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Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, US
This essay examines relations between eastern Africa and western India in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in respect to two related sets of problems: the changing regimes of commercial circulation, and more particularly the evolution of patterns of human movement, notably via the slave trade from Ethiopia and the Swahili coast to Gujarat and the Deccan.
This article situates the transformation of praetorian violence from a tool of political domination to a means of criminal expropriation in the engendering context of elite parasitism and repression.
This working paper investigates to what extent Liberia’s post-war elite system is inclusive.
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