The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate o

For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien Euro

Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans,

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not

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