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Nigeria’s World Cup exit reignited talk of 'voodoo'. Marloes Janson argues that the term’s racist history reveals how colonial stereotypes still shape global perceptions of African football.

Rowena is a lecturer in the history of the Middle East and Africa, with an interest in the political history of Iran in the 20th century.

From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil

After working in Washington, D.C., Houlton decided that they wanted to learn the mechanisms behind media power and how to empower new voices. So they chose to study an MA in Global Media and Digital Communications at SOAS.

Meet SOAS at the upcoming Mango Learning UK University fair in Bangkok, Thailand.

This lecture unravels what it meant to be a gharib (rare) Indian in the Islamicate cosmos, how artists in Hindustan visualised and replicated popular tropes of wisdom, eros and idolatry.

The SOAS Public Music Research Seminar Series is a valuable forum for ethnomusicology and related fields in London, bringing rising and established scholars to share innovative music research with SOAS audiences.

The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) recently convened its third online teacher training course on Program Design: Economic and Financial Appraisal for climate-resilient public investment, strengthening the capacity of university partners to deliver high-quality practitioner training to ministries of finance, planning and economics across the Global South.

The Mekong is a vast river system, winding from the roof of Asia through thick jungle and into one of the most fertile rice deltas in the world. A vital artery, the river has long stood at the confluence of profound historical change. At once shaped by trade, conflict, and colonialism, since the 1960s it has become a locus of development and geopolitics.