Andrew Apter

Andrew Herman Apter (born December 7, 1956) is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles,^[1] and Director of the African Studies Center.^[2]

He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council.^[3]

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellow^[4]

• Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa, University of Chicago Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-02352-6
• Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society, University of Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-226-02342-7
• The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria, University of Chicago Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-226-02355-7
• "Atinga Revisited", Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa, Editors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-11440-8
• "IBB = 419: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion", Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives, Editors John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-226-11413-2

• Youth & Violence: Andrew Apter, UCLA on YouTube

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