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Microhistories of Africa: Statues at the Slave Market Memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, commemorating the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Photo by Son of Groucho (CC BY).

Microhistories and the African Past

Toby Green’s new book, The Heretic of Cacheu is published in the…

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