Reflections on the book “Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel”
Posted April 15, 2021
by Alexander Thurston (political science, University of Cincinnati) When I began my Ph.D. work at Northwestern in 2009, I was – and I remain...Category: ISITA
The Khoja: a story of economic and and social resilience in the face of war, revolution, and expulsion
Posted April 7, 2021
by Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University) The idea of African as a conciousness emerges through colonization in much the same way the idea of...
African Muslims Enslaved in the Caribbean
Posted March 5, 2021
by Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Fula Muslim of Senegal, was one of an unknown number of West...
Edward Blyden and the Gaze in African Intellectual History
Posted February 19, 2021
by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University) Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) needs no introduction in most academic circles. He is a celebrated figure...