Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is a Professor of Political Science and of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and the coeditor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought. (August 2023)

History’s Presence

“There is a growing public historical consciousness; the past and its meaning is, in a visceral way, part of political debate and social life.”

August 12, 2023

Africa, the Center of History

In Born in Blackness, Howard French works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

by Howard W. French

August 17, 2023 issue

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