Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...

Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...

Only in 2015, 100 years after the end of formal German rule, has the German government begun to atone for the Herero/Nama genocide...

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...

Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...

Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...

Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of  the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another...

Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...

Toby Green draws upon a range of underutilized sources to describe the evolution of West Africa over a period of four transformative centuries...

Andrew Wallis has published a significant new survey of the origins and aftermath of the genocide....

Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy food...

Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...

Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...