"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Chinua Achebe's 1958 Things Fall Apart transformed the world by vividly imagining the story of an African community in English...

What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?

Driessen finds that the hope of sharing China’s success with developing countries soon turns into bitterness, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and local institutions...

Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Kihato's book is about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes and dreams, fears and hardships of migrant women trying to make life and livelihoods in inner city Johannesburg....

Masquelier offers a compelling ethnography of the possibilities of the fada, a space where young men gather, faced with the anxiety of being ‘good at being a man’...

Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years...

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...