... . Highlighting the role played by the Kenyan state in the ongoing war against the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, it takes seriously the African subjects who co-constitute geographies of war making in East Africa today, from the political and business elite who normalize militarized masculinities...

... project: An appraisal . Ibadan: ASUU. For copies write to ASUU, National Secretariat, Flat 2, Mallanby Hall, University of Ibadan, U.I. Post Office Box 9021, Ibadan, Nigeria. Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). 2003. About the Foundation. www.acbf-pact.org (accessed 15 December 2003). Africa...

...Leola A. Johnson Duke University Press 2005 “This Is What It Means to SAG in South Africa” In the summer of 2000, in the middle of a strike by the Screen Actors Leola A. Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Art...

...Deborah Mindry The transition to democracy in South Africa promised a new equitable social order that would be responsive to the needs of “the people.” These hopes were very quickly eclipsed by a transition to neoliberalism and by the HIV/AIDS crisis. An examination of the HIV crisis provides...

... that, contrary to conventional treatment of Africa within diaspora theory, transnational interactions between Africa and its diaspora are both historical and contemporary and, more importantly, are marked by the integument of race. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Beyond Heritage Tourism Race...

... employed to justify settler occupation, theft of land, imperial trades, war, and overseas empire, making these simultaneous yet differentiated processes that link Africa, Asia, and Europe with the Americas relevant to the study of slavery and freedom. Moreover, the author observes that because slavery...

... of European colonial incursion into Africa and Asia to satisfy the endless demand for New World labor. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 slavery indenture coolie storytelling archive References Alpers Edward A. 2007 . “The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade...

... of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid struggle, South African expressive culture was channeled through local paradigms of reception in the world beyond, in taut negotiation...

...Burlin Barr This essay offers a close reading of the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty's film Hyenas and looks especially at the way the film addresses issues of development and dependency in postcolonial and contemporary Africa. Released in 1992, Hyenas is an adaptation of the Swiss writer...

... postcolonial theory is still a productive approach, this entry questions the applicability of the postcolonial paradigm to study sixteenth-century Latin America, nineteenth-century Africa, or the twentieth-century Caribbean. The Caribbean and Latin America are used as a disciplinary counterpoint, to trace...

...Megan H. Glick From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and the lay public alike labored to reconcile contemporary racial hierarchies with the possibility of a universal African birthplace. Previous historical treatments of this phenomenon have focused...

...Olivia C. Harrison The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I...

... slave ships included Black sailors, known as grumetes . A term that became adopted throughout the first region of the Portuguese slave trade in Africa, grumete referred to African wage laborers who worked with Luso‐African traders. As wages were likely paid in credit that could only be cashed out...

... truth, that is, as a “natural fact,” it necessarily represents the phenomena it describes as an inevitable consequence of the political and legal assumptions that it unreflectively incorporates. By considering the controversies about HIV/AIDS in South Africa as conflicts of values , we might illuminate...

...Heribert Adam Heribert Adam 2003 Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, and Baha Abu-Laban, eds. Settler regimes in Africa and the Arab world . Wilmette, Il: Medina University Press, 1974 . Adam, Heribert. 2002 . Peace-making in Divided Societies: The Israel - South African Analogy . Pretoria:Human...

... transnational circuits of exchange between the so-called Harlem Renais- sance and pre-Negritude Francophone activity in France and West Africa.4 I am rethinking the uses of diaspora more precisely to compel a discussion...

... in the said territory can be generative, albeit innocu- ously, of various processes of exclusion. My exploration will navigate var- ious global contexts (Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East) where some of history’s most gripping narratives of oppression have been trans- formed into volatile...

..., in the film that Schmitz made in collaboration with the poet Lesego Ram- polokeng, called Hijack Stories (2005). At the center of these distinct televisual and cinematic explorations of the aesthetico-political dimension in South Africa is the figure...