John Thabiti Willis

As an associate professor of African history (and of the African diaspora) at Carleton College in Minnesota, U.S.A., I explore the cultural and social factors that have shaped the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds. I reflect on how historical actors imagine the past to shape the present and future in my research and teaching. And as a scholar of Africana Studies (focusing on the global experience of African peoples and their cultural productions), I find many parallels in the ways that people narrate the past, construct identity, and, like artists, act with an awareness of an audience. 

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Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Series: African Expressive Cultures

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