Monthly Archives: May 2010

Looking Backward

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Timothy Burke

I’ve been fiddling with the syllabus for my Image of Africa class, which I am to teach this fall for the first time in a while. No course in my repertoire has changed as much in my underlying assumptions about … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Africa, Production of History | 22 Comments

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Timothy Burke

A short while before I was supposed to get on a plane last week to fly to Chicago and participate in an event at Northwestern University, something I’d really been looking forward to, I started to have the sinking sense … Continue reading →

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Africans and the Slave Trade

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Timothy Burke

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks, as the last half of April so often is. Usually that leaves me with a mind like a blown-out tire for the week where everything calms down, and this year has been … Continue reading →

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