Background Lack of access to health care is a persistent condition for most African indigents,
to which the common technical approach of targeting initiatives is an insufficient antidote. To …

From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of
slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the …

The term post-slavery refers to historical and social circumstances identifiable in contexts
where slavery was a fundamental social institution and its legal abolition was followed by …

This article introduces a special issue focusing upon linkages between enslavement and
marriage within African societies from the 1830s to the present day. The right to make …

Over the past two decades there has been a rapid increase in funds for local civil society
actors in fragile states. Current peace-building and development efforts strive for the …

La question de l'esclavage et de ses héritages en Afrique, longtemps carrefour des traites
transatlantique, transsaharienne, ou encore de l'océan Indien, est un élément …

In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West
African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal …

This introduction provides some historical and conceptual coordinates for a comparative
analysis of the multifarious ethnographic manifestations and performative powers of the …

In the Sahel, labels related to slavery are often tools used to marginalize specific social
groups. Scholars and activists for decades underestimated this issue, which was also …

This chapter explores the politics of social status hierarchies in the Sahel (freeborn,“castes,”
slaves) and the rich literature devoted to this theme. It looks specifically at two themes. First …