Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
The Italian Empire and the Great War (Oxford UP, 2021) by Vanda Wilcox brings an imperial and coloni
Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 202
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide agains
In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of E
Today I talked to Florian Wagner about his new book Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentalit
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford UP, 2022
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader
Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity (Indiana UP, 2022) recounts how Northern
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule
Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair
Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet,
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet,
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. R
At a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty: So
In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvani
The Prince of Wales College, Achimota School, opened in 1927 north of Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana
Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in con
Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic gove
The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum’s most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great
