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Research Interests
Pre-colonial West Africa and Maghrib, African Diaspora, slavery, ransoming, Muslim West African intellectual thought.
Courses
History 1006 World History
History 2053 World History since WW2
History 2136 Introduction to African History
History 3153 The Sahara World
History 3573 Africa in World History
History 3383 Slavery in World History
Selected Publications
"Protecting Freeborn Muslims: The Sokoto Caliphate's Attempts to Prevent Illegal Enslavement and its Acceptance of the Strategy of Ransoming," Slavery & Abolition 32:1 (2011): 109-127.
"Ransoming Captives in the Sokoto Caliphate," in Behnaz A Mirzai, Ismael Montana and Paul E Lovejoy eds., Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, (Africa World Press, 2009), 125-139.
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