Afro-Asian Visions

Collaboration in the field of history is still an underutilized approach to conducting research and creating scholarship. Nevertheless…

This week, we feature a wonderful interview conducted by Dr. Swapna Kona Nayudu with her colleague Professor Naoko Shimazu at Yale-NUS…

Afro-Asian solidarity took on many shapes and forms in the twentieth century. One overlooked aspect of this shared history is the…

Adams, Clarence, Adams, Della & Carlson, Lewis H. (eds.), Clarence Adams: An American Dream — The Life of an African American Soldier and…

The years of 1963 and 1964 are exceptional moments in the diplomatic history of Southeast Asia and Africa and in the prospect of lived…

Yesterday, on 17 June 2021, the world lost Kenneth Kaunda. In 1964, he became Zambia’s first president. He is remembered today as a key…

On a quiet morning in 1959, the Nigerian traveller Olabisi Ajala and his customised scooter crashed through the barrier of Jerusalem’s…

On Sunday 18th April 1965 two unfamiliar faces could be seen at the pulpit of an Africa Inland Church (AIC) service in Nairobi. Zhao…

In the run-up to U.S. Black History Month we feature a post by Geraldine Seay (Phd), author of Call and Response: the Literature of Jim…

In 1962, an unlikely trio of pacifists temporarily moved to East Africa, supported and facilitated by Julius Nyerere. They were: Bayard…

This month we feature a special contribution from Professor Ian Neary, an Emeritus Fellow of the Nissan Institute and St. Antony’s College…

In 2016, the Leslie James wrote a piece on this blog discussing visual mapping as a tool for the history of ideas. James discussed two…