Manna Duah is an assistant professor of history at North Carolina Central University. Her research interests include global Africa, with a focus on democracy, state violence, foreign relations, and Black transnational mobilizations in the twentieth century. She also studies histories of development theory and capitalism in postwar Africa; race and U.S. foreign policy toward Africa; and the making of the post-1945 global order. Her research highlights state histories and the social and political histories of globalization.