Osumaka Likaka
Associate Professor
313-577-2525
313-577-6987 (fax)
3151 Faculty/Administration Building
Department
Osumaka Likaka
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
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African history
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Labor history
Research
Dr. Likaka's research interests include the politics of memory, ideologies, mindsets, and historical consciousness, which reveal an understanding of large processes that affected Africans’ everyday lives.
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, 1991
- M.A., History, University of Lubumbashi, Faculté des Lettres, 1981
- B.A., History, University of Lubumbashi, Faculté des Lettres, 1979
Selected publications
Books
- Naming Colonialism: History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009
- Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
Articles, chapters and review essays
- “Colonial Response to Population Depletion in Early Congo, ca. 1890-1936,” Anthropos 101 (2006), 1-10
- “Colonisation et conscience d’identité: L'administration belge et l'identité Mbole, 1910-1960,” Revue Française d'Historie d'Outre-Mer 85 (1998) 321: 27-41
- “Colonialisme et Clichés Sociaux au Congo Belge,” Africa (Rome) 52 (1997) 1: 1-27
- “The Mbole Conseil des Chefs et Notables and the Politics of Negotiations, 1910-1960,” Anthropos 92 (1997): 471-483
- "Forced Cotton Cultivation and Social Control in the Belgian Congo," in Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts eds., Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Sahara Africa (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1995)
- “Rural Protest: The Mbole Against the Belgian Rule, 1894-1959,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 27 (1994) 3: 589-617
Courses taught by Osumaka Likaka
Fall Term 2024 (future)
- HIS1610 - African Civilizations Since 1800
- HIS3330 - Civilizations of the Nile Valley: Egypt and Nubia
Spring-Summer Term 2024 (future)
Winter Term 2024 (current)
Fall Term 2023
- HIS1610 - African Civilizations Since 1800
- HIS3330 - Civilizations of the Nile Valley: Egypt and Nubia