Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Analysis of Madagascar's governance crisis identifies executive dominance and absence of political virtue as obstacles to justice, proposing ethical and structural reforms.

Dogon oral tradition preserves songs by prophet Abirè Goro documenting nineteenth-century Dogon-Fulbe relations and prophecies that inform contemporary conflicts.

How Camaran Island became a quarantine station for Hajj pilgrims and a contested site of Ottoman-British rivalry over maritime health governance and imperial control.

GIS analysis of 1857-1876 explorer accounts reveals spatial and temporal patterns in maize, rice, and cassava adoption across inland equatorial eastern Africa along caravan routes.

A 2024 survey of Tanzania's largest forest reserve on Pemba Island identified likely new plant species and threatened fauna while development threatens the most biodiverse zone.

Critical review of Hall's reassessment showing racialized hierarchies developed within precolonial Sahelian Islamic societies, challenging Eurocentric narratives of race as solely colonial invention.

Literary analysis of Leila Aboulela's short stories examines Islam and cultural identity as fluid processes shaped by displacement and postmodern conditions.

Ethnographic study of gendered and seasonal marine subsistence patterns in Mfumbwi, Zanzibar, with implications for archaeological interpretation of Swahili coast fisheries.

Study of 97 religious signboards in Dar es Salaam reveals how language choice and visual design structure information access and religious identity in Tanzania's urban worshipscapes.

First bleach-decorated carnelian bead identified in southwestern Arabia suggests either formal Indian Ocean trade patterns or South Asian residence at an Early Historic port.

Philosophical critique of Descartes' cogito through Ubuntu relational framework, arguing relationality precedes thought and provides more comprehensive ontological foundation.

Study challenges state-centric views of Chinese cultural engagement by analyzing the Zambia Shaolin Cultural Center as a collaborative assemblage where diverse actors negotiate and adapt practices.

Decolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies

Explore early Geez orthography in ʔAbbā Garimā Gospels and Aksumite epigraphs. Radiocarbon analysis and guttural-sibilant spelling patterns confirm manuscript dating to Aksumite period.

Comparative analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah examines divergent approaches to representing postcolonial identity and historical trauma in East African fiction.

Devolution in northern Kenya restructured pastoral governance into ethno-territorial control mechanisms, transforming historical raiding into coordinated violence enforcing ethnic boundaries and.

Study examines tensions between Nairobi's matatu informal transport and Chinese-backed Expressway, revealing how foreign infrastructure reshapes mobility and excludes indigenous systems.

Explore how telecommunications companies like Hormuud shape Mogadishu's urban future through land speculation, infrastructure development, and new city projects targeting diaspora capital during.

Explore how Timkat (Epiphany) celebration in Gondar, Ethiopia blends ancient religious tradition with indigenous cultural practices and tourism potential at this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Analysis of dehumanization and thingification in Hailu's anticolonial novel using postcolonial theory to examine colonialism's transformation of subjects into instruments.