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Howard W. French is a Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of four books, including A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. He is at work on a book about the role of Africa and Africans in the launching of modernity. (May 2020)
Treasures of the Sahel
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, January 30–August 23, 2020
May 14, 2020 issue
Mao’s Shadow
Maoism: A Global History
by Julia Lovell
China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong
by Jude Blanchette
March 12, 2020 issue
Africa’s Lost Kingdoms
Africa has never lacked civilizations, nor has it ever been as cut off from world events as it has been routinely portrayed.
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages
by François-Xavier Fauvelle, translated from the French by Troy Tice
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
by Michael A. Gomez
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
by Herman L. Bennett
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
by Toby Green
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa
an exhibition at the Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, January 26–July 21, 2019; the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, September 21, 2019–February 23, 2020; and the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., April 8–November 29, 2020
June 27, 2019 issue
Notes from Underground
The prison letters of Nelson Mandela
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
edited by Sahm Venter, with a foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela
February 7, 2019 issue
A History of Denial
‘Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa’ by Lawrence James
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
by Lawrence James
April 19, 2018 issue
Looking for Hope in Burma
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant
by Benedict Rogers, with a foreword by Václav Havel
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
by Emma Larkin
December 23, 2010 issue
A Hero of the China Underground
The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by Liao Yiwu, translated from the Chinese with an introduction by Wen Huang, and with a foreword by Philip Gourevitch
October 14, 2010 issue
Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
by Gérard Prunier
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
by René Lemarchand
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality
by Thomas Turner
September 24, 2009 issue
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