The Azanian Sea

Greetings Azanian Sea readers, It has been a minute since I've been in the blogging game as I had responsibilities to take care of on th...

Tsehai Publishers is proud to announce the launch of the Ethiopian Journal of Religious Studies. The journal captures the rich heritage of...

Won't be able to make this, but it looks interesting! Workshop: Transforming Identities and New Representations of Muslims in Contempora...

Gentle readers, I appreciate your patience as The Azanian Sea has been a bit quiet due to my academic obligations. Studying Arabic is a ful...

My friend and colleague Alex writes about contemporary politics in Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Somalia, to name...

In this impressively published tome from Brill Press, Hussein Ahmed has taken on some of the original assumptions of scholars of Ethiopian I...

The Ottoman Empire began its march to dominance as a band of Turcoman nomads from Central Asia. Several centuries later, they were the globa...