The Azanian Sea

  Andre 3000 had it right, "The game changes everyday so obsolete is the fist and marches. Speeches only reaches those who already know...

The scholar Anibal Quijano defined "coloniality of power" as a new way of organizing reality produced by European colonial expansi...

  The concept of anti-racism has a much more limited utility than might be suggested by the place it holds today in US liberal discourse. Th...

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

I can vividly remember in the cult I was raised in, moments where we were made to listen to Christian apologetics--'proving' the ine...

I've long been fascinated by the earliest "revelation" received by Muhammad, which he interpreted as being from the angel Gabr...

One of the fascinating minutiae of the global Swahili-speaking Omani diaspora is the late great Lamya al-Mugheiry. Born in Mombasa, Kenya an...

  If I may, I'd like to share some brief reflections on the endurance of racism in US society, and the absolute need to teach critical h...

A short and very basic introduction to how slavery and racism interrelate in the making of the modern world, particularly the societies of t...

Here's a link to a short essay  I wrote for Research Africa on the conceptual and historical problems with the term 'Arab-Islamic sl...