J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as
well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science …

This article explores the feminist potential and possibilities of Black women's travel writing.
The author reflects on her travel stories, in dialogue with other Black women's travel …

Abstract “Aid dependency” has long been a concern among development organizations,
because it supposedly discourages the entrepreneurial spirit and thus hinders economic …

This chapter explores an emerging gothic impulse animating strands of literary production
within 'the African imagination'. A young Xhosa woman in South Africa is confined to a …

The field of historical sociology has long prompted academic historians to think rigorously
about the categories we use to analyze the past, the generalizability of our findings, and the …

Abstract Indigenous Southern Africans say that their laws are fundamentally grounded in the
principle of Ubu‐Ntu (humane‐ness), but their communities are found empirically to often …

This essay has three goals: First, to illustrate the epistemological interventions of Black
Brazilian queer artivists in theories of Black liberation through naming and defining their …

Abomdabu baseNingizimu Afrika bathi imithetho yabo igxile kakhulu esimisweni soBu‐Ntu
kodwa imiphakathi yabo itholakala ivame ukubonisa okuphambene nalowo mthetho …

This chapter explores precarity as that which is produced and differentially distributed via the
logics of differentiation used to structure subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler …

This essay takes up a brief, important moment in modern African history—1960, the
crossroads of Independence movements across Africa and the nascent moment of UN/NGO …