Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

In his recent article, Shabodien Roomanay accuses the Cape Independence movement of fear-driven motives. Robert King counters ...

In what the publisher describes as “an original history of race-making, belonging and rights,” Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of “métis,” referring to the multiracial children ...

One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is not physical infrastructure or political borders, but narrative power .

Introduction: cross-cultural encounters: song, power, and being -- Missionary witchcrafting African being: cultural disarmament -- Purging the "heathen" song, mis/grafting the missionary hymn -- "Too ...

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...

Europe is re-evaluating its colonial past. Statues are being torn down, buildings are being renamed and African art on display in some of the most prestigious European institutions is finally making ...

For most of the post-independence era, debates over colonial reparations were confined to university halls, activist statements, or sporadic diplomatic remarks. That is no longer the case. In recent ...

Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...