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Priya Lal
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Historian
Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.
August 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.
Lagos, unbound tempest beneath your feet
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.
continent.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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100% of Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine.
June 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
Addis, alive and unrelenting
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
continent.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
The strange sadness of Algiers
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
continent.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM