Only in 2015, 100 years after the end of formal German rule, has the German government begun to atone for the Herero/Nama genocide...

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...

Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...

Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...

Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of  the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another...