l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor

The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

dlaumann@memphis.edu

Department of History
The University of Memphis,
Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3450 USA

phone: 901-678-3392
fax: 901-678-2720

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/dlaumann/public/home.html

Ghana ; Togo

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Laumann is a specialist in West African history, especially the history of Ghana; colonialism; oral history; links between Cuba and Africa; and Marxist theory and history.

He is a United States Fulbright Scholar and Research Affiliate of the University of Ghana. Dr. Laumann serves on the Advisory Board of the Ghana Studies Association; as co-editor of the Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana; and as co-editor-in-chief of Africa and the West.

At the University of Memphis, he teaches courses in African history, world history, and Marxism.

* Colonial Africa, 1884-1994 (Oxford University Press, 2013)

* Remembering the Germans in Ghana (Peter Lang Publishing, in press)

* Narratives of a 'Model Colony': German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories," German Colonialism and National Identity, edited by Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer (Routledge, 2011), 278-291

* "Identity, Memory, and Oral History: German Colonialism and Ewe Ethnicity in Ghana," Africa and the West, 8 (April 2010), 129-161
"Domination and Resistance: Epidemic and Exile in the German Togoland Colony," Afrika Zamani, No. 17 (2009), 1-16

* "Che Guevara's Visit to Ghana," Transactions of the Historical Society
of Ghana, New Series No. 9 (2005), 61-74

* "The History of the Ewe of Togo and Benin from Pre-Colonial Times," in
The Ewe of Togo and Benin, edited by Benjamin Lawrence (Woeli Publishing,
2005), 14-28

* "Togo: Colonial Period: German Rule" and "Aja-Speaking Peoples: Aja,
Fon, and Ewe, 17th & 18th Centuries," Encyclopedia of African History,
edited by Kevin Shillington (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2005)

* "A Historiography of German Togoland, or the Rise and Fall of a 'Model
Colony,'" History in Africa 30 (2003), 195-211

* "Boniface I. Obichere, Pan-Africanism, and African History," Ufahamu
29, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 11-18

* "Compradores-in-arms: the Fante Confederation Project, 1868-1871,"
Ufahamu 21:1-2 (Winter/Spring 1993), 120-36

Ghana; German Togoland ; Colonialism; Oral history; Cuba; Marxism.