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28
Apr
2023

Plunder for Profit: The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and...

In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated...
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9
Mar
2023

Was anticolonial activism global?

The office of the Union for Democratic Control, 1959. Photograph by Cyril M. Bernard. Courtesy of Miriam Bernard and Hull University Archives...
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30
Sep
2022

The Atrocity of Hunger can be Averted for Millions...

“Never Again,” the campaign to end extreme hunger emerged out of the 2011 famine in Somalia, yet today, in Somalia, seven and a half million people are facing food shortages while over 200,000 people...
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28
Jul
2022

Revising Spatial Frames in East African History

In On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890, I seek to challenge how East African history is conceived in space. I do so in two core ways. First, I take the...
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11
Apr
2022

Visions for Racial Equality

Image reproduced with the kind permission of the National Library of Scotland and the Church of Scotland World Mission Board....
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16
Aug
2021

Unifying Social History and Knowledge Production...

Western academic research about Africa has been likened to industrial mining: researchers arrive uninvited, extract knowledge from local communities using ‘foreign’ technologies, and disappear back...
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19
Apr
2021

How class colours race – South Africa’s white...

How does one write the history of people thought not to exist? In apartheid South Africa, the obsession to maintain political and economic power for the white minority at the expense and exploitation...
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14
Jan
2021

Islam in a Zongo: Muslim Lifeworlds in Ghana

Islam has been present in Ghana at least since the 14th century and today, there are more than three million Muslims living in the country. My book, Islam in a Zongo, is an in-depth investigation into...
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