Articles & Essays
“An African Trade Revolution Takes Shape.” Current History. (May, 2021)
“Thomas Sankara Is Not Dead.” Jacobin. (February 13, 2021)
“Black Americans have long led the global battle against white supremacy,” The Washington Post. (February 9, 2021)
“The tragic delusions of white exceptionalism,” Africa Is A Country. (January 18, 2021)
“AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism.” The American Historical Review. (December 29, 2020)
“The Climate Crisis: The Challenge for a New African Consensus.” African Studies Review, Volume 63, Number 1 (March 2020), 1-8
“Reading List: Benjamin Talton.” Africa Is A Country. (February 17, 2020)
“The radical roots of ‘the Squad’: How Mickey Leland and the Congressional Black Caucus paved the way for today’s progressive politics.” The Washington Post. (August 28, 2019)
“‘Kill Rats and Stop Plague,’ Race, Space and Public Health in Postconquest Kumasi.” Ghana Studies, Volume 22 (2019), pp. 95-113
“African history on its own terms.” Africa Is A Country. (January 25, 2019)
“The Mandelas at Harlem’s African Square.” Africa Is A Country. (December 5, 2018)
“Obama Could Have Done More for Africa By Supporting Pro-Democracy Protests.” The Conversation. (January 2017)
“Trump’s rise: African-American politicians must lead on Africa’s affairs.” The Conversation. (December 2016)
“The Northern Factor in Ghana History.” Ghana Studies, Volume 18 (2016), pp. 193-195
“Land to the Tiller’: Hunger and the End of Monarchy in Ethiopia.” Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Helen Macbeth and Paul Collinson, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, September 2014)
“Race politics in Ghana.” Africa Is A Country. (January 18, 2013)
“African Resistance to Colonial Rule.” Africana Age, The Schomburg Center.
“The Challenge of Decolonization in Africa.” Africana Age, The Schomburg Center.
“1960s Africa in Historical Perspective.” Journal of Black Studies, Volume 43, Number 1 (January 2012)
“Quenching the Thirst for Data: Beer, Local Connections, and Fieldwork in Ghana.” In Black Subjects in Africa and its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2011)
“Representing the Past: Popular Historical Memory and the Transformation of Power in Colonial West Africa,” Africa and the West, Volume 6 (Fall 2011)
“‘All the Women Must Be Clothed’: The Anti-Nudity Campaign of Northern Ghana.” In The Black Body: Imagining, Writing and (Re)Reading, Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie, Michele Goodwin, eds. (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2009)
“The Politics of Identity in Local African Societies.” A Review Essay. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 40, Number 4 (2005)
“The Past and Present in Ghana’s Ethnic Conflicts: British Colonial Policy and Konkomba Agency, 1930-1951.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 38, Numbers 2-3 (2004)
“‘Food to Eat and Pito to Drink’: Education, Local Politics and Self-Help Initiatives in Northern Ghana, 1945-1972.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, Number 7 (2003)