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Beyond A Question of Extraction
Comprised of articles and a book-length monograph currently in progress, this project accounts for Atlantic slavery and its abolition from the perspective of the African littoral and continent. This research culls from scholarly and fictional literature in addition to imperial records of the francosphere given the French empire, which had engulfed much of Atlantic Africa. The crux of this project centers novels by twentieth-century Black writers that narrativize a largely undocumented past and reanimate the archive of slavery.
Senegalese Literature
Novels about the elite society of the African littoral during the protocolonial era.
Postcolonial Literature
Novels about Sahelian empires at the brink of European domination, published during the first decades of constitutional decolonization.
Medieval Literature
English translation of the 15th-century chronicle of the founding of the Songhai empire, first circulated in Europe via French translation of the original Arabic during the early 1900s.