This panel will attempt to place Africa, historically as well as discursively, within the context of the 'First Global Economy' in the Indian Ocean World, an economy that by the tenth century constituted a sophisticated and permanent system of long-distance exchange linking regions as far apart as China and Eastern Africa.
Respacing coastlines: Delimiting the impacts of scientific forestry and colonial exploitation of mangroves on coastal landscapes and communities in East Africa and Madagascar
Wonders of the African World or
African-American Afrocentrism: Re-framing East African Societies and East African History in a wider Historiographic Debate
