Cowries and Rice
Studies of China in Africa and vice versa have begun to proliferate in recent years. Journalist Howard
Articles by
Liz Timbs
Liz Timbs is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in African History at North Carolina State University. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.
The memory box of Haiti
The Haiti Memory Project and the digitization of oral histories of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and life on the island following the devastation.
The preservation of nostalgia (by evicted black residents of Cape Town’s now white suburbs)
So far, a lot of what has been covered in this series has focused on digitized
Badilisha Poetry X-Change
So, my brief hiatus turned into a bit bigger of a break than I was planning.
Digital Matatus
For the past couple of months, I’ve only been able to get out posts on a
Nigerian Nostalgia
Nigeria has gotten a lot of attention on this platform in the past few weeks, with
The Queering Slavery Working Group
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
Digitizing Ferguson
On March 4th, the Justice Department released an 86-page report of its investigation of the Ferguson
A Social History of the Gambia
An archive - stretching from 1820 to 1960 - of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.
The African Rock Art Digital Archive
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the
African Hip Hop
This week I thought I’d try something a little different, inspired by some links I came
African Activist Archive
In the U.S., the past few months have showcased the power of social activism in bringing