"How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And has the approach to development of Africa's rivers changed between 1850 and the present day? Drawing upon example…
Fantastic flights : the search for ancestral traces in Black speculative narratives -- The production of homeland returns : misrecognitions and the unsteady path toward the Black fantastic in Ghana -- "We love to be Africans" : Saudade and affective performances in Bahia, Brazil…
Race and slavery in the Sokoto caliphate -- The roots of Sokoto caliphate plantations -- The course of plantation development -- The types, structures, and characteristics of plantations -- Observations on slave origins, slave resistance, and labor control -- The significance of…
"The first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon a critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and interviews with Soninke migrants. Francois Manchuelle shows that these migrations were driven by a…
"The first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon a critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and interviews with Soninke migrants. Francois Manchuelle shows that these migrations were driven by a…
