zamani, 1.2 (1973)
 
  • "Notes on the Study of Islam in Africa," Afrika-Zamani, 5 (1975): 53-66
 
  • "The Cultural Revolution, Artistic Creativity, and Freedom of Expression in Guinea," The Journal of Modern African Studies, 15.2 (1976): 201-218
 
  • "The Politics of Quranic Education Among Muslim Traders in the Western Sudan: The Subbanu Experience," Canadian Journal of African Studies/RCEA, 10.3 (1976): 409-421
 
  • "Islam's Advance in Tropical Africa," Africa Report, Vol. 21, 2 (1976), 37-41
 
  • "The Guinean Politics: A Critical Historical Overview" The Journal of Modern African Studies, 15, 1 (1977): 344-345
 
  • "The Background to the Change in West African History: Songhay, 1492-1750," The Journal of African Studies, 4.3 (1977): 344-356
 
  • "Rhetoric and Reality in Conakry," Africa Report (May-June, 1978). "
 
  • "Historical Consciousness and Politics in Africa," The Western Journal of Black Studies, 3, 1 (1979): 27-34. Reprinted in Talmadge Anderson, ed., Black Studies: Theory, Method, and Cultural Perspectives (Pullman, Washington, 1990).
 
  • "Les Chroniqueurs musulmans et Sonni Ali, 1464-1492," Bulletin de l'IFAN, 40, série B, 1 (1978): 49-65.
 
  • "Change in Guinea-Conakry: Myth and Reality," Africa Report (May, 1981)
  • "Les archers, les mousquetaires et les moustiques: une interprétation de l' invasion marocaine au Soudan et la résistance songhay, 1591-1612," Bulletin de l'IFAN, 42 série B, 1 (1980): 1-36
  • "De la Rhodésie au Zimbabwe," Afrique-Histoire, 2 (1981) 7-14
  • "Power, Prosperity and Inequality in Songhay, 1464-1591," in Earl P. Scott, ed., Life before the Drought in the Sahel Region of Africa (London: Unwin, 1984)
  • "Archers, Musketeers and Mosquitoes: The Moroccan Invasion of the Sudan and the Songhay Resistance (1591-1612)," Journal of African History, 20, 4 (1981): 467-475
  • "Des aspects de l'histoire du Gabou au XIXe siècle," Éthniopiques: revue de culture négro-africaine, 38, numéro spécial (octobre 1981): 37-148.
  • "L'Islam en Amérique," Afrique Histoire, 5 (1981): 55-60
  • "Walter Rodney: A Pan-Africanist Historian," in Walter Rodney, Revolutionary and Scholar: A Tribute, Edward Alpers and Pierre-Michel Fontaine (eds.) Los Angeles, 1982
  • "L' empire du Monomotapa," Almanach 1984 (Paris: Agence de coopération, 1984): 26-30
 
  • "Islam, Politics and Revolution in Songhay, 1464-1493," in Bruce Lincoln, ed., Religion, Rebellion, Revolution: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Culture Collection of Essays (London: Macmillan, 1985): 187- 206.
 
  • "The Pen, The Sword and the Crown: Islam and Revolution in Songhay Reconsidered," Journal of African History, 25 (1984): 241-256
 
  • "A New Era in Guinea," Current History, April, 1985. ° "Power and Democracy in African Tradition: The Case of Songhay, 1464-1591," in Dov Ronen, ed., Democracy and Pluralism in Africa (Boulder, 1985): 95-103.
 
  • "Bismarck et Aboushiri: L'expansion coloniale allemande et la résistance swahili, 1885-1891," in Actes du Colloque international (Brazzaville, avril 1985), Centenaire de la Conférence de Berlin, 1984-1885 (Paris, 1987): 253-266
 
  • "Camions et café ou le Rassemblement démocratique africain et les commerçants," in Actes du colloque international de Yamoussokoro, Vol. 1 (Paris, 1988): 316-322
 
  • "From Colonialism to Autocracy: Guinea Under Sékou Touré, 1957-1984," in Prosser Gifford and William Roger Louis, eds., Decolonization and African Independence, The Transfers of Power (1960-1980), (New Haven: Yale University, 1988): 225-244
 
  • "Paix et démocratie" in Les Cahiers de Présence Africaine: Pouvoir et paix civile en Afrique (Paris, 1996): 133-144
 
  • "Hommage au Professeur Ibrahima Baba Kaké", Présence africaine, no 153, (1996): 243-247
 
  • "Cheikh Mouhammad Chérif de Kankan, le devoir d'obéissance et la colonisation, 1923-1955," in David Robinson and Jean-Louis Triaud, eds., Le temps des marabouts: Itinéraires et stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale, 1880-1960 (Paris: Karthala, 1997): 277-297
 
  • "Islam in West Africa: Radicalism and the New Ethic of Disagreement, 1960-1990", in Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwels, eds, The History of Islam in Africa (Columbus, OH., Ohio University Press, 2000): 189-208
 
  • "Démocraties politique et sociale", from Lettre à un ami sur la politique et le bon usage du pouvoir, Journal des Historiens géographes du Sénégal, no. 7, 2d semester 1999
 
  • "Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-1945), in Ingrid Monson, ed.,The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (New York, Garland Publications, 2000): 187-206
 

 

Academic Appointments

1970-1972 Instructor of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1972-1974 Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota
1974-1978 Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
1978-85 Professor of History and Adjunct Member, Departments of International Studies, French and Islamic Studies, University of Minnesota
1982-85 Chairman, Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Minnesota
1986-96 Professor of History and African-American Studies, and Head of Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
1996-2001 Dean, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago.
2001- Professor, Departments of African-American Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago


Professional Honors and Awards

1975 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book of the Year in African Studies
1973-1974 Social Science Research Council Grant
June 1978. University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Teacher Award
1981-1982 Senior Fulbright Research Professor, University of Dakar
June 1991 Research Grant, Campus Research Board, University of Illinois at Chicago


Professional Service:

Editorial Boards  
 
  Afrika-Zamani, 1972-1975
  The Western Journal of Black Studies, 1980-1983
  Afrique-Histoire, 1981-1985

Board of Directors  
  African Studies Association, 1977-1980
  Concerned Africanist Scholars Association 1978-1982
  International Committee for the Anniversary of the Berlin Conference (1884-1885): 1983-1985
  Trustee, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, 1999-2002
  Vice President, African Studies Association, 1998-1999
  President, African Studies Association, 1999-2000

Department of History