Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often...
Africa
Contrasting nineteenth-century ideas (including Livingstone’s own) about fever with modern ideas about the causes and appropriate treatment...
A detailed description of Livingstone’s medical education and an overview of how his education affected his recording...
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
These ancient manuscripts cover every aspect of human endeavor. Introduction Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded...
The mosque communicated that Kairouan would become a cosmopolitan metropolis under strong Muslim control, an important distinction...
Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans’ identity. But how and when did this way of...
Germany, which had only unified in 1870, was a latecomer to the colonial game. By David Carlin...
The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. By Michael GoodyearJ.D. CandidateUniversity of Michigan...
West Africa is a place of great diversity – in language, in writing, in the hugely varied...
When we think of migrants, we think of them crossing the Mediterranean to come to Europe. Yet 200 years ago, many did...