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November 13, 2020
A History of the Republic of Biafra
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. A History of the Re…
October 12, 2020
Ethiopia in Theory
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals whe…
August 26, 2020
States of Justice
States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) theorizes the ways in which states that are pre…
August 10, 2020
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical a…
July 21, 2020
Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin
An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa. Islam, Power, and D…
July 7, 2020
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shape…
June 9, 2020
Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
In the early 19th century, on the floodplain of the Niger river’s inland delta in West Africa (present-day Mali), the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi emerged.…
June 2, 2020
African Americans and Africa
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in Color, his 1925 collection of poems. African Americans and Africa: A New Hist…