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Area Studies Blog Posts - Core
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Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
- 08 April 2026,
- Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...
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Do You Know Your South?: How Magazine Readers Shaped one of the South’s Most Successful Novels
- 24 February 2026,
- Midway through Chester Himes’s 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, the main characters argue over the comparative merits of Richard Wright’s Native Son and...
African History Blog Posts - FifteenEightyFour
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Schooling and West African Freedom
- 10 August 2026,
- I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But The post Schooling and West African Freedom first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Who is an Explorer?
- 20 November 2023,
- When the submersible Titan imploded on its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic The post Who is an Explorer? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- 16 November 2023,
- If you have been following the news in the past months, you may have read that Democrats in the United States reported that the White House under Donald Trump The post Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....