Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad
has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to …

How do women in Niger experience pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the
United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in a country …

Research on the effects of mass schooling on social cleavages in Africa ignores descent‐
based hierarchies despite their affecting 218 million people on the continent. In contrast, I …

During the colonial period in Africa, slavery did not disappear, although its forms underwent
extensive transformations. It was no longer legal to buy and sell people as slaves, and acts …

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 …

In Senegal and Mauritania (and beyond), various Sûfi and Islamist movements compete to
attract the faithful. But they evolve in societies in which Islam is not the only identity marker …

Under what conditions do insurgents challenge gender norms? What do they gain by doing
so? Using an original dataset of 137 armed groups fighting between 1950 and 2019, I show …

ABSTRACT Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba were two slave descendants born in rural
Gambia in the 1910s. By following their migration in the period before the outbreak of World …

This introductory essay explores the rich historiography lying at the intersection of African
urban and African slavery studies. How does the study of slaves, former slaves and those of …

2 be engaged in Mali. What the examples above unveil is how ambivalent this relationship is
and how it is growing increasingly (in) tense. My first mentioned experience with the" country …