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How to Write About Nigeria

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History