Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Rout
Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022)explores the large
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP,
Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with
What is the Third World? The term has essentially been scrubbed from our collective consciousness. W
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global
Sovereign Joy Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores t
In the middle of the twentieth century, in South Africa, Nelson Mandela organized a group of revolut
Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup
In the middle of the 20th century, there was a passionate affair, between the Soviet empire and newl
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (Univ
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary who
For most of human history, the Mediterranean was home to a significant number of pastoralists, who h
Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some,
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero's expansive study incorporates writers, cultural figures and intellectuals
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black St
This week on International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey is joined by Jason Stearns, assistant
