Abikal Borah
MA (History), The University of Texas at Austin
Contact
- E-mail: aborah@utexas.edu
- Office: BEL 212 N
Interests
Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa and the Indian Ocean World, Global and Transnational History, History of Migration, History of Violence, Postcolonial Theory
Biography
Abikal Borah completed an MA in English Literature (2008) and MPhil in Comparative Literature (2011) from the University of Delhi. In 2015, he completed an MA in History from UT, Austin. His primary research interest is entangled histories of race and violence in modern South Africa. His research engages the gray areas of racial and political violence in colonial Natal moving beyond the white and black dichotomy. His doctoral dissertation, titled "Aftertaste of Empire: Amandiya and Racial Violence in South Africa, 1843-1949," narrates a history of migration, land, and labor in the century leading to the 1949 race riots between the indigenous Zulus and the migrant Indians in the port city of Durban. His articles have appeared in Africa Today, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Review (Fernand Braudel Center), and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. He is the co-editor of Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola and Creative Incursions: Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora.
