“Race, Violence and the Heart of Darkness: Some Lessons from Swahili History”

 

The Yale Council on African Studies

At the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Areal Studies

Presents:

“Race, Violence and the Heart of Darkness:  Some Lessons from Swahili History”

Jonathon Glassman, Professor of History, Northwestern University.

Wednesday, April 8^th, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 4:30pm

Professor Glassman specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century East Africa and in comparative race and slavery. He is the author of Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 and has won the African Studies Association’s Melville Herskovitz Prize.

Please join us!