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Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Affiliation

Stanford University, Stanford, California

Email

lawrance@stanford.edu

Mailing Address

Department of History
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2024 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 650 197 1097
fax: 650 725 0597

Websites

http://www.lawrance.org/

Countries of Specialization

Togo, Ghana

Research Interests

Ethnicity and Nationalism in 20th c. Africa; human rights; Togo, Ghana and
the Ewe people; gender and sexuality.

Publications

"Language Between Powers, Power Between Languages: Further discussion of
education and policy in Togoland under the French Mandate, 1919-1945",
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. Vol.163 (2001).

"Most Obedient Servants: The Politics of Language in German Colonial Togo"
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. Vol. 159, XL-3 (2000) pp.489-524.

"Réflexions sur les recherches sur les enjeux linguistiques des
Ewé" Cahiers du LACIS (2002) forthcoming.

Keywords

human rights ; Ewe people ; gender ; sexuality.