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Strong state, weak state
 • D. S. Battistoli
Welcome to the Radical Cape Reading Room
 • D. S. Battistoli
Labelling the colonial library
 • D. S. Battistoli
An Africanist perspective on the Roman Catholic papacy
 • D. S. Battistoli
A radical appreciation of Koyo Kouoh.
 • D. S. Battistoli
Mariama Bâ and provocative feminism.
 • D. S. Battistoli
Will AI save endangered languages?
What is being done, what is being said about it, and what is called for. In memory of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
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D. S. Battistoli
A radical appreciation of Koyo Kouoh.
A sense of emplacement.
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D. S. Battistoli
An Africanist perspective on the Roman Catholic papacy
How the Church went from having one African pope per century to having none for fifteen hundred years
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D. S. Battistoli
Labelling the colonial library
An appreciation of the philosophy of V. Y. Mudimbe
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D. S. Battistoli
Strong state, weak state
State violence and state services, with examples from Brazil, Liberia, Senegal, and the United States
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D. S. Battistoli
Welcome to the Radical Cape Reading Room
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
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D. S. Battistoli
The Radical Cape Reading Room.
The Radical Cape Reading Room.
Reading radical philosophy, among other things, way out on Cap Vert

The Radical Cape Reading Room.

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