Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Besteman writes about her ethnographic encounter in the 1980s with Somalis from the village of Banta who she then re-encounters in 2006 in the town of Lewiston,..

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...

Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...

Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,

"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...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