africa | AAIHS

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

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

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of