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Madina Thiam is a PhD candidate in African history at UCLA.
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African Studies November 13, 2020

A History of the Republic of Biafra

Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War

Samuel Fury Childs Daly

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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 Republic of Biafra …
African Studies October 12, 2020

Ethiopia in Theory

Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016

Elleni Centime Zeleke

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Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social …
African Studies August 26, 2020

States of Justice

The Politics of the International Criminal Court

Oumar Ba

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States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system …
African Studies August 10, 2020

Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa

Nwando Achebe

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In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female …
African Studies July 21, 2020

Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin

Assan Sarr

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An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa. Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin (Rochester University Press, 2016) …
African Studies July 7, 2020

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

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Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of …
African Studies June 9, 2020

Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith

Ahmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa

Mauro Nobili

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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. The new State, locally known as …
African American Studies June 2, 2020

African Americans and Africa

A New History

Nemata Blyden

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“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in Color, his 1925 collection of poems. African Americans and Africa: A New History (Yale University Press, 2019) lays out …