Archiving pan-Africanism
A project – helmed by historians Benjamin Talton and Jean Allman – to archive post-independence African revolutions, including Kwame Nkrumah’s personal and professional papers.
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Jean Allman
Jean Allman is the J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the former president of the African Studies Association.
Academic reparation and stepping aside
Reflections from a former President of the African Studies Association (ASA), the largest African Studies association globally, on the future of the discipline.
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.