Africa

United States of America

Professor of African and Global History

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

clarka@uncw.edu

Department of History
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 USA

phone: 910-962-3316
fax: 910-962-7011

Senegal ; Gambia ; Mali.

Teaching/research interests: West African history, esp. Senegambia and
Mali in colonial/postcolonial period; social and economic history; slavery
and servility; oral history in West Africa; cultural history.

He has published articles in the Journal of African History, Africa Today,
Slavery and Abolition, Oral History Review, Journal of Third World
Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies and the International Journal
of African Historical Studies as well has having written chapters in
several volumes.

Teaching/research interests: West African history, esp. Senegambia and
Mali in colonial/postcolonial period; social and economic history; slavery
and servility; oral history in West Africa; cultural history.

Teaching: Courses in African history (incl. early and modern; West and
Southern; Colonial period; African Diaspora; Imperialism; survey courses
in global history since 1500; Islamic societies in Africa.

From frontier to backwater: economy and society in the upper Senegal
Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920. Lanham, MD : University Press of
America, c1999. (278 p.)

With Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical dictionary of Senegal.
2nd ed. African historical dictionaries; no. 65. Metuchen, NJ :
Scarecrow Press, 1994. (353 p.)

West African history ; cultural history ; social history ; economic history; slavery ; oral history