Africa

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

This paper uses administrative data in a difference-in-differences design to estimate the effect of a nonprofit property titling program on residential investments in South Africa, a context where residents have occupation rights and receive transaction rights via title deeds.

Rebuilding Civil Society, Embedding Democratic Roots will examine the processes by which advocates in Zimbabwe are attempting to rebuild a grassroots democratic culture.

Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period.

My book offers a critique of this ideal of transparency by turning to a global collection of African and African diasporic writers who reimagined ideals of ethical and equitable relations by revaluing opacity, nebulosity, unreadability, and the non-revelatory in their novels, poetry, and art.

Nnenna Onyima studies the representation of spirits and bodies in African narratives. Her work interrogates how African creatives depict the conviction held by most African nations in the existence of the spirit world and the physical world.

This grant will support activities related to an ongoing research project in Tanzania, which explores the concepts of dignity and heritage in Maasai lifeworlds, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar target-based policy initiatives.

My thesis research examines the early period of Italian colonization between 1870 and 1900 in today’s Eritrea and Somalia.

The period (1960–1977) witnessed the influx of African American Artists to Africa in search of the “authentic” African identity and to locate their iconography within the lived experience of the continent.

Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign for democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership.