An interview with Cheikh Anta Babou

An interview with Susanna Fioratta

An interview with Kalle Kananoja

An interview with Daniel Larsen

An interview with Ousmane Oumar Kane

An interview with Ebenezer Obadare

An interview with Danny Adeno Abebe

An interview with Devaka Premawardhana,

An interview with Aaron Y. Zelin

An interview with Sarah J. Zimmerman

An interview with Leslie Anne Hadfield

An interview with Alice Wiemers

An interview with Mai Hassan

An interview with Shelby Grossman

An interview with Christopher J. Lee

An interview with Cynthia J. Becker

An interview with Rahul Rao

An interview with Monica Popescu

An interview with Megan Carney

An interview with Alice Elliot

An interview with Jonas Kreienbaum

An interview with Judith Surkis

An interview with Hannah Hoechner

An interview with Naminata Diabate

An interview with João José Reis

An interview with S. Garnett Russell

An interview with Catherine E. McKinley

An interview with Adom Getachew

An interview with Christian A. Williams

An interview with Michela Wrong

An interview with Yuichiro Onishi and Fumiko Sakashita

An interview with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido

An interview with Emily Callaci

An interview with Duane Jethro

An interview with Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran

An interview with Zach Sell

An interview with Dan Hicks

An interview with Carolyn Holmes

An interview with Jeremy Best

An interview with Joshua Cole

An interview with Jonathan S. Holloway

An interview with John M. Janzen

An interview with Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez

An interview with Nicholas Jepson

An interview with Jelmer Vos

An interview with Juliane Okot Bitek

An interview with Łukasz Stanek

An interview with Tiffany N. Florvil

Interview with Steven Press

An interview with Matthew Gavin Frank

An interview with Becky L. Schulthies

An interview with Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon

An Interview with Steven Serels

An interview with Tara McIndoe-Calder

An interview with Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot

An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

An interview with Constance Smith

An interview with Anne Garland Mahler

An interview with Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense?

Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....

Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...

Moorman narrates Angolan history with the radio at its center...

An interview with Antoinette Burton

Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...

Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...

Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...

In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices, and religious leaders...

The vibrant Swahili coast port city of Dar es Salaam—literally, the “Haven of Peace”—hosts a population reflecting a legacy of long relations with the Arabian Peninsula and a diaspora emanating in waves from the Indian subcontinent...

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world...

The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come...

This book examines the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries...

Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature...

In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African disapora?

Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers...

One of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate is the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum...

"The Swahili World" presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the eastern coast of Africa.,,

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism...

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean...

What are the African Middle Ages? A place, certainly, and a time period, evidently. But also a “documentary regime,” argues François-Xavier Fauvelle...

Newell, along with a team of researchers across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, explore this idea of “dirt” across the long 20th century...

Angelo’s book analyses the little-studied institution of the Office of the President by studying its first postcolonial office-holder in Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.,,

Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...

Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....

Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles....

Mundy's book is part-history, part-political science to guide readers through the intricate maze of foreign and Libyan actors and institutions that define modern day Libya...

Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...

A history of the "middle sea" from prehistory to today....

Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

Suzuki provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade...

Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....

Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...

Talton a transnational history that explores the influence of African American leaders on US foreign policy towards Africa in the 1980s....

Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?