Industrial mining on the Central African Copperbelt attracted substantial, if transient, white populations from the outset, though these communities have been treated separately. Many thousands of white traders, prospectors, mineworkers, engineers, general itinerants and would-be settlers were attracted by the copper boom and often spent time…[Read more]

This article examines the changing forms of African agency in the context of contestations over natural resource governance with the European Union. The authors argue that EU policy is motivated by material self-interest but that it has not been able to successfully implement these policies. The way these policies have been challenged by African…[Read more]

This is a review essay published in African Studies Quarterly.

This is a working paper published in Working Papers in African Studies.

This is a book review published in Entremons: UPF Journal of World History.

This is a book review published in African Studies Quarterly.

This is a review published in Nova Religio.

This is a book review published in Pneuma.

This is book review published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.

This is a book review published in Choice.

The first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]

This paper compares anthropomorphic power-figures from the Vodun and Kongo cultural areas. Vodun is practised along the Guinea Coast of West Africa (especially in Benin and Togo) whereas the Kongo religion is native to the west coast of Central Africa (especially the two Republics of the Congo and northwest Angola). First, overlaps in belief and…[Read more]

This is an article published in the Journal of Mormon History 45, no. 4 (2019): 81-104.

This is an article published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 2 (2019): 301-310.

Liberation radios, the propaganda stations operated by the anti-Apartheid and anticolonial movements Southern Africa, provide us with a unique lens on the relationship between broadcasters and their audiences. Most importantly, they conceptualized audiences in a specific, two-pronged way to mobilize target populations and influence global media…[Read more]

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This is working paper published by the African Studies Center at Boston University.