Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use n
How did a group with its origins in a small Marxist-Leninist insurgency in northern Ethiopia transfo
Today I talked to Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan about their new book Understanding Ethiopia's Tigra
Karen E. Rignall's book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis
Zahi Zalloua provides the first examination of Palestinian identity from the perspective of Indigene
Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds" from jewelry shops and
Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant inf
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based econ
In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mum
As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East a
In Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change (Cambridge UP
In his book, In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Duke UP, 2022), António Tomá
Simona Berhe and Olindo de Napoli's Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructio
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for th
What is the future of the global creative economy? In Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributi
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in
A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirel
This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecuti
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto i
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Mic
