328. Esclavages en terres d’Islam

L’invitée : Emanuelle Saada, professeure au département de français et d’histoire de Columbia UniversityLe livre : Histoires et colonisations. Des récits de la conquête aux héritages postcoloniaux, Paris, Gallimard, « Bibliothèque des histoires », 2026.La discussion :· Pourquoi c ...  Show more

L’invité : Robert Darnton, professeur émérite à HarvardLe livre : Cinquante mille lettres. Entretiens avec Élise Gruau, Paris, EHESS, 2026.La discussion :· Francophilie et rapport à la langue française (1:15)· Ses débuts comme journaliste aux faits divers du New York Times (15:00 ...  Show more

From Roman emperor Septimius Severus to Senegal's Signares to the ten days in Harlem that Fidel Castro used to link up with African leaders at the UN, through to the missed opportunity to enshrine racial equality in post war negotiations following World War I; Olivette Otele, Sim ...  Show more

Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025), is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach ...  Show more

Sidi Mubarak Bombay was sort of a combined guide, translator and nurse, and often the supervisor of the African laborers on expeditions through eastern and equatorial Africa in the 19th century.

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Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France--first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish ...  Show more