Andrew Apter

Director, African Studies Center

Department: History

5369 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: 310-794-9547
aapter@history.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Africa

Professor Apter holds appointments in both the History Department and the International Institute, where he teaches courses in African Studies and in International Development Studies.

Apter’s ethnographic research focuses on Yoruba culture in southwest Nigeria (View Yoruba Ritual Archive online). He also works on the Africa diaspora in the Caribbean.

Apter’s books include:

• Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
• Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
• The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2005)