Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
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...
August 21, 2022

Miscellaneous thoughts on history, objectivity, activism, and useable pasts

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 I thought I'd offer a few thoughts about history and the historical profession from the vantage point of my own (limited) experience. M...
February 4, 2017

Religion, Monotheism, and Ancestral Tradition

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Religions that shift veneration away from accomplished and wise ancestors to more abstract, anti-iconic notions of divinity are most success...
February 16, 2010

What Is Bongo Flava?

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P Funk speaks on the origins of Swahili hip hop.
November 10, 2009

Silences in African History (book review)

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Silences in African History: Between the Syndromes of Discovery and Abolition is a series of related essays on the phenomenon of silence in...
October 7, 2009

Old Picture of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, Sultan of Oman

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Untitled Artwork

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Monk brings us a dope piece of history through art. I told him he ought to call this one "They Came Before Columbus." You can also...
September 26, 2009

SQCC's website on Indian Ocean History

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The folks at Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center in Washington DC have brought the ancient social, political and economic connections of the India...
September 22, 2009

Pensee #3: Reconceptualizing the "Regions" in "Area Studies"

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I couldn't have said it better! As someone who has had the privilege to sit in Dr. Voll's class, his thoughts are on point and very ...
April 18, 2009

Islam and Music

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Afropop magazine brings it again with an interesting interview about music and islam. Below is an excerpt: B.E.: You also looked into the ...
March 2, 2009

Reshaping Muslim World Narratives?

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The Rand Corporation is working up a new proposal to 'reshape Muslim world narratives'. This proposal states that the basic problem...
February 15, 2009

In An Antique Land

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Its hard to describe this engaging book from Amitav Ghosh. Is it a novel? A memoir? A travelogue? A historical reconstruction? A distillatio...
January 25, 2009

The Frontier in Indian Ocean History

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As part of an Envirornmental History class for the esteemed Dr. John McNeill, I am trying to integrate an ecological and envirornmental focu...
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December 3, 2008

Historical Method: A Comment on Deeper Roots

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The book promised to be "what the other book ( Roots ) promised to be but never was. Rather than an incapacitating, sentimental Euro-c...
November 24, 2008

The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries

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The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville I am reading this book in companion with East Africa and The Orient: C...
October 28, 2008

Oman and Zanzibar: Al-Jazeera Special

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October 15, 2008

Europe and the People Without History

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Of course the title of Eric Wolf's 1982 masterpiece is meant to be ironic, for the whole book is about the history of those 'people...
August 18, 2008

Revolution, Nostalgia, and Heroism

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Today, the phrase African socialism seems to espouse the view that the traditional African society was a classless society. imbued with the ...