Since the late 1940s, a specific set of tactics – intelligence gathered by small groups in which regular soldiers masqueraded as insurgents and insurgents who had come on side pretended to still be insurgents – has been touted as a way to defeat...

Please RSVP for event & lunch at https://fixer.eventbrite.com/ Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries for a Faculty Bookwatch panel on The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (Duke University Press, 2019). In...

In the wake of the record influx of migrants to Europe in 2015 and the rise of anti-migrant populism, border practices have undergone dramatic transformation as EU states outsource border control to private companies and to African countries (...

In his powerful new photo book "Limitless Africans," queer Nigerian-Swedish American photographer Mikael Owunna (Duke '12), a finalist in the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo, documents the compelling stories of over thirty...

This conference was organized through a collaboration between the Duke African Graduate & Professional Student Association (DAGPSA) and Duke Africa Initiative (DAI) to highlight research and projects conducted in Africa or pertaining to...

In Africa more than anywhere else the spread of mobile phones amounts to a daily revolution. Adoption of the new technology has been hyperrapid and massive across the continent, in urban as well as rural areas, and its usage is innovative in...

Marissa Moorman's new book, Powerful Frequencies, is about radio and the state in Angola, 1931-2002. It is not about music. Yet these five pieces of music enliven the dense nexus of sentiment, technology, and power at stake in the history of...

Richard Leakey is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, politician, explorer, and environmentalist. His career in paleoanthropology involved not only field research and discoveries in Kenya's Turkana Basin, but also many years serving as the director of...

Join us for a conversation with Nigerian writer and academic Ainehi Edoro, moderated by Duke graduate student Sasha Panaram. Edoro will discuss her successful online platform Brittle Paper, which she launched while a graduate student at Duke...

"From Jamestown to Jamestown: Letters to an African Child" chronicles the story of the African captured in slavery, from the coasts of the continent, with his pain and anguish, as well as his resistance, rebellion and tenacity on the high seas,...