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For the peer-reviewed journal Comparative Politics
-- Co-Editor-in-Chief since 1995
-- Acting Editor-in-Chief (1983-84)
-- Member of Editorial Board since 1978

Books:

Lépold Sédar Senghor and the Politics of
Négritude. New York: Atheneum, 1969; London: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1970, 300 pp.

African Politics and Society:  Basic Issues and Problems of Government 
and Development. Editor and co-author,  New York: The Free Press;  
London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, 1970; 6th printing as of 1982, 485 pp.

Power and Class in Africa.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice
Hall, 1977; 6th printing, 1984, 398 pp.

Studies in Power and Class in Africa.  Editor and co-author, Oxford
and New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987, 415 pp.

Chapters in Books:

"Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and other Fairy Tales in Africa",
pp.117-145 in Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary
Africa in Focus, eds., George Bond and Nigel Gibson, Boulder, CO.: 
Westview Press, 2002.

"Forging and Framing Democracy", pps. in The Conditions For
Democracy, eds., Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra Suleiman, New York:
Routledge, 2002.

"Constitutions, The Federalist Papers, and The Transition To Democracy", 
pp. 42-71 in Democracy in Comparative Politics, ed., Lisa Anderson, 
New York: Columbia University Press , 1999.

"Uncivil Society, the State, and Capitalism in Africa", pp. 21-53 in 
Civil Society in Africa?, Nelson Kasfir, ed., London: Frank Cass, 
1998.

Articles:

"Ghana: Background to Conflict," Root  and Branch, Vol. l,  No. 1, Winter, 
1962, pp. 60 68.

"Bintu and Been to: The New African Literature," Root and Branch, Vol. l, 
No. 2, Spring, 1963, pp. 89 92.

"Ghana Without Nkrumah:  The Winter of Discontent," Africa Report, April 
1966, pp. 10 15.  A revised version appears in African Politics and 
Society, op. cit., pp. 252 265.

"Ghana" (pp. 312 313); "Sierra Leone" (p. 603); American Annual: 1967, New 
York: The Americana Corporation, 1967.

"Ghana Ten Years After Independence: The Development of Technocracy 
Capitalism," Africa Today, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1967, pp. 6 12.

"Ghana" (pp. 305 306), "Sierra Leone" (pp. 594 595), "Ivory Coast" (pp. 
372 373), Americana Annual: 1968, New York: The Americana Corporation, 
1968.

"Ivory Coast (pp. 377 378, "Ghana" (p. 321), "Sierra Leone" (pp. 598 599), 
The Americana Annual: 1969, The Americana Corporation, 1969.

"Ghana," "Ivory Coast," "Sierra Leone," The Jefferson Encyclopedia,, 
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., 1972.

"A Bibliographical Essay on the Study of Ideology, Political Thought, 
Development and Politics in Senegal," Current Bibliography on African 
Affairs, Part l, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1970, pp. 5 29; Part II, Vol. 3, No. 
4, April 1970, pp. 5 35.

"Blaise Diagne"; "Louis Faidherbe"; "Samory Touré"; "Léopold 
Sédar Senghor"; "Amadou Bamba"; "Galandou Diouf. ;"Lamine 
Guèye"; "Abodoulaye Ly"; "Sembene Ousmane", Encyclopedia of World 
Biography, New York:  McGraw Hill, 1975.

"Ghana's Foreign Policy:  A Critique and Review Article,"  African Report, 
Vol. 15, No. 3, March 1970, pp. 32 35.
 
"The Political Thought of Blaise Diagne and Lamine Guèye: Some 
Aspects of Social Structure and Ideology in Senegal," Presence Africaine, 
Vol. 72, No. 4, 1969, pp. 21 38, reprinted in R. Desai and S.O. Mezu, 
Black Leaders of the Centuries, Black Academy Press, Buffalo, 1970.

"Leopold Sedar Senghor:  The Technician's Politician," Pan African Journal 
Vol. 3, No. 3, 1970, pp. 179 186.

"Traditional Social Structure, the Islamic Brotherhoods, and Political 
Development in Senegal," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 8, 
No. l, 1970, pp. 73 96.

"Bureaucratic Development and Economic Growth," The Journal of Modern 
African Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1976, pp. 1 18.

"Does the U.S. Overvalue Stability?"  West Africa, September 4, 1978, No. 3190.

"Visions of Africa," Social Policy, November/December, 1980, Vol. 11, No. 
3, pp. 61 64.

"John Updike's Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 14, No. 
3, 1981, pp. 536 545.

"Forum: The Conceptual Limits to Power and Class in Africa," Studies in 
Comparative International Development, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 1990-91, pp. 
71-85.

"Animation Rurale:  Biography of an African Administrative Agency," in The 
Political Economy of Senegal Under Structural Adjustment edited by 
Christopher Delgado and Sidi Jammeh, New York:  Praeger Publishers, 1991, 
pp. 69-84.

Forthcoming. "Class Formations and Political Economy in Africa," 
in Africology: Emergence of a Discipline (tentative title) edited by 
Patrick Bellegarde Smith.

"African Literature and Social Science in the Teaching of World Studies", 
co-authored with Ali Jimale Ahmed, Social Studies, Vol.8, No.2, 
March/April 1993, pp.78-81.

"Constitutions, Civil Society, and the Federalist Papers", pps. 61-76, in 
Constitutionalism: Reflections and Recommendations, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 
The InterAfrica Group, 1994.

"Camels, Intellectuals, Origins, and Dance in the Invention of Somalia: A 
Commentary", pps. 63-70, in The Invention of Somalia, edited by Ali Jimale 
Ahmed, Trenton, N.J.: The Red Sea Press, 1995.

"Uncivil Society, the State, and in Africa," Special Issue of The 
Journal of Comparative and Commonwealth Politics, Vol.36, No.2, 1998.

[ comparative politics ; Senegal ; Ghana ; Ethiopia ; Somalia ; Eritrea ; class ; Senghor ]

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