He has published five books including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (2017), and Jet Lag (2017). He is currently completing a reader on race and racial thought in Africa for Indiana University Press and an edited volume of previously uncollected essays by the South African novelist and activist Alex La Guma, provisionally entitled Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966-1985. His teaching and research interests concern modern African history, African literature, decolonization, postcolonial Cold War studies, and radical political thought.