Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Univ
Michael Francis Laffan’s Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 177
Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultu
The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 (U California Press, 2022) presents an orig
In Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford UP,
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad artic
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press,
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Sahee
Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy.
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased t
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed
In Dispossession as Delivery: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford Univers
Incorporating published and archival material, Reeva Spector Simon's book The Jews of the Middle Eas
How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aes
Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low p
