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About Thomas Zuber

Thomas Zuber is a social and economic historian of West Africa, with a particular focus on Burkina Faso and the Sahel. He is Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

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African Studies April 28, 2022

Chosen Peoples

Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

Christopher Tounsel

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah …
African Studies March 24, 2022

Knowing Women

Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

Serena Owusua Dankwa

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class …
African Studies January 28, 2022

The Persistence of Slavery

An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria

Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia …
African Studies December 6, 2021

Etre mère en situation coloniale

Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)

Anne Hugon

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
For a majority of African women, the “colonial encounter” occurred at the maternity ward, the health centre, or Maternal and Infant Welfare Centres. In Être mère en situation coloniale: Gold …
African Studies November 16, 2021

Emergent Masculinities

Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age

Ndubueze L. Mbah

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
In Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age (Ohio University Press, 2019), Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between …