Contested Memories, Subalternity, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial Histories of Northeast Africa Available to Purchase

Pierre Guidi is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at CEMAF (Centre d'études des mondes africains/Center for the Studies of African Worlds). In addressing the dynamics of schooling at the crossroads of socio-histories of education, knowledge, and power practices, his research focuses on the production and reception of educational policies in Ethiopia since 1941.

Elena Vezzadini is a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religion, and Cultural Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her current article is part of a broader research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council on the construction of racial categories in colonial Sudan. She earned her PhD in History at the University of Bergen in 2008 and her work focuses on various aspects of the social history of colonial Sudan.