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Adom Getachew

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New Declarations

By invoking the American Revolution, 20th-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

by Adom Getachew via Dissent on May 18, 2026
Africa, the Center of History

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

by Adom Getachew via New York Review of Books
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on July 27, 2023
Another Side of W.E.B. Du Bois

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

by Adom Getachew, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jennifer Pitts via The Nation
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on May 10, 2023
The New Black Internationalism

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.

by Adom Getachew via Dissent on October 9, 2021

W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought

Adom Getachew, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jennifer Pitts

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Drawing of Black and white Liberian Senators sitting behind desks while one speaks and a crowd watches

Freedom and Its Limits

Edward Wilmot Blyden sorted through competing ideas about the meaning of freedom in 19th-Century Liberia.

by Shae Omonijo via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 30, 2025

Runners on a track and crowds in the stands at the All Africa Games, 1973.

Afraid of an Inspiring Olympics Story

How Europe reacted when Ethiopia tried to join the famed global sporting tradition at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

by Hannah Borenstein via HNN on July 16, 2024

Photo from above showing people walking and biking on the painted letters in Black Lives Matter Plaza.

When Did the Ruling Class Get Woke?

A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing.

by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Ishan Desai-Geller via The Nation on May 9, 2022

Two men sitting on a couch and laughing, with an American flag behind them

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

by Sam Klug via Boston Review on August 18, 2020

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