Project
Pan-African Powerhouses: The Interwoven Stories of Ghana and Tanzania
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era.
January 2026
Beyond the Neocolonial: Africa and the Dialectics of Human Emancipation
Publication
Disrupting Academic Publishing: Peer Review and Negotiations of New Genre Systems (S
Recommended Citation Archer, A., & Björkvall, A. (2025). Disrupting Academic Publishing: Peer Review and Negotiations of New Genre Syste...
Project
Assembling the Postcolony: Cultural Cold War and Filipino Area Studies
How did a film, a workshop, an anthology, and a department promote decolonization and steal its potential at the same time?
Publication
“It should be a constant reminder”: Space, meaning and power in post-liberation Africa
Cawood, Stephanie and Jonathan Fisher. 2022. “It should be a constant reminder”: Space, meaning and power in post-liberation Africa. Politic...
Publication
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
Tamale, Sylvia. 2020. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism. Daraja Press. https://darajapress.com/publication/decolonziation_and_afro-feminism
Publication
Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies
Price, Richard. 2021. Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Empire-and-Indigeneity-Histories-...
Publication
Amílcar Cabral. The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
Tomás, António. 2021. Amílcar Cabral. The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/amilcar-cabral-2/
Project
The First Generation of Independent African Leaders and the Making of the African Nation-State
This research project examines the first generation of independent African leaders and how they went about constructing new African nation-states: forging a sense of nationhood out of disparate African ethnic groups brought together within artificial colonial boundaries through colonial rule; imagining the new nation through culture, religion, and the arts; choosing or defining a development model in a world divided into opposing camps of East and West by the Cold War; and the excitement of new sub-disciplines like development economics and its promise to transform former tropical colonies.
Project
Open air discourse: romances of resistance in the Somali women’s struggle for independence
Mingling together historical record, myth and fiction, my aim is to write a play taking place in Mogadishu during the struggle for independence from Italy soon after the Second World War.
Project
The Power of Injury: Memory, Decolonization, and the Challenges of Modernity in Africa
This book examines the political and social effects of Africa’s prioritization of the experience of colonization in its response to the world, and analyzes the role of Nelson Mandela’s notion of forgiveness in Africa’s inevitable path to modernity.
Project
Retrospective and Prospective Reflections on Higher Education in Africa
The paper begins with a historical background attempting to provide an African wide perspective unifying the often fragmented contributions of North Africa, South Africa and the rest of the continent.
