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Philip Janzen
Assistant professor of history at the University of Florida and author of An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2025), specializing in African and Caribbean history.
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Philip Janzen, "An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Philip Janzen, an assistant professor at the University of Florida and author of *An Unformed Map*, dives into the intriguing lives of Caribbean administrators in colonial Africa. He explores their motivations and the double marginalization they faced between European powers and African communities. Janzen discusses how their experiences reshaped their identities and fostered new geographies of belonging. He intriguingly uses poetry and language to fill archival gaps, revealing deeper insights into their journeys and contributions to anti-colonial thought.
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