The imperial forest
Gregg Mitman’s ‘Empire of Rubber’ is less a historical reading of Liberia than a history of America and racial capitalism through the lens of a US corporate giant.
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Danny Hoffman
Danny Hoffman is the Bartley-Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
The untold story of the making of South Africa
The quest to understand the real cost of gold in our lives and the fate of those trapped in the mining economy’s cage.
The ruins of a mining economy
The physical and psychic ruins of colonial mining practice in a small town in Liberia.
A Black queen in the Seattle Reign
Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women’s team.
Ibrahim Usman’s road to Qatar
Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.
The Seattle Afrikan Premier League
Collecting football stories that highlight the world – the African world, in this case – and making the Seattle game global in the process.
What kind of city is an African architecture for?
Despite a chronic housing and land shortage, Liberia’s capital has not seen militant urban social movements.
African military partnerships in the age of the ‘enemy disease’
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.