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Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-orie
J. P. Daughton's In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonia
East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Palg
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for
Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade,
Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean (Ohio University Press, 2022
In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed H
During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers, prospectors, merchants, and dealer
In the space of a few months in 1975, more than 500,000 Portuguese settlers fled their homes in Ango
Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
How does the art market work? In Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in th
Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea (de Gruyter, 2022) is a historical account
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI's director, John Torpey interviewed Laetitia Bucaille
In The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World (Duke University Press, 202
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the w
Brian Valente-Quinn is an Associate Professor of Francophone African studies at the University of Co
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilationDerived fr
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Jay Ke-Schutte on his just released book, Angloscene: Comprom
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigate
