Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore
this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave …

Recent studies have found evidence linking Africa's current under-development to colonial
rule and the slave trade. Given that these events ended long ago, why do they continue to …

Analogy is fundamentally important to archaeological inquiry, yet archaeologists remain
profoundly ambivalent about its use. In this paper I address issues of how we develop and …

This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to
approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge …

THE VALUABLE EMPHASIS ON MODERNITY in colonial and postcolonial African studies
has profoundly divided precolonial African history from what comes after. But the depth and …

This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and
free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as …

This review draws from old and new archaeological data and takes interpretive flavor from
indigenous African concepts to demonstrate that, within a context of local and external …

The first recorded shipment of captives from western Africa over the Atlantic by Europeans
occurred in 1441 (Blake 1977, 5). These were victims of raids by the Portuguese in the small …

Editor's Note: NAS board member Bruce Gilley's article,“The Case for Colonialism,” was
republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018 after its original publisher, the …

The relationship between the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology has been
repeatedly debated over the years. Some scholars express a somewhat patronising attitude …