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Vol. 5, No. 2

Modern Slavery in Africa.

IN THIS ISSUE

COVER ESSAYS

⎈ Under the Radar: Descent-based Slavery as a form of Contemporary Slavery by Bakary Camara, Marie-Christine Deleigne, Lotte Pelckmans, & Marie Rodet; ⎈ Wartime Forced Marriage and Sexual Slavery in Africa: Cases from Uganda and Sierra Leone by Allen Kiconco; and ⎈ Decolonizing Human Trafficking: Alternative Approaches to Understanding Modern Slavery by Oyinkansola Wumkes. Read the entire issue.

Reading Eid

Essays and Interviews on Islam, Muslim Identities and Cultures in Nigeria and across Africa.

‘I Don’t Write Without Looking Back’ Wardah Abbas’ First Draft

Wardah AbbasAugust 26, 2020
God the Master Scientist COVID-19, Pandemics and Reconciling Religious Faith With Science

Abdulbasit KassimJuly 17, 2020
Muslim Feminism Is Here to Stay The Mutual Inclusivity of Feminism and Islam

Wardah AbbasApril 24, 2020
Between Feminism and Islam My Personal Journey from ‘Muslim Feminist’ to ‘Muslimah’

Khadija Yusra SanusiFebruary 7, 2020
‘Anger is Great for Writing.’ Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu’s First Draft

Hauwa Shaffii NuhuAugust 12, 2020
‘Question Every Assumption.’ Habiba Ahut Daggash's First Draft

Habiba DaggashJune 3, 2020
Zata Iya A History of Hausa Feminist Writings

Sada MalumfashiDecember 13, 2019
‘I Don’t Believe in Canons.’ Ibrahim Anifowoshe’s First Draft

Ibrahim AnifowosheOctober 30, 2020
Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism

Zahrah Nesbitt-AhmedOctober 13, 2018
‘The Story Comes With Its Own Style’ Sada Malumfashi’s First Draft

Sada MalumfashiFebruary 26, 2020
The God of Colonization And Africa’s Post-Colonial Redemption

Alhassan Pereira IbrahimApril 13, 2018
When We Talk of Freedom Hijabs, Respectability and What it Actually Means to be Free

Hauwa Shaffii NuhuOctober 14, 2019

Special Focus: COVID-19

Expert Roundtable

The Vengeful Outdoors? The Environmental Drivers of COVID-19

Amirah YusufMay 8, 2020
The Excessive Debt Burdens of COVID-19 Development Financing in the Pandemic

Chimezie AnajamaMarch 31, 2021
A Monstrous Overlap COVID-19 and the New Climate Change Imperative

Oluwaseun OguntuaseOctober 16, 2020
Weathering the Storm COVID-19 and the Case for Universal Basic Income in Nigeria

Oluwaseyi SomefunJune 12, 2020
Algeria’s Indefinite Pause What Will COVID-19 Mean for Algeria’s Year-long Protests?

Temi IbirogbaApril 20, 2020
Two Windows COVID-19 and the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility

Gbolahan BadmusNovember 23, 2020
(Purse) Strings Attached From Dependency to Decolonization in Global Health

Paula AkugizibweAugust 14, 2020
God the Master Scientist COVID-19, Pandemics and Reconciling Religious Faith With Science

Abdulbasit KassimJuly 17, 2020
‘Only Science Can Save Mankind’ Coronavirus, the Death of Religion and the Resurrection of Science

Abdulbasit KassimJuly 3, 2020
Unprofitable Diseases Ebola, COVID-19 and the Return of Industrial Policy in Africa?

Francisco PerezNovember 17, 2020
For the Community, By the Community COVID-19, Design and Handwashing Infrastructure in Nigeria

Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Mambidzeni MadzivireJanuary 25, 2021
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James KingsleyNovember 2, 2020

Introducing 'The Black Atlantic'

Our New Column for Stories about the Black Experience Around the World

Everything I Desire Is For Me I Discovered Who I Was When I Stopped Trying to Lose Weight

Oreoluwa George-TaylorJuly 12, 2021

Looking back at how my body has changed over the past 15 years, I realized that I already had all the things I was waiting to be ‘thin enough’ for. Read more.

June/July 2021The Black Atlantic