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Islam, Identity, and Postcolonial Politics in Nigeria

Proselytization proclivities downplay the historical and cultural significance of Islam and its civilization in West Africa. This is a general introduction as well as an entry into the making of contemporary Islam in West Africa: its routes…
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Rosemary Graham-Naigba and the Feminization of Niger Delta Activism

More often than not, media representations and social portrayals of activism in the Niger Delta convey the characteristic Eurocentric chauvinism of geopolitical assumptions.Activism is not a new phenomenon in the Niger Delta. During the colonial…

Mildred Bond Roxborough Oral History Video Interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010-10-29

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American Heritage through the Lens and Mobilities of Confederate Icons

In this piece, David Olali examines the seeming innocuousness that heritage icons assume, with their predisposition towards narratives of nativization, where they take on new social and cultural life, with the appertaining implications of meanings…