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Village Work
Most development histories focus on large-scale projects and multi-year plans. But how would we understand development differently if we chose a diffe…
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Ujamaa's Army
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated …
November 1, 2025
The Brontës and the Fairy Tale
The Brontës and the Fairy Tale (Ohio UP, 2024) by Dr. Jessica Campbell is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklor…
October 16, 2025
Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda
Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global (Ohio UP, 2024) presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research I…
October 3, 2025
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power (The Ohio State UP, 2025) is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartooni…
September 21, 2025
Preparing the Modern Meal
Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City (Ohio UP, 2025) is an urban history that connects town and cou…
May 17, 2025
The Texture of Change
The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700 – 1850 (Ohio UP, 2024) examines historical change across a broad re…
April 23, 2025
Market Encounters
In Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana (Ohio UP, 2017), Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the…
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Settling Ohio
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this reg…
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Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Ohio University P…
September 2, 2023
Madness in Buenos Aires
Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Ohio UP, 2008) examines the interactions between psychiatrists, …
August 19, 2023
A Language for the World
Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but also arou…
June 30, 2023
An Ordinary Life?
With An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996 (Ohio University Press, 2023), historian Anna Müller has produced a beautifully writt…
May 27, 2023
Cargoes in Motion
Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean (Ohio University Press, 2022) is an innovative collection of essays that foreg…
January 13, 2023
Spear
In the middle of the twentieth century, in South Africa, Nelson Mandela organized a group of revolutionary freedom fighters to openly denounce the rac…
October 10, 2022
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals, like humans, were …
April 7, 2022
Converging on Cannibals
In Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670 (Ohio UP, 2019), Jared Staller tells the history of how the myth of canni…
March 21, 2022
The Politics of Morality
In the fall of 2020, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal decreed that the country’s near-total ban on abortion was too liberal; henceforth, pregnancies c…
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Africanizing Oncology
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