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How to Write About Nigeria

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, colonialism, Nigeria, Writing

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

Online Forum–Digital Black Atlantics

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black intellectual history, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is pleased to announce the upcoming online forum on

Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

October 27, 2021October 26, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, Black Women's History, Nat Turner, Slave Revolt, slavery, Southampton

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, Cosmology, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, spirituality

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,