Publications


Peer Reviewed Articles


Introduction: Ghana’s Long 1970s: Historical Contingency and the Dark Side of Nation Building. [in press]


Elisa Prosperetti & Claire Nicolas

Ghana Studies, vol. 27, 2024, pp. 1-23


The Hidden History of the West African Wager: Or, How Comparison with Ghana Made Côte d'Ivoire


Elisa Prosperetti

History in Africa, vol. 45, 2018, pp. 29-57


The Ivorian Origins of the Ghana Studies Association


Elisa Prosperetti

Ghana Studies, vol. 21, 2018, pp. 121-9


Journal Special Issue


Reconsidering Ghana's Long 1970s (1966–1979)


Co-editors: Elisa Prosperetti & Claire Nicolas

Ghana Studies, vol. 27, 2024


Chapter in Edited Volume


Le train qui voulait être un masque : Pédagogie, technocratie, et scolarisation en Côte d’Ivoire postcoloniale


Elisa Prosperetti

Pierre Guidi & Jean-Luc Martineau & Florence Wenzek (eds.), L’école en mutation. Politiques et dynamiques scolaires en Afrique (années 1940-1980), Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, 2024, pp. 65-80


Curricular Support


How Do You Learn? The Master-Disciple Instruction in Islamic West Africa


Elisa Prosperetti

Bouctou: An Africana Magazine for Teachers and Students, vol. 1, 2022, pp. 11-12


Book Reviews


Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana by Alice Wiemers.


Elisa Prosperetti

The American Historical Review, vol. 129(3), 2024, pp. 1378–80


Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas.


Elisa Prosperetti

Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique, 2021


Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development by Tim Livsey.


Elisa Prosperetti

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, vol. 52(3), 2018, pp. 391-2


African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast by Abou B. Bamba.


Elisa Prosperetti

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, vol. 51(2), 2017, pp. 325-7