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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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Thomas:
April 28, 2022
Chosen Peoples
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 be…
March 24, 2022
Knowing Women
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 …
January 28, 2022
The Persistence of Slavery
Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have conti…
December 6, 2021
Etre mère en situation coloniale
For a majority of African women, the “colonial encounter” occurred at the maternity ward, the health centre, or Maternal and Infant Welfare Centres. I…
November 16, 2021
Emergent Masculinities
In Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age (Ohio University Press, 2019), Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that th…