Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies
In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have
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Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement
Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.
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‘Footprints of Panafricanism’: An Interview with Filmmaker Shirikiana Aina
In today’s post, poet, playwright and novelist Nubia Kai interviews Shirikiana Aina about her new film, Footprints of Panafricanism. An independent filmmaker,
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The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages
In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new
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A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II
A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe
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