Category: African Studies
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
October 27, 2021
Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award – Scholarship Writing Spatiality in West Africa examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined… READ MORE
Reading Non-Fiction Across South Africa’s Unfinished Transition
October 20, 2021
Hedley Twidle discusses his publication: Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa from James Currey African Articulation series. This article was originally published in the African Griot. Experiments with Truth is a… READ MORE
African Literature Today: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
October 11, 2021
The countdown to the next volume of the African Griot is well and truly on! Today we share a post from John C. Hawley who was the guest editor of ALT… READ MORE
Black History Month
October 6, 2021
Black History Month is celebrated every October in the UK, highlighting experiences, achievements & contributions that are too often overlooked. At Boydell we are proud to publish books that honour… READ MORE
Sacred Queer Stories
October 4, 2021
The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her widely circulated TEDGlobal talk of 2009 drew attention to what she called ‘the danger of a single story’. Interrogating dominant generalising narratives that reinforce stereotypes about… READ MORE
From Rebels to Rulers
September 28, 2021
From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State, was published this August in James Currey’s Religion in Transforming Africa series. At its heart, the book explores the connection between writing in Arabic and… READ MORE
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
September 24, 2021
We are excited to re-share this interview with Chielozona Eze, originally published in the African Griot volume 18. Find out how Mandela became the focus point of this publication and… READ MORE
African Women in the Atlantic World
September 17, 2021
African Women in the Atlantic World received an honorable mention for African Studies Review Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection, 2019. In this Griot article from Volume 18, the editors… READ MORE
African Traditional Religion as a Political Theory
September 13, 2021
This November we are excited to be publishing the next volume in the African Griot newsletter. This newsletter covers all aspects of African studies, featuring new publications and exclusive author… READ MORE
Exploring the Medieval Armoury