One month until my book is out! Many, many years + 1 more month...
#AnAnticolonialDevelopment asks how Europhone education came to be understood as part of African freedom—not just after independence, but in a longer Black Atlantic history of emancipation.
Elisa Prosperetti
Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfonline.bsky.social
This essay analyses how Yugoslavia’s unique geopolitical position between the blocs, after its 1948 split with Moscow, played out in its refugee policies. First, it investigates the way in which Yu...
An Anticolonial Development is out today with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I show how West Africans claimed the mind—not the body—as the site of economic productivity at independence, making education central to freedom and development.
P.S. I haven’t seen a copy yet—apparently others have!
Can’t wait to talk about this beautiful book for a New Books Network podcast soon!
Check out Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s excellent new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, on JE Casley Hayford of Ghana! open.spotify.com/episode/7gTW...
Very excited to share our conversation about Nana’s new book! We first met 10 years ago in Ghana and it’s amazing to see the journey behind such a beautiful book.
open.spotify.com/episode/1R32...
Every once in a while, the chaos stills and I remember how lucky I am to get to be a historian.
