B N Lawrance
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 13493 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B N Lawrance |
| PRENOMES | B N |
| SOBRENOME | Lawrance |
| ASSINATURA | LAWRANCE B N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6020-0125 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reinvigorating Europe-Africa Partnerships for Knowledge and Development
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Reassessing Africa's New Post-Coup Landscape
Between 2020 and 2022, sub-Saharan Africa witnessed a substantial increase in the number of military coups. The military interventions in Guinea (September 2021), Mali (August 2020 and May 2021), Chad (April 2021), Sudan (April 2019 and October 2021), and Burkina Faso (January 2022) contributed to democratic backsliding and authoritarianism on the continent. In addition, Niger (March 2021) and Guinea Bissau (February 2022) saw failed coup attempt…
So Long and Farewell
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"The Potentials and Pitfalls of the "Virtual Turn
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A Genius without Direction”
The flight of South African writer Dugmore Boetie from his home in the Sophiatown neighborhood of Johannesburg to Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, in mid- to late 1960 highlights the fuzzy distinction between exile and refuge before international refugee protections extended to Africa. Like many decolonial refugees after the Sharpeville Massacre, Boetie fled political persecution, lured abroad by the possibility of resettlement in London under the Unit…
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
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Africa and the Diversity Turn
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A (Re)turn to Older Conversations in African Studies
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Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa
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African Studies Keywords
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Mati Diop, director. Mati Diop and Olivier Demangel, writers. Atlantique. 2019. 104 mins. French, Wolof, Senegal, France, Belgium. Ad Vitam and Netflix. No price reported
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Asylum Courts, Transnational Petitioning, and Digital Dispersal in Africa
Asylum court records are a potentially important evidentiary basis for postcolonial African history. Asylum-seeking is a contemporary transnational iteration of a rich African petitioning tradition. In the contemporary era, the digitization of court records, and their dispersal as a function of the shifting division of work between ministries, courts, and related bureaucracies, presents a challenge to researchers. Digital record keeping may impro…
Structural Racism, Whiteness, and the African Studies Review
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Guantánamo Diary and African Studies
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Ghana Freedom
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, curator. Ghana Freedom: Ghana Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (11 May–24 November 2019). For Ghana art specialists and Ghanaians alike, 2019 is a momentous year because it marks Ghana’s debut at the Venice Biennale, arguably the
How African is the African Studies Review
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Viral video ‘blood chocolate’ activism, millennial anti-trafficking, and the neoliberal resurgence of shaming
Viral videos offer contemporary activists a nimble, provocative tool with which to disseminate humanitarian messages. This article historicizes anti-trafficking video media that imagine a new potential with which to alter behavioral norms around cocoa and chocolate. The article engages theories and approaches to historical and contemporary modalities of naming and shaming, spanning three centuries to the present day. Videos are examined for style…
Sons of the Soil”
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
Colonialism and African Childhood
African children shaped social, cultural, and productive dynamics during European colonial rule. Often marginal to those in power, children have been neglected by historians until recently, in part because few sources reveal experiences of childhood socialization, labor, education, and play. What constituted a child could be indicated by membership in an age set or by ritual initiation. In the nineteenth century, children become visible in court …
Ebola's Would-be Refugees
Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a…
A Reaffirmation of Rigorous Scholarly Integrity
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The Political Thought of African Independence
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Amistad's Orphans
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children’s own l…
Unfreedom Papers
Trafficking is not simply a new form of slavery, but rather a complex multivalent and multi-sited process (Anderson and O’Connell Davidson, 2003). This article explores the exit strategies employed by coerced laboring subjects (Fernandez 2014; O’Connell Davidson 2015), to shed light on some of the many “varieties of unfreedom” (O’Neill 2011) in the global labor marketplace. Just as documentation has become indispensable for contemporary global mo…
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
As young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that a career as civil servant was glittering prize for an African. Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice the occupants of these positions functioned as hidden lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, A…
Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier
Ghana in Africa and the World
Reassessing Africa's New Post-Coup Landscape
Between 2020 and 2022, sub-Saharan Africa witnessed a substantial increase in the number of military coups. The military interventions in Guinea (September 2021), Mali (August 2020 and May 2021), Chad (April 2021), Sudan (April 2019 and October 2021), and Burkina Faso (January 2022) contributed to democratic backsliding and authoritarianism on the continent. In addition, Niger (March 2021) and Guinea Bissau (February 2022) saw failed coup attempt…
Amistad's Orphans
The story of six children who were stolen from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery across the Atlantic in 1839. They were transported by ship from West Africa to Cuba to the United States, and after protracted legal struggles they returned to Africa to restart their lives
Bankoe V. Dome
This article investigates Ewe engagement with British administrative policy via the story of a chieftaincy dispute in Ho, British Mandated Togoland, that erupted when Britain attempted to amalgamate two neighboring chieftaincies, Ho-Dome and Ho-Bankoe, by deploying a model with an ‘ethnic stamp’, that of the neighboring Akan states. Colonial-era chieftaincy has received substantial scholarly attention. This article argues that the relationship be…
Autocracy, migration, and the Gambia's ‘unprecedented’ 2016 election
On 1 December 2016, Adama Barrow representing ‘Coalition 2016’ triumphed in The Gambian presidential election, defeating incumbent Yahya Jammeh of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in a three-way race with Mamma Kandeh of The Gambia Democratic Congress. Initial estimates released by Alieu Momar Njie, chief of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), suggested that Barrow won by a significant margin of 50,000 vote…
La Révolte des Femmes
In 1932 the governor of French Togoland announced an increase in taxes on Lome market women because of the economic downturn caused by the Depression. Both the indigenous city council and a clandestine resistance movement opposed this fiscal plan, warning of social unrest. The strain triggered a protest by market women that spread beyond the colonial capital. This article offers a new explanation of the explosive tension by arguing that an organi…
Ebola's Would-be Refugees
Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a…
Boko Haram, Refugee Mimesis, and the Archive of Contemporary Gender-Based Violence
Lawrance explores asylum-seeking as an emergent archival form to highlight how the strategies shaping asylum claiming conceal a potentially rich archive of gender-based violence. Asylum seekers today face ever greater obstacles entering western migration fortresses. Protection from the 1951 Refugee Convention seems, at minimal, constricted. Refugees engage new frameworks of persecution to access protection, but they face heavy scrutiny for credib…
Most obedient servants
Education policy was an integral component of Christian missionary activity in the Volta Basin, and remained central to the German administration's Germanization of Togo. Differences arose, however, as to the choice of language for instruction. This is interpreted as struggle of linguistic colonialism drawing on the model of Fabian. Documents from the period point to a complicated battle of desires and egos, and between the English, German and Ew…
Africa and the Diversity Turn
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Structural Racism, Whiteness, and the African Studies Review
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Introduction
This interdisciplinary collection contributes to debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The seven articles and Afterword by noted theorist of cuisine Rachel Laudan collectively address a fundamental tension in the emerging scholarly terrain of food studies, namely theorizing the relationship between foodstuff production and cuisine patterns. Originally drafted as contributions to a conference …
From Child Labor “Problem” to Human Trafficking “Crisis”
This article examines the relationship between multidimensional child advocacy campaigns and the enactment of Ghana's Human Trafficking Act (2005). I argue that while child advocacy has a rich history, the diffuse labor-oriented advocacy characteristic of the 1990s failed to articulate an achievable goal. Child labor advocacy was impotent because the diverse agencies involved adopted different positions about the permissibility of child labor. By…
En Proie a la Fievre du Cacao
In 1936 an Accra newspaper hit the streets with the alarmist headline Tribesmen Mobilise for War in British According to the newspaper the people of Buem and Akposso, rivals for a parcel of land occupied by prosperous farms severed by the international boundary, were going to combat. Several attempts had been made to resolve the matter before British courts, but appeal after appeal swung the decision in different directions. The claims were furth…
"The Potentials and Pitfalls of the "Virtual Turn
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African Studies Keywords
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Asylum Courts, Transnational Petitioning, and Digital Dispersal in Africa
Asylum court records are a potentially important evidentiary basis for postcolonial African history. Asylum-seeking is a contemporary transnational iteration of a rich African petitioning tradition. In the contemporary era, the digitization of court records, and their dispersal as a function of the shifting division of work between ministries, courts, and related bureaucracies, presents a challenge to researchers. Digital record keeping may impro…
How African is the African Studies Review
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Sons of the Soil”
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
A Full Knowledge of the Subject of Slavery’
This article explores the role of testimony, expertise, and the academy in the production of knowledge about slavery in the context of the trials of the Africans aboard the slave ship La Amistad, 1839–1841. Testimony provided by enlisted self-professed experts formed the intellectual architecture to the legal argument as it advanced to the Supreme Court. When considered separately from the trials, and distinctly as a question of the production of…
Language between powers, power between languages
In a follow-up to his article on linguistic colonialism during the German occupation of Togo, in a recent volume of the Cahiers d'Études africaines, the author examines the evolution of language and schooling under the French mandate administration (1919-1945). This era, marked by the absence of a concrete government education policy, presents a particularly complex and ambiguous problematic for the historian. Three themes guide the narrative: th…
Trading leather drag for lavender bullets
Most obedient servants
Education policy was an integral component of Christian missionary activity in the Volta Basin, and remained central to the German administration's Germanization of Togo. Differences arose, however, as to the choice of language for instruction. This is interpreted as struggle of linguistic colonialism drawing on the model of Fabian. Documents from the period point to a complicated battle of desires and egos, and between the English, German and Ew…
All very confusing
Language between powers, power between languages
In a follow-up to his article on linguistic colonialism during the German occupation of Togo, in a recent volume of the Cahiers d'Études africaines, the author examines the evolution of language and schooling under the French mandate administration (1919-1945). This era, marked by the absence of a concrete government education policy, presents a particularly complex and ambiguous problematic for the historian. Three themes guide the narrative: th…
Between the Sea and the Lagoon
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c.1850 to Recent Times. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. 256 pp. Kathryn Linn Geurts. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 293 pp. Sandra Greene. Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. Indiana University…
En Proie a la Fievre du Cacao
In 1936 an Accra newspaper hit the streets with the alarmist headline Tribesmen Mobilise for War in British According to the newspaper the people of Buem and Akposso, rivals for a parcel of land occupied by prosperous farms severed by the international boundary, were going to combat. Several attempts had been made to resolve the matter before British courts, but appeal after appeal swung the decision in different directions. The claims were furth…
Ghana in Africa and the World
Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier
La Révolte des Femmes
In 1932 the governor of French Togoland announced an increase in taxes on Lome market women because of the economic downturn caused by the Depression. Both the indigenous city council and a clandestine resistance movement opposed this fiscal plan, warning of social unrest. The strain triggered a protest by market women that spread beyond the colonial capital. This article offers a new explanation of the explosive tension by arguing that an organi…
Schuerkens, Ulricke. – Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indépendants. Changement social sous régime colonial
With the historiography of Togo as miminal as it is, this new work by Schuerkens should by all accounts be of importance and originality. With the exceptional recent flourish of Ewe and borderland studies, particularly the three excellent works by Emmanuel Akyeamong, Sandra Greene and Paul Nugent, there is otherwise comparatively little written about the post-1914 colonial history of Togo. And while the majority of that which does exist is franco…
Refreshing Historical Accounts of Human Rights in Africa
Lakshman Marasinghe (1984), in his examination of judicial confusion in post-junta Nigeria surrounding matters of human rights and family rights, presents an unusual and alternative account of the place of human rights in African history and cultures. He is determined to reenergize the study of social forces in pre-colonial Africa. Marasinghe holds that minority issues are universal concerns and self-determination a socio-political problem in all…
Bankoe V. Dome
This article investigates Ewe engagement with British administrative policy via the story of a chieftaincy dispute in Ho, British Mandated Togoland, that erupted when Britain attempted to amalgamate two neighboring chieftaincies, Ho-Dome and Ho-Bankoe, by deploying a model with an ‘ethnic stamp’, that of the neighboring Akan states. Colonial-era chieftaincy has received substantial scholarly attention. This article argues that the relationship be…
The History of Ghana (review)
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Land, Labor and Capital in Ghana
Gareth Austin, Land, Labor and Capital in Ghana: from slave to free labor in Asante, 1807–1956 [Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora]. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb £50.00, $75.00 – 9 781580 461610). 2005, 589 pp. - Volume 77 Issue 2
From Child Labor “Problem” to Human Trafficking “Crisis”
This article examines the relationship between multidimensional child advocacy campaigns and the enactment of Ghana's Human Trafficking Act (2005). I argue that while child advocacy has a rich history, the diffuse labor-oriented advocacy characteristic of the 1990s failed to articulate an achievable goal. Child labor advocacy was impotent because the diverse agencies involved adopted different positions about the permissibility of child labor. By…
Introduction
This interdisciplinary collection contributes to debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The seven articles and Afterword by noted theorist of cuisine Rachel Laudan collectively address a fundamental tension in the emerging scholarly terrain of food studies, namely theorizing the relationship between foodstuff production and cuisine patterns. Originally drafted as contributions to a conference …
Your poor boy no father no mother
This article explores the social and political context embedded in Atlantic child slave biography, such as claims about family, parentage, and orphanhood in narratives of child enslavement. I examine the claims of orphanhood and the fictive kinship relations marshaled by James B. Covey, the interpreter during the trials of La Amistad , during his Atlantic passages as examples of the struggle against alienation to "remake" his political and social…
Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimonies
Ghanaian migrants seeking to remain within the United Kingdom for medical treatment employ various strategies to navigate health and humanitarian assistance law. U.K. immigration officers police immigration controls and assess humanitarian claims often without requisite medical knowledge. Drawing on ethnographic case studies, this article examines the expert country conditions report, and its capacity to document medical provision and supply in G…
“Most Favourite Cargoes”
Nineteenth-century slave traders recognized children as effective tools with which to avoid new slave trading restrictions and prohibitions. This chapter explores the contextual perimeters of children and child slaves in the nineteenth century against broader scholarly debates about childhood. Reuniting the orphans of La Amistad as an imagined slave ship family somehow provides a pattern for understanding the outline of the nineteenth-century Afr…
Amistad's Orphans
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, the author reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children's own letters, th…
Epilogue
This book provides a way to stimulate debate about the nature and extent of child slavery and child smuggling in the nineteenth-century Atlantic. African historians have acknowledged the role of Atlantic abolitionism and “legitimate” commerce in the expansion of slavery and the development of new forms of oppression throughout the continent. The experiences of Amistad's orphans illustrate the identities and origins of child slaves, their paths to…
The Origins of Amistad’s Orphans
A Full Knowledge of the Subject of Slavery’
This article explores the role of testimony, expertise, and the academy in the production of knowledge about slavery in the context of the trials of the Africans aboard the slave ship La Amistad, 1839–1841. Testimony provided by enlisted self-professed experts formed the intellectual architecture to the legal argument as it advanced to the Supreme Court. When considered separately from the trials, and distinctly as a question of the production of…
To Know Where You Come from; That Is Divine’
Boko Haram, Asylum, and Memes of Africa
This opinion piece examines evidence that Boko Haram is being invoked in asylum and refugee contexts. The author suggests that Boko Haram has emerged a meme of contemporary Africa, insofar as it appears to have become a cultural reference tool for wider anxieties and jeopardies, one that is transmitted by repetition and replication. The Boko Haram meme may benefit asylum-seekers and refugees who struggle to document their experiences or sustain t…
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