Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...

2015-12-19T20:48:45-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bc5/20151219205009002_hd.jpgOusmane Power-Greene talked about his book, Against Wind and Tide: The African ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We continue our conversation with medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, whose new book, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” tells the story of his efforts to fight Ebola in 2014 and how the history of ...

IT IS A magnificently bizarre hybrid. Still officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa, but better known as the Africa Museum, it cannot help but ooze colonial triumphalism, despite recent ...

Some names echo loudly through history, while others whisper from the margins, shaping thought and action in ways that rarely make headlines. These are the thinkers whose books became quiet ...

The happy chain of events was engineered by Boum and her agent, Pierre Astier. They are very aware that African authors who write in French and are published in France either don’t see their book made ...