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Late one night, journalist Sally Hayden received an urgent message on Facebook: “Sally, we need your
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and dev
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of Th
In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hof
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press,
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Sre
The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin (Peter Lang, 2022), the first b
In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tac
The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gand
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion t
“In Africa, when an elder dies, a library burns.” We’ve all heard this phrase, or some version of it
We often neglect the Indian Ocean when we talk about our macro-level models of geopolitics, global e
In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier prov
The events of January 6th 2021 are contested in the US. For some supporters of Donald Trump it was,
Hilton Judin's book Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (University of London Press, 2022) by P
Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been d
In Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670 (Ohio UP, 2019), Jared
As the horrors of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a mass
