Africa

United States of America

Professor, Chair

Howard University, Washington, DC

rcummings@howard.edu

Department of African Studies
Howard University
Howard Center
Suite 416
2225 Georgia Avenue
Washington, DC 20059 USA

phone: 202-238-2324/2328/2323
fax: 202-588-9843 -or- 202-238-2326

Kenya

Activities:

Former President, African Studies Association (USA/Global); Lecturer:
U.S., Canada, Africa, Europe, China, Soviet Union, Korea & Japan;
Special African Policy Advisor and consultant to Rev. Jesse Jackson 1984
Presidential Campaign; International Analyst, African Caribbean Pacific
(ACP) Group of States, Brussels; International Consultant & Advisor,
ACP-EU (European Union) Migration Programme, 1995-97 (Brussels/London),
1995-97; Special US Envoy, the UNDP Human Rights Report Launching
Committee, Bonn; Board Member: numerous organizations; Consultant (e.g.):
International Institute of Education; South Africa Democratic Teachers
Union; Congressional Office of Technology Assessment; UNDP; ACP/EU; Focus
Consultancy, London; The Peoples Programme; UN Human Rights Development
Index; the University of Fort Hare, South Africa; and the Academy for
Educational Development

Research & Teaching interests:

- labor and transportation systems in East Africa;
- complex emergencies, such as famine and drought, in Africa;
- African migration and national development;
- US public policy towards Africa and the political economy of
Africa;
- African economic systems, including capitalism and regional
trade developments;
- African economic History and economic development strategies

(1) Books & Monographs:

ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (with S.S. Nyang). Saudi Arabia:
The King Faisal Foundation, 1986.

THE LAGOS PLAN OF ACTION vs. THE BERG REPORT: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN
AFRICA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (with R. S. Browne). 2nd ed. Virginia:
Brunswick Publishing Co., l985.

AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF UKAMBANI: 19TH CENTURY AKAMBA LABOR AND TRANSPORT
SYSTEMS.

(2) Articles:

"A Note on the History of Caravan Porters in East Africa". KENYA
HISTORICAL REVIEW, 1, 2 (1973).

"Trade and Interior Support in Pre-Colonial East Africa". JOURNAL OF
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 2, 1, (1975).

"The Early Development of Akamba Local Trade History, c. 1780-1820".
KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW, 4, l, (1976).

"Super Power Contention in the Horn of Africa" (with P. Gabriel). THE
WESTERN JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES, 1, 4 (December, 1977).

"United States Relations with the Horn of Africa". THE UNITED STATES
FOREIGN POLICY ON AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (TransAfrica Forum, Part III),
1978.

"Economics and African Development". KENYA ECONOMIC SOCIETY (Fall, 1980).

"Interior Support for Regional Trade: The Akamba Case, 1800-40".
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 3, 5 (l981).

"Wage Labor in Kenya in the Nineteenth Century". C. Coquery-Vodrovitch &
P. E. Lovejoy (eds.), THE WORKERS OF AFRICAN TRADE (Beverly Hills: Sage,
Publications, l985).

"Migration and National Development: The Kenyan Example". B. Lindsay
(ed.), AFRICAN MIGRATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985).

"Internal Factors That Generate Famine". M. Glantz (ed.), DROUGHT AND
HUNGER IN AFRICA (Cambridge: University Press, l987).

"Martin R. Delany and Africa: Towards Acquiring Power/Freedom". JOURNAL
OF BLACK STUDIES (pending)

"Long Term Prospects for Change in Africa". Art Hansen & D. E. McMillan
(ed.), FOOD IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986).

"Africa Between the Ages". AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW. Volume 29, No. 4,
l987.

"Africa's Crisis and Causes". FINAL PROCEEDINGS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON DROUGHT AND DESERTIFICATION. New York: UnitED Nations Sudano- Sahelian
Office (UNSO), 1986

"La politique americaine a l'egard de l'Afrique: continuite et
changement, 1958-1988". POLITIQUE ETRANGERE (Paris: Institut Francais des
relations Internationales, 1988).

"A Historical Perspective on The Lagos Plan of Action," in Julius
Nyang'oro & Timothy Shaw (eds.), BEYOND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICA:
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUSTAINABLE AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT. New
York: Praeger, 1992.

"Entrepreneurship and Capitalism in Africa: Overview," in the
Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1997. Vol. 1. New York: Scribners,
1997, pp. 238-43.

"Shaping Future Relationships between the ACP and the United States of
America." ACP CONFERENCE: "Illusion, Reality and Perspectives: ACP
Migration, Development and the Year 2001." (London: Focus, May 1997)

"Religious Beliefs and Economic Behavior in Contemporary Africa, South of
the Sahara: Linking Religion and Development." Jacob Neusner
(ed.), RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR: ANCIENT ISRAEL, CLASSICAL
CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND JUDAISM, AND CONTEMPORARY IRELAND AND AFRICA
(Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999)

(3) General:

"The Dakar Symposium: An Analysis" NEW DIRECTIONS (April, l977).

"Africa and China: A Foreign Policy Perspective". U. S. - CHINA
RELATIONS (New York, l983).

"Economic Development in Africa: A Strategy". AFRICAN
AMERICAN INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER (Nov., l984).

"Economic Power and International Politics: Post-Bretton Woods". WORKING
PAPERS, No. 34. Harare: University of Zimbabwe, l982.

"Establishing A Black Foreign Policy Agenda: The Significance of
Internationalism/Pan-Africanism". Washington: TransAfrica Educational
Forum Policy Conference Proceedings, l983.

"Population Movement, Social Formation and Exchange". WORKING PAPER, No.
28. Evanston: Northwestern University African Studies Program (l981).

"Umanthi: Individuality and Communalism in Akamba Society [East Africa]".
RESEARCH ON AFRICA. Emory University: South Eastern Regional Seminar in
Africa Studies, l983.

"The Labor of African Long-Distance Trade". AFRICAN HISTORY NOTES AND
RECORDS. Montreal: York University, l983.

"Kenya in the Nineteenth Century: Akamba vs. the Amasai", PROCEEDINGS.
Nairobi: Kenya Historical Association, l983.

"Planning and Managing the African Economy: International Assistance and
the Problems of Self-Reliance". CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. Nova Scotia:
ECA/Dalhousie University, l984.

"Drought and Hunger in Africa: Denying Famine a Future". CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS. Colorado: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1985.

"The Struggle Against Drought in Africa". AFRICAN SUN (May, l986)

"African Economic Development: The Role of the West". Educational
Television Series. New Jersey: Ramapo College, 1985.

"South African Trading Partners". CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH PAPERS. Under
the auspices of Cong. W. Gray (D.Pa.), l984.

"The United States and Africa Under a Jackson Administration" (Authored
for Candidate Jesse Jackson). AFRICA REPORT, 29, 3 (l984).

"Pluralism in Africa: The History of Democracy and Democratic
Institutions". PROCEEDINGS. Dakar, Senegal: 1985.

political economy ; economic history ; labor ; migration ; East Africa.