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?

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...