Cover reveal! And table of contents now up: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.
With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson.
@quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.
100% of Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine.
Historians! This is a great overview of what an undemocratic disaster our professional association has become, and how we can take it back: www.instagram.com/p/DY5MxxqGse...
Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.
My book is coming to life! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
The Thinker, by Hiromu Kira c. 1930.
Priya Lal
Royal Historical Society
How the best intentions of African socialism became the useful tools of capitalism.In the mid-twentieth century, skilled labor was seen as the key to national development. For newly independent Africa...
