Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Boubacar Boris Diop is the author of Murambi: The Book of Bones, (Indiana UP, 2016; translated by Fi
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and eco
German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futil
At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout th
Today I talked to Dr. Mohamed Adhikari about his book Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of In
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster,'s edited volume Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt
In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Comman
In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in
Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022) loo
In African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2022), Pascah Mungwini considers the h
Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanu
Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politic
Money does strange things to people, as Annah Lake Zhu notes in her latest book Rosewood: Endangered
Bengt Sundkler wrote his 1940 book Bantu Prophets in South Africa for a white, European audience. He
Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its i
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the na
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with e
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control o
During the Cold War, the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colo
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separat
