The Azanian Sea

An Online Zine of Africa and the Indian Ocean World

August 7, 2025

Representations of Indian Ocean slavery

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 S o little work on African slavery in the Indian Ocean world is grounded with descendant communities. It would be great if more of this sch...
July 30, 2025

Framing myths of an event and the politics of history

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  Whenever you go deep into a controversial or divisive historico-political event (wars, revolutions, coups etc), the first hurdle to a deep...
June 25, 2024

Historical studies and truth to power

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  I dislike histories where the author assumes their personal moral commitments are on the plane of the universal and metaphysical, and the...
June 5, 2024

Defining a hierarchy of knowledge-value: a necessity in EVERY discipline

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  If you don't have some sort of hierarchy of knowledge-value in your discipline (a way to collectively distinguish good work from bad w...
April 11, 2024

Coloniality, original sin, and progress

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  While rather abstract and far-reaching, coloniality as a concept has historical predecessors within both western and non-western thought. ...
March 20, 2024

Film Review: "Origin" by Ava Duvernay

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  I watched Ava Duvernay's "Origin" on a plane. My thoughts would no doubt be better having read the source material book for ...
March 4, 2024

Would a return to "indigenous religions" be a progressive move within US society?

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  There are a number of people in the US who, discontented with their childhood religious indoctrination as well as the seeming soulless and...
February 21, 2024

Review of Azad Essa, Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel

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 Azad Essa has written a book critical for understanding recent right wing developments in India and Israel. Essa's book draws on, and i...
February 16, 2024

Why read Zanzibar Was A Country?

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Why should you as an English language reader from the United States (as a large portion of my friend circle is) choose to read a long(-ish) ...
January 21, 2024

Zanzibar Was a Country (UC Press, 2024)

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 My book comes out with University of California Press April 9, 2024. "Zanzibar Was a Country explores the transregional impact of the ...
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