An Anticolonial Development is out today with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I show how West Africans claimed the mind—not the body—as the site of economic productivity at independence, making education central to freedom and development. P.S. I haven’t seen a copy yet—apparently others have!

One month until my book is out! Many, many years + 1 more month... #AnAnticolonialDevelopment asks how Europhone education came to be understood as part of African freedom—not just after independence, but in a longer Black Atlantic history of emancipation.

Check out Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s excellent new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, on JE Casley Hayford of Ghana! open.spotify.com/episode/7gTW...

Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfonline.bsky.social

Every once in a while, the chaos stills and I remember how lucky I am to get to be a historian.

Very excited to share our conversation about Nana’s new book! We first met 10 years ago in Ghana and it’s amazing to see the journey behind such a beautiful book. open.spotify.com/episode/1R32...

Can’t wait to talk about this beautiful book for a New Books Network podcast soon!

I am absolutely dying to read this!