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On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) ex
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Pal
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glo
Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo's dancers. Dance music pl
On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent pu
The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and fi
Uganda, August 1972. President Idi Amin makes a shocking pronouncement – the country’s South Asian p
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and
Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein's book The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Co
South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipic
It’s one of the strange artifacts of history that Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, was once cont
In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, profes
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at th
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because
Why are we seeing a rise in coups in Africa and growing debate about the possible benefits of milita
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The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But
In The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO (Duke UP, 2023)
Wedged between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, at the intersection of the world’s busiest shipping r
On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery spe
