The Azanian Sea

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

Some thought provoking methodological reflections on my timeline recently , mostly critiques of Cemel Aydin's book, The Idea of the Musl...

Today I would like to post a small tribute to a brilliant intellectual, writer and philosopher whose life was untimely cut short by leukemia...

Recently Michael Muhammad Knight published two provocative pieces on Vice critiquing Hamza Yusuf as a white convert and a spiritual salesma...

Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201...

Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201...

My friend and colleague W.H. Marsh has been penning some interesting stuff on his blog "Where the Middle East Meets Africa" He is...

On the Zanj: Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people...

This is a great book. Its basically two autobiographies of two major figures of the Zanzibar Revolution and Zanzibar postcolonial politics, ...

In the discourse on Islam prevalent in the popular media and academia, one frequent Manichaen dichotomy one finds is that between so-called ...

Finished Ali Muhsin Al Barwani's memoirs today-- Conflicts and Harmony in Zanzibar Sheikh Ali translated the Holy Quran into Swahili, a...

Interesting take from a giant in the field of African Studies. Post racial? I think the Swahili word, 'bado' captures my response su...

Nation-building and communities in Oman since 1970: The Swahili-speaking Omani in search of identity by Marc Valeri full text article In 196...

My research looks at the influence of Swahili culture on Oman. This research is extremely relevant at the present time. The Arab/African dic...

While the World sees only Arab-African conflict in Darfur, pockets of amity thrive unnoticed. Christian Science Monitor by Heba Aly Dongola,...

And, yet, a certain word, a glance, a guise, will mirror, never show, reflecting not my gaze, but my uncertain question caught inside a shad...