In this lecture Professor Flagg Miller probes Islam’s contributions to anticolonialism in southern Africa by focusing on the Yemeni ʿAlawiyyah’s thought and practice in diasporic Muslim engagements with the global coffee trade, asking how the pleasures and perils of coffee have constituted and re-animated ʿAlawiyyah-centered strategies for building
solidarity against the ravages of Euro-Asiatic slavery and mortgage capitalism.