Biography Biography I am interested in Atlantic return migration, transnationalism and decolonization in West Africa. My PhD. research interest focuses on how the Kru people used their connections and settlements, particularly Krutowns, in British West Africa to question the legitimacy of Black Americo-Liberian domination/rule in Liberia. Through their challenge of the Americo-Liberian state, I focus …
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate in African history. My dissertation research explores the interconnected histories of intimacy and health in precolonial Uganda. My broader research interests include early African history, gender, sexuality, affect, and health and healing in sub-Saharan Africa. My work on gender, intimacy, identity, and health in Uganda and Ghana has …
Biography Biography I am interested in major public and academic discourses that animate the sprawling but interconnected fields of African history. I seek to interrogate these discourses by researching the expanding field of Atlantic history with a geographic and temporal focus on coastal West Africa and emergent African-American communities in the early-modern era. My current …
Biography Field
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. student in the African History Program, with a minor concentration in African Cultural Studies. I specialize in 19th and 20th-century West Africa, and my research interests include migration, urbanization, urban popular culture, and gender in Africa. My current research maps the social lives of migrants in Ghana’s largest migrant …
Biography Biography My research interests currently orbit around the intersection of Soviet and Southern African History, with special consideration given to Soviet involvement in African wars of liberation and anti-colonial movements. I am also interested in exploring the broader themes of national identity building under colonialist regimes, Pan-Africanism, and global perceptions of race. B.A. from …
Biography Biography My interest is in African history particularly on environment, political ecology, and gender in colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Education B.Ed (Arts), Machakos University Field
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. candidate in African History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My work focuses on twentieth-century Central Africa, with a focus on health, medicine, and the Second World War. My research focuses on the roles and experiences of Congolese medical auxiliaries during the Second World War. I examine how Belgian colonial …
Biography My research interests explore the intersections of the Cold War, US empire, and decolonization in Congo-Kinshasa and Angola. More specifically, I am interested in the politics of nationalism, state formation, militarism, and the political economy of foreign intervention in Central and southern Africa. My MA thesis explores and recontextualizes the origins of the Mobutu …
Biography Biography I am interested in African History, on juvenile, women and social justice. Education M.Phil., History, University of Ghana B.A, University of Education, Winneba Field MA Title