A5020757043- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African history and culture studies
- African history and culture analysis
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Race, History, and American Society
- Islamic Studies and History
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Hispanic-African Historical Relations
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Historical Economic and Legal Thought
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Australian History and Society
- African cultural and philosophical studies
- American Political and Social Dynamics
- Music History and Culture
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
University of California, Berkeley
2019-2022
Duke University
2011-2018
Engineering Associates (United States)
2018
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis the current (2012) political crisis Mali, generated by start of new Tuareg nationalist uprising against state, complemented coordinated attack on state both international (AQIM) local Jihadi–Salafi movements, leading coup d’état incumbent President Touré, finallly stalemate great concern community. By pooling sources analysis, group eight scholars tries overall picture. [Un hippopotame et...
ABSTRACT Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set sources found Timbuktu (Mali) reveals existence a stratum literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written Arabic. These make it possible probe Islamic rhetoric used by ask how people adopted Islam understood their faith. Did arrive at different interpretations than those Muslims were free? Using correspondence two worked as agents master's...
One of the principle issues that divide people in southern margins Sahara Desert is issue 'race.' Each countries share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence colonial rule 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis Western Sudan only latest example. However, very little academic attention been paid 'race' large part because Saharan discourses do not correspond directly idea West. For outsider, local distinctions are often...
Recent archaeological, historical, and anthropological literature on the development of social political complexity in Africa challenges older models state formation that used to shape understanding medieval Sahelian empires, such as Songhay. As we now know, there were multiple paths did not necessarily lead formation; was a heterarchical distribution power many African formations. Nonetheless, historiography pre-colonial states West Africa, Islam’s role these formations, retains an...
This article discusses the temporal and geographic expansion of racial frameworks in historical social scientific scholarship Africa Middle East. After discussing important distinction made by sociologist Loic Wacquant between what he calls “folk” analytical notions race, then argues that race is an appropriate analytic model for understanding some internal dynamics within societies these regions. Examples recent on regions which uses are critically explored.
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à liberté citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale situation économique anciens esclaves de leurs descendants sujets contestation. Des idées raciales formulées ces contextes locaux courantes pour marquer personnes ayant un passé d’esclaves renforcer formes discrimination qui maintiennent plupart positions...
This article is the product of a collaboration between scholar West African cinema (Fofana) and historian northern Mali (Hall), who together offer an interpretation politics Abderrahmane Sissako's film Timbuktu (2014). about Islamist jihadist occupation Malian town in 2012–13, it succeeds demonstrating some ways that project tried to reorganize lives people by using violence or its threat force women men dress according Salafi sartorial codes, preventing from socializing outside their...
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ATLANTIC WORLD TOOLS IN AN ISLAMIC SETTING - Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam. By Chouki El Hamel . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 331. $99, hardback (ISBN 978-1-107-02577-6). Volume 57 Issue 3