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John N. Paden papers, C0194, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Donated by John N. Paden in 2011.
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Dr. John N. Paden is a Clarence Robinson Professor Emeritus of International Studies at George Mason University. He received his BA in philosophy from Occidental College, his MA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and his PhD in politics from Harvard University.
Dr. Paden came to George Mason in 1987, and he taught comparative government, international development, and conflict resolution. He is a co-founder of the GMU graduate program in International Commerce and Policy (ICP). He is also co-founder and co-director of the GMU Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (CAPEC), under the Office of the Provost. He has been involved in scholarly exchanges between the US and China and served as Director of the SPP/ICP summer graduate program in China, focusing on socio-economic changes and cross-cultural trade strategies. He also participated in the SPP/ICP summer trade programs in Oxford and Geneva. He helped develop undergraduate minors at GMU in Asia Pacific Studies, Islamic Studies, and Afro-American and African Studies. He has served as Director of African Studies at Northwestern University, Professor of Public Administration at Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria), and Dean, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, at Bayero University (Kano, Nigeria).
Dr. Paden has also served on a senior level task force at the Brookings Institution on "US policy toward the Islamic world." Dr. Paden's work includes an extensive list of publications, including highly acclaimed textbooks about Africa. He retired from George Mason University in May 2017.
The collection includes periodicals, pamphlets, reports, conference proceedings, photographs, maps, printed ephemera, and manuscripts related to Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on Nigeria, but embracing political and social history, biography, economics, sociology, languages, culture, and religions of the entire region. The role of Islam in the region is an important component.
Series 1, Correspondence: Includes correspondence relating to book reviews, various publications, research projects, conferences, travel arrangements, publishing matters related to Dr. Paden's works, and letters of recommendation for students. Organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Series 2, Research: Published papers and documents, conference papers, and related materials. Research for Dr. Paden's dissertation is included and often separated by him into chapters and appendices, which include illustrations, maps, and tables. Major topics represented are politics, development, and economics; Hausa language and Hausa language education; Islam in Africa; African studies; Arabic literature; research for his book Black Africa; and broad information on Northern Nigeria. Materials are organized by subject and then chronologically. Materials from his former wife Ann are included and marked as such when known. Her research contains extensive information on family, childbirth, children, home health care and medicine, food, and issues specific to women. Series also includes index cards containing original research, most from the 1960s - 1970s. Materials are organized by type, subject, and then chronologically.
Series 3, Publications: Includes books, journals, newspapers, catalogs from publishing houses, and various ephemera. Contents relate mainly to Nigeria, but also included are items relating to other African nations as well as to the US and UK. Collection includes more than twenty different newspapers which were published in Nigeria, but primarily written in English. Major publications are the New Nigerian, Nigerian Citizen, and This Day. Newspapers range from the 1960s-2010. Magazines both political and popular are included. The series also contains travel-related publications from the 1970s, including airline schedules, tourist information, and many site-specific or event-specific brochures, some of which are interesting historical documents in their own right. The majority of travel brochures come from California, Chicago and Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas, but some are from other regions of the US and overseas. Organized by subject and then chronologically.
Series 4: Maps. Includes maps of various African nations, primarily Nigeria. Organized by region and then chronologically. A greater quantity of maps may be found in Series 6, Oversize.
Series 5: Audio/Visual. Reel to reel audio tapes, audio cassette tapes, photographs, negatives. Audio recordings include radio interviews and other audio information relating to Nigeria in the 1960s. Photographs are primarily research-related images, the majority from Dr. Paden's trip to Africa in the 1960s, and include group portraits, images of Nigerian life, events, and royalty, and some personal family photographs dating from the 1930s. Slides are variously labeled by former wife Ann Paden as political rallies; crowd scenes; Hausa; Fulani; activities; Sallah; Malams; "Audo and the Padens;" images of Kano City, Morocco, Spain, and England; general landscape; friends; and the house in Nigeria which Dr. Paden and his former wife occupied. Not all of the subjects listed appear to be in the extant slide collection. Materials are organized by medium, then by subject, and then chronologically.
Series 6: Oversized. Maps, posters, a small amount of printed matter, one large photograph, and one large charcoal sketch. Includes maps up to wall size of Nigeria, other nations, and world regions. In addition to basic maps showing cities, states, and regions, series also includes maps illustrating demography, transportation, topography, concentration of religious groups, location of tribal areas, and other specialized information. Includes posters relating to politics, cultural ideals, and university education. A few posters reflect popular culture of the 1970s. Materials range from the 1950s-2000s. Materials are organized by medium, then by subject, and then chronologically.
Series 7: Realia. Includes a percussion instrument called a "yomkwo," or Nigerian raft zither, of the style made by the Birom (Berom) people of the Jos plateau. A yomkwo is a flat instrument made of reeds and grasses with a rattle attached to the back. Also included are eight Qur'an (Koran) boards, made of wood and other natural materials, in the style of the Hausa peoples. Six have Arabic writing on them. One is undecorated. Used for memorization of the Koran, often in conjunction with the drinking ink tradition. Materials are unidentified wood and ink. Paddle-shaped, about 8"-12"L x 6"-8"W. All realia is undated.
Special Collections and Archives also holds the papers of many other George Mason University professors, as well as materials pertaining to International Relations, including the
Includes various types of correspondence relating to book reviews, publications, research projects, travel arrangements, letters of recommendation, and some few personal matters. Organized alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Chairing the panel on ethnicity.
Includes letters of recommendation.
Regarding admissions to Northwestern.
Letter of appointment as Dean of Social Sciences at Ahmadu Bello University.
Identity in Africa program.
Course development.
Letter of recommendation and supporting material.
Seeking replacement teacher at Northwestern.
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Relates to Maguire's political campaign.
Afro-Asian World in Transition.
AAI Program.
Includes extensive exchanges with University of California Press.
Strife at the university.
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Folder 2 of 2.
Published papers and documents, conference papers, and related materials. Research for Dr. Paden's dissertation is included and often separated by him into chapters and appendices, which include illustrations and tables. Major topics represented are politics, development, and economics; Hausa language and Hausa language education; Islam in Africa; African studies; Arabic literature; research for his book Black Africa; and broad information on Northern Nigeria. Materials are organized by type, subject, and then chronologically.
Folder 1 of 4. Identified by Dr. Paden. Interior identifies contents of folder as "Book vol II / Elite analysis / draft."
Folder 2 of 4. "Instability and National Integration in Thirty-Two Independent African States: A Step-Wise Discriminant Function Analysis." Contains internal working papers numbers 5-10, 12.
Folder 3 of 4. "Instability and National Integration in Thirty-Two Independent African States: A Step-Wise Discriminant Function Analysis." Contains internal working papers numbers 15-19.
Folder 4 of 4. "Instability and National Integration in Thirty-Two Independent African States: A Step-Wise Discriminant Function Analysis." Contains internal working papers numbers 21-23, 26.
"Modernization, Stability, and National Integration in Africa" by John N. Paden.
Folder 1 of 3. Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Los Angeles.
Folder 2 of 3. Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Los Angeles.
Folder 3 of 3. Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Los Angeles.
Published in 1973 by the Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina.
Notes on possible career paths for African Studies students.
Folder 1 of 3. African Studies Association meeting. Includes correspondence and related materials.
Folder 2 of 3. African Studies Association meeting. Includes correspondence and related materials.
Folder 3 of 3. African Studies Association meeting. Includes correspondence and related materials.
Includes contact information.
Includes printed literature and book lists.
Thirteenth annual meeting.
Folder 1 of 2. Copies of multiple papers for presentation in Sokoto.
Folder 2 of 2. Copies of multiple papers for presentation in Sokoto.
"The Conflict between National and Supra-National Loyalties in the Political Thought of French-Speaking West Africa," by John N. Paden for GOVT 295: Nationalism
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Folder 2 of 2.
James E. Adler v. The Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Original field notes from 1960s trip to Nigeria. See also note cards in Boxes 80-83.
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Folder 2 of 2.
Bibliographic references.
Presentation papers.
Los Angeles.
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Folder 2 of 3.
Folder 3 of 3.
Final draft. A long range plan defining alternative strategies for the development of the Sahel-Sudan Zones. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Policy Alternatives.
Folder 1 of 2. Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University.
Folder 2 of 2. Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University.
Contains article by John N. Paden, "Kano Hausa Poetry: Reply."
Regulations governing the conditions of appointment of senior staff of Ahmadu Bello University.
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Folder 2 of 2.
Imposition of Native Administration and the Evolution of Chieftancy among the Tiv.
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Folder 4 of 4.
A Sociocultural View of Hausa Musical Activity.
Folder 1 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
Folder 2 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
Folder 3 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
Folder 4 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
Folder 5 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
Folder 6 of 6. Written charms, drinking ink, folk remedies.
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Folder 2 of 4.
Folder 3 of 4.
Folder 4 of 4.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Folder 1 of 4.
Folder 2 of 4.
Folder 3 of 4.
Folder 4 of 4.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Houston, TX. Includes list of confirmed attendees.
Notes on marriage and relationships.
Obstacles to Private Sector Activities in Africa
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Folder 2 of 3.
Folder 3 of 3.
Prospectus, telephone directory.
News articles and scholarly work.
Research for Dr. Paden's book of the same title
Folder 1 of 2. Research for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Folder 2 of 2. Research for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Work for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Folder 1 of 3. Work for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Folder 2 of 3. Work for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Folder 3 of 3. Work for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
Work for Dr. Paden's book of the same title.
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Folder 2 of 3.
Folder 3 of 3.
Includes related correspondence, Dr. Paden's notes, programs, and papers.
Relationships between sects.
Nigeria working group notes and meetings.
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Folder 2 of 5.
Folder 3 of 5.
Folder 4 of 5.
Folder 5 of 5.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Folder 1 of 2. Research and course notes.
Folder 2 of 2. Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Research and course notes.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Kano related research, Ahmadu Bello University priorities.
"'Us' and 'Them' : The International African Institute and the Current Crisis of Identity in African Studies."
Personal record book
Title IX: Foreign Assistance Act. Folder 1 of 2.
Title IX: Foreign Assistance Act. Folder 2 of 2.
Tuareg and Buzu Immigration into Kano
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Papers from presentations.
Papers from presentations.
Papers from presentations.
Folder 1 of 3. Papers from presentations.
Folder 2 of 3. Papers from presentations.
Folder 3 of 3. Papers from presentations.
Selected Syllabi for Introductory, Interdisciplinary Courses on Africa.
Code sheets 501-600.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Dr. Paden's student work.
Contains written material and the handmade paper book cover which originally housed it.
Includes information on language and folklore.
Includes information on language and folklore.
Includes information on language and folklore.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes handwritten notes.
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Folder 2 of 4.
Folder 3 of 4.
Folder 4 of 4.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Uses in planting, medicinally, and in folklore.
At Northwestern University.
A New Source for the Biography of Ahmad Baba Al-Tinbukti.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Material relating to African Studies and associated meetings.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
Reprinted articles for research done in the 1960s.
At Northwestern University.
Personal record book and notes.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 1 of 2.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles.
Reprint for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Folder 1 of 3.
Folder 2 of 3.
Folder 3 of 3.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Notes, reprints of scholarly work, journal articles for research done in the 1960s.
Vocabulary of Schoolboy Slang in N. Nigeria, Qualification of Office, Review of Bello Book.
Sources and early field notes.
Factors Responsible for the Conflict between the Executive and Legislature in Kaduna State.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Includes article and personal correspondence from Jean Herskovitz, information on Nigerian economy.
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Folder 6 of 7.
Folder 7 of 7.
Includes articles on women's issues.
Includes information from the Northern Nigeria Marketing Board.
Includes information from the Northern Nigeria Marketing Board.
Includes information from the Northern Nigeria Marketing Board.
Newspaper clippings.
(7) marked on original folder.
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Folder 2 of 6.
Folder 3 of 6.
Folder 4 of 6.
Folder 5 of 6.
Folder 6 of 6.
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Folder 2 of 6.
Folder 3 of 6.
Folder 4 of 6.
Folder 5 of 6.
Folder 6 of 6.
Contains extensive materials related to African studies and a small amount of correspondence with Charles Stewart.
Folder also contains one sheet of 12 slides for use with the seminar.
Includes information on Ibrahim Niasse.
Includes information on Ibrahim Niasse.
Includes information on Ibrahim Niasse.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Includes books, journals, newspapers, catalogs from publishing houses, and various ephemera. Contents relate mainly to Nigeria, but also included are items relating to other African nations as well as to the US and UK. Collection includes more than twenty different newspapers which were published in Nigeria, but primarily written in English. Organized by subject and then chronologically.
Volume XXV, Numbers 2/3.
Volume 26, Numbers 3/4, Volume 27, Number 1.
Volume IX, Number 2, Volume XII, Number 1.
Volume XV, Numbers 1, 2.
Volume XV, Number 4, Volume XVI, Number 2.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
The Carthaginian Voyage to West Africa in 500 B.C. together with Sultan Mohammed Bello's Account of the Origin of the Fulbe.
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Folder 2 of 2.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2 of 2.
MUST BE TOP BOX.
Includes maps of various African nations, primarily Nigeria. Organized by region and then chronologically.
Reel to reel audio tapes, audio cassette tapes, photographs, negatives. Materials are organized by medium, then by subject, and then chronologically.
A: 7 ips, "A Boori Liturgy from Katsina" [1967] LADIN ANO and Ensemble Recorded by A. V. King at SOAS, PL 152 Side 1 / B: 7 ips, same, PL 152 Side 2
A: 7 ips, "A Boori Liturgy from Katsina" [1967] LADIN ANO and Ensemble Recorded by A. V. King at SOAS, PL 153 Side 1 / B: 7 ips, same [short], PL 153 Side 2.
Interior of paper insert reads: Garba Gwandu
Interior of paper insert reads: Kidan Kalangun Alh-Mamman Shata. 1 Wakar Sardauna (Sardauna Bahag), 2 Sardauna-Kakanka Dan Fodio 1965 Sardauna Ahmadu-April 18, 1973, 3 Sardauna (Sahago-Sardauna Ahmadu Gwauron Giwa 1977, 4 Sardauna Kakanka Dan Fodio 5/73, 5 Rubuttan Wakokin Hausa Na Mohd Sayyed Sokoto Ayyukan Sardauna, 6 Rubutattun Wakokin Hausa Na M. Ali Mai Pampo Zaria (Sardauna)
Interior of paper insert reads: Side A Kidan Kotson A-Musa Danwairo, 1 Taiaziyyar Sardauna (Yawuce rani), 2 Ya Buwayi Maza, 3 Ubangi Jiyy Jagaba Sardauna Dan Muhammad, 4 Hiyayye Jan Zaki Mazasukaya Maka Dole Maidamarar Yaki, Al. Amarinai Saishukura
Interior of paper insert reads: Kidan Taushin Marigay Awyu Dandano, 1 Wakar alh. Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardauna-Ahmadu Mairaro inda Allah, 2 Kidan Kotson Umaru mai Sa'a wakar Sir Ahmadu Bello, 3 Kidan Solon Haruna Solo Waka Ta'aziyyar Sardauna, 4 High Life-Jiririn Isa Wakar Sardauna, 5 Waken Addinin Musulunci (hausa) na M. Lawal Cediya Buyu Zaria-Musulumtar Da Mutane.
Interior of paper insert reads: kidan Kukuma na Alhaji Ibrahim na habu, 1 Maisaje dan Maisaje, 2 Kidan Kukumar ali dan Sarari wakar Sardauna
Interior of paper insert reads: Muhtari Isa 31 Ammanu Rd, Funtua
Interior of paper insert reads: Kidan Kotson Musa Dankuwa, 1 Ahmadu dan Ibrahim Hiyawe Janzaki Maza Sukaya Maka Dole, [no 2] Maza Tsorenka, 4 Alkalin Sokoto, 5 Mai Dubun Nasara, 6 Alhamdu Likkahi dai Yakai, 7 Mai damarar Yaki, side 2. Yawuce Raini simusulmi (Yaazo Haji) Ahmadu dan Ibrahim Baka Yada, Gudun Arnaba
Interior of paper insert reads: Kidan Taushin S/Taushin Katsina wako? Sardauna, 1 Sardauna Ula? Maza, 2 Ahmadu Kambu Gabas ova s/Fade, 3 Yumkura dan Altahim, 4 Jikam Shehu Bello Ahmadi etc.
Interior of paper insert reads: Kidan Taushin s/taushin Katsina, 1 Wakar Sardauna, 2 Kudan Kalangun Illonkano Gonar Bakura, 3 Kidan Sudan na Hamza kalaf Wakar Sardauna
kidan Taushin Salihu Jankiki, 1 Sassalar Sardauna-Ahmadu Kara Shirin D? and Gaskiya ?, 2 Sardauna Jikan Abubakar, 3 Sardauna Girmanka Yayi Babba Rika, 4 Sardauna Yafashe Fushinai shi Adda Duniya Gabadai, 5 Aikin Sardauna etc,
Photograph is marked on verso "bought Kano Dec 1968." This photograph appears to be older than the others in this collection. It was curled when received. Some conservation work was done.
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Folder 2 of 4.
Folder 3 of 4.
Folder 4 of 4.
All are from same envelope. Date noted is date of development as marked on prints.
General, 1 of 2.
General, 2 of 2.
British Lit 1-4; Arabic Manuscripts; Arabic #2 Bello ?; Arabic #3 Abdullahi Diya Al-Umma; AK Col (Hausa); AK education (1); AK cont'd military 1907 ?;Kano 1926-39 ?; 1931 conference; NN Colonial Reports #1-4; Diet-Ann; Nig Cit 1956; Abdullahi Imamship; Arabic documents; John Niger/Sokoto, John-Sheikhs, Kano Ol Mosue, Audu & Pidgeon, Kura, garden ? NEPU headquarters; Arabic documents copying for John Paden; seven unidentified. Agfa box marked "for Mrs. Paden" containing negatives; two loose rolls.
All rolled items are very tightly wound and fragile.
Maps, posters, a small amount of printed matter, one large photograph, and one large charcoal sketch. Includes maps up to wall size of Nigeria, other nations, and world regions. Materials range from the 1950s-2000s. Materials are organized by medium, then by subject, and then chronologically.
Reprinted from The Nigerian Citizen with the story added in Hausa
Map elements are now in separate pieces. All fragments were originally attached with unknown adhesive to a paper support which was edged with red tape.
These items are very fragile.
Newspapers which were folded in with the drawing provided the estimated date.
Includes a percussion instrument called a "yomkwo," or Nigerian raft zither. Also included are eight Qur'an (Koran) boards. Six have Arabic writing on them. One is undecorated. All realia are undated.
All are musty and smell of mildew.