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About Sara Katz
Sara Katz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Arts & Humanities Grant Studio at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was previously a postdoc in the History Department at Duke University, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Loyola University New Orleans. Her research examines the history of the Nigerian hajj in the colonial and postcolonial periods. Her interests include Muslim-Christian relations, visual culture, and global Islam.NBN Episodes hosted by Sara:
April 6, 2024
Entangled Domains
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multirelig…
August 23, 2023
Students of the World
On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away f…
November 22, 2022
African Ecomedia
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside t…
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 …
August 17, 2022
From Rebels to Rulers
Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast…
June 21, 2022
Emirs in London
Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity (Indiana UP, 2022) recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britai…
June 21, 2022
Shari'a, Inshallah
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different stor…
April 29, 2022
An Uneasy Embrace
The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Harri…
March 8, 2022
Singing Yoruba Christianity
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L.…
February 28, 2022
Imaging Culture
Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa (Indiana University Press, 2021) is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic …
December 29, 2021
Making the World Global
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowl…
December 14, 2021
Indirect Subjects
In Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address (Duke UP, 2021), Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly…
December 6, 2021
Filtering Histories
Photographers and their images were critical to the making of Mozambique, first as a colony of Portugal and then as independent nation at war with apa…
October 27, 2021
What Britain Did to Nigeria
In this ambitious book, Max Siollun provides an overview of Nigerian history from 1472 to the 1950s. As such, What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short His…
October 21, 2021
The Muridiyya on the Move
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor. Differing conceptions of what should be the m…
October 19, 2021
Global Nomads
Countering the traditional narrative of "migration as crisis," Global Nomads tells the story of a group of people for whom migration is not a symptom …
September 22, 2021
Pentecostal Republic
Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, wi…