May 23, 2023
Volume 1 For some reason, historians have largely seen fit to avoid the subject of African human rights and not least the 1981 African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter. The… READ MORE
May 17, 2023
Ideas for my monograph, African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya – which has just been republished in paperback –… READ MORE
May 4, 2023
Towards the end of a manuscript of illustrated Old English poetry once thought to contain works attributable to the illiterate Northumbrian labourer and eventual famed Christian songmaker, Cædmon, there is… READ MORE
May 2, 2023
The sword as a cultural artefact; the control of labour in Western Europe; the commodification of nature; a study of the turbulent period of the English and British civil wars… READ MORE
April 27, 2023
If you return home after a long absence you might, not unreasonably, hope for a warm welcome, perhaps even some cake. Unfortunately for Saint Bartholomew, the reunification with his parents… READ MORE
April 25, 2023
Austria Made in Hollywood coming out in paperback gives me the opportunity to share a fun article I read while researching the image of Austria in the United States before… READ MORE
April 19, 2023
When I’m turning pages of faded ink, written by people who died a long time ago, “time” starts to jump around. They died a long time ago—but they lived. They… READ MORE
April 17, 2023
Numerous scientific reports clearly describe the drastically declining health of species and ecosystems worldwide, but most of them fail to emphasize the cultural narratives, power relations, and historical dynamics that… READ MORE
April 14, 2023
It occurred to me to wonder what an Enlightenment littérateur might make of this book, which found me buried so often in playful dialogues and epistolary exchanges that it was… READ MORE
April 5, 2023
So, who was Anne de Graville? That’s a question that I have been asked a lot when explaining that I’ve been writing a book about her. There are two possible… READ MORE
The origins of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
