Embedding West Africa in broader transregional maps, Whiskey reviews the history of anti-Blackness in premodern Muslim societies while charting Ahmad Baba’s interventions in longstanding debates.

Medieval African art demands to be understood, not in relation to Europe alone, but as part of a wider Afro-Eurasian world. Andrea Myers Achi discusses the interconnection across medieval North Africa and the Mediterranean and Africa’s cultural exchange and influence on medieval art history.

How an obscure piece of Renaissance era religious doctrine—the Doctrine of Discovery—infiltrated the United States’ legal system and justifies the seizure of Native lands to this day.