Working with Histories that Haunt Us
When I first began to conceptualize my dissertation project, I knew I wanted to write about an iconic group of
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Author: Marius Kothor
Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies
In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have
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African Americans and the Congo: An Interview with Ira Dworkin
In today’s post, Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at Yale University, interviews Ira Dworkin on his new
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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa: An Interview with Claire L. Adida
In this post, guest blogger Marius Kothor sits down with Claire L. Adida to discuss internal migration within the continent
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