Money’s penetration into social life: a historical approach
Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world …
Author: Neil Turner
The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of …
Cultural sources of a liberal revolution in Africa
Written by Keith Hart The classical liberal revolutions were sustained by three ideas: that freedomand economic progress require increased movement …
The second American revolution? (con’t)
Written by Keith Hart CLR James and the idea of an African revolution Events in Tunisia and Egypt have brought …
The second American revolution?
Written by Keith Hart Saul Wainwright commented on the previous post in this series, CLR Jamesand the idea of an …
Africa mired with debt it can never repay
Written by Jehron Muhammad After slavery, African descendants were forced into sharecropping. Small country merchants took the place of plantation …
The Sexual Division of Labor (con’t)
Written by Keith Hart 4. Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in …
The Sexual Division of Labor (con’t…)
Written by Keith Hart 2. The agrarian phase of peasant patriarchy and the anomaly of slavery Families based on a …
The Sexual Division of Labor
Written by John Keith Hart Introduction The idea of a sexual division of labor rests on asserting that men and …
Sudan: cessation of war appears long way off
Written by Jehron Muhammad “If this war (in Sudan) last for several years… the country that we knew as Sudan, …
Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan
Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague …
Money as a Form of Religious Life
by Keith Hart Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. The last, whichbegan as …
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society – Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart What are we to make of a world society whose formation is driven by an explosive …
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of …
Anthropology as a revolutionary project: David Graeber’s political legacy
Written by Keith Hart This talk has four parts. In the first I excavate the revolutionary origins of modernanthropology and …
Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy…
Written by Jehron Muhammad (RE: Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy defined by Colonial and Post-Colonial History) Africa’s placement in global …
Civilians caught in the middle of Sudan conflict
Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …
Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader or Pan Africanist?
By Jehron Muhammad Every year, including 2023 we in the United States celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights …
Signing of the Sudanese Framework Agreement by Zakia Muhammad Sadeeg
The Future Sudan Campaign reviewed the published details of the signing of the so-called framework agreement between General Abdel Fattah …
Female African warriors and their brave fight against the African slave trade by Jehron Muhammad
The film “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, though receiving much acclaim, has …
Brazil’s Pendulum of Politics
“There’s a struggle that repeats itself throughouthistory, over and over again – the oppressorsagainst the oppressed.”—Simon Bolívar Interestingly, when Simon …
Dakar’s Museum Celebrates Blackness by Mohamadou Cisse
The Museum of Black Civilizations, dubbed the world’s largest dedicated to Black Art, Culture and History, is an impressive building …