Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar
Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he
Read moreMulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he
Read more**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like
Read moreConsider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For
Read moreRecently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
Read moreIn 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of
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