The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is organising a symposium on the following theme: The revolutionary left in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960’s-1970’s): a political and social history to be written Background The reason for this symposium stems from the following… Read More ›
Modernity
Event: LUCAS Annual Lecture with Professor Ato Quayson (06 Dec, University of Leeds)
LUCAS Annual Lecture We are delighted to announce details of the LUCAS Annual Lecture for this academic year: Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University)
20 years of Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1993. This year, Gilroy’s Black Atlantic completed twenty years of its publication. This book has been used by many scholars in history, anthropology, literature and sociology, and… Read More ›