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Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies

Samuel Fury Childs Daly

Please note: Samuel Fury Childs has left the "International Comparative Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Samuel Fury Childs Daly is a historian of twentieth century Africa. His research combines legal, military, and social history to describe Africa's history since independence. His recent book, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020), connects the crisis conditions of the Nigerian Civil War to the forms of crime that came to be associated with Nigeria in its wake. Using an original body of legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra, it traces how technologies, survival practices, and moral ideologies that emerged in the context of the fighting shaped how crime was practiced and perceived after Biafra’s defeat. By connecting the violence of the battlefield to violent crime, it provides a new perspective on law and politics in Africa after colonialism. This book won the J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association and the Fage & Oliver Prize from the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. It also received honorable mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award from the American Society for Legal History.

He is currently writing three books: a book about militarism’s legal forms, a global history of military desertion, and a history of military imposters.  

Contact Info:
Office Location:  1316 Campus Drive, 243A Friedl, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: send me a message
Web Pages:  https://duke.box.com/s/2ybzzl5zmem3cyd27dq2q637c8k20p7p
http://samuelfurychildsdaly.com

Teaching (Summer1 2024):

  • AAAS 103.01, INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES Synopsis
    Online ON, MTuTh 12:30 PM-02:35 PM
    (also cross-listed as CULANTH 105.01, HISTORY 129.01, ICS 110.01, POLSCI 108.01)
Teaching (Summer2 2024):

  • AAAS 103.01, INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES Synopsis
    Online ON, MTuTh 12:30 PM-02:35 PM
    (also cross-listed as CULANTH 105.01, HISTORY 129.01, ICS 110.01, POLSCI 108.01)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Daly, SFC, War as Work: Labor and Soldiering in History, International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 103 (May, 2023), pp. 375-380 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Daly, SFC, GHANA MUST GO: NATIVISM AND THE POLITICS OF EXPULSION IN WEST AFRICA, 1969-1985, Past &Amp; Present, vol. 259 no. 1 (May, 2023), pp. 229-261, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Daly, SFC, Death in a Black Maria: Transport as punishment in an African carceral state, Punishment & Society, vol. 24 no. 5 (December, 2022), pp. 857-872 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Daly, SFC, Chima J. Korieh. Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 298. Cloth $39.99, American Historical Review, vol. 127 no. 3 (September, 2022), pp. 1576-1577, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  5. Daly, SFC, The crutch of violence: Writing A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, Cultural Dynamics, vol. 34 no. 3 (August, 2022), pp. 260-264 [doi]


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